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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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  • The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #4

    Jul 03, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garden Tools, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    This is the fourth installment of four retold from Andrea Wulf’s book, The Founding Gardeners. The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #4 A Pathway in the Bartram Garden Monday, July 16th dawned crisp and clear and cool. Though the air temperature had improved substantially, the tempers of the gentlemen delegates in the closed hall of the Pennsylvania State House were as hot as ever. That Monday only 10 states (Of the 13 original colonies) were voting. Six votes would be required to either defeat or accept The Connecticut Plan. Rhode Island was boycotting the Convention. The New Hampshire delegates had not yet arrived, and of the three New York delegates only Alexander Hamilton had arrived so that state did nothave a quorum and was not eligible to vote. As the voting started, one by

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  • The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #3

    Jul 03, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    This is the third installment of four retold from Andrea Wulf’s book, The Founding Gardeners. The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #3 On the trip back from Bartram’s Garden and for the next day and a half, the delegates had a lot to think about. The 55 delegates ranged in age from 26 to Benjamin Franklin who at 81 was the oldest delegate. Franklin, himself, had begun to doubt that the Constitutional Convention would ever produce a successful result. He had stated, “Failure to revise the Articles of Confederation would show that we have not the Wisdom enough among us to govern ourselves.” The seemingly insurmountable area of contention was the issue of distribution of power in the Legislative Branch. Stone wall separating upper and lower gardens of Bartram’s Garden The small states argued

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  • The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #2

    Jul 02, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Garden Tools, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    Upper Garden with rectangles The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #2 This is the second installment of four retold from Andrea Wulf’s book, The Founding Gardeners. There were 12 men in the entourage that visited Bartram’s Garden that day: from New York-Alexander Hamilton, from South Carolina-John Rutledge, from North Carolina-Alexander Martin and Hugh Williamson, Manasseh Cutler, from Massachusetts-Caleb Strong, from Virginia-James Madison and George Mason and his son, 2 Philadelphians and Samuel Vaughan. Bartram’s Garden was divided into an upper and lower garden. The upper garden was divided into three rectangles; one planted with flowers, one planted with vegetables and one planted withnewly received or recently germinated plants. The lower gardens had been designed by John Bartram, the father, with meandering paths, small glades, scoops, cascading terraces, a small stream and a dock

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  • The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #1

    Jul 01, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    The Family Home of John Bartram The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #1 In 4 days we will celebrate the birth of this nation. Last year, as part of this celebration, Harvesting History posted a story of The Constitutional Convention and The Great Compromise that made the United States a reality. From July 1 through July 4th this year, we are going to repeat this story as a series of 4 newsletters. The story is somewhat complicated which is why we are retelling it in 4 installments. I apologize to each of you that feels that 4 newsletters in one week is too many. It is, but this story is worth telling and retelling. At a time when this nation faces, perhaps, its greatest challenges since its founding, it is

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