Month: November 2019

Finished planting the garlic for next year. It appears I may not have left enough space between clusters for the mini-tiller to pass, so I may have to perform surgery in the spring 🙁

In any case, again from west to east, in rows and columns of three, we have

• Portugal #1, generation 2, 8 columns of 3, for 24 cloves
• Portugal #2, generation 2, 8 columns of 3, for 24 cloves
• Red Grain, generation 0, 12 columns of 3, for 36 cloves

Then a gap, and then the final set of clusters, west to east

• Choparsky, generation 2, 9 columns of 3, for 27 cloves
• Duganski, generation 2, 5 columns of 3, for 15 cloves
• Irkutsk, generation 0, 4 columns of 3 plus 2 more cloves in the two northernmost holes, for 14 cloves, and
• Ural Mountain, generation 2, 1 clove in the last hole with the Irkutsk.

All told, this makes another 141 cloves. With the 93 from the other day, that makes a grand total of 234 plants.

A little bit late, due to weather, etc.

Today I planted, in blocks of three (3) rows, from west to east

• Leningrad, generation 2, eight (8) columns, for a total of 24
• Leningrad, generation 0,[ref]Generation 0 indicates that these were purchased from the vendor (Golden Acres Garlic Farm). At each harvest, cloves retained for the next planting have their generation number incremented by one.[/ref] three (3) columns, for a total of 9[ref]These two Leningrad blocks are contiguous and not separated by marker.[/ref]
• Persian Star, generation 2, eight (8) columns, for a total of 24[ref]Somehow, I ended up planting only 22, it seems. But I remember having been unsure of which column to put the cloves into at one point, so it is possible/likely that I doubled up one of the previous columns on two (2) occasions, in which case, it will be a matter of moving the doubled cloves to the last column once they come up in the spring.[/ref]
• Siberian Hot, generation 2, four (4) columns, for a total of 12, and
• Khabar,[ref]The vendor has told me that this is a variant on Persian Star, but with larger cloves.[/ref] generation 2, eight (8) columns, for a total of 24.

This makes 93 cloves planted today, all told.