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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

how do i know when the garlic is ready?
i have had conflicting advice some say its ready in 6 months others say 9.
I planted mine in jan .

Geddi · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject:

Local Lass: I was told long ago that garlic is easy to plant and crop.

Plant on the shortest day and pick on the longest - i.e. January 21 for planting and June 21 for cropping.

Enjoy.
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Martin Peck · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

Im sure Ive said this before. garlic is the hardiest of the onion family plant it in November to over winter. Harvest it at the end of the really hot summer we are going to have. Dont use supermarket bulbs thay are breed for hot climates buy bulbs from the garden centre .Break them up and plant in pots to give a good start before planting outside.
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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

martin im not on about planting it .im on about picking it :lol:
i planted mine this jan .
they wernt super market bulb

Bear · Mile Elm Minstrel Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 1001 Status:

Durgan · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:

This may give you some ideas.

1 July 2007 Pulling Garlic and re-planting.

http://aipoh.notlong.com/ 1 July 2007 Pulling Garlic and re-planting the area. Pictures.

http://meiso.notlong.com/ 8 July 2007. Processing Garlic for further drying. The garlic will be dried thoroughly then stored in paper bags.

http://uuwae.notlong.com 13 July Garlic stored.

1 July 2007. Garlic was pulled today and the area planted with two rows of lettuce and one row of Joi Choi for later season use. "Durgan's Method" of planting small seeds is explained with pictures. The garlic was planted on the 15 of October in 2006, about a month before freeze-up.

Two garlic plants did not have the snake seed head (scapes) removed, and these were noticably smaller than the other bulbs. All the other bulbs were about the same size. These are slightly smaller than the crop of last year. This is attributed to insufficient watering. The quality is superb generally, and all would be marketable in the commercial world.

28 June 2008. There are still five bulbs from the 2007 crop, and they are in excellent condition, suggesting that my curing process was appropiate.

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