Planting garlic this year was a smooth, uneventful task. We were keeping a close eye on the weather forecast during the first week of October, awaiting our best opportunity. The weather had turned cool and rain was in the forecast for several days last week into this week. Some days were all day rain events and others just passing showers. We saw an opening – last Wednesday and Thursday looked like they might be dry days with rain not forecast again until late in the day on Friday. When Wednesday was cool and overcast we decided to wait until Thursday. It was supposed to be a nicer day and waiting would give the ground a bit more time to dry out.
Thursday afternoon was perfect – not to hot, not to cold, mostly sunny and no mosquitoes. We were able to get our mere 320 cloves of garlic planted, mulched and fenced in about two hours time.
When we woke up to rain showers Friday morning I couldn’t have been more grateful that this job was finished.
I didn’t get many pictures of the planting process this year or go into a lot of detail in this post because most of you have been here in past years. I did however take a look back at all of my previous garlic planting posts and decided to share them here. If you/d like to learn more about the process or you’re curious about our history with garlic take a look – they go as far back as 2015, my first year of blogging.
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Thanks for jogging my memory—time to plant some garlic!
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Happy to help! 🙂
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Congratulations……”No Mosquitoes ” sounds like a blessing in itself.
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Yes! No mosquitoes has been a blessing. 🙂
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I remember your garlic-planting and garlic-harvesting events from prior posts and always found them interesting Ruth. I also remember putting the garlic in the new red barn. Guess we’ve been blogging buddies (and fellow Michiganders) for a while now. 🙂
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That first year with the barn was our biggest planting – nearly 8000. I don’t miss all that work. Thanks for sticking around so long Linda. I do value your friendship.
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Yes, I remember all the garlic you dealt with – it seems it was in the barn rafters or ceiling too. You had an outlet for some of it – a farm market or small store I believe? I value your friendship too Ruth and I have learned a lot from your posts through the years.
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We did sell some to Nino Salvagios and Vince and Joes (larger markets) and a couple year we sold to some locally owned grocery stores. Marketing packaging and delivery took a lot of time. If we were to figure an hourly wage for our time spent I don’t think we would have made any money.
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That makes sense Ruth. I thought maybe it was due to Covid. You’d do better with a roadside stand after your move to the farm.
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