The garlic year

We are spanning the year with garlic.

What’s left from last year’s harvest, with my beloved garlic bowl, a long-ago gift from my brother Greg
Scapes cut for dinner
Cilantro pesto with scapes, white beans, lemon, and cayenne
Garlic bed at back of garden. We’re having foggy gray mornings.
Italian variety di Voghiera, 11 cloves
The massive Music, 15 cloves, forming scapes
22 Inchelium Red

Other varieties planted: 50 Spanish Roja, 11 German Red, 45 Russian Red, and 23 miscellaneous cloves saved from 2019’s crop. Total planted: 177 cloves.

Harvest records:

2017 – 94 heads

2018 – 218 heads

2019 – 120 (approx.)

I use the same bed every year, adding hay, seaweed, and wood ash to the soil. It’s the perfect place for garlic which doesn’t seem to interest deer. I’m not sure what I would do if I decided to rotate this crop.