Wildwood Country Acres: October 2013

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Random Rambling for a Country Girl

1. If red sky at night means sailors delight, what does orange sky mean?

2. Planting Dill and Thyme in your garden will help deter cabbage moths. Basil deters aphids and Nasturtiums deter squash beetles and aphids.

3. Homemade dill relish is soooo good and easy to make.

4. Fall is my favorite season. The only thing I can't stand is walking through spider webs!

5. We have used electric heat, gas stove, pellet stove and wood stove. Wood heat is the only way to go for me.

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Growing your own Garlic

Last year was my first experience growing garlic. It is fairly easy to grow. I bought 4 bulbs of German White Hardneck garlic from a local guy. He told me to plant it with fish bone meal, then top with dirt and chicken manure. And plant it in October. So that is what I did.

Here is half of the garlic I harvested in July.

These are the things I learned.
1. Hardneck garlic grow a scape. When the scape is curled, cut it off. This is so the plant puts energy into growing the garlic bulb and not a flower.

2. The scape are delicious, I found many recipes on the web to use them in.

3. When I planted the garlic I just dug a little hole and planted a clove. Well some of the soil was looser in some areas then others. The garlic that was planted in the looser soil was bigger and easier to dig at harvest time.

This weekend I planted my garlic again, but this time the garlic cloves came from the bulbs I harvested.

What I did differently:
I put a layer of chicken manure with hay, then a layer of leaves.