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...
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,...
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...
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...
I came across the Tomatoville forums recently and in the Alliums sub-forum, there was a post from someone explaining that the orientation of the garlic clove at planting time...
Last year, I forgot to harvest one section of a garlic bed. About 20 plants. Now, I see a patch of very happy garlic, leaves are over a foot long, looks really healthy....
I've been working on a new community garden plot. A few months ago, I noticed a plant that didn't look like a weed, and I left it alone. This past week, after my partner...
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