{Snapshot Wednesday} Planting fall garlic
The garden bed after the main harvest. All that was left was some celery (still unsure how that got in there) and a few sad onions.
But I got it cleared out and ready for garlic last week.
And I planted 110 garlic cloves in it this week! (I have to put these DIY squirrel screens over it because they dig, dig, dig in any soft soil and will uproot anything in their way.)
I still need to redo the drip lines to give this bed more water. Maybe that’s next week’s project. I did get some decent celery and onions, however!
And here’s photographic evidence of our thug chicken that flies over the fence every once in a while, just to let us know that she can…
I need some chicken wire to put over a few raised beds, to keep cats out! And squirrels, and dogs. Sheesh. I know my onions that I planted last spring did some growing, but not bulbing, so I moved them all to beds where they can veg-out for the winter. I think, based on onions i missed last year, I’ll be able to harvest some nice bulbs next spring, and maybe some seeds! Anyhoo, learning how to do this well. I want more garlic, but I’m gonna need dedicated beds, I think. I’ll figure it out, and either build more beds or designate one or two of the existing ones. The hard part is keeping the grass and opportunistic plants out, b/c nature abhors a vacuum. Are your garlic cloves ones you saved, or did you get them from somewhere?