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Pricing and Shipping Dates Samplers of at least three varieties $15/lb. Samplers are smaller sized mixed varieties. Eating garlic $12/lb up to 2” Seed Garlic $17/lb over 2” Due to New England weather I would guess that the Garlic would be dried and ready to ship Late Aug to Early Sept. I would encourage clients

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The Soil Biology Model of Plant Nutrition

Last November I went to the 7th Annual Bionutrient Food Association Soil & Nutrition Conference in Massachusetts where as expected I got my world turned upside down. These conferences  expose you to so many ideas and personalities that you would have to be brain dead to not be over stimulated. I always need a few

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The Soil Biology Model of Plant Nutrition

Tags: microbiology, Minerals, Soil Biology

Last November I went to the 7th Annual Bionutrient Food Association Soil & Nutrition Conference in Massachusetts where as expected I got my world turned upside down.

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Mulching Video

Watch how we mulch our seed garlic. Using re-purposed bale shredder from cow barn mounted on old Gravely wagon. Pulled by "40" year old Gravely tractor with cargo platform. Still cumbersome but way better than by hand. Mulching Garlic Seed
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Garlic Tasting

Thank you to our tasters Paul, Judith, Flavio, and Ann. Descriptions were developed by our team of experienced cooks, enthusiastic foodies, and garlic lovers after doing comparative testing-eating- lots of garlic. We'd like to hear how you would describe your experiences eating these garlic varieties. Walden Red Neck Great, oil-rich all purpose garlic. Starts sweet

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Under Cutting Harvest

Watch how we harvest garlic. Our garlic is harvested with an undercutter Video title
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Certified Naturally Grown

Swallow Hill Gardens has been accepted into the Certified Naturally Grown organic program.

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What is Walden Redneck?

Walden Redneck a Rare Rocambole

Species Allium Sativum
Sub Species ophioscorodon
Variety Rocambole

 

According to Bob Anderson of Gourmet Garlic Gardens,  Walden Redneck is a Rare Mild Rocambole. There are very few of them.

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Working toward no till garlic

Tags: Food, Fresh, Organic

There are a lot of benefits of no till garlic growing. The mycorrhizal network of fungal hyphae that connect plants and help distribute water, nitrogen, carbon and other minerals are important in increasing seed establishment and growth rate. No till allows these networks to establish and function optimally. Tilling obviously destroys these networks or sets them back weeks or months.

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Looking For More Garden Space

I like living on the side of a hill just fine most of the time. Gardening on the side of a hill isn’t bad either if you have enough hill side. If I was only eating out of the garden I wouldn’t be much concerned with making it larger, but growing a yearly garlic crop requires more care and thought. I want to have enough garden space to have two years between garlic crops on the same place to avoid fostering garlic related maladies.

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Swallow Hill Gardens is a large family garden located in northern Vermont on a west facing hill- side subject to great views and occasionally too much wind. I sell garlic locally and on line and winter squash locally. I am “Certified Naturally Grown”.

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