On Satiddy December 3, 2011:
Jeff Golladay, Jimmy Gafford, Whit Whitacre, Wes Wooldridge and his two daughters, Dave Fitzgerald, Carl Hardeman, Debra Matton, Jeanne Cannon, two boys and 3 parents of the Crosswinds Elementary School Roots & Shoots Club prepared the soil and planted 1000 garlic cloves of 20 varieties, mulched it and put it to bed for the winter. As of this morning those beautiful raised (Golladay style) beds were up out of the water after 2 inches of rain. HUGE Success!!!
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Dave is the project leader and did a fantastic job of organizing and documenting the planting. We have a new variable in that we planted cloves he saved from last harvest thanks to his wine cellar and very understanding wife.
Whit also fixed the flat on the wheelbarrow tire. Yea!
Debra and Jeanne will pick collards this week for local Food Pantry.
Carrots and collards and rutabagas and Savoy cabbages are looking goooood!
We still need to spread leaves from the leaf pile onto all bare ground in plots 2 and 5 (the middle ones on each side) and on top of the henbit weeds in plot 1 (far left) around the cabbage and rutabagas.
Note the beautiful spongy humus which was not muddy though the ground outside the garden is/was.
Note we applied NO fertilizer, we did this NO-TILL, and soil pH is ideal 6.8 - 7.1.
Hopefully someone can find some pine needle mulch to put on the garlic beds to bring the pH down just a little.
Victory Garden garlic varieties planted 12-3-2011
Ref: http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/overview.htm
Ajo rojo
Bavarian purple
Belarus
Brown tempest
Chesnok red
Early Italian
Elephant (actually a leek)
Georgian crystal
Inchilieum
Kilarney red
Lorz Italian
Mountain Carlos
Music
Nootka rose
Red neck wild
Red toch
Romanian red
Simonetti
Thermadrone
Transylvania
Did I mention no-till?
Aint God good!
Carl Wayne Hardeman
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