Beautiful Garlic

[pmcgrady]

Had some nice bulbs last year, seems like they get bigger every year

[pmcgrady]

Size was 2" to 2 1/2" mostly

[bower]

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

I really like your measuring tool as well. May just make myself one for next year!

[pmcgrady]

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.

[bower]

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!

[imp]

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.

[Lonejack]

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.

[worth1]

All the Garlic look nice I hope mine comes out half as nice.

[MissS]

Gosh those are beautiful. As good or better than I find at my market. What do you feed them?

[pmcgrady]

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.

[Growing Coastal]

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.

[Dee]

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

[SusieQ]

Absolutely gorgeous!

[Bronx]

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.

[guruofgardens]

Beautiful garlic, looking forward to the harvest.

[MsCowpea]

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.)

[pepperhead212]

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.

[pmcgrady]

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!

[pmcgrady]

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!

[worth1]

What a sick *Bleep*.