Two days until the Ste-Anne-Garlic festival! Find out more at https://steannegarlicfestival.wordpress.com/ or on Facebook We are busy brushing garlic bulbs with toothbrushes for the occasion! If you can’t make the event, you can live vicariously through last year’s garlic fest video.
Last summer I successfully grew true garlic seed. I was thrilled. In the middle of the winter I followed Ted Jordan Meredith and Avram Drucker’s advice and soaked the garlic seeds in a 1% solution of household bleach. I then rinsed the seeds and placed them on moist paper towels in a ziplock bag in … More 2013 True Garlic Seed Update
We currently grow about 16000 garlic bulbs. Roughly 1/3 were initially started from bulbil on our farm. We propagate by bulbil in part to keep costs down but also to avoid importing disease from other farms when we buy in new garlic varieties. Garlic bulbils are the small bulbs that develop in the garlic scape … More Growing Garlic From Bulbils