{"id":3221,"date":"2013-06-23T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T04:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2013-06-24T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T03:06:05","slug":"allium-update-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/3221","title":{"rendered":"Allium update 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our garlic were harvested a month or so ago. Today I harvested the red shallots and tomorrow the grey shallots. It’s been a great year for all.<\/p>\n

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After a year of smaller than I hoped for garlic, I put a lot of effort and guess work into a crop of bigger garlic. I am pleased to report that this year’s crop was the biggest yet in total and individual garlic sizes. I embarrassed to say that this was entirely due to luck.<\/p>\n

One of the two beds of garlic produced bulbs 3 to 4 times larger than the other bed. The only difference in the way the two beds were handled is that one got sprinkled every night starting in early May. Karen and I took a vacation and part of our preparation was to water the lettuce on a timer. The only way to do this was to put a sprinkler between the bed of lettuce and a bed of garlic. (In fact, I worried this might hurt the garlic crop.) It was so convenient that we left it on after our return. I guess garlic like a lot of water in the spring. There were shallots in that bed also and they too are larger than usual.<\/p>\n

Our Purple Maiskij garlic crop came in at 16 pounds this year — double last year. We grew a couple of new kinds of garlic this year which may account for an additional couple of pounds.<\/p>\n

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16 pounds!<\/p><\/div>\n

The red shallots will need to dry before weighing. But it’s a lovely crop which we hope will last til winter. The grey shallots look good too, but are a lot of work to peel. :)<\/p>\n

I am very pleased with this years crop and am already looking forward to next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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