Seedy Saturday - Planting Garlic and Potatoes
I have managed to drag my butt out into the garden this week. I managed to get part of my overgrown back yard mowed and a couple of areas in the garden cleared out. Part of the cleared space went to 'experiment' growing fall potatoes. I have always grown potatoes in early spring. But this year, I am going to try growing them in the fall too. I have some of my spring-harvested potatoes which were starting to sprout, so I planted 12 seed potatoes. It will be interesting to see what happens. Of course, with my luck, we will have a frost in mid-October and kill them. But it's an experiment and will see what happens with my red and white potatoes. The part of what I planted is something I am really excited about...elephant garlic! Ok. Truth is elephant garlic is not garlic, but rather an allium. Like onions or leeks. I ordered a pound of elephant garlic - which was a total of 25 cloves. HUGE cloves. One clove of elephant garlic is probably the same as a whole clove of garlic....
