Bump for MHG, cuz it's time to think about planting garlic. Get those spots ready, garlicheads!
Garlic on!

ahhhhhhhhhh...all is right with the world again....

Bump ba da bump bump....bump bump!

It's October!!! The bed is ready and waiting...the garlic is almost all here...woo hoo!

Peace

Gail

Bump up the volume

Well, this weekend was planting time for me. I think I am a week earlier than last year. We enlarged our garlic section (maybe 3 times what it was) and then split that in half - half for me (and a new garlic head - born 9/27) and half for my son and daughter (they wanted our plant-off to be teams).

I ended up planting way more types than I had intended. I carried over my two soft-necks from last year (Polish Softneck and Western Rose). Dave was kind enough to send me three types (his world famous rocco, Purple Stripe and elephant). Then I also hit what was billed as a Garlic Festival (only three boths selling garlic - hardly a festival) and picked up 3 other types (Czec Red, German White and Porcelain). Somewhere between 325 and 350 cloves planted.

Wow, JamesM! Does your wife know? That's a lot of garlic, for sure. Good luck to the kids. I am rooting for them to beat you. Sorry, I side with little ones.

Yeah, way more garlic than I intended, but what the heck. No problem with siding with the kids (although I have the smallest on my side - and a funny picture with her covered in the garlic to plant). Hopefully they do well and then next year they can do all the digging...

The 2008-2009 garlic season may go down in history as Garlic Gone Wild !!

I am blaming MHG and lisaann for corrupting all of you. I had NO part in it. Well, maybe a little.
RAH-RAH! Garlic On!

I, as well, am planting that world famous Rocco from David and planting my Music that I've been working on slowly over the last 3 years, and an elephant and the Northern White from David, too. Planting oughtta happen here today or tomorrow. Woohoo!!!

Hey TinGull! Hope it all works for you. I planted my northern white tonight and the cloves are as big as elephant. I am not kidding. I am going to roast one extra bulb this weekend. Here's a good link I found tonight while surfing for garlic powder methods. The text is a little messed up, but there is some good info. And, it mostly agrees with our coach, MHG. Not that I doubted him.
http://www.motherearthnews.com...or-Great-Garlic.aspx

Bump for spring planters.

I found it! Now it's back where it belongs, on page 1. I will edit when I can. If anybody knows of a garlic tidbit of info I may have missed, please post it.

Are we going to let this thread go?

I'm praying for MHG. If you'r reading this, please know, I'll never forget you. Let's go gardeners. It's time to bump this thread now.