Archive : Global Garlic

We harvested over 1000 lbs of garlic in Tweed. We have 14 varieties of global garlic grown using natural compost and straw for weed control. We have been growing and expanding these garlic varieties for the past 4 years.

We have Ontario, Ukranian, Italian, Sicilian, Korean, Tibetan and Persian scapes for sale. It can be used as green garlic in soups, sauté and curries.

We planted 14 varieties of 40,000 garlic in Tweed plot.  It was a challenge to get the plot ploughed and tilled for an acre.  But again, we have some wonderful neighbours and they helped us find a farmer with a tractor to plough and till for us. We did three visits to hand plant them all.  More detailed pictures are coming later.

It took 2 hours for four of us to make the bed, plant, compost and mulch. We planted the Tweed plot in the morning and took a lunch break. Then we started on the Napanee plot which was already ploughed. The soil in Tweed and Napanee plots are loamy with lots of organic matter. We planted 1500 gloves of Russian, Tibetan, Ukranian, Yukoslavian, Italian, Persian and Sicilian. The weather was around 14 C and cloudy.

It took 3 hours for four of us to till the bed, plant, compost and mulch. We planted 1500 gloves of Russian, Tibetan, Ukranian, Yukoslavian, Italian, Persian and Sicilian. We picked October 24 because it was after the full moon day. The weather outside was around 13 C.

Our neighbor Farmer Don ploughed the field for us. Napanee is a 70 acre property with 60 acres of matured maple and oak trees.  It also has a natural spring. Farmer Don has been taking the hay off the 10 acre field for the past 20 years. When we told him that we are going to plant garlic, he got excited and ploughed the field for us. We will be planting garlic this Sunday, October 24.  We picked October 24 because it [Read More...]

We have also harvested our garlic from bulbils.  Some of the Ontario bulbs had 4 or so small gloves on them.  Some looked like a single bulb.  See our previous garlic from bulbils post. We got the bulbil seeds from the Scarborough Backyard last year.  We will replant these gloves again this fall to produce bigger bulbs.