[Market-farming] growing garlic

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Sat Jul 11 12:56:00 EDT 2009


Did you only cut off the pod-shaped end?  Scapes are normally harvested by
removing the entire stem where they emerge from uppermost leaves.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM, alicia best <bestici at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Had an interesting experience this year with my scapes.  I waited for them
> to curl and cut them off.  Then about a month later, there are multiple
> smaller scapes coming out of the ones I already cut.  Does this mean I
> planted double cloves?????  Any thoughts greatly appreciated...
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> alicia in North Eastern Washington State
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:20:55 -0500
> From: pmottshaw at verizon.net
> To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] growing garlic
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> And don't forget to harvest the scapes. Harvesting scapes will let the
> plant put more effort into the bulb, instead of the flower. Scapes can be
> used when cooking stir fries & soups.
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> Paula Mottshaw
> Foster, RI
> Technically a zone 6, but where I am in RI is more like a zone 5.
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> Jul 9, 2009 02:37:42 PM, market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:23 AM, cjmaness at juno.com wrote:
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> > We've tried growing a small amount of garlic twice. And, both times we
> > got little or nothing. I may have waited too long to harvest, or wrong
> > varieties. I've been reading up on the subject and am thinking maybe
> > trying a creole type? From what I've read this might work better for
> > our climate. Anyway, we did a poor job on weed control, didn't mulch.
> > So, I'm guessing any or all of the above are my problem.
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> When did you plant it? Garlic needs to be planted in the fall -- where
> I am, around mid-October; for harvest the following July. Inexperienced
> growers sometimes spring plant it, which will give only a very small
> crop.
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> You need a variety suited to your particular climate and soils. If you
> know anyone in the area with similar soils who's growing good garlic,
> try to buy some seed stock from them. If there isn't anyone (and maybe
> even if there is), get a number of different strains from similar
> climates, keep good planting maps so you know which is which, and keep
> growing the ones that do well.
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> Plant the larger cloves from the larger bulbs, unless the largest bulbs
> are over about 2 1/2" across. Tiny cloves, or cloves from little bulbs,
> are more likely to give you small garlic. You want, ideally, fair sized
> cloves from bulbs about two to two and a half inches across.
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> Mulch at planting, or before the ground freezes. Garlic will in my
> experience come right up through the mulch in the spring, no need to
> pull the mulch back. It's coming up through several inches of soil,
> after all.
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> Cultivating between the rows well, plus the mulch, might be all the
> weed control you really need; or it might not.
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> If conditions are dry, irrigate in spring, but stop irrigating at least
> a couple of weeks before harvest starts. .If the weather irrigates for
> you around harvest time -- it often does here -- this can be a problem,
> of course. Try to harvest from as dry a field as you can reasonably
> manage; but don't let more than about half the leaves die back before
> harvest, or the bulbs may open out, exposing the cloves from within the
> outer bulb wrapper.
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> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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