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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] not too late for Garlic
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:31:05 -0500

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:51:14 EST, you wrote:

>I've been following the thread on garlic and wanted to offer a suggestion
>for
>those of you who havent planted garlic yet.
>Planting the cloves in the spring is a good stategy if you are trying to
>save
>what you have from vanishing forever. In most places, spring planting is not
>favorable for bulb development, however, you have a greenhouse, you may be
>able to get a somewhat decent harvest from the spring planted bulbs. If you
>start
>the cloves in a greenhouse(unheated part of) and plant them out very early
>spring, the results are almost comparable to fall planted cloves. In my
>area,
>Northern Illinois, zone 5....I start them in the greenhouse mid to end of
>January and plant them out about the end of March. Ive dont this two years
>in a row
>with excellent results.

Thanks, Denise. This is encouraging.

Pat
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