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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 10:42:51 GMT -5
This was a bad year for me. Most of the garden was sub-par, but I got a little of most everything.
One thing I did was plant garlic in a big piece of cardboard, 8 inches in each direction, in round holes cut with a drill. I stuck a clove in each hole, but planted late---not until Feb. I also broadcast a handfull of bulbils in a feed tub with about 15 inches of good soil in it.
Despite the miserable weather and the succeeding rain, weeds and general lousy growing conditions the garlic did well, nice pods and grocery-store size.
The feed tub did not grow any full-sized garlic, but I have some 70-odd starts for this fall. A half dozen or so made pods with individual cloves, but most are just firm round balls. I'll plant them in time this year and see what next July brings.
One big mistake I made was taking the advice of a neighbor who told me that I should plant in "wide beds". Hmph, try to weed a wide bed with anything other than your fingers.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 9, 2020 13:40:45 GMT -5
So, @oxankle2, you're saying that you planted some garlic in the cardboard, and those are the only ones that got the good size? That's interesting. Do you think it was dryer elsewhere, or just different soils?
Those single bulb garlics you describe sound like a problem I had in my early attempts with garlic, and I discovered that some varieties needed a deep freeze in the winter, otherwise, that's what I would get - very small heads, some just one bulb! Spanish Rioja was worst for this, and rocomboles in general were very small, due to mild winters. Now, I have less years when the soil freezes deep than when it does, so I have to grow varieties that don't need the deep freeze.
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Post by paquebot on Aug 9, 2020 17:44:52 GMT -5
Only rocambole types will make a divided bulb when planted from bulbils. Purple stripes take two years and pordelins take three. The resulting divided rocambole cloves will make a full-sized bulb when planted back. Purple stripes make rounds which will produce a normal bulb. Porcelain rounds may be little bigger than a pea the first year and a large marble the second. Proper divided bulb then in the third year.
Garlic does not like company. Their root systms can not comperte with other plants. You have a choice, garlic or weeds. You can not have both. Lambs quarters destdroyed We Grow Garlic. My garlic bed is almost 4' wide but access on both sides. Minimum 8" spacing has been my normal forever.
Martin
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ponyexpress
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Post by ponyexpress on Aug 13, 2020 7:57:49 GMT -5
I had a good year growing garlic. I'll give a full report in a couple of weeks when I'm home from vacation. I noticed that I got bigger heads than usual this year especially for a few varieties that were small when I started growing them. I'm hoping that they got acclimated this year. My spacing has been 6" apart in a row, each row 12" apart. I also pulled my scapes.
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solargeek
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Post by solargeek on Aug 13, 2020 17:52:07 GMT -5
I had a great year with garlic. Got my seed cloves from Joy/Feather and everyone came up. Very happy with 92 (or 97?) bulbs.
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