spring planting and growing garlic just for scapes?
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Comments (5)Anyone?? =) I planted two more rows (one on each side) for now just in case something is off with the middle/current row. - Steve...See Moreplanting garlic and onions in the fall for spring harvest
Comments (3)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....See MoreGarlic Chilling for Spring Planting
Comments (6)This sounds so interesting! I was just mourning that as I didn't plant garlic last Fall it's too late. There is a way to plant in spring and harvest something this year?? Sorry for being so clueless. I do garden, but it's been years, and not really garlic. :-) PJ...See MoreJust ordered seed garlic - what are you planting this fall?
Comments (7)I got no idea of names, but I'm growing local garlic with stories, lol. From spring 2011 to fall 2015 I had been garlic adopted by a kindly folk that sent me seed garlic and and working it to a good couple years of growing.. to fail. Back in spring 2016 I had a fail. All 9 of my hardnecks failed to come up, though the softneck planted in a section in the middle of the hardnecks sprouted up ok-ish. That summer I kind of lost the bed to weeds and by fall cleanup I realized I had a LOT of little garlics kind of dying off in the softneck area only- and missed harvest by a couple months, lol. So just left them in the ground and harvested them as "Mother Clumps" in 2017. Had an ok harvest of "Mother Clumps" last year. This year was a really good harvest year- and I made sure to leave the little bits behind so hopefully I'm growing "Mother Clumps" again next year. Not sure if it's because I've been letting it grow like I have or some other garlic is in what was originally just one softneck kind. There's softnecks, hardnecks, and I'm not sure what that grows scapes that get big tasty bulbis clusters breaking out of the scape a few inches up from the soil line. Some are whiter, some get pretty purple and rose tints in their wrappers. I like the range of sizes- heads little and tender enough to pickle whole up to decent grocery store and a bit bigger sized heads all in one harvest. Also in 2016, had someone gift me with some garlic "scrap". They worked with a family member that runs a small local garlic farm and usually has "scrap" garlic not suitable/big/uniform enough for their commercial needs under names, but big/good enough to mix the ends of all the kinds to the fall farmers markets.. friends wanting to use up "scrap" or heh, fed to the guys livestock if too small.. I had talked to the guy one day at the shop randomly about my odd garlic fail. A few weeks later he dropped off a couple pounds of "scrap". Anywho, most of that got dug into a couple perennial beds in fall 2016 and now have gotten clumpy too enough that those will see their grow out year for harvest in 2020. So I'm growing "Vliets Scrap". "Vliets Scrap" has hard and soft necks, but I haven't seen any of the neat bulbis clusters like what's in "Mother Clumps". I'm doing some purposeful seeding again this year for the first time since the whole 2016 fail. "Bean Lady's Bigs". This is a local market seller. I got good garlic from her in the past for a couple years, then didn't really see her face for a season or two- turned out she had a bit of a general garden fail, and was bouncing back again with some wonderful fresh dried beans.. (yay for having Tiger Eye beans again) and some garlic she wasn't sure of the name of. Like me, she had some mixups while regrowing and wasn't sure of which hardneck was the one that went strong. It was nice meeting up with her again and chatting about it all. I opted to call it "Bean Lady's Bigs", not her. "Snip Braid". This softneck was found at a roadside stand while I got lost one day this summer. It was a honor box setup, with a few different veggies, some little potted up herbs... And some garlic braids. I could tell it was home-grown/braided. Braided uglies, lol. lopsided, a bit dirty into the root base, dangly trimmed roots with greens twisted like only a farm with kids and a roadside stand can do.. along with snips to "big cut heads, 3/$1.00, small 5/1.00". Cleaned and trimmed braids of a dozen nice ones were 8 bucks. I opted for the best 2 heads off the snip braids for a taste and seed, and paid the buck because they were big and nice....See More- 8 years ago
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