In the interests of planting in the late fall for a spring harvest, I'm looking for seed potatoes (preferably red ones), Jerusalem artichokes, onion sets, garlic cloves (soft or hard... anything but elephant garlic), Egyptian walking onion, horseradish root, ginger, and whatever else you might have. If you do not have plants, then I might take some seeds. Let me know. I have some seeds tot rade for, or Ic an send in a SASE or a SASBE. Thanks, ~Shawn

I can send you some multiplier onions (aka 'shallots', not scallions - scallions are the non-bulbing 'green' onions that look like chives). These are agricultural grade Dutch shallots. The cultivar name is 'Yellow Moon'. Send me an e-mail at tammyinolympia@yahoo.com. I don't need anything in trade.

Garlic doesn't produce real seed, but hardneck garlics do put up a stalk that has top-sets on it, called bulbils. I plant some bulbils every fall, along with some cloves from mature garlic bulbs, but only to increase my stock. The bulbils will produce very small "rounds" the next summer, not the "spring garlic" you are looking for. So here's what you want to do. To get mature garlic bulbs, plant the garlic cloves in the fall. I plant mine in October, then pile the bed with chopped leaves and cover the whole thing with a layer of pine straw to hold the leaves down in windy weather. Harvest the next June or July when about half of the leaves turn yellow. To get Spring Garlic, plant the cloves (from mature bulbs) in the early spring when you plant lettuce, etc. Add a layer of composted manure (onions and garlic like nitrogen). Harvest when the leaves get big enough to look interesting, but certainly by the time the leaves start to yellow. Eat the bulb, or replant the rounds in the fall for a mature crop. Hope that helps. Catherine

In zone eight we always plant garlic in the fall but I'm not sure about your zone. I usually harvest garlic mid summer when all but about seven of the leaves have turned brown. Pull them up and let them dry out in a shady spot for a week or so until all of the leaves dry. At that point you can use it or store it for the winter. It will last from four to ten months or so depending on variety. Onions from sets usually do better as green onions rather than bulb onions. The green onions can be harvested all winter if the ground isnt frozen. If the onions don't go to seed in the summer they will start to grow large bulbs and when the tops start to die down they are ready to pull. Good luck. Theresa.