Planted 79 cloves (all Russian, I believe) today. Also somewhere between 100 and a 1000 bulbils (also mostly Russian), although "planting" may be an exaggeration -- more like tossed them all on a lightly dug up patch of ground and covered up so no one could see the evidence of the mess. Except next spring, it's all going to sprout and look like a little rectangle of newly seeded lawn, so my laziness won't be invisible any longer.
The bulbils are intended as a nursery for future plants. I'll transplant them in the spring, most likely, but not plan to harvest them until 2020 (when my garlic farm cozy mystery is released!).
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Monday, May 28, 2018
Costs for 2018
This is going to be a sparse planting year. I'm having trouble getting inspired after last year's encounter with Lyme-carrying ticks. Plus, the garden area has gotten increasingly shady as trees have grown around it.
So, I'm keeping both planting and costs down.
So far:
Onion sets: $3.99
2 tomato varieties (grape and San Marzano), red sails lettuce, swiss chard bright lights, banana peppers, basil, at $3.19 each = $19.14
Total: about $23
The lettuces, swiss chard and some of the basil was planted in the "annex" next door.
Updated to say that the investment was largely a net loss. Except for the garlic crop, which was pretty much the same as past years, except a higher percentage of the Russian variety compared to the German variety, everything else was essentially a loss. Got maybe a handful of grape tomatoes, a dozen or fewer banana peppers, no swiss chard (planted in a planter with unexpectedly terrible soil), no onions (due to drought at key growing times). Got some basil, which was frozen with olive oil for perking up winter meals.
So, I'm keeping both planting and costs down.
So far:
Onion sets: $3.99
2 tomato varieties (grape and San Marzano), red sails lettuce, swiss chard bright lights, banana peppers, basil, at $3.19 each = $19.14
Total: about $23
The lettuces, swiss chard and some of the basil was planted in the "annex" next door.
Updated to say that the investment was largely a net loss. Except for the garlic crop, which was pretty much the same as past years, except a higher percentage of the Russian variety compared to the German variety, everything else was essentially a loss. Got maybe a handful of grape tomatoes, a dozen or fewer banana peppers, no swiss chard (planted in a planter with unexpectedly terrible soil), no onions (due to drought at key growing times). Got some basil, which was frozen with olive oil for perking up winter meals.
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