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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Green Garlic
  • Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:44:14 -0600


Has anyone tried using the bulbils from the tops of scapes? I'd think you
could just plant them like seed, probably with a Planet Junior, and harvest
in the Spring. I've not tried it but now I'm curious. Sounds like a great
Spring crop to me.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center


>One of the things our market customers look forward to in the spring is the
>green garlic - they use it just like garlic for flavor
>Like Doreen said - I just sort out the tiny bulbs that I don't want to
plant
>for full bulbs and plant those for green garlic and, yes, they can go
really
>close together. I think I've mostly planted the California late white
>because those are where I get some smaller bulb





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