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  • From: "Alliums" <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Garlic Seminar
  • Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:32:40 -0500

Hi, Folks!

 

Pat wrote:

 

< Was there a suggestion as to what/when to feed in the spring? Our beds receive well composted manure before planting in October (5b/6a) and are mulched well.>

 

If you’ve got lots of manure, you may not need to feed in the Spring – once you take foliar feeding off the table, folks really preferred to give slow-release nutrients when garlic is planted in the fall – beds of manure/straw or site-made compost or putting soybean or corn gluten meal in the planting furrows.  Unfortunately, with the GMOS, if you’re certified organic, you may not be able to use the meals anymore.  High organic matter and high cation exchange capability in the soil seemed to be more important than any particular fertilizer, which is why the cover crops (buckwheat in summer or oats for winter kill) were so important if you couldn’t mulch.

 

 <<Do you have the names of the basic 12?>>

 

No, that information was supposed to be on the Garlic Seed Foundation website, but it’s not.  I’m going to see if I can get a copy from Gayle Volk of the complete detailed DNA map – once you know how to read it, it explains A LOT and for those of us who maintain collections, it shows what varieties we can consolidate and which “offshoots” we should be trialing.  The DNA map only included the 400 types in the USDA collection – they are working on a $20 protein test that growers like us would be able to send in whatever garlic we have and they would be able to tell us what it is against the DNA list.  Unfortunately, that test is still a few years away.

 

Dorene

 

Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator

St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth

 

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