Spent an hour this morning planting garlic.  I loosened the soil.  I cut in the last of the compost from the backyard (we’re eating our New York Times subscription after we read it).  I mixed in some perlite to keep the soil loose.   I put some straw on top (need more).

I’ll mulch it some more.  I’ll cut in some vermicompost on a regular basis.   I’ll chop out the scapes next spring.   Maybe two hours of work over the next nine-ten months.

But we’ll have garlic!  From Natural Gardening (Inchellium Red Sofneck on the left and Music Stiffneck on the right).