#softneck garlic

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Garlic and Shallot Harvest

Clockwise from upper left: Duganski, Inchelium Red, Peñasco Blue, Aji Morado Spanish, and center: French Grey Shallots.

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Pulled half the garlic in case the rain we are expecting would turn it to mush.

Below is the garlic i harvested a couple weeks ago because it was splitting

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About 3 of my garlics have side shoots which is called ‘witches brooming’ i pulled one yesterday to see what was what. They seem a little wet and also the new cloves had basically sprouted so ummm not great on those. Its probably due to the crazy temperature fluctuations we have been getting

I put out rock decoy strawberries and we had our first marigold and will have our first snap peas soon.

I dont remember if i posted the mutant basil seedling yet.

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Similarities and Differences between Hardneck garlic & softneck garlic

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