Ha! Bet you thought I forgot! Sorry it's been so long. Really. School was a little hairy for a while, and then I got sick. Really sick - viral asthmatic bronchitis. That = coughing all the time and having trouble breathing. I think I'm getting better but I am still coughing some. All that means that I haven't been able to do anything in the garden so Country Boy has taken care of all of the winter prep, including planting (and MULCHING!!) 91 cloves of garlic. It's only a pound, so will most likely yield enough for just our use but we'll see. That would be almost a head of garlic a week if they all make it, which might be a little much. We do use a lot of garlic but, well.... sometimes you can have too much of a good thing! We got ours from High Mowing Organic Seeds:
From their website:
"Organic Purple Glazer Garlic - HEIRLOOM A glazed purple-striped garlic that grows well in most climates, but really excels in places with cold winters. Likes to be planted early in the fall. Excellent for raw eating and for roasting because of its exceptional sweetness. Outer bulb wrappers are white and inner bulb wrappers can be almost solid purple. Will store for 6-7 months. There are 8-10 cloves per bulb. Originally from the Republic of Georgia. Hardneck (Allium tuberosum)"
I LOVE this company! They produce beautiful catalogs that provide all the information you need about their seeds.
We also got all the potatoes harvested ~ Country Boy did most of the work for that, too. We got a great harvest and the potatoes are wonderful. We won't be selling them, though, because we didn't get them covered soon enough and they started to green up some. I've used them to make scalloped potatoes and they were fine - we ate the whole casserole with no ill effects - you just have to peel them to remove the green. Count it as a lesson learned. We will plant potatoes again next year, too - lots of them. And lots more French Fingerlings, too, because those, folks, are delicious!
