Fiddlestix Farms: Chapter III

Even though baskets stopped late October, the garden work did not.  I decided to try an experiment by placing some bales in the garden to see if the winter snow would melt into them making the spring preparation easier.  In the fall, straw is a high-priced commodity because farmers stock it to use as winter bedding for their animals.  I happened to have quite a few moldy bales from our own fields, so I went for the double experiment.....setting HAY bales out in the FALL instead of STRAW bales in the SPRING!!

Oh, I'm so daring and bold!!

I used shredded paper from our clinic and cardboard boxes from everyone I know to line the area between the bales to try to keep the weeds out.  

Fall is the time to put in garlic as well.  I intended to save cloves from the spring to plant, but we ate them all.  It seemed like a great idea right up until October  planting time and I had to spend $90 on starter cloves.  

The garlic/parsley pizza was totally worth it.

I will NOT have the same problem this fall.  I planted about 10 times what I did last fall.  Boom!!

Sneak peek.....it's growing nicely:):)

Start collecting garlic recipes, y'all.  I'm fairly certain you can have as much garlic as you would like this year....except what I'm saving to plant this fall. 

I'm slow, but I do learn.