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Beautiful Garlic

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Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:09 am

Had some nice bulbs last year, seems like they get bigger every year
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:19 am

Size was 2" to 2 1/2" mostly
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:59 am

Wow, those are beauts! :D What variety is that in the first pic?

I really like your measuring tool as well. 8-) May just make myself one for next year!
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:10 am

The first pic was German White but Music and Montano Zemo were huge also.
2 other garlic gadgets I use are (blue) silicone tube for cleaning off skins and (green) for mincing/slicing garlic cloves quickly.
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:13 am

Cool! I'd love to see how that silicone tube works.

I used to have a flat piece of (rubbery) silicone that was being marketed for skinning garlic cloves. We never used it much and now I can't find it. I wanted to dry all the small cloves that didn't get planted, but so far I haven't had the time to sit and hand peel the lot!
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:48 am

That is some good looking garlic there! Wow! Glad to hear the sleeve thingie works, I use a lot of garlic and it would make it easier.
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Post: # 1628Unread post Lonejack
Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:51 am

Real nice looking garlic! German White is usually my largest bulbs too but I rarely get any 3 inchers.

Bower - I too dehydrate the cloves that get rejected for planting. The trick I use to skin them is to use 2 small medal bowls of the same size. Cut off the root end of the cloves and put the cloves in one of the bowls. Put the second bowl over the top and then shake the dickens out of them for 30 seconds or so. Some of the skins come off completely and the rest are very much loosened.
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:15 pm

All the Garlic look nice I hope mine comes out half as nice.
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:31 pm

Gosh those are beautiful. As good or better than I find at my market. What do you feed them?
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:34 pm

MissS wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:31 pm Gosh those are beautiful. As good or better than I find at my market. What do you feed them?
Till in compost cow manure before you plant garlic then spread some bone meal in the spring. I tilled 20 tons of cow manure in a 100' X 50' plot this summer.

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Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:06 pm

That is great looking garlic!

20 tons of cow manure? I'm drooling! I used to get cow manure from a dairy farmer who would always say to take as much as I could eat, free.

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Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:47 pm

That is such a neat way to measure the garlic bulbs!

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Fri Feb 07, 2020 6:34 pm

Absolutely gorgeous!

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Sat Feb 15, 2020 8:26 am

Great looking measurement tool. Being accident prone I'd be afraid of accidentally stabbing myself with one of those, though.

As an experiment I planted 3 cloves in the ground and 1 in a pot from a store bought head last year. The bulbs in the ground came out great like the 2" one in your measurement tool picture so I'm growing 12 plants in the ground this year from last year's harvest. The one in a pot grew a rather small bulb so that experiment is over.

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Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:32 am

Beautiful garlic, looking forward to the harvest.

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Post: # 10810Unread post MsCowpea
Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:55 pm

Wow, that is nice garlic.

(Bower, if you find your sleeve just put the garlic inside and roll it back and forth with your hand on the counter top . Just takes a few seconds.
I am sure professional chefs may like the ‘smash it with the flat of a knife’ technique but the sleeve gadget is pretty nifty.)
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Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:44 pm

I just looked at my garlic today, and the last of the 4 varieties is peeking through! Strange thing is that, despite the incredibly mild winter, it is well behind what it usually is doing, and only started showing a few weeks ago. It often comes up very early, then dies back, when the temps get very cold again.
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Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:46 am

I've been looking for some straw around here, winter blew around the garlic rows. I'm using leaves in the walking rows to mulch the weeds. Were I usually get my straw, some dumb*** burned my farmer hay/straw barn then burned the barn next to it (couple 100 feet) a couple days later... 5 barns burned a couple weeks. Yesterday the arsonist burned 4 more barns in daylight... They may have caught this POS yesterday!
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Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:49 am

I've been looking for some straw around here, winter blew around the garlic rows. I'm using leaves in the walking rows to mulch the weeds. Were I usually get my straw, some dumb*** burned my farmer hay/straw barn then burned the barn next to it (couple 100 feet) a couple days later... 5 barns burned a couple weeks. Yesterday the arsonist burned 4 more barns in daylight... They may have caught this POS yesterday!
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Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:21 am

What a sick *Bleep*.
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