Tried to Grow Onions and Failed – Here’s the Secret to Success Fall Planting – Onions As gardeners we have come to think of autumn as the end of the gardening season. It is anything but the end. Autumn, for each of you, represents the beginning of next year’s gardening season, and there is no better way to begin next…
Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall
Basket of Shallots Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall Many of our winter hardy vegetables – onion and elephant garlic sets, parsnips, salsify, etc. – can be planted in both the spring or the fall, but to be really successful with shallots, you should try to plant them in the fall. Shallots are sold as…
The Porcelain and Turban Garlics
Polish Hardneck The Porcelain and Turban Garlics Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! The Porcelain and Turban horticultural groups of garlic were basicallyunknown in the US until very recently. They are both very distinctive, but for different reasons. They are both hardneck varieties, so it is essential to plant them in the fall. The Porcelains can best be…
The Garlic Chronicles Part VI: Truly Exotic Garlics – The Asiatics
The Asiatic Garlic – Korean Mountain The Garlic Chronicles Part VI: Truly Exotic Garlics – The Asiatics Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! In July we began a newsletter series on garlic which will span 8 newsletters in total, and by the end of this series you will have learned all you ever wanted to know (and then…
The Most Famous of the Heirloom Garlics – The Striped Garlics
The Marbled Purple Stripe Garlic – Pskem The Most Famous of the Heirloom Garlics – The Striped Garlics Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! Few Americans have a great depth of understanding or knowledge of garlic. The garlic they encounter in the grocery store, usually California Select, orthe braided garlics they purchase at harvest festivals are they garlics…
Every Cook’s Dream – Garlic Varieties with the Largest Cloves
Georgian Crystal Garlic Every Cook’s Dream – Garlic Varieties with the Largest Cloves Harvesting History’s garlic comes from Upstate New York and the Oshkanogan Valley of Washington State. Both farms are certified nematode-free and organic. Our supplier in Washington State has been organic for 24 years. Our supplier in Upstate New York has been organic for 14 years. This year…
Garlics That Store The Longest
Softneck Silverskin-Nootka Rose Garlic Garlics That Store The Longest Harvesting History’s garlic comes from Upstate New York and the Oshkanogan Valley of Washington State. Both farms are certified nematode-free and organic. Our supplier in Washington State has been organic for 24 years. Our supplier in Upstate New York has been organic for 14 years. This year an extremely rare amalgamation…
It Is Time To ORDER GARLIC!
Harvested Heirloom Garlic It Is Time T0 ORDER GARLIC! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! Some of our newsletter topics are now available on YouTube. We will include a YouTube link whenever there is a YouTube video from Harvesting History that relates to a subject in the newsletter. New Jersey State Fair and Sussex County Horse Show For our customers in New Jersey, New…
For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden-7 Herbs That Must Be Planted In August 2019
Arugula For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden- 7 Herbs That Must Be Planted In August 2019 The Second Season has begun! In the past two newsletters, we talked briefly about 7 flowers and 7 vegetables that must be planted in August. Now let’s begin a discussion of herbs that must be planted in August. FIRST, some of our newsletter…
For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden – 7 Vegetables That Must Be Planted In August 2019
Dinosaur Kale For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden – 7 Vegetables That Must Be Planted In August 2019 The Second Season has begun! We talked briefly about 7 flowers that must be planted in August in our last newsletter. Now let’s begin a discussion of vegetables that must be planted in August. FIRST, some of our newsletter topics are now…