T wrote:
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It is about four foot long and 14 inches wide. It
is about 12 to 14" deep and back filled with peat moss
and original dirt, plug chicken poop based fertilizer.

The trough itself does drain, but takes hours. I water
every other day.

that may be too often, maybe twice a week
would be enough or even once a week (depending
upon how well the soil there holds the moisture).


The trench is slightly below ground level so I can water
and not have it run all over the place.

I have five shallots growing like crazy in it right now.
This is their second feral year.

Oh and the green onion (scallions) nubs have starting
growing. Go figure.




The garlic marbles are still dormant.

did you plant these recently?

the garlic here grows almost all year if
given a chance. the only time it stops is
right after the tops die back in the middle
of the hot summer, then it will start to
put out roots once there are any rains and
you can see it start growing again in the
fall. some winters it will stay green under
the snow if there is enough snow cover.
even with the ground freezing solid down
well below the root zone it will still
survive and come back once we get some
warmer late winter/early spring days.

i'm talking about the garlic that is left
in the ground. the bulbs that i lift and
divide to replant or give away or eat don't
get replanted until Sept/Oct so they won't
do much while in cool dark storage.


songbird