Maureen was in the nursery planting garlic cloves for next year’s crop. Moeen had a busy time cutting down the, embarrassingly tall, Helianthus maximilianii from around the front of the main building, and there was a big clearing up of all the hoses and pots and draining the main water lines in the nursery.
Moeen also planted most of B21 to garlic buds - not cloves - to see how/if they would grow.



Growing garlic, also known as the Stinking Rose, is relatively simple. Garlic is related to the Liliaceae family, lily, onion, leek and shallot.
Collect your garlic seed (individual cloves), using only large cloves as seed and use the smaller ones in your kitchen. Put aside any damaged cloves, even a little nick can harbor green mould disease.
Create a bed deep rich soil, high in organic matter, and then level the soil. Plant each clove basal end down (pointy end upward), 6"(15cm) apart and 2"(5cm) deep and press gently into soil. Cover seed with at least 4" of soil. Once you've planted your seed but before ground freezes mulch bed with a thick layer of leaves or straw to protect bed over winter (usually November).

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