Durgan
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Joined: October 2011
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Post by Durgan on Oct 31, 2011 18:28:42 GMT -5
www.durgan.org/URL/?HMRNI 30 September 2011 Peparing Garlic Bed Garlic bed was prepared for planting about the 25 of October 2011. Preparation was in a slightly raised bed for containment and good drainage. Procedure: A layer of city supplied compost, rototilled into the underlying soil, raked smooth, wood chip mulch applied. The mulch will contain moisture, and limit the effects of the freezing and thawing cycles. It will be moved aside when the garlic cloves are planted. In the Spring the garlic will have no difficulty growing through the mulch. www.durgan.org/URL/?DTNMZ 24 Ocober 2011 Planting Hard Neck Garlic About 100 cloves of hard neck garlic was planted in a 8 by 8 foot bed. Cloves were planted at six inch spacing with the base firmly pushed into the soil at a depth (base) of about two inches. The bulbs were saved from the 2011 crop, and were large, with from five to seven cloves in each bulb. The bed was mulched with wood chips to limit the effects of the normal winter thawing and freezing cycles, and to limit moisture loss due to evaporation. The vegetation has no difficulty pushing through the mulch in the Spring. The bed wont be touched until the scapes (seed pods) are removed, and then the harvest about the 10 of July 2012. A new bed area is selected each year, which is laced with compost and worked into the underlying soil.
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Post by kctomato on Oct 19, 2012 9:50:23 GMT -5
As soon as the 20-50mph wind gusts die down, I'll be planting garlic for 2013.
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Post by gixxerific on Oct 19, 2012 11:44:54 GMT -5
As soon as the 20-50mph wind gusts die down, I'll be planting garlic for 2013. I hear it's been windy down here as well. Wet too will be trying to get garlic in this weekend. I have a bunch left over as well as forgotten rounds growing in the garden now.
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Post by txdirtdog on Oct 19, 2012 12:05:25 GMT -5
Good luck getting the garlic in.
Still almost a month away from optimum planting time here. Due to Red's generosity and a decent first year of growing, I have a LOT of Inchelium Red to plant this year. They were mostly pretty small cloves and bulbs from this season, but I expect that to improve this go-round.
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Post by kctomato on Oct 21, 2012 20:43:03 GMT -5
I didn't get it done. I was busy DLD style this weekend.
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