[Market-farming] Garlic Scallions
Road's End Farm
organic87 at frontiernet.net
Sat May 10 23:18:36 EDT 2008
On May 10, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Ploughshare wrote:
> Normally we plant our extra garlic left over from the winter and some
> the
> extra seed that did not get into the ground from our main fall
> planting as
> early in the spring as possible giving us garlic scallions in June.
> This
> year up in central MN everything's been delayed(we had 15 inches of
> snow
> just 2 weeks ago) so I haven't gotten to focusing on our spring
> planting
> until now. I'm not positive about the vitality of our garlic right
> now so I
> don't want to spend much ground space and time on our spring planting
> this
> year. It got me thinking though... wouldn't it work out just as well
> for
> our spring planting to plant the entire garlic bulb instead of the
> clove?
> It seems like the results would be similar to when we plant our onions
> 3
> seeds to a cell. They'll be much easier to harvest as well.
> I don't see any problems in doing this. Has anyone else tried this?
> --gary
I tried this some years ago, and had poor results; if I remember right,
the problem was erratic growth, so that some of cloves in the bulb were
well grown and ready to harvest while others were still quite small;
and of course with it planted that way it wasn't possible to harvest
the bigger ones and leave the small ones for another time (at least
without replanting the little ones after pulling them out, and thus
setting them back even further).
I wouldn't want to wait too much longer before setting them out;
they're day length sensitive, and you need the tops to be ready for
greens before they start sending energy down into the bulbs, which
they'll do when the day length is right even if they're still quite
small; and then the greens won't be of as good quality. At any rate,
that's my experience.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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