Kind of a different year for me.
We moved back to the U.P. In may. Had to leave the garlic I planted in the fall behind.
On our trip down state for labor day, I stopped by the place to see if I could salvage any bulbs. I was too late. The weeds were 5 to 6 ft tall. I dug a few bulbs, but they were split open, and the effort just wasn't worth it. I did manage to save several hundred bulbils. I planted a bunch of those. In a stroke of luck, I received four varieties of garlic from someone I had given some starts to a few years ago. It pays to be generous.
So all told, I have about 125 cloves planted of 8 or so varieties plus the hundreds of bulbils and some catawissa walking onion top sets. I separate my garlic varieties in the row by planting two or three catawissa top sets before planting the next variety of garlic. I still need to mulch, and decide what i want to do with the rest of the garlic bulbils. Couple years from now, I may be selling garlic at the local farmers market.
Keith
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