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Message: [QUOTE="Chuckers, post: 232533, member: 17362"] So I just harvested my garlic today (Chesnock Red). Like last year (which was my first year planting anything in this HK bed), a lot of the garlic grew small, in fact I got many that were even smaller than last year's smallest ones. There is only one that I consider even close to normal size but many that are acceptable size (my opinion anyway). I don't know if it has anything to do with it being planted in an HK bed or the fact that, like last year, [URL='https://www.gardening-forums.com/threads/allium-leaf-miner-fly-ruined-my-onion-crop-2-years-in-a-row.25996/']my onions were attacked by the Allium Leafminer Fly[/URL] (about 1/3rd of my onion crop was planted in the HK bed next to the garlic) and possibly my garlic was too. I will have research how to tell if the garlic has maggots and what to look for, however the garlic appears healthy/uninfested judging from just looking at the outside of the bulbs. BUt I just now harvested it and haven't really spent much time looking at them closely. [IMG width="300px"]https://i.imgur.com/0vWJ0PM.jpg[/IMG] Worth noting: where I pulled up my infested onions in the HK bed, I planted Genovese basil and an Ajvarski pepper plant. The basil is doing fine (but it's smaller than it should be for mid-July because I started it and transplanted it later than normal). The Pepper plant also looks fine, although it does seem to be possibly oh-so-slightly on the leggy side. [IMG width="300px"]https://i.imgur.com/rsx08EL.jpg[/IMG] The chicken wire fences ar eto prevent squirrels from digging to close to the plants. I have a little bit of a squirrel problem this year, digging in all my beds and pots, but so far no damage to anything. [/QUOTE]

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