Garlic Progress

I am extremely satisfied with how well our garlic is growing, considering this is the first year growing a mass amount and not in 4x4 raised boxes.  That said, we messed up by not mulching the garlic in the spring before the weeds started growing.  So now we have a large task of weeding ahead of us.  Since the garlic is planted in raised beds, we are going to try weeding the beds and in between taking a weed-eater through at ground level.

We are on track to weed 1 row per day in the evenings when it's not too hot.  Hopefully we'll only have to weed 1 more time by harvest.

Below are before and after pictures.  You can see the first three beds on the left are weeded down the slopes and there is still a large mass of weeds in-between the beds.  Since our field for next year is twice the size, it will be imperative that we mulch in the early spring to get on top of the weeds.

Before

After