#54 - plant your garlic
April, Autumn – time to plant garlic. Not so long ago I suggested that we should look for a better way
This is a better way! These two garlic bulbs, broken up into cloves, will go into the warm soil today. They will sprout soon, grow slowly over Winter and in Spring they'll look like real garlic
There'll be more too. These bulbs, harvested at the correct time, cured properly and stored well have not sprouted. Before I was gifted this strain of garlic last year commercial garlic had left me with sprouting cloves. Those struggling little cloves didn't amount to much; not worth harvesting. Relocated into a quiet corner of a garden bed those weaklings sprouted again in summer and have put out strong shoots.
It's a long term project, but those starveling garlics can now be replanted into fertile soil with full sun to grow on and yield a crop. That's right, just like planting out onion or leek seedlings garlic can grow, er, garlic. Care isn't really required. Ripping them from the ground is OK. Like the cloves planted today the shot garlic will establish, grow strong roots in Winter then fatten and swell in Spring. F-words again – free food, recued from what might have gone to landfill.
COVID-19 has hit the reset button and given you cause to rethink what's normal and good. Domestic garlic supply never looked so good. There's been a lot of nonsense sprouted about the devaluing of our dollar and just how good this has been for manufacturers to export. Today, a report was published showing that manufacturing peaked at 30 per cent in terms of contribution to Australia's GDP in 1960. Now that figure is 5 per cent. Messing with your wealth and well being by devaluing your currency hasn't worked. Growing your own in this sick ideological environment makes sense, and maybe if we grow enough it'll break the incentive to import rubbish and break the back of this self-destructive economic ideology.
Give it a go!
#54 - plant your garlic
April, Autumn – time to plant garlic. Not so long ago I suggested that we should look for a better way
This is a better way! These two garlic bulbs, broken up into cloves, will go into the warm soil today. They will sprout soon, grow slowly over Winter and in Spring they'll look like real garlic
There'll be more too. These bulbs, harvested at the correct time, cured properly and stored well have not sprouted. Before I was gifted this strain of garlic last year commercial garlic had left me with sprouting cloves. Those struggling little cloves didn't amount to much; not worth harvesting. Relocated into a quiet corner of a garden bed those weaklings sprouted again in summer and have put out strong shoots.
It's a long term project, but those starveling garlics can now be replanted into fertile soil with full sun to grow on and yield a crop. That's right, just like planting out onion or leek seedlings garlic can grow, er, garlic. Care isn't really required. Ripping them from the ground is OK. Like the cloves planted today the shot garlic will establish, grow strong roots in Winter then fatten and swell in Spring. F-words again – free food, recued from what might have gone to landfill.
COVID-19 has hit the reset button and given you cause to rethink what's normal and good. Domestic garlic supply never looked so good. There's been a lot of nonsense sprouted about the devaluing of our dollar and just how good this has been for manufacturers to export. Today, a report was published showing that manufacturing peaked at 30 per cent in terms of contribution to Australia's GDP in 1960. Now that figure is 5 per cent. Messing with your wealth and well being by devaluing your currency hasn't worked. Growing your own in this sick ideological environment makes sense, and maybe if we grow enough it'll break the incentive to import rubbish and break the back of this self-destructive economic ideology.
Give it a go!