Wednesday, October 24, 2012

2013 Garlic Crop is in

My garlic popping station


During my week of vacation from my day off-farm job, we planted next year's garlic crop.  We doubled the amount that we planted last year:  ~4800 to ~10,000.  That is 22 100 ft beds; each bed has 3 rows.  It's a lot of garlic!  And of course it rained almost all week but we planted anyway - thankful for rain gear! 

a bit hard to see, but the wooden stakes are the variety markers

The new addition to the house is moving along.



And the barn cats are doing nicely.  They are great companions while working.


Oscar on top of the straw bales