That's right! It's mid October so my seed garlic arrived in the mail! SQUEE MCGEE!
In fact, as I picked the ten pound box up out of the locker at the post office, I mumbled under my breath enthusiastically,
"Garlicte, so hot right now!"
And then this young mother with a couple free range tater tots looked a little concerned at my not so subtle outburst, but I didn't care (and still don't), because my garlic is here!
What's super-excellent-awesome-amazing is that I have a ton of my own seed garlic to plant too!
You see, seed garlic is muy expensive! Like +$20/lb for the good stuff. So over the past few years I have been slowly and methodically growing my stock.
This year, I will have over twenty pounds of seed garlic to plant! It's a pungent miracle!
Each pound of seed garlic will give you 35-50 cloves to plant so I should be plunking 700-1000 cloves into the well-prepared earth next week.
One thing I love about garlic is that it grows over the winter. I mean, that is just fantastic. I just have to prep the bed, plant the cloves, throw out some alfalfa pellets (my secret weapon for bulb size), and mulch the crop with straw. In the spring I might fish emulsion the patch a bit, and maybe water some depending on the weather, and by mid-July I have an entire crop of the tastiness!
Man, I am craving some roasted garlic on toast right now, for real.
Anyway, now that I have wiped the drool off of my face, I'll get back to the garlic. The cultivar that I have is Music. It's a hardneck variety that has YUGE cloves. I've grown lots of other garlics over the years, but for some reason Music just really likes my silty land, so I picked it to be the one I used to expand my garlic growing empire!
Okay, maybe not an empire, but I have hopes of expanding production up to about a half an acre or so and selling garlic to my local peeps, because you know, garlic!
I just can't believe it is the middle of October almost. I mean, other than stacking a bit of wood and putting some faucet covers on, we've got things pretty well lined out on the homestead for winter. I do have a fair bit of canning to do, there's ripening tomatoes, a multiple squashes, and tons of tiny potatoes to tend too, it's just that we have double wedding weekend to contend with this weekend, so I think all those tasks will be seen to in the coming weeks.
And on that note, I better go stack firewood馃槈
Happy Homesteading!
And before I go, Filaree Garlic Farm has the absolute best certified organic seed garlic! I have ordered from them for several satisfied customer years!
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's smells of garlic on lots of occassions iPhone. The text divider image was made in Canva.