Garlic Harvest

NSW (and VIC, QLD) can't ship to SA, WA or Tassie without a very expensive DPI licence ... but there are growers over there. Hard to find, but here's one ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-09/cameron-williams-harvests-first-garlic-crop-at-gingin/6842664

 

Thank you Lizzie.

 

Can I do a farm business while keeping my existing professional job? - In this case, how can I find time sharing for farm business and professional job?

 

The secret is to pick a crop that can work around you - rather than vice versa. The reason we like garlic is we have a harvest window (usually a week) although, when the garlic says it's ready then it's all hands to action stations - and it's a product that doesn't have to be sold there and then (like tomatoes) ... any farming is labour, or cost, intensive - you just have to be organised and flexible

I hear there is great demand for Jerusalem artichokes and horseradish - something like that might suit

 

Have been sport harvesting the next variety - Italian Purple - in the lead up to harvest proper this weekend ... the size of the damn things are scaring me! Hard to believe we simply prep the soil with a green crop, lime and chook poo and a few trace elements to unlock the nutrients - then don't feed them again

 

Looks very yum! Do you have a farm visit where I can just pick your garlic

 

If you're going to be in the Pokolbin area, give me a call and I'll prep some for you to call in and pick up ... had a laugh the other day when two Mormons came a-knocking and left with a box of garlic and no convert

 

I think they will come back with more Mormons. Pretending to convince you to convert in attempt for free garlic.

 

ooooo - no - it wasn't free ... I had some drying out in the front veranda (most is down in the back shed) and - with such an amazing smell as sweet, fresh cured garlic, in bulk has - they asked if they could buy some. Fortunately I had a box made up on hand that I was about to go out and post off

 

Lizzie amazing stuff .. inspired me to grow in my backyard personal use ofcourse
how do i get my hands on the variety of Garlic which will grow in my back yard in Melbourne.

 

My garlic arrived today. I had to move it out of my office and into the factory, because the office was starting to smell like an Italian deli .

Roasted Chicken with fresh garlic under the skin for dinner tonight...mmmmmm. Garlic

 

Oh and a red wine with tawny Shiraz paste and crackers . Thanks

 

Looks awesome Lizzie

 

Practically all varieties will grow in Melbourne ... although, being coastal, it might get a little humid at times. Only the extreme zones - Northern Queensland as Tassie are restricted. Simply find a local grower and buy from them ... don't plant stuff from the supermarket please

 

ok thanks

 

Sorry been missing in action from the entire forum for so long - this farming stuff is hard and endless (but rewarding) work - not helped by being sent flying by a distracted, playing dog launching all 20kg at full tilt, and me ending up backside over in the middle of the paddock with a twisted ankle and very painful strained lower back. Damn that ground is hard and I don't bounce like I used to.

Anyhow - for those that want to know - the online shop now has the Italian Purple listed, along with mixed boxes and bags of lose cloves

www.pokolbinpurple.com.au

 

Has someone got very small hands?

 

Nope - they grow pretty enormous around here ... sadly we had to strip every bulb (all 250kg) back to cloves to prevent it rotting, due to excessive rain in the weeks leading up to harvest. Garlic does not like having wet feet