What, nobody planting garlic this year?
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planted garlic too early... what should I do?
Comments (4)My garlic sprouts every year before winter. The shoots kind of just sit there green all winter in suspended animation. Yes, I'm in a colder zone than you... but I would just mulch it well for the winter, and don't worry about it....See MoreWhere can I buy garlic bulbs this time of year?
Comments (8)The farmer's market here in Duluth had several different home grown varieties. I bought 4 different bulbs and separated them and planted about 32 cloves. Nice cuz I didn't have to buy 1/2 pound of one variety or pay shipping. Just hope they grow....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 MoreCarry over garlic from year to year
Comments (3)Garlic needs to be cured and then you store it, setting aside the best bulbs with the best cloves to plant back late next fall, not right away and eating the rest or processing that into frozen or powder. If properly cured storing is pretty simple. Most commercial garlic is stored in building sized coolers prior to shipping to grocery stores and quite naturally starts to sprout when brought back to room temperature. Your own cured garlic should never go into the refrigerator unless you need to vernalize, which you probably need to do where you are. A decent cure should have your own garlic lasting until it finally is planting time again at least. You got a nice bulb back. Cure your garlic properly and then just do over what you just did. There is an old saying: "if it aint broke, don't fix it." So just repeat what works. There are all kinds of Internet links showing how to harvest and cure garlic. Read a few if them. The process is quite simple and pretty forgiving....See More- zeedman Zone 5 Wisconsin thanked daninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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