My Husband's Latest Garden Project - Organic Garlic!
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:54 pm
My husband loves his organic garden, and spends a lot of his spare time doing something in it. (He works as a full-time carpenter.)
His latest project, on the advice of his father, which is a produce farmer, was to plant garlic, lots of garlic, over 2,000 bulbs! (25 lbs.)
His father told him what it was selling for, (over $5 a lb), and said that not a lot of large produce farmers liked to grow garlic, because it took too much hands-on care.
We live on 2.5 acres of land, a lot of it is just grass. My husband made our already large garden almost twice it's size, and planted the garlic about a month ago.
He said that now, the hardest part is going to be waiting till spring! He actually dug into the soil in a few spots, just to see what was happening, and a lot of the bulbs had little green shoots already, which was exciting.
So, we will wait and see what kind of crop we harvest next year. Perhaps our little plot of land will start paying for itself, and become an asset instead of a liability!
Anyone else that has a huge yard, and does not like to mow it - perhaps growing a specialty crop like garlic could be profitable, as long as you have a place to sell it then.
My husband will have a lot of local markets to sell the garlic in, and he would like to increase his crop every year. Perhaps, if we get huge enough, we can even provide our local Wegman's Market with organic garlic!
Smiling & cheering because of my husband's enthusiasm -
Wish us luck!
Ruth
His latest project, on the advice of his father, which is a produce farmer, was to plant garlic, lots of garlic, over 2,000 bulbs! (25 lbs.)
His father told him what it was selling for, (over $5 a lb), and said that not a lot of large produce farmers liked to grow garlic, because it took too much hands-on care.
We live on 2.5 acres of land, a lot of it is just grass. My husband made our already large garden almost twice it's size, and planted the garlic about a month ago.
He said that now, the hardest part is going to be waiting till spring! He actually dug into the soil in a few spots, just to see what was happening, and a lot of the bulbs had little green shoots already, which was exciting.
So, we will wait and see what kind of crop we harvest next year. Perhaps our little plot of land will start paying for itself, and become an asset instead of a liability!
Anyone else that has a huge yard, and does not like to mow it - perhaps growing a specialty crop like garlic could be profitable, as long as you have a place to sell it then.
My husband will have a lot of local markets to sell the garlic in, and he would like to increase his crop every year. Perhaps, if we get huge enough, we can even provide our local Wegman's Market with organic garlic!
Smiling & cheering because of my husband's enthusiasm -
Wish us luck!
Ruth
Increasing crops year to year is a no brainer either. Just think all those cloves will produce a bulb with at least 5 more cloves. Mutiply what you platned by 5 than agin by 5 than gain by 5. See how many plants you could have in a very short time.
He would like to increase his planting next year by adding three more varieties of garlic - planting a total of 100 lbs, instead of the 25 lbs he planted this year.
So our garlic project will rest a bit till spring, while the garlic bulbs do their 'thing'.