E144: Easy Tips For Growing Hardneck Garlic in Raised Beds, In Ground Gardens AND In Containers with Niki Jabbour
Episode 144: Listen here!
Welcome back to another episode of our Fall 2022 season of The Grow Guide! Maggie and Dave catch up about the cooler temps that have hit the Prairies. And shares her excitement surrounding adding a new flock of laying hens to her homestead!
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Listener Questions of The Week:
“What temperature in the fall should you plant garlic? I’m in BC and it’s still sunny and up to about 25°c in the day but down to 5° at night and hasn’t started raining regularly like it usually does. It really feels like summer still.” — Melissa Parker
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This week’s guest:
Gardening author, educator and the founder of savvygardening.com, Niki Jabbour.
About Niki Jabbour
Niki Jabbour is a Nova Scotia-based food and flower gardener who has made a name for herself with her 4 award winning gardening books, including The Year Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover. Niki is one of the co-founders and regular contributor to savvygardening.com where she writes on a range of topics, including growing unusual vegetables. She also writes for magazines like Fine Gardening, Horticulture Magazine, and Birds & Blooms, and is the host of The Weekend Gardener which airs on News 95.7 FM in Halifax as well as online.
This episode covers:
All about Niki’s Halifax garden this Fall
The new projects Niki is working on, including her newly launched 2023 Wall Calendar.
How Niki’s garlic patch did this season in her new raised beds
The difference between hardneck and softneck garlic
Planting garlic in the Spring — can it be done?
What Niki amends her garlic patch soil with and her approach to fertilizing garlic
Niki’s approach with mulching her garlic patch
Growing hardneck garlic in containers — how to
NIki’s fav hardneck garlic varietites
Niki’s technique for curing garlic and why it matters
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