single clove garlic
julie321
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garliclady
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First time garlic grower has a question.....
Comments (14)If you check out local farmer's markets you might be able to find garlic that's being sold for eating and it is perfectly fine for planting. It's cheap and it also has the advantage of already being adapted to growing in your climate. Once you make the initial "seed" garlic investment you should be set for life as long as nothing catastrophic happens (like your crop getting wiped out by critters or disease) because you save your biggest cloves to replant (bigger cloves equal bigger bulbs). I enjoy growing garlic. It's really easy to grow and it takes up little space so it's worth the minimal effort of growing. All it needs is water, compost, and time. I plant mine in October, cut the scapes off the hardnecks in June, harvest and cure it in July, and then replant in October. uscjusto- Garlic is a perennial but it's not something that you can just plant and forget about. If you leave it in the ground after it dies down in the Summer it will come back in the Fall as a clump and that clump will produce much smaller bulbs and every year the bulbs will continue decreasing in size. I know this because I have some planted in with my perennial flowers (I think it looks interesting). And yes, you harvest the garlic at the same time and you save some to replant. One clove produces one bulb. Rodney...See Moreoepri perennial leek and elephant garlic- difference?
Comments (7)I grow the perennial leeks from SESE and they grow very well. They act like a multiplier onion or chive in that they produce lots of small offsets. They bloom beautifully and profusely in the summer and are reliably perennial for me. The only problem I have with them is using them. They are far smaller than the leeks I see in stores and the tops are very tough. Mostly I use them when I make vegetable stocks. However, I'm glad to have them. Elephant garlic grows like ordinary garlic. Plant a single clove in the fall and harvest multiple cloves in the early summer. It is very productive for me; it stores extremely well and imparts a mild garlic flavor to all dishes that call for garlic. One needs to let it cure for a month or two after harvest or it has a kind of bitter flavor. I also saw your post about salad burnet on the Oklahoma Gardening forum. I have grown it in a container in an 8b/9a climate in south-central Texas and it stayed green all winter and went somewhat dormant in the summer. In the winter it had a nice mild cucumber flavor. Here in a colder part of Texas (Lubbock) it goes dormant in the winter and again in the hottest part of the summer. Also, it doesn't develop as delicate a flavor as it did in the winter downstate or maybe my tastes have changed in the last twenty years. I lost one plant to last winter's severe freeze and the other two in this past summer's extreme heat. I don't intend on replanting it, although it is easy for me from seed. Hope this helps....See MoreCan I replant heads of garlic that haven't split?
Comments (10)I live in San Marcos, and I'm just now harvesting my garlic too. I'm no expert, but I'm saving the biggest and prettiest blubs to replant and eating the rest. I think that's the safest way, since those are the ones that were the most healthy plants. The ones that haven't divided into cloves yet will be eaten first, since they supposedly don't keep as well. Those are ones that didn't fully mature, so I doubt they'd be good planting stock. I've got them hanging in the garage to cure right now. I think you're supposed to leave the leaves on until they're done curing and then cut them off. At least, that's what I'm doing, since I've got them tied up by their leaves. Also, I grew several different types of garlic, and they are maturing at different times. The softnecks were ready first, and then the elephant, and my hardnecks are still in the ground, though one variety could probably be dug up any day now. Don't know if that's normal, but I'm glad I didn't dig up ALL my garlic at once....See MoreGarlic seeds growing in the neck??
Comments (13)it's hard to tell from the photo of your garlic how many leaves have died down but if you count the green ones, ideally you should have at least 6 ones intact. Each leaf is a clove wrapper and if you want your bulbs to store well, you don't want all the wrappers to have deteriorated before you harvest. I've found that there can be up to an entire month's variation from one year to another on when I've harvested my garlic and the different types that I've grown span across 8 weeks. However, if you gently scrape the soil away from around the bulb, you should be able to see how big it is and whether it's ready to harvest. If you still can't tell, gently dig it out and open it up. When you peel the bulb, the cloves should have filled out and the clove skins not too thick - the clove skins will shrink and dry out after they've been cured but it will be obvious if the garlic hasn't finished growing. The bulbils can be left intact, they continue to mature as the bulb dries out/ cures, you'll see the spathe gradually open and reveal the bulbils which can be big enough to eat. Don't separate the bulbils, they will dry out if you do. You can plant them again straight away into a pot and they will grow into rounds (undivided bulbs) that you can plant again in autumn. otherwise, just store them until autumn and plant with the rest of your garlic. I've only been growing garlic for 4 years - beware it can become obsessive:) This is a great blog by a lady who's been growing garlic for over 30 years and she's still learning! http://barbolian.com/topics/garlic/growing-garlic/...See Moregarliclady
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