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65 bags of dirt/soil later our garden is almost ready for winter. Garlic is in and covered with straw. Filled in some low spots in yard and seeded.

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Genuine Walla Walla Sweet Onions RULE. ;)

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We freeze ours. Blanch to remove skins then pack in vacuum bags and into freezer. Less work but doesn't last as long as canned. We make sauces for pasta mostly with ours.

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Small sample of our onions. Great color this year.

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Half done. Got 6" to 8" of soil below side boards. Getting some more soil soon to bring up to grade. This soil is ten times better than the first try. ;)

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We've had pretty good luck the first two season. The garden spot gets sun most of day so the garden is on the grow. 4'x16' with new 12' and 8'. The soil in my neighborhood is modular dirt (glacial...

Wow that's a nice garden. Hope to double ours this fall.

We've had the warmest/driest spring on record and it has not let up. A 100 F next week. That's a roaster here in Western Washington...

Got the garlic braided.

"Nailed it" :roflmao

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Harvested the garlic today and started prepping for braiding. We're learning our grow-able season is longer than we ever thought at this location. Looks like we might get some corn to make it. ...

We get our garlic starts/semantics/bulbs from Filaree Garlic Farm. Yes we could use inexpensive garlic out of the grocery store/farmers market but we are going for certain kinds for certain purposes....

That's what we do too. As soon as they release (usually September up here) the garlic starts we plant and cover with straw. Use prepared straw or you will have a straw garden riddled with bugs and...

That's looking like good sandy loam soil there. Mine is rather dark clay laden so far. Learning and to compensate with additives of more compose and mulch to get that magic mixture here. A little...

Our token four bin garden this year. Next year we'll more than double the size with an additional two bin and a three bin to the left.

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A month later and it real pops. The neighbors...