Extreme Intercropping: Garlic and Tomatoes
Planting tomatoes between my garlic. Good companion plants. And by the time the garlic is harvested, the tomatoes should be …
Planting tomatoes between my garlic. Good companion plants. And by the time the garlic is harvested, the tomatoes should be …
Garlic is my largest winter crop. In that while garlic is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the …
Getting some snow is part of winter in my garden. Snow covers everything. So the first thing to do after …
Since I am upping my garlic plant number this year I decided to make a multipronged dibber to make my …
This year’s total garlic harvest came to over 200 garlic bulbs of good size, with about 30 little ones that will be used pretty much immediately since I ran out of garlic from last year already.
Drying is pretty easy for me. […]
I planted over 150 garlic last fall, at different times and in different places. And the earliest plantings are becoming ripe for harvest.
I often try to maximize space by intercropping; that is grow many different plants in basically the same space. The classic method of intercropping that many people find popular is the Three Sisters garden. Which can take up a lot of space. But I also intercrop on a much smaller scale as well.
October planted garlic, now under a low tunnel.