Winter is coming any day, so let's plant my vegetable garden!

Please join me in the back yard! Let's check out these photos of my garden, as I plant a crop I'll harvest next June/July.

I got some excellent garlic at the nearby "Garlicfest", which was in August. Of the 3 varieties, I'm going to plant 2.

The "Russian Red" strain. I got some nice big bulbs for planting.

You can plant individual cloves and they'll grow into full bulbs.

I love the patterns on the sides of the bulbs. Reminds me of wood grains, or maybe chestnuts.

That's some Tibetan garlic. A bit smaller, but I really liked the taste, and apparently it's a nice one to grow.

Really pretty colour on the inside of that one!

I broke up 2 of each strain, so I'd have a little more genetic variation in my garden patch.

Put them into containers and brought them to the garden.

I decided to plant along the back fences. Garlic needs to go about 3 inches down. It doesn't need fertilizer or water, just put it in with the pointy part facing up.

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Here's a little clip to show you how I bury each clove:

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I leave a few inches between each, so the cloves I had ended up spreading out across most of the back fences.

We're expecting a hard winter again this year, so I put some mulch over the garlic bulbs. I'll put some more over the entire garden once the leaves finish falling.

Garlic is a superfood, nutritionally. It grows with very little cost or care. And garlic defends your garden from pests!

Happy autumn, everybody. Get your bulbs in! :)

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