SORRY!


I forgot to post here and tell everyone we are now on the final Garlic thread:

Garlic Roundup, The Final Phase, on (New Gardener) forum. I'll see you all there!

Alright then they are all here. If you get bored you can check out how the year went.

And admire pics and comments and all the stuff that got us to the round up.

Fall, winter, spring

Won't pull up the list, unless someone wants to see it. Well, hell , maybe Iwill. Well, maybe not. Someone else decide!

bump to get up top for harvesting the tips

Boy,

took some digging, but I was curious how many of us were here at this stage last year, that are, or not here this year.

I must admit, it has made for some very interesting reading and comparisons.

Goodness, I love this stuff.

Now don't forget, this is last year's spring garlic thread, and I'm just looking and comparing!

I have scapes! My premium northern white has them. They start out like an upside down U, then straighten up. Not nearly as pretty as the rocambole last year, but they are first for me after the elephant which I harvested a bunch of today. The rocambole isn't as big as several other varieties this year, including Music, both of MHGs and lisaanns. I need to foliar feed them all this weekend.

Kool Dave. Mine aren't nearly that far along yet.
The rain we got this morning will help alot, I should see a real growth spurt in the next few days.

Garlic On !!

I'm still a rookie yet with garlic with this being my second year.The first was early spring planted off the grocery store shelf, they produced a extremely small bulbs. Last summer on my honeymoon in August we stopped at a roadside farm selling garlic and glads.We bought just garlic and it was extremely large with a little rust / white paper skins. Don't know what the name/breed is. The farmer said to plant in fall like Oct-Nov so I did the begining of Nov. Nothing sprouted last year but in early March they all did I've weeded and watered and just recently mulched They are awesome looking .I only have around 130 bulbs growing I just can't wait to see size and taste. I plan to keep this strain as a honeymoon heirloom and to maybe sell extra. I wish I could some how figure out a name of them for when Isell them Is there away without finding the orginal farmer?

Wow, City trapped farmer!

Honeymoon Garlic! Love that!

Just pick any old name at all, that you would like to name them! Honeymoon works for me!

I have a Dave's Monster happening and MHG softneck and Blue shallots and Gman tomatoe and TomatoZ mator, and well, the list goes on and on.

Just make it special to you. If the flavor is there, no one will care.

Trust me, we may be anal to a point, but after that, what we really grow anything for, is special friends and gifts of seed and Garlic bulbs, that have been shared with us out of the kindness of one's heart.

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Originally posted by city trapped farmer:
They are awesome looking. I only have around 130 bulbs growing...

Ha ha. You've got the garlic bug all right! Welcome!

One of my four elephant garlics is over two feet tall and growing a few inches everyday, but the others, though nice and thick, are not getting tall. I think the snow, wind, dog, etc. have stunted them and I wonder if they can still produce bulbs?

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