{"id":798,"date":"2020-06-24T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=798"},"modified":"2020-06-28T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T16:17:53","slug":"the-garlic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/06\/24\/the-garlic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The garlic year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are spanning the year with garlic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2019s left from last year\u2019s harvest, with my beloved garlic bowl, a long-ago gift from my brother Greg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scapes cut for dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cilantro pesto with scapes, white beans, lemon, and cayenne <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Garlic bed at back of garden. We\u2019re having foggy gray mornings. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Italian variety di Voghiera<\/em>, 11 cloves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The massive Music,<\/em> 15 cloves, forming scapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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22 Inchelium Red<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other varieties planted: 50 Spanish Roja, 11 German Red, 45 Russian Red, and 23 miscellaneous cloves saved from 2019\u2019s crop. Total planted: 177 cloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvest records: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 – 94 heads<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 – 218 heads<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 – 120 (approx.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use the same bed every year, adding hay, seaweed, and wood ash to the soil. It\u2019s the perfect place for garlic which doesn\u2019t seem to interest deer. I\u2019m not sure what I would do if I decided to rotate this crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are spanning the year with garlic. Other varieties planted: 50 Spanish Roja, 11 German Red, 45 Russian Red, and 23 miscellaneous cloves saved from 2019\u2019s 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,… Continue reading The garlic year<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garlic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}