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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garlic questions
  • Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:01:03 -0500


On Jun 1, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Robert Walton wrote:

I've got a couple of questions on garlic. I'm getting better at
raising it. This year's crop has been doing well.

Lately, I noticed that the tips of the older leaves are yellowing and
then going brown at the tips. I've not fertilized heavily or anything.
Is that normal aging?

Depends on how old it is. Even fall planted, this is early for plants to be finishing up. When did you plant?

Also, when the garlic blooms and then you get the little baby cloves
on the flower, is it best to plant those in the fall or cloves.

Cloves. For best garlic you want to plant cloves from your biggest bulbs.

I've
got something in my head telling me that you get better garlic from
the little seed cloves than the regular cloves. Is that correct?

No. Do you have those scapes and seed pods forming? If so, then you are seriously early. Of course you are further south, right? What is your zone?

I always cut off that top stuff that looks like it would be for reproducing, so as not to take any energy away from the forming bulb in the ground. Some people eat it.

Btw, the garlic I planted the day after I got here this spring, April 3rd, is doing well. Still too early to know for sure but right now it looks like spring-planted is going to be okay.

I have interplanted some broccoli in it as an experiment.






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