lisaann
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Post by lisaann on Oct 8, 2021 17:53:24 GMT -5
brownrexxAre you still plagued by the Allium Leaf Miner or has that pest subsided up there? I have not read any recent news about that. I tried planting garlic here on 10/1 last year just to see how it would do. Not much difference than when I plant on my favorite date, October 20th, except it grew taller before it went dormant and had much more tip burn from the cold. But the bulbs were typical in size to the later recommended planting date. Hope all is well with you, Hope everyone is planting garlic this fall. My farmers market is charging 5 bucks a head these days. I remember the old days when 2 bucks was considered expensive. And that was only about 4 years ago!!!!!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 8, 2021 18:43:05 GMT -5
KOW, I haven't had that problem, but I know brownrexx still plants them at their vacation garden, as ALM is still in her area.
I just got my 3 lbs of garlic I ordered - Metechi, which I usually grow, as it stores better than any others I've grown, Music I'm going back to, because the storage was usually good with that, too, and there was a deal on that, plus the Georgian Fire, which I grew years ago, but it wasn't available from the last two places I ordered from. I'll go through those and see about how about how many cloves will planted for each, then see how many Estonian Red cloves I'll need from my harvest this year - I set aside the largest heads of those.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 9, 2021 13:13:37 GMT -5
I am still waiting for the garlic I ordered. Looks like I won't get a chance to vernalize it, so I will have to hope for a cold (by North Florida standards) winter so that it will bulb.
I will be trying Early Italian this year, another variety that is recommended for the Deep South and supposedly has good heat tolerance.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 9, 2021 17:05:39 GMT -5
Hi lisaann, Yes the ALM is still here and I have not planted any garlic or onions here since that bug arrived. pepperhead212, is correct, I am planting my garlic at our cabin in Western PA which has no Alium Leaf Miner. My garlic will be planted a little later this year because hubby had his hip replaced 2 days ago and we will not be going to the cabin for a few more weeks. Glad you are doing well. We are doing well too and I had a nice garden this past year.
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lisaann
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Post by lisaann on Oct 10, 2021 10:17:28 GMT -5
hubby had his hip replaced 2 days ago Hubby had his right hip done in 2019. No more of that pain, but there is always a new pain to come along. hahaha Good luck to your hubby. My downsized garden is put to bed except for the garlic planting this fall. Cucumbers were gangbusters here this year. Weird. I only had 2 straight eight plants, but they were nuts. Nor sure what pollinated them. I saw very few bees all season. I did plant them late. Late June. Tomatoes had green/ YELLOW hard shoulder issues here in my county: www.thespruce.com/why-is-the-stem-end-of-my-tomatoes-not-ripening-1403418#:~:text=Causes%20of%20Green%20Shoulders%20on%20Tomatoes%20Normally%20the,occur%20for%20a%20couple%20of%20reasons%2C%20both%20weather-related. That ended up lasting all season. Waving at you and everyone here.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 10, 2021 11:38:02 GMT -5
lisaann I had problems with those yellow/green shoulders on tomatoes, but it seems like a variety issue - only 3 of mine had it this year, and the rest, no signs of it.
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lisaann
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Post by lisaann on Oct 12, 2021 12:34:06 GMT -5
I grew my favorite: Big Beef It hurt my feelings!
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lisaann
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Post by lisaann on Nov 2, 2021 17:17:16 GMT -5
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Nov 2, 2021 17:27:21 GMT -5
lisaann , They are friends of mine from Oklahoma. Me and George have known each other for many years since back in the gardenweb days. That’s where my Tennessee Cutshort beans came from. They were gifted to George by his Wife’s family.
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lisaann
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Post by lisaann on Nov 2, 2021 17:46:20 GMT -5
They were gifted to George by his Wife’s family. The WORLD WIDE WEB is obviously Very Small! hahhaha I was under the impression that you had given up gardens, but I see you changed your mind. Glad to chat with you!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 3, 2021 7:28:51 GMT -5
lisaann, that's new to me. I have only grown elephant garlic once, though, and I cut off the stalks before they flowered, so I am definitely no expert on elephant garlic. Or other garlic, for that matter. I'd refer you to Martin ( paquebot), but he's not been posting here lately. (I hope he's all right!)
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Post by rdback on Nov 28, 2021 21:01:40 GMT -5
I'd refer you to Martin... The WorldWideWeb is indeed a small place sometimes lisaann. In that thread at GCSS, you may have seen my post:
"You know the old saying "I know a guy"? Well, I have an e-friend on a tomato forum who I believe "knows his garlic", so i asked him to take a look at this thread. Here's what he said:
"... I have had some elephant garlic here for at least 30 years but have never seen anything quite like that. In regular garlic, that would be called Medusa head. I've seen some leeks do strange things like that. Those that I've seen were as if the plantlike things looked like sprouted seeds or bulbils.... In short, I know a lot about growing garlic but have never seen that."
The e-friend I referred to was indeed Martin. In all his years, he hadn't seen anything like it. I'll have to check with George over there and see how he's doing with it.
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