Planting garlic without 'paper' wrapper?
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Comments (2)Garlic needs to be divided every year to produce nice big heads, otherwise each clove in the head grows the next year and you have a dozen plants within a few inches of eachother - which is much too close for each to grow a 2-3" diameter head. When the leaves are about half brown dig up one on the edge and see if it is ready. The wrapper around the clove should be paper-like, not succulent. When it's ready, dig up the whole bunch and replant seed cloves in the spring. If you have the room you can replant them immediately and they'll come up in the fall/spring....See MorePlanting Music Garlic
Comments (8)hello Ev, are you able to upload some photos of the bulbs that have separated alongside your regular bulbs for comparison. If the bulbs are otherwise healthy, there should not be any reason not to replant your largest cloves as normal, since the primary reason that separated cloves are undesirable is that the bulbs don't store as long. I have planted cloves from separated hardneck bulbs without any problems, however I am more diligent in checking them for any signs of disease - I'll peel one or two of the smaller cloves on each bulb to check for blemishes and set it aside for eating if in doubt. This post was edited by zqnmegan on Mon, Jul 29, 13 at 16:03...See MoreIs it time to plant garlic??
Comments (25)tesspow, It might get cold enough in North Florida some years for the garlic to make bulbs. Its not 40 degree air temp. The ground several inches down where the cloves are planted need to get to 40deg. and stay there for about 40 days. Tommy, I tested 3 type Creoles(Burgundy, Cuban Purple, & Creole Red) in a 4x8 bed. There were 24 cloves of each variety and half of each variety were chilled. For me, only the 12 prechilled cloves of each variety formed divided cloves, some also formed scapes - but not all. The non-chilled grew slower but made ok green tops, but NONE of them ever made bulbs or scapes, even though I left them in the ground way longer than the Prechilled garlic. The reason they told you not to put the bulbs in the refrigerator is it signals the garlic that it's time to start growing. Some of my artichoke garlic were starting to sprout after 8 weeks of prechilling, but none of the Creoles. Most places don't need to prechill, as their ground gets cold enough after planting the cloves. I don't know about pre-freezing the garlic before planting. What ever way you plan to plant, try a bulb or two the other way (prechilled or nonchilled) and let me know how it works out for you. Michael...See MorePeeling garlic a week before planting
Comments (15)Noticed this this year, I think in a "wegrowgarlic" link; "Note: We are starting to rethink the automatic soaking of all the garlic versus using it just if we think a precaution is necessary as we have been experimenting and have observed that cloves that are handled as gently as possible during planting with clove skins left intact (they fall off during soaking) and planted without soaking have been producing larger bulbs for us than those that were soaked. We are still experimenting and observing to see if that holds true over a number of growing seasons to discount the effects of various weather conditions"....See Morerjinga
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