I’m very fond of garlic and planted about five hardneck varieties last fall in my neighbor’s plot (the variety New York White performed best, which I guess is to be expected in NY, lol!). This summer, I harvested them. I chose the largest 24 heads of garlic to try a pickle recipe on. I decided [...]
I’ve been harvesting my garlic plot and am about halfway through it now. It’s not that it’s so huge but that the garlic is of different varieties and so is ripening at different times. It’s very satisfying to dig up garlic with a garden fork. That said, I don’t know if I will grow garlic [...]
The one thing I dislike about winter is that there’s no point in walking out in the garden every morning. In spring I feel like a monarch when I go out to survey my little city lot full of plantings. This morning was drizzly and cold and the wind was blowing, but I went out [...]