county fair

catahoula · #1 09/22/12, 11:45 AM

So we entered our garlic in the fair, purple hardneck. We won best of class, heh king of the produce.

county fair - Gardening & Plant Propagation

the matching ribbon was a nice touch.

Big Dave · #2 09/22/12, 01:18 PM

CONGRATULATIONS! Wish I could get mine to look that good.

oregon woodsmok · #3 09/22/12, 01:35 PM

That's some good looking garlic.

catahoula · #4 09/22/12, 03:22 PM

Thanks, we have been working on it for about eight years. Decided through trial and error that the early spring planting works best for us.

geo in mi · #5 09/22/12, 03:26 PM

With something that nice, now you have to decide whether to eat it.......

geo

catahoula · #6 09/22/12, 04:25 PM

well...we save the best and largest back for seed next year. Pretty much all garlic that survives cold storage through the winter gets planted in the spring. I have some that have remained in good enough shape to eat even now at 14 months old, I'm going to go ahead and plant those bulbs this month.

I love farming.