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Late Till for Garlic

Posted 12/17/2007 8:31pm by Eugene Wyatt.

Recently 200 pounds of seed garlic were given to me by a grower in Canada who could not plant it because his ground froze. Here I am last week on my Massey tilling manure into the soil where I over-wintered 120 ewes last year. I’m excited about growing garlic again, and this field is lovingly fertile. Snow is forecast tomorrow; but if before the new year we get a weather window warm enough to thaw the ground, we'll plant and have garlic in the Spring, grown strong & sweet thanks to the sheep.

Tags: Garlic

4 Comments »

Stewart Robertson said,

5/25/2010 @ 3:14 am

We love your site and what you are doing. We are on the East Coast of Australia in Coffs Harbour. We started our garlic growing last year with 1 tonne. The return was 2.25 tonne. This year we replanted all 2.25. Our fingers are crossed. We are thinking about introducing Dorper sheep as a weed deterrant. Any thoughts?

Eugene Wyatt said,

5/27/2010 @ 2:40 pm

Stewart, What variety did you plant and how many acres/row feet did you use? It would be nice to turn weeding over to grazing sheep as they won't eat the garlic but they might trample it, I fear. But garlic does grow well in sheep manure and that I know.

Stewart Robertson said,

5/27/2010 @ 5:20 pm

Hi Eugene
We planted Russian Garlic (This is the name used in Australia as I understand) It's a large white variety. We planted in 3,000 sq metres (meters to Americans) This is about 1 full acre. My info so far is that Dorper sheep have soft hoofs and therefore don't affect the garlic by trampling. I certainly don't want to start using them until I hear from someone that's done so with success. If I hear anything more I'll let you know.

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