Getting The Garlic Ready

 

This year we are doing it right.  Mark ordered some garlic.

The weather is just right.

First you need to brake the bulbs apart into individual cloves.

Then you soake them in alcohol or proxide for 5 minutes.

Next they are rinsed and put into some type of fertilizer for 30 min.

If you are lucky enough a Wammyville dad will carry the bags of dirt and fertilizer from the car.

Then Pappy can rip the open and dump them.  And then the show begins!

Oh look, it's Murph with clothes on.

But not for long!

The man is NUTS!

Time to grid the bed so we get every clove the right amount of inches apart.

exactly 4 inches

Covered with straw and put to bed for the winter.

We ended up planting...

26 California White softneck

41 Chesnok red purple stripe hardneck

57 Ivan porcelion hardneck

And we have room for a little more.

Still In Clean-Up Mode

 

And loving it!

Garden Clean-Up Begins

 

These raised beds were the easiest to clean up. We also got some hay and put it down in the walkways to keep the leaves out. We will also rake up the leaves and put them there in the bowl.

Tomatoes were hiding everywhere. 

I haven't been able to do as much as I would like to have done by now. But it's hard to do one-handed. Pappy hasn't been feeling so much like he wants to be out in the garden.  We'll get it finished one of these days I'm not gonna worry.