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Life on the Farm: Jenifer has been cleaning up

By Dean Mullis
Dean Mullis
Dean Mullis writes from Laughing Owl Farm in Richfield.

Jenifer has been cleaning up.

She took down the shade cloth I hastily erected in front of the greenhouse last July, cleaned garlic and bagged up bintge potatoes for storage in the walk-in cooler.

The time change has hindered us. It is now almost dark when I get home from work.

I hope to plant our garlic this weekend. We have seven to eight varieties to stick in the ground – about 40 pounds.

I planted a 1,000-foot row of garlic at my job three weeks ago and it is already poking out of the ground with 2-inch sprouts.

Dean Mullis writes from Laughing Owl Farm in Richfield; demullis@vnet.net.

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