It's time to plant garlic

We're in garlic heaven.... ^-^

Happy Birthday Evelyn

Yes, Happy Happy Birthday Evelyn.

Thank you! ^_^

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

(BIG BLUSH!) Thanks! ^_^

I'm a little late, but I hope you have had a wonderful birthday!

Thanks, so much. It is never too late for good wishes.

Evelyn

The cloves I set Novemeber 7th 2011 have reaped a wonderful harvest! I dug the rest of them this morning

Nice!
Looking back, I planted mine early October and the tops all fell a few weeks ago- I guess that adds up to the same growing time. I pulled mine then. I'll def plant garlic again this fall! The empty garlic patch was the right timing for some beans.

Nice going, Honeybee!

Mine have finished drying and I broke apart the cloves. This is what I ended up with.

I'm thinking of branching out in the garlic world this year. I'd like to add to my elephant garlic. I'll have to do some research and see what I can find.

Nice haul steph, my garlic under performed - really small bulbs.

Stephanie - I've always kept my garlic whole until I use it. Do the cloves keep well once they have been pulled apart?

Mary - the larger the clove planted, the larger the resulting bulb will be. I save fifty of the very largest bulbs each year, then break off the largest cloves from those bulbs and plant them. I set the cloves about six inches apart.

I would think garlic would keep better if left whole until it is used.

Most of them were already separating, so I just pulled them apart. You can freeze them, too. They do fine separated.

I'm glad to learn that garlic can be frozen. Although the ones I grow last several months, they don't last a full year.

Frozen garlic turns to mush for me. Fine for cooking with, but it doesn't sprout.