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Mar 31, 2016 10:05 AM CST
Name: Sandy B.
Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b)
(Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
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drdawg said:Two inches is good considering your soil is perhaps still frozen in spots. Thumbs up


LOL -- that, and the fact that it's snowing (instead of raining, like it is here), about 20 miles to the north of us!

I do have one garlic plant coming up in the hoop house, probably about 8" tall now, where I had some planted last year and must have missed that one. Amazing how much warmer an unheated hoop house, with the door wide open for the last several weeks, is when compared to the open garden. I thought about devoting half of it (which would be a planting area about 3 x 15 feet) to garlic this year, but ended up overwintering a bunch of perennials that I had started from seed last summer and will be growing half a dozen (okay, maybe 8...) tomato plants in there for the summer; maybe this fall, though, a lot of the garlic will go in there to see how it works. (I only planted a small amount the last time, as an experiment, and it seemed to do quite well but I don't think I gave it enough water; next time I'll set up a soaker hose to make watering easier.)
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