With the arrival of spring and the start of garlic scape season here I noticed something unusual today. Printanor, a softneck garlic is putting up scapes. I have heard of...
I purchased too much seed garlic this year. I was thinking about storing it for planting in fall 2023, but so far what I have read is that it is recommended to plant it...
Seeds of Diversity has samples of heritage garlic bulbils available for a limited time. They cost $15 (includes shipping) for 5 varieties of bulbils. They guarantee at least...
It's garlic digging day, or at least for one of the three varieties. These were planted back in mid October. The Lorz Italian foliage has been drying down and there were...
We had couple of warm weeks in April and then the winter did strike back with some snow storms a week ago. On Saturday I was finally able to go and work in our country side...
I received some garlic bulbils today, and one variety was new to me: Mother of Pearl. Once I looked it up, I was a bit surprised it was sent, as it's a softneck variety and I...
This is my eighth season to harvest garlic and still I am learning something new. I have seen these sunken areas on stems also during previous years while cleaning the garlic...
I bought seed garlic last fall, but never got it in the ground. It is hard neck garlic grown locally, and I read online that it only needs about 3 weeks of mild cool weather,...
After seeing GoDawgs post about adventures-with-garlic, on a whim a few months ago I preordered some bulbs from Keene. I just got a ship notice, which is very exciting! But...
i thought about posting this on seed swap site, but bulbils, and topsets aren't seeds,
so i dunno. anyway here is what i have to offer, and you can move the post wherever
it...
I just ordered some garlic from Filaree Farms and noticed they were out of stock on a lot of varieties already. Looks like other vendors are already completely out. I guess...
How is everyone's garlic beds looking this year? I went to check mine yesterday and raked off the leaves, which were used as winter cover. The ground is still frozen and...
My garlic got a little bit forgotten with this hot and dry wave we have here until last week. It rained about an inch last week, and I realized a couple days back that I...
Just dug this years garlic. Have had a good stretch of dry weather with temps in the 90's. Could have gone another 5 days but didn't want to risk a pop up shower. The garlic...
I love garlic in all it's forms, but I had never grown it before I planted a number of old grocery store bought cloves from various sources just to see what happened. Had no...
Three weeks ago I planted to containers the small rounds grown from bulbils which Bower sent me 2018. Last fall I planted the biggest rounds of same varieties directly to the...
A few weeks ago I was musing about the 'misses' in my garlic bed. Not that there were a lot, but those empty spaces always leave me wondering what went wrong. This year the...
It has been a few years since I grew any softneck, so I scrolled back through my pictures to see if there was any harvest date. I was shocked to see my New York White with...
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