Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:20:48 -0500, you wrote:

>I dug some elephant garlic today and found some small cloves. Can I 
>plant these now and expect to have large cloves by next June?
>

I'd wait until fall.  We plant garlic in October here
(Pennsylvania).  

Evidently the fact that it's *elephant* garlic doesn't make
a difference:  the page quoted below says to plant garlic in
fall, then goes on to say:

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Plant and grow elephant garlic like regular garlic. Because
of its size, spacing is different. Put the cloves 8-10
inches apart in rows 18-20 inches from each other. Set them
1-2 inches deep. Sometimes elephant garlic tends to produce
only one large, solid, round, bulb with no segments. If this
occurs, replant and it will produce a bulb the next harvest
with the more typical cloves. Thus, it will take two growing
seasons to get properly segmented bulbs.

http://gardening.wsu.edu/column/09-29-02.htm

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Pat
-- Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.

Growing some of our own food, eating local foods,
cooking basic foods; transforming the planet -
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