Hi Dave,

How ya doing?

Yep, I wanted to see a picure of everyone's planting stock.

Here is a picture of a few individual cloves of some of the stock I planted.

I got them in on the 21st. Then on the 22nd, I replanted them after 6 squirrels dug them up and birdnetted them. Lord I hate to have to use birdnetting. It looks hideous.

Anyway, my indidvidual cloves were a pretty nice size, so I am hoping for some good results.

I have more space now, so I was more generous with the spacing. Right up till the end, when I was running out of space, and just had to stick a few more in, haha Snicker.



GOOD LUCK TO ALL YOU GARLIC GROWERS. HOPE WE HAVE A BANNER YEAR. IT SURE IS NICE TO SEE SOME MORE FIRST TIME GROWERS. I LOVE THAT.

If I'd seen this first I'd have made pics too--just never occurred to me. Got my softneck (no variety specified) planted last week, planted some hardneck cloves that had been ignored in a bed which were pretty hard and brown so don't know if they'll grow or not--didn't order early so having probs finding anything this late, either local or online, so I picked up a couple of heads of hardneck (again unspecified) at the local fresh market hoping I didn't waste my $.76 and they'll grow. Gonna put them in today if it's not too wet, and Monday if it is.

Hi Wiley,

I think you spent your 76 cents well! I knew I was too late too remind everyone to take pics of planting stock. Darn! Oh well, harvest is 8 months away. I'll settle for harvest pics! Haha

Went to the farmers market on saterday and spent $20 on organic garlic so now I have some very nice stock to plant.
Got some spruce to make a raised bed and I have it primed and ready to paint,I will line it with plastic to preserve the wood 8x4 I'm soooo excited. My first raised bed and I'm putting it right in the middle of the garden where it will get lots of sun.I have to get some good dirt somewhere though.
Mavis

I got 8 nice large organic heads of softneck and planted the bulbs yesterday. Cost: $5.53 – a heck of a lot less than I spent last year on mail-ordered special varieties, all of which produced very small heads.

Littelfrog, I've got a raised bed framed with construction lumber, primed and painted with good exterior paint that's been used for (I think) 6 yrs. and is just now starting to need some touch-up paint. If it's in the middle of yoru garden, I'd put some garden soil and compost into it, pile some leaves in asap and "lasagna" the area where you took the garden soil to improve it and go from there. Actually I filled my new beds this year about half full of chopped leaves and they did the soil/compost thing and they worked well--except I had more shade than I anticipated and that didn't work so well--but that's not because of how I filled the beds.

Finally have 4 kinds planted. Thanks to organicbaby I planted her purple striped in both home and community gardens this year. This kind did very well last year - my first year with garlic. Now I'm hooked! Gotta get my son interested in growing garlic rather than eating mine!

Finally with a week of dry weather was able to get my spot tilled up and about 80 cloves of garlic planted yesterday.

Is anyone out there who subscribes to Organic Gardening Magazine a resident of NJ. Please let me know. I have important info for NJ subscribers. Many thanks. Harold
hoffman.esq@verizon.net 201-569-0086

Hi! I've just started reading about growing garlic (have been interested in it for a while, just never acted on it!). Does anyone have advice for me growing in Southern Georgia? Zone 8b

In South Georgia you should be able to go ahead and plant garlic now (if you can find some) The "book" says that softnecks are better for southern gardners, but I'm trying several different types to see which are going to do well and give me the taste I want. I'd recommend you jump in (I even planted some from the grocery, loose, from the "organic" section when I couldn't find any--then ordered some when I found a source that still had some) and see what happens. Around here, you can find lots of garlic in the spring--but if you plant in spring it's 16 months before you want to harvest the whole crop since you harvest for storage in July or so. There's a HUGE garlic thread that covers maybe a couple of years in the "over the fence" forum--more info than I ever knew existed!!!
Welcome--and enjoy.