Is anyone else going to try doing garlic like onions where you move the soil away from the shoulders to try and get a bigger head out of it? I'm gonna try that with a couple of my cloves to see if that helps. Ever since I did that with onions a month or so ago, they've been getting biiiiiiig!

I thought of it last year when I had to dig down 4" just to find the bulb to inspect it. Your zone is worse than mine, so I would think you couldn't just plant them shallow due to frost heaving. You will have to scrape a layer of dirt off once the soil is warm enough. I am trying it this year, with rocco, northern white, susanville and big e. It could help? I got a monster walla walla last week because of it. One more experiment worth trying IMHO

This winter, though harsh, was good for these kinds of crops I would think. We had a constant 6 inch + blanket of snow from late november until April. Plus all my stuff is in raised beds that get a nice covering of leaves and seaweed before the winter sets it's hands on us.

I'm going to try it with a few cloves to see how it goes, and if all goes well, I'll try it with more next year. Love experiments

Dave- ya beat me again this year, I can already tell....I tip my hat to ya.

Congrats Wren !!

Let them seed heads dry down, clean the chaff out of them, and pop them in yer mouth like candy. They're good !

Garlic Lady is right; growing "bragging garlic" has alot to do with matching a variety to your locale.

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MHG, did you measure or did you just use your "good" eye?

hahahahaha !!! Corona goggles

My biggest hardneck is about 2-5/16" as I see it (squinting). It looked like 2-3/8" in person, but no point splitting hairs... Unknown variety. Source is a bulb that was given to me as planting stock by a gardener from my area last year. (Thanks, Shawn! )



Biggest softneck (which supposedly doesn't do so well around here, so they say) was about 2-1/2". Inchelium Red.

Very nice! We will make a garlic queen out of you yet I will enter the numbers. You beat my Inchelium by a lot. Your weather is closer to eastern Washington's than mine is. I think that's where that variety came from. If your hardneck is an X variety, let's name it. How about Mad Max?

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Originally posted by oh2fly:
If your hardneck is an X variety, let's name it. How about Mad Max?

Perfect! Accepted as Mad Max September 4, 2008.

By the way, today it feels more like western Washington. Cool and drizzly. Weird is what it is. To be honest, I'm surprised the softneck did as well as it did. But no complaints!

Very nice garlic Liz. Looks like your softneck did really well.

Very nice Liz, you're a right and true GarlicHead now.

Just sent Dave my photo entry, Metachi ( hardneck ) measured 2.357 at it's widest girth. As my pictures will show; my arms are too short for my camera and my stainless calipers don't photograph well....lol

Bad-mouthing the softnecks up north is done mainly by those looking for an excuse as to why they didn't get big for them....

Garlic On !!

TY.

Gee, maybe I should have split some hairs!

Some of the softnecks, instead of getting big like this one, developed bulbils and stayed pretty small. Same stock, planted and harvested together. A mystery!

.......this is like garden porn to me....

No mystery...they were stressed, most often caused by a lack of moisture and excessive extended heat (not uncommon weather conditions in your area). Cure the moisture and the heat is negated.

MHG's pics