Growing garlic in your own garden lets you play with flavors you cannot find at stores. We carry more organic seed garlic than any other garden company, at the best prices, so plunge in and get garlicky. How to grow garlic The nuts and bolts of how to grow garlic and harvest garlic are right here for you, in our new video and our downloadable Garlic Growing Guide. The question is, which varieties of garlic seed do you want to plant? Softneck or hardneck or both? Garlic has a neck? By the time you…
Make your organic orchard bountiful by fertilizing your fruit trees. In our latest, research-based video, Tricia explains IF, when, and how much to fertilize your fruit trees. Keep reading here to learn…
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Micronutrients are vitamins for your plants, says Tricia in our new video about secondary macronutrients and the micronutrients. You know about the major nutrients, N-P-K. Those are the symbols for the…
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December 19, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Introduce a tomato gardener to the joys of cool-season growing. The pouch of our Roo gardening apron has seeds for garlic, shallots, potatoes, and vegetables—and a how-to book from the man who gardens…
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Don’t leave your garden yet! Late fall and early winter is the time to plant some easy edibles, and scatter the sweeps of wildflowers that will be a delight come spring and summer. Tricia has winter…
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If you’re deep into permaculture you know about hugelkultur. If hugelkultur makes you say, Who?, then say hello to an easy composting method. Hugelkultur (HOO-gull-cull-toor) is a German word for…
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The giveaways are over, but you can find great garlic recipes and garlic growing info at the blogs listed below. Shallots too! Timing tips: * Best time to plant garlic? After the first frost…
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September 27, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Why do we plant bulbs? So they’ll bloom! What makes bulbs bloom? Phosphorus. Phosphorus is the P in the N-P-K numbers on fertilizers. Phosphorus is a little bit sneaky though—and we’ll…
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How much does famed TV gardener Joe Lamp’l love compost? He dove into a pile of it—more than once. Tricia didn’t have a huge compost pile for Joe at the San Francisco Flower & Garden…
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Ready to start your first vegetable garden? The three essentials for an easy vegetable garden are: Full sun Convenient water supply Good soil Add some basic supplies and you’ll be off and growing.…
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What is it about ‘Music’ garlic that makes it the most popular seed garlic with our customers? Hardneck First of all, it’s a hardneck garlic and all the hardnecks have more subtle flavors…
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Be sure to handle the garlic bulbs with care because they bruise easily - they seem tough but it’s best to think of them as eggs. I wash the dirt off of them right after pulling them out of the ground because dried on dirt is very difficult to remove. I leave the garlic outside for a few hours after harvest, but never in direct summer sun.
DJ Says:
Oct 5th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
I have a drip system set up for the garlic bed. On a daily basis - how often should it be watered?