{"id":2995,"date":"2012-10-01T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2012-10-10T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:20:47","slug":"garlic-and-shallots-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/2995","title":{"rendered":"Garlic and Shallots for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve past the autumnal equinox so it&#8217;s time to plant garlic and shallots for spring.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s crop was uniformly smaller than the previous year. There are many possible reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of a mulch layer<\/li>\n<li>Quail eating the six inch baby plants down to zero inch nubs<\/li>\n<li>A brutal 24 hour wind in the spring that left the garlic permenantly bent over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these will be addressed this year. Basically, we are mulching and we are using the insect netting on everything (wind and quail protection).<\/p>\n<p>This year we planted a green manure cover crop (chickpeas) before planting the garlic. A yummy way to improve the soil.<\/p>\n<p>We are stepping up the production of the Maiskij garlic this year. We love it; it grows well here; it tastes great and is easy to peel. Last year we planted about 140 of these.<\/p>\n<p>We are also trying small batches of two garlic varieties, Music and German Porcelain. Both of these have few but very large cloves.<\/p>\n<p>We continued growing shallots this year planting both the French grey ones (small) and the standard red ones again. I could be happy just growing the red ones, but it&#8217;s good to grow a variety.<\/p>\n<p>The basics numbers of what&#8217;s ing the ground are:<\/p>\n<p>300 Maiskij<br \/>\n14 German Porcelain<br \/>\n17 Music<br \/>\n50 Grey shallots<br \/>\n25 red shallots<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/garlic-bed-2013.pdf\">garlic-bed-2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping for a big year for alliums at Kbranch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve past the autumnal equinox so it&#8217;s time to plant garlic and shallots for spring. Last year&#8217;s crop was uniformly smaller than the previous year. There are many possible reasons: Lack of a mulch layer Quail eating the six inch baby plants down to zero inch nubs A brutal 24 hour wind in the spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}