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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] planting tiny garlic cloves
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:50:53 -0400

Did you mean harvesting for garlic greens? Small cloves are good for that; you can plant them close together, just an inch or two apart, and harvest the whole young plant to use as garlic greens.

Depending on when you want to harvest them, you might want to spring plant. For an early to mid June market I plant in early May. If they get too old, the tops will be tough. If you plant later than mid May, they'll probably be tough anyway, as they're daylength sensitive and will try to bulb while still small if planted too close to summer solstice.

If you're thinking of planting them for bulbs, you'll probably only get small bulbs from them; though the larger cloves from those would give you somewhat larger bulbs the next year, and you could work back up to normal size seedstock eventually.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Richard Robinson wrote:

I have an abundance of tiny garlic cloves from my Silverskin garlic. I remember reading
here about planting these separately from the larger cloves, and harvesting early. can
anyone give the details?

thanks, Richard

Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com






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