Garlic report 2025-
Selling at Boulder Farmer's Market through mid-September
The harvest was disappointing this year with both fields being greatly affected by some winter weather events and producing lots of very tiny garlic. (Hot weather followed quickly by extreme cold) We lost almost all of the Inchelium Red and Persian Star garlic, with the exception of tiny garlic or garlic "rounds". Luckily there was also some garlic planted at different times that came out very nice. Some that will be sold and some that will be saved for seed.
We started selling garlic at the Boulder Farmers Market August 9th and will probably be sold out by September 13th or 20th.
Disease. One of our fields had some noticeable damage from garlic stem bloat nematodes, and some bacterial disease as well. Ironically, garlic from that field came out looking decent otherwise. However we don't recommend planting it for seed. Our other field had the most weather damage but no diseased garlic that we found. There is a limited amount of Chesnok Red and German Extra Hardy we can sell from that field that could be planted in a home garden if the hot water soak method is used. (see the instructions under the "pages" section of this site.)
