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  • From: alicia best <bestici AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] growing garlic
  • Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:10:26 -0700

yep, did only cut off the pod-shaped end.  Been doing the same thing for the last 6 years and never had this interesting thing happen.  Same seed stock.  Cut with the same knife just where the flower stock comes out of the last set of leaves.  Just weird, but it's always somethin...

 




 

Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:56:00 -0500
From: stonecirclefarm AT tds.net
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] growing garlic

Did you only cut off the pod-shaped end?  Scapes are normally harvested by removing the entire stem where they emerge from uppermost leaves.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM, alicia best <bestici AT hotmail.com> wrote:
Had an interesting experience this year with my scapes.  I waited for them to curl and cut them off.  Then about a month later, there are multiple smaller scapes coming out of the ones I already cut.  Does this mean I planted double cloves?????  Any thoughts greatly appreciated...
 
alicia in North Eastern Washington State


 



 

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:20:55 -0500
From: pmottshaw AT verizon.net
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Re: [Market-farming] growing garlic

And don't forget to harvest the scapes. Harvesting scapes will let the plant put more effort into the bulb, instead of the flower. Scapes can be used when cooking stir fries & soups.

Paula Mottshaw
Foster, RI
Technically a zone 6, but where I am in RI is more like a zone 5.


Jul 9, 2009 02:37:42 PM, market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:23 AM, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:

> We've tried growing a small amount of garlic twice. And, both times we
> got little or nothing. I may have waited too long to harvest, or wrong
> varieties. I've been reading up on the subject and am thinking maybe
> trying a creole type? From what I've read this might work better for
> our climate. Anyway, we did a poor job on weed control, didn't mulch.
> So, I'm guessing any or all of the above are my problem.

When did you plant it? Garlic needs to be planted in the fall -- where
I am, around mid-October; for harvest the following July. Inexperienced
growers sometimes spring plant it, which will give only a very small
crop.

You need a variety suited to your particular climate and soils. If you
know anyone in the area with similar soils who's growing good garlic,
try to buy some seed stock from them. If there isn't anyone (and maybe
even if there is), get a number of different strains from similar
climates, keep good planting maps so you know which is which, and keep
growing the ones that do well.

Plant the larger cloves from the larger bulbs, unless the largest bulbs
are over about 2 1/2" across. Tiny cloves, or cloves from little bulbs,
are more likely to give you small garlic. You want, ideally, fair sized
cloves from bulbs about two to two and a half inches across.

Mulch at planting, or before the ground freezes. Garlic will in my
experience come right up through the mulch in the spring, no need to
pull the mulch back. It's coming up through several inches of soil,
after all.

Cultivating between the rows well, plus the mulch, might be all the
weed control you really need; or it might not.

If conditions are dry, irrigate in spring, but stop irrigating at least
a couple of weeks before harvest starts. .If the weather irrigates for
you around harvest time -- it often does here -- this can be a problem,
of course. Try to harvest from as dry a field as you can reasonably
manage; but don't let more than about half the leaves die back before
harvest, or the bulbs may open out, exposing the cloves from within the
outer bulb wrapper.

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


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