That's right! It's mid October so my seed garlic arrived in the mail! SQUEE MCGEE!
In fact, as I picked the ten pound box up out of the locker at the post office, I mumbled under my breath enthusiastically,
"Garlicte, so hot right now!"
And then this young mother with a couple free range tater tots looked a little concerned at my not so subtle outburst, but I didn't care (and still don't), because my garlic is here!
What's super-excellent-awesome-amazing is that I have a ton of my own seed garlic to plant too!
You see, seed garlic is muy expensive! Like +$20/lb for the good stuff. So over the past few years I have been slowly and methodically growing my stock.
This year, I will have over twenty pounds of seed garlic to plant! It's a pungent miracle!
Each pound of seed garlic will give you 35-50 cloves to plant so I should be plunking 700-1000 cloves into the well-prepared earth next week.
One thing I love about garlic is that it grows over the winter. I mean, that is just fantastic. I just have to prep the bed, plant the cloves, throw out some alfalfa pellets (my secret weapon for bulb size), and mulch the crop with straw. In the spring I might fish emulsion the patch a bit, and maybe water some depending on the weather, and by mid-July I have an entire crop of the tastiness!
Man, I am craving some roasted garlic on toast right now, for real.
Anyway, now that I have wiped the drool off of my face, I'll get back to the garlic. The cultivar that I have is Music. It's a hardneck variety that has YUGE cloves. I've grown lots of other garlics over the years, but for some reason Music just really likes my silty land, so I picked it to be the one I used to expand my garlic growing empire!
Okay, maybe not an empire, but I have hopes of expanding production up to about a half an acre or so and selling garlic to my local peeps, because you know, garlic!
I just can't believe it is the middle of October almost. I mean, other than stacking a bit of wood and putting some faucet covers on, we've got things pretty well lined out on the homestead for winter. I do have a fair bit of canning to do, there's ripening tomatoes, a multiple squashes, and tons of tiny potatoes to tend too, it's just that we have double wedding weekend to contend with this weekend, so I think all those tasks will be seen to in the coming weeks.
And on that note, I better go stack firewood😉
Happy Homesteading!
And before I go, Filaree Garlic Farm has the absolute best certified organic seed garlic! I have ordered from them for several satisfied customer years!
