This morning, I finished tilling the triangular portion of earth which is just south of our driveway. In the afternoon, I fabricated a template for spacing garlic in three rows with 7″ between rows and 7″ between plants in a row.
Then I began to plant the garlic in sets of three rows, beginning at the northwest corner, sets running north to south, and within sets from west to east.
- first set of three rows:
- Leningrad (from Golden Acres), 38 cloves; the last two cloves were in the northernmost and next northernmost slots (i.e. leaving the southernmost slot vacant)
- skipped 2 rows (thus leaving 21″ between this and the next group
- Leningrad (from my own August 2017 harvest), 69 cloves; this ended the first 3-row set
- skipped 16″ southward before setting up the next set of 3 rows (such that from any hole in the first set to the corresponding hole in the second set was 30″)
- second set of three rows:
- Irkutsk (from Golden Acres), 17 cloves; the last two cloves in the northernmost and next northernmost slots
- skipped 2 rows
- Choparsky (from Golden Acres), 13 cloves; the last clove in the northernmost slot
- skipped 2 rows
- Carpathian (from Golden Acres), 8 cloves; the last two cloves in the northernmost and next northernmost slots.
Given the temperature, that was enough for today. I brought in my Siberian harvest to prepare for the next planting session.