Herbs: Garlic is Up, 1 by kmom246

kmom246 wrote:
I like the "indestructible" plants, also, Podster. Between my minimal gardening skills and the, uhm, excitement of trying to garden in the middle of the High Desert, I need things that are tough!

"California garlic" is a softneck garlic. Should grow fine. I used the smaller cloves from "grocery store" garlic for garlic "greens". I don't like "green onions", but I love garlic greens. They sustain me through the winter when there isn't much green about. It's like forcing daffodils, though - the bulbs are pretty used up by the time I've harvested about 4 or 5 cuttings of greens, and they are then just useful for the compost pile. This photo is of some garlic greens shortly after a "hair cut".

Last year was the first year I had lots of space and time to garden at the same time. I went a little garlic-happy in October and planted 48 cloves. 38 are up so far, one looks pretty dead and 9 are still MIA. (Ok, 3 cloves are "Elephant" garlic, which are technically a leek, but like many, I lump them into the garlic catagory and set them in the garlic bed.)

Siberian
Applegate
Chesnok Red
Transylvania
Inchilium
Silever Rose
Music
Elephant

Sleeping garlic: http://kmom246.icfsc.com/winter2006.htm
Spring 2007: http://kmom246.icfsc.com/spring2007.htm