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  • Bluebells-From the English Woods to the Gardens of America

    Sep 05, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    English Bluebells Bluebells-From the English Woods to the Gardens of America This year Harvesting History’s fall newsletter series is going to focus on spring flowering bulbs that are critter resistant and great plants for nourishing pollinators. In the last two newsletters, we discussed Rock Garden Irises (Iris reticulatas) and Chionodoxas (Glory of the Snow) and Galanthus (Snowdrops). In this newsletter we are going to focus on the Bluebells (Hyacinthoides). The Bluebells are native to the Mediterranean region and have born numerous scientific names. Originally, they were thought to be hyacinths and then a form of giant scilla. Then they were renamed Endymion after the Greek god who was blessed with perpetual youthfulness through perpetual sleep. Today they belong to their own species, Hyacinthoides, and are commonly known as

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  • Fall Planting – Onions

    Aug 26, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 year’s season than by planting onions, shallots and elephant garlic. Today, we are going to discuss onions, a vegetable that can or should be planted in the fall. Onions can be planted in the fall for a mid-summer crop. They can also be planted in the spring for a late autumn or early winter crop. Onions are one of the most important home garden crops available for cultivation today.

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  • Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall

    Aug 25, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garden Tools, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 sets, but unlike onion sets where each ‘set’ is a baby onion and will produce a single mature onion, a shallot ‘set’ can be a nearly mature single shallot and this shallot will produce 4-6 mature shallots. From a single sack of 6 shallots you should expect to get 25-40 shallots. Shallot Sets Buy Now for Fall Planting Shallots benefit greatly from being planted in soil that has been amended with Rock

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  • The Porcelain and Turban Garlics

    Aug 19, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Container Plants, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 described with one word – impressive. The plants are huge, with incredibly thick stems up to 1 inch in diameter and statuesque. They can reach a height of 7 feet, but mine never have. My Porcelains areusually about 3 feet tall. You should probably leave more distance between these plants – 9 inches between cloves and 2 feet between rows. Without a doubt, though, the most impressive characteristic of the Porcelains

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  • The Garlic Chronicles Part VI: Truly Exotic Garlics – The Asiatics

    Aug 16, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garden Tools, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 some) about garlic. For those of you who are about to click on the Unsubscribe Button, please don’t! The reason we are dedicating so much writing to garlic is that it can be grown almost anywhere in the US, it is easy, dependable and fascinating to grow, and it is one of the healthiest vegetables you can consume. In grocery stores and health food markets, you can only find

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  • The Most Famous of the Heirloom Garlics – The Striped Garlics

    Aug 16, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 that they know. Americans who have frequented garlic festivals have a slightly broader knowledge, and when they think of Heirloom Garlic, they are reminded of the striking, purple streaked bulbs that belong to the Striped Garlic family of cultivars. In America, the Striped Garlics are synonymous with Heirloom Garlic. The Striped Garlics comprise a numerous collection of cultivars which have been organized into three groups: Glazed Purple Stripe, Marbled Purple Stripe

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  • Every Cook’s Dream – Garlic Varieties with the Largest Cloves

    Aug 16, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 an extremely rare amalgamation of meteorological circumstances happened this spring to produce the best growing conditions for garlic in many, many decades. The spring was incredibly wet and this was followed by a somewhat drier and cooler early-to-mid summer. The garlic LOVED this and most varieties have produced the biggest individual cloves I have ever seen. For those of you who are seasoned garlic growers, you know to plant the largest

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  • Garlics That Store The Longest

    Aug 16, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 of meteorological circumstances happened this spring to produce the best growing conditions for garlic in many, many decades. The spring was incredibly wet and this was followed by a somewhat drier and cooler early-to-mid summer. The garlic LOVED this and most varieties have produced the biggest individual cloves I have ever seen. Hardneck Purple Striped-Kitab Harvesting History will begin to ship garlic in late September, and we will continue to

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  • It Is Time To ORDER GARLIC!

    Aug 15, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 York, Delaware, Maryland andConnecticut, Harvesting History will have a booth in The Conservatory at the New Jersey State Fair and Sussex County Horse Show from August 2 - August 11. Come visit us and see what a real old fashion statefair is really like. This is a truly wonderful state fair. You can see Harvesting History’s entire Heirloom Garlic Collection at the following link: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/heirloom-garlic/ This weekend would be a great time to put

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  • For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden-7 Herbs That Must Be Planted In August 2019

    Aug 05, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Container Plants, Garlic, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Vegetables

    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 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. The Second Gardening Season for most herb gardeners throughout the US begins at the end of June or early July. It is the time to plant cold tolerant crops that will flourish in the cool autumn nights. Unlike planting in the spring where each

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