With garlic the trick lies in waiting long enough for the bulbs to mature properly, while needing to harvest before the heads begin to split. Growers across the valley will be pulling the crop in the next week or two. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
The process of succession planting is a strategy that makes the most of a brief growing season in the mountains of New Hampshire. Cucumbers are a great case in point, and restarted in July will produce another crop in the final weeks of summer. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
With garlic the trick lies in waiting long enough for the bulbs to mature properly, while needing to harvest before the heads begin to split. Growers across the valley will be pulling the crop in the next week or two. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
The process of succession planting is a strategy that makes the most of a brief growing season in the mountains of New Hampshire. Cucumbers are a great case in point, and restarted in July will produce another crop in the final weeks of summer. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
July’s second week of blistering heat has broken. Coupled with Canadian wildfire smoke and murky air quality, conditions were nothing short of insufferable. Hot, hazy and humid it was, and hard to keep up the pace as we head into the second half of summer. Every day is too short for the task list, from berry picking to dealing with potato beetles, when you’d really just like to find a spot in the shade.
And then there’s the garlic, and the perennial question of whether it is mature. Emails and texts fly among local growers, pondering the state of the crop, which 20 years ago would not be ready until early August. But the warming climate and shifting growing zones are evident in the fact that harvest time is imminent. The question is when.
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