I've got at least a dozen types of garlic growing and they are mixed up in the last bed.
Persian Star, Bogatyr,Red Chesnok,Music,Benld, wish I would have kept better track of varieties... I can tell the different hardnecks, but softnecks are tough. My seed has come from everywhere.
Had a long winded answer to your questions, but it disappeared when I tried to post it.
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Originally Posted by greenthumbomaha
I think we have similar climates, so I buy my seed garlic from WI. That's a really nice set up. Nice and flat too, so no worries about wet spots. Lucky!!!
I know what you mean by doing all that yourself. but I hope you had some machines helping in the bed prep? Did you or a machine throw all that dirt up?
I pull the Dewitt up every year at harvest. Holes are burned with a red hot tomato paste can.
I plan on laying old 2x4's down the center of each path to hold down the cardboard until it gets wet and soaked in.
I use the Dewitt Pro5 in the 6 foot length for the reason that you mentioned, it is very windy here and fabric can easily take off. This product is more expensive and a bear to cut holes in because of a felt backing, but better than it sailing away. Doesn't last as long either (about 3 years before weeds start poking through.)
How do you plan to keep the cardboard in place for your walking paths? I laid sheets of cardboard from big boxes like appliance boxes and held them down over with long 2 X 4 but they still managed to blow away and make a mess, but that was over the winter and the purpose was to kill grass. I cut strips of the Pro5 for the paths but would like to know how you plan to keep the cardboard down for future projects.
- Lisa
Forgot to add that last year I placed folded tomato cages over the straw to keep it in place. Some chicken wire may be a good substitute for the cages. It did a fantastic job of holding the straw in, even in a winter that didn't have much precipitation.
I might go naked with no straw mulch or use up my last bits of shredded leaves with the cages to hold it down.
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