We had a quiet, nicely temperate morning. In the interests of continuing the fall cleanup, I removed a tomato plant that was finished, then started weeding the box containing the potatoes. That went quickly so I bounced over to the onion box. That, too, went quickly so I started in on the garlic.
It's obvious looking at the picture above how overgrown I let the garlic (left) get this year. It's quite embarrassing. I need to do a much better job next year. I'll blame it on the fact we were still getting established around the property this year.
My progress slowed to a crawl as I found that the only way to remove the crabgrass infesting the two garlic boxes was to methodically dig out all the roots. I found that some of them went quite deep in the soil.
While working through the boxes, I found that what I'd thought were weeds among the crabgrass were actually some garlic sprouts. When we went to harvest the garlic this year, we couldn't find many heads and what we found were miniature. Apparently, they grew a good bit in the ensuing months. I sorted through the cloves and replanted the largest ones in the box spaced about 4" apart.
After I finished with the first box, I started in on the second one following the same process. 4 hours later, I was finished with the entire task.
Initially, I'd only intended to weed the boxes to prep for fall planting. As a bonus, I discovered garlic already resident there and finished that planting task, too.
The fall cleanup series of posts began on August 29.
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