Once we’ve pulled a bed of garlic, we immediately separate out the garlic we’re going to plant this fall. This way we make sure that we have enough seed stock. And we make sure it looks good! My next free online workshop is on Thursday Sept 22 at 2pm Eastern … More details coming soon!
This is how we dig up garlic at Tourne-Sol We grow about 25 000 bulbs on a ¼ acre. Undercutting goes a lot quicker than broadforking!!! My next free online workshop is on Thursday Aug 25 at 2pm Eastern … More details coming soon!
Yesterday was the first garlic harvest of the year from our home garden. And as usual, the earliest garlic was Stella. This garlic is named after my grandma Stella who grew it in her garden. My grandma had only been growing the garlic for 10 years or so when she gave it to me. She … More Harvesting my grandma’s garlic!
The Complete Book Of Garlic by Ted Jordan Meredith In my corner of the world, when you go to a farmers market, garlic usually means Music garlic – those big white bulbs with 4-6 spicy cloves. Music is definitely a reliable garlic in a cold Canadian climate. But it is not the only garlic out … More Farmer Book Club: the complete book of garlic
Anyone else have a big bowl of garlic cloves within easy reach of the cutting board? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? These are mostly leftover Rocambole garlic cloves from when @fermetournesol planted garlic. Rocamboles have about 10-11 cloves per bulk. We keep the 6-8 biggest Cloves per bulb and put the rest aside. There was … More Big Bowls Of Garlic Cloves
These are my other two favourite garlic books. These are my other two favourite garlic books. Growing Great Garlic (by Ron Engeland) was my constant companion in my early garlic years. This book would be spread open on the straw mulch as I compared the scape size and colour with the descriptions in the book. … More My Two Other Favourite Garlic Books
It’s good to have a few good books lying around at all times These days, The Garlic Papers is sitting on my kitchen counter. That way I can steal a few pages here and there throughout the day. This book arrived in the mail a few days ago. My buddy JC had seen it and … More Don’t you love to drown in a good garlic book?
I’ve put together a FREE masterclass called 6 Secrets To Grow BIG GARLIC. I give this workshop every year at the Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Garlic Festival. It’s a standing room only event where folks come to learn the magic of GREAT GARLIC! This year, with all the COVID craziness, I’m not sure what’s going to happen. So I’m bringing the … More Tired of TINY GARLIC?
Two weekends ago, at Eco Farm Days in Cornwall, Ontario; I learned that Paul Pospisil, Canada’s Garlic Guru, had passed away. Paul Pospisil was my first garlic mentor. I met Paul in 2001, just a few weeks after my very first garlic harvest. I was working at Switch Farms in Campbellville, Ontario. I had never … More Remembering Canada’s Garlic Guru