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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Lynn wrote:
 
<<<<I started harvesting the garlic this morning. They look great, but have 
huge 
globs of mud sticking all over them. I have to carefully clean each bulb (I 
don't want to wet them anymore, so I'm just scraping it off), then hang them 
to dry in the barn, so it's going to take a long time to harvest (I have 
300-400 bulbs). My bulbs are large, but I've been selecting for large bulbs 
for about 5 years, so I've got a strain of garlic specific to my garden.>>>
 
 
Explain.... You've been selecting for large bulbs,,,, strain specific to your 
garden.

How do you select?  Keep buying different varieties until you find one that 
likes your area?  Or only picking off the large cloves to plant or what?
 
 



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I started off growing 3 or 4 different types of garlic.  A couple types did
best, so I picked the largest, nicest bulbs to plant for the next year, and
have done that every year. At first that left the less desirable ones for
me, but now they are all pretty nice. I fugure that the ones that do best
must be best adapted to my particular garden. The same is true of any kind
of seed saving, but it's a little trickier with seed because it's not an
exact duplicate of it's parent like garlic is.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Homestead] garlic


Lynn wrote:

<<<<I started harvesting the garlic this morning. They look great, but have
huge
globs of mud sticking all over them. I have to carefully clean each bulb (I
don't want to wet them anymore, so I'm just scraping it off), then hang them
to dry in the barn, so it's going to take a long time to harvest (I have
300-400 bulbs). My bulbs are large, but I've been selecting for large bulbs
for about 5 years, so I've got a strain of garlic specific to my garden.>>>


Explain.... You've been selecting for large bulbs,,,, strain specific to
your garden.

How do you select? Keep buying different varieties until you find one that
likes your area? Or only picking off the large cloves to plant or what?





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