It's never too late to play in the garden

I wrote this for my work's website/blog today and wanted 

too keep track of it in my own archives.

Good golly I sure love gardening. 

I keep falling more and more in love with it.

With the beautiful weather we’ve been enjoying lately, I’m constantly feeling guilty about not working in my yard more. Especially since I have had such gorgeous garlic waiting to be planted. Ideally I should have planted it a month or two earlier…. better late than never, right?!

I made it a goal to come home and finally make good with my garlic. During the fall we carried these locally grown garlic for our customers to plant. If I remember correctly we had 5 different varieties. The flavor of these garlic is by far more robust and pungent than you would find at the local grocery store. Naturally that is exactly what you want from these! My mouth is watering just thinking about how delicious they are. 

Once I made it home, I let my two boys out {I have two dogs that are my children} to do their business and I gathered up my bag of cloves. This past summer I added two grow boxes on the west side of my yard. Unfortunately the tomatoes and peppers didn't exactly thrive in that area. But since it was cleaned out and was easy access for my project at hand I thought what better place to plant my beauties. 

I cleared a few spoiled tomatoes from the spot and fluffed up the soil.

Lets just say it was the perfect way to spend a few minutes in the garden. Granted it is December and it’s a wee bit chilly today…. but with the sun shining and a warm scarf it was exactly what I needed. 

Once I dumped my cloves out and placed them were they would be tucked in for the winter, I used my trowel to dig down a couple of inches. Garlic prefers to have the top of the clove 2 inches below the soil surface. Once I finished tucking them all in, I gathered some fallen leaves {that I have yet to rake up} and use it as a top dressing to help insulate them.

Now I can enjoy the coming snow storm and cross my fingers that I will have a successful harvest of garlic next summer.