Our annual open house is coming up. The full details are below. But one thing I’ll point out to all my seedy readers is that I will be giving seed and garlic tours during the event! Full Details Get out your calendars and reserve Sunday July 5th for our Open House. This also happens to … More Tourne-Sol Open House on Sunday 5 July, 2015
I just watched this report on la Semaine Verte about garlic scapes. The video showacses Le Petit Mas and their garlic scape harvest. They harvest 1000s of pound at a time and shuffle them around in bulk bins. They then process the scapes and lacto ferment them. If you are interested in garlic, you should … More Video About Large-Scale Garlic Scape Processing
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.
We have always mulched our garlic crop. Last year, we planted one unmulched bed of Porcelain garlic as a trial. In the spring, the unmulched garlic sprouted and emerged from the soil earlier than the mulched garlic. Visually, there seemed to be more winterkilled cloves in the unmulched garlic (though a low enough amount to … More Mulched Garlic vs. Unmulched Garlic
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
Have you been wondering what happened with my attempt to produce true garlic seed? Here’s how it went … (Reminder: True garlic seed is different from the bulbils that appear in mature garlic scapes. You can read a true garlic seed primer and a garlic bulbil primer in past GTS posts. Or read Ted Meredith … More True Garlic Seed Update
Ever since I first heard about true garlic seed in the garlic news published by Paul Pospisil, I have wanted to get my hands on some. This past winter I got part of my wish. Ted Meredith (author The Complete Book of Garlic) and Avram Drucker wrote a clear introduction to producing true garlic seed … More Looking For True Garlic Seed
I was cleaning my seed workshop in preparation for seed-packing season when I found a few Silverskin garlic bulbs from the 2010 harvest. In July, I wrote about storing garlic and how I still had some Silverskin garlic and Porcelain garlic that was 12 months out of the ground. None of that Porcelain garlic is … More Silverskin Garlic – Storage Update
Through the month of August, garlic occupies a large portion of my brain. And most of what I am thinking about is how to get the best garlic we can – garlic that looks beautiful, tastes great, and stores as long as possible. The key step in making this happen is effectively curing garlic plants … More Curing Garlic For Best Storage