Crop Rotation

Vegetable Beds – Idea #1

While I previously used one raised bed that is 6 feet by 4 feet for garlic, onion, shallots, I am branching out this year and mixing it up.  I will be posting idea #2 this week. While I am not using idea # 1 this year, I still think it is a good one as garlic, onion […]

Seed and Bulb Ideas

Bulb Ideas for Garlic

I went to the Tomato and Garlic Festival which is also call Red Ripe and Roasted at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, PA today.  One of the reasons that I like to attend this event is to get my garlic bulbs to plant from Enon Valley Garlic. The festival went  from 11 AM to 4 PM […]

Vegetables

Harvesting Garlic Scapes

As you may recall, I planted my garlic last October, now here is what the plants look like as of today. The hardnecks will produce a flower stem that will loop around once or twice before straightening out which is called a scape.   While it looks really cool, you should cut the flower stem […]