Better Late Than Never

When we implored him yet again for a tidbit of his infinite wisdom our garden guru advised us that it was not too late to plant garlic. That was a week ago. Still not too late? Well, it's worth a try since we have been having remarkably mild fall weather.




We planted some of last year's crop of Romanian Red as well as new stock of German White and Music bought at the local farmer's market.




While using the power of the interweb to try to decipher our cryptic notes to ourselves about what varieties we had purchased (GW, M, RR???) we came across We grow garlic...in Wisconsin...and it's really great too! the website of a Wisconsin garlic farming family. There is alot of information here and a lot of delight at being involved with garlic. The photo of the kids with Alice in Dairyland who paid a princessly visit to their farm is very sweet. They look totally tickled to be hobnobbing with ag royalty.

Next year we will try George (as if it's not enough that there is a garlic named George, it has roots in Detroit Lakes, MN, where we also have some roots) and Russian Red (which also has a cool name and is said to have been brought to British Columbia by Doukhobor immigrants).




All bedded down for the winter. Grow little garlics grow.