The good news from OUR NEW GARLIC FIELD
We sent our garlic out for disease testing and the garlic from the new
field has a clean bill of health so we can sell it for planting for home gardeners and use
it for our own planting. Yay!!! (We will use a heat treatment to be safe). We'll sell garlic from this area in about a month.
The bad news from OUR OLD GARLIC FIELD
The bad news is that some
garlic from our older field had garlic bloat nematodes which caused some rot of the bulbs. Luckily 98%
looked good and is great eating garlic, but the garlic shouldn't be used for planting. Apparently the nematode larvae can live in tiny specks of soil in the roots and spread to a new area. A hot water treatment can be used to kill the nematodes. 