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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 21, 2018 20:18:08 GMT -5
This garlic grows wild here on the farm. I shared it with "oh2fly" many years ago and he and his family loved it. I sent him marble sized bulbs and he was able to care for it and grow it to baseball size. It's an elephant garlic with bite. Usually elephant garlic is mild, but this one brings the heat. I moved a few to various places on the farm, so hopefully I can always maintain it. It self seeds itself every year. This farm for some reason or another has a number of volunteer plants. I've found a flower that I'll post later, Okra was found growing here in the early 70's, we have large patches of wild onions too. I wish I didn't have the Wild Onions, but what can you do. MOOSE KNUCKLE GARLIC WILD ONIONS
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 29, 2018 14:37:20 GMT -5
This area always has a new clump of garlic spring up. I found Moose Knuckle growing here in 2002, but no telling how long it had been here. My Uncle bought this place after he came home from WW2. He ran a few head of cattle one end of the property and on this end, he farmed it. There's a spring out about 200 yards from this spot where Okra was found growing. The spring creates a marsh and my uncle always farmed around it. If you listen at night the frogs sing.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 9, 2018 17:01:38 GMT -5
I sent some to my friend Dave "Oh2fly" and he grew it out. He and his family fell in love with it and replaced what he had been growing. He sent me this picture.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 9, 2018 18:15:39 GMT -5
That is some nice looking garlic.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 9, 2018 19:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by horsea on Feb 10, 2018 14:42:32 GMT -5
Sounds like a nice piece of land you've got. Wild onions or not.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 20, 2019 1:48:50 GMT -5
Last year, Mom and I dug a few up and moved them closer to where we live now. It's the same piece of land, we just wanted them closer to where we live. Looks to be doing pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 7:13:33 GMT -5
Great pictures and love the garlic and onions, even if the onions are wild.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 20, 2019 8:30:32 GMT -5
Looks like you will harvest some good garlic this year.
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Post by carolyn on Jan 20, 2019 11:03:29 GMT -5
interesting. if you look closely at the photo of the bulb you can see a small tan "bulblet" or corm on the right side of the head. you can transplant that and it will be ready in two years.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 20, 2019 12:06:51 GMT -5
interesting. if you look closely at the photo of the bulb you can see a small tan "bulblet" or corm on the right side of the head. you can transplant that and it will be ready in two years. Yes, this is a type of elephant garlic, but it's not mild. It has a good "bite" to it. Most of the time we just leave it and it multiplies year to year. I have "moved" it around a few places here on the farm.
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Post by carolyn on Jan 21, 2019 10:34:43 GMT -5
I have grown a lot of elephant garlic in the past several years. I always saved those little corms to replant for the future crop. the first year it is a single onion looking bulb and the second year it is cloves inside the papers.
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