What you should buy depends on your market and farm needs. Does that help? Do you need large bulbs or would medium size bulbs sell better at your farmer’s market? The jumbos are great for efficiency and eye appeal, but can you get what they are worth per pound? You get a lot of planting […]
Now is the time to start prepping for fall planting if you live in upstate NY. Hopefully you already have your soil test results back. If not there is still time. I love soil tests. If you have never taken one most soils would do well with some compost and a balanced fertilizer. I use […]
Time to start shipping garlic already. Harvest is cured and ready. It was a DRY summer here in the fingerlakes. Not even an inch of rain from May through mid July! Garlic did ok but was a bit stressed with the drought and therefore the overall crop yield was down. Cleaning and grading in the […]
We had a mild winter this year. Garlic was up and growing earlier than any other time in the past ten years I have been at this farm. It was up by mid-March and growing along nice and healthy. No snow cover but temperatures were not dropping that low at night. I mulch so it […]