Flowers and garlic and potatoes . . .
Nancy RW (zone 7)
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Nancy RW (zone 7)
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Garlic and potato onion failures
Comments (4)You did a couple of things wrong with the garlic. First, by not breaking off the "flowers" when they started up, you let the garlic put its energy into those instead of the bulbs. The flower heads are full of clone bulbils, smaller than the cloves in the garlic head, but identical. They can be planted to increase your stock, but it usually takes two years for them to mature instead of the single year it takes a clove to mature to a head. The second thing you did wrong was to let the plants get too mature. You should dig them when just two or three leaves turn yellow (not brown), or the wrappers deteriorate and the heads fall apart. I haven't tried potato onions yet, so I don't know what to say about those. Catherine...See MoreGarlic flowers-no bulbils-no curl to scape-what garlic is it?
Comments (4)The sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum) is also sometimes called rocambole and usually but not always has bulbils along with the flowers. Elephant garlic is also sometimes called and even sold incurrectly as rocambole. The sand leek will have small bulbs with small cloves, and the elephant garlic will have large cloves on bigger bulbs or simply as big rounds and will have much heavier and robust foliage, while the sand leek is much daintier. If that is the foliage in the picture, I would guess that you got elephants that were originally identified as rocambole, or perhaps one of its wilder leek relatives such as the kurrat or Egyptian leek which is a bit smaller than the closely related elephants and there are several strains of each of those as well. Looks like one of the leeks to me. (they are all edible)...See MoreCan I plant zuchetta after I harvest garlic or potatoes?
Comments (4)Krista, did she tell you that they are best planted where they can climb? They did well on my fence. (that might open up some more space for you) They can grow on the ground just fine, but the squash tend to be more curly q that way and they can take up a lot of space. You might be able to inter plant as well, Get the seeds in the ground and germinating while you are waiting on the garlic to finish....See MorePlanting Sweet potatoes in between garlic rows
Comments (18)Planting sweet potatoes involves several steps. Start by preparing a sunny garden bed with loose, well-drained soil. Cut healthy sweet potato slips from mature tubers and allow them to cure for a few days. Plant the slips in the prepared bed, spacing them apart, and water regularly. Harvest sweet potatoes when the foliage starts to die back....See MoreOkiedawn OK Zone 7
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