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  • From: "Kelly Saxer" <kellysaxer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] green garlic
  • Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:19:10 -0700

I had a similar problem with a late garlic planting for green garlic. Rather than form nice-sized green garlic stalks, the stems were thin and the garlic head began to quickly form as if they were trying to catch up to their sister garlics planted 4 months earlier. My understanding, is that it's the daylength.

Kelly
Desert Roots Farm
Queen Creek, AZ


From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: farmersue AT hughes.net,Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] green garlic
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:59:01 -0400


On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Sue Wells wrote:

I bought a lot of garlic bulbs today, to plant for garlic greens. I am very
happy to have learned of this. I am thinking these garlics can be planted
anytime throughout the season for just the greens, would this be true?

I did a second planting one year, and those were tough by the time they got big enough to harvest. I don't know whether this was something about the weather that time of year, or if it was a day-length factor. If the latter, they might only give good greens in the spring (and maybe again later in the fall, I don't know.) You might try some small plantings at various times of the year to see what happened.

Other people who grow these, have you tried them later in the year?

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


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