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Post by steev on Oct 29, 2012 19:39:36 GMT -5
That's good-looking soil. Mine is getting darker than the humus-deficient yellow it started out as, but it still has a way to go.
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 29, 2012 20:51:33 GMT -5
It doesn't look that good when dry.  |
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Post by steev on Oct 29, 2012 22:07:35 GMT -5
Neither do I.
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 30, 2012 18:57:02 GMT -5
Ok the garlic has been planted! Yay! I soaked it in baking soda overnight and then for a little bit this morning in potato vodka and peroxide. Here is the second bed I did today. The one to the left was already done before the pic. You can see my wonderful scoot that I use to plant and weed and so on at the end of the bed.  I dropped the cloves, and also some shallots to separate the garlic varieties, into the trenches in 6 staggered rows. The cloves are 8 inches apart from the next one in the row.  You can see half the bed planted here and 3 staggered rows remain. See how that means 3 straight across in a plane? The next row is placed in the middle of each of the previous row. That gets the most in a bed without sacrificing room for each.  This is the third bed and mostly hardnecks. I separated the varieties that were not completely perfect into this bed so the other two beds have no possible Asters Yellows. I planted 3 different kinds of shallots in between the garlic varieties. 15 total kinds of garlic. Once the cloves were laid out like this by variety it was a breeze to scoot along with a trowel and poke them in a couple inches. It took 20 minutes per bed to do that. Then I used a turned over garden rake to smooth out the beds. I put in 3 drip lines per bed and a bale of straw was needed for each bed plus a few more flakes; in other words, all the straw I had! I watered it in with sprinklers afterward to prevent it being blown away. |
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