Barnyard Garlic Planting

Taking advantage of 4 hours of sunlight, I planted the remaining garlic at the barnyard garden today.  It has been raining daily, which hasn’t exactly been ideal for planting.  I took time yesterday to break apart all of my bulbs, so that I could plant faster today.  The planting went well, got everything planted before the weather started to turn on me.  I planted around 335 cloves to take my total this year to over 800.  I'm hoping that with the increase in quantity as well as an increase in the number of porcelains and marbled purple stripe I can more than double my harvest weight from last year.   

Home Planting

Right on schedule I planted all of my garlic at home today.  I spent the last couple weeks getting the bed ready.  I dug up another 150 square feet of grass to plant in.  I dug the sod under and then after letting it decompose for about 2 weeks I re dug it and raked out any large remaining chunks of sod.  This year the garlic has stakes with actual labels.  Using a paint pen I had my wife write the names of all the varieties and I then sealed it with a couple coats of urethane.  I'm hoping that it survives the winter.  I then planted all of my garlic taking notes as I did.  It took the better part of the day to plant all 478 cloves because of the remaining prep work I had and the fact that I was planting so many different varieties.