Today was another cool, cloudy, all-around-grey day. A perfect day for planting garlic. Rain is in the forecast for the next several days, so it was good timing.
We ordered our garlic seed from The Organic Garlic Seed Farm in Oregon, and it arrived a few weeks ago. The seed looked beautiful, and I would recommend this place to anyone. They had some of the best prices we could find, and it's organic! I also just like supporting (fellow) farmer-hippies any way I can. We ordered one pound each of five different varieties:
We also saved about a pound each of Elephant and Georgian Fire garlic seed from when we harvested garlic this summer. We had ordered these varieties from Seed Savers Exchange in 2010.
Some Elephant garlic harvested this summer.
I had seven pounds of garlic seed to plant. I added a few inches of aged horse manure to the bed where we had just harvested our sweet potatoes, hoed it up, and popped the seeds in.
Left to right: Music, Purple Glazer, Persian Star, Chesnok, Elephant, Georgian Fire, and Mother of Pearl.
I was so very pleased that the seed we saved ourselves looked healthy and vibrant. Saving our garlic seed is the plan going forward. It's easy to do, and it will be one less thing we have to buy. We just let the bulbs dry for a few months, then they went into paper bags. Too easy.
Elephant garlic
I covered the row with a thick layer of straw, and now I wait for the rain.
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