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- From: Bobbett <bobbett AT windstream.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] garlic
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:02:21 -0500
Marie Kamphefner wrote:
Regards to the list:Two days ago we had beautiful weather (about 60), and I put in my elephant garlic cloves directly in the ground as I do every year. I'm a big grower/seller of elephant garlic, but for some reason always put aside 1/3 of my crop to plant in mid-winter. I find that they bulb up just fine and are usually harvested about 2-4 wks behind the fall-planted cloves of the same variety.
Has anyone ever planted garlic cloves into cells, then transplanted when the
soil can be worked? Or would I be better off just waiting until who knows
when to plant them in the field? Every year when I can't get the cloves
planted in the fall, I usually can find a day in January or February to
plant them; but not this year!
I don't know if standard hardneck or softneck garlic will also grow ok given the same circumstances, but elephant garlic does fine.
I don't know how your cell-planting would work, but you might want to give it try. Give them BIG cells because what you want to do is create a big root system; they need to create that good root system first before putting energy into growing greens.
Around here next week it's supposed to go into the 50's. Perhaps you could get some of your cloves into the ground then?
Bobbett in Kentucky
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets
, (continued)
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets,
Bobbett, 02/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets,
William H Shoemaker, 02/23/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets,
Garth & Kim Travis, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets, William H Shoemaker, 02/23/2010
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[Market-farming] garlic,
Marie Kamphefner, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, David Inglis, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, BillOhio, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, Marie Kamphefner, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, Sean Albiston, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, Bobbett, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic, Marie Kamphefner, 02/23/2010
- [Market-farming] storing garlic, Marty Kraft, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] storing garlic, Bobbett, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] storing garlic, Road's End Farm, 02/23/2010
- [Market-farming] Soft neck garlic for NY, Beth Spaugh, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Soft neck garlic for NY, Road's End Farm, 02/23/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets,
Garth & Kim Travis, 02/23/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets,
William H Shoemaker, 02/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] storing garlic, Dave or Kathy Campbell, 02/23/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] growing onion sets,
Bobbett, 02/22/2010
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