Garlic year three planted
October 10, 2025
This afternoon I planted 64 cloves from the biggest heads harvested mid-summer, timing it to coincide with the advice my mom was handed down to plant during the waning phase of the moon. There are still a few basil plants in the bed that I'm letting go to seed, but thankfully they all happened to not line up with the rows, so I think I got the garlic evenly spaced out. I planted a little shallower than last year, thinking that maybe the failure rate was higher this past year than the year before because I'd planted deeper. We'll see. Once they were in, I covered the bed with a thick layer of dried grass clippings. Weather-wise, it's been cool the last few days - nearly 60 during the day and mid 40s or low 50s at night. Mostly that way for the next week, though will be almost 70 tomorrow. Looks like a good chance of rain for a couple days in the week ahead, so that's good.
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