Gardening

Warning this post may be even more scattered than our typical post.  Well lets just jump right in, where to start. Do you have prime exposed soil full of organic matter just waiting for you to sow some seeds or you have a brown site where you dont want your soil to touch the ground? Lets assume somewhere in the middle, something most folks are dealing with. Medicore soil with medicore drainage and not alot of organic matter all covered in some scrubby grass.  If asthetics and time arent the greatest concerns but budget is I'd start planning a simple...

 As the title implies we have a challenging discussion ahead of us today, growing a crop like garlic in extreme cold! The standard in our part of the world is fall sowing hardneck garlic and spring sowing softneck. Just a quick point of clarification Hardneck varietys are the slower maturing more cold hardy garlic that produce a scape, possibly even a head that will produce small bulbs. Softneck garlic on the other hand is quick to mature, produces no scape, yields more bulbs and needs warmer temperate weather.  We start both hardneck and softneck garlic by doing  a late winter...