Well, the more sun the better.
I mentioned above that I planted some in my DD's little red wagon (from when she was much younger, so I'm safe!). I've been moving it around whenever I see it in the shade! I'll take a pic once things declare!
Shoe.
Garlic planting question
Okay dumb question, I have cloves from the grocery store that are sprouting, could I, should I try planting them? Have no clue..sorry...
Yep, go ahead and plant them. Have fun!
Shoe
Thanks, will do...should be a great experiment...LOL
Janet, we can compare notes :)
I moved mine from between some shrubs, as the temps here really dipped over the past week. I took them into the unheated garage, cause I was afraid the pot (gallon size) would freeze.
Herbie/Frank,
I've been wondering how your container grown garlic has fared in your garage? Have you brought it outdoors yet?
It is doing great!! I kept it inside until just today. We have had that cold spell, and I didn't want to risk putting it out. An quite honesly, I think when the weather really warms, I am gonna just lift it all out of the pot, and plant in the garden. I am worried now that it will not have room enough to grow. What do you think?
It would be hard for me to make that call. But I will anyway, as usual, :-)
If you think the garlic needs more room, go ahead and transplant into the garden, it should do just fine. The plants might suffer a temporary setback but will probably be just fine. But if you do decide, I wouldn't wait much longer, do it before it gets hot.
This message was edited Apr 9, 2007 6:27 PM
Our weather is just beginning to warm back up from that cold spell we had last week. I was thinking about doing it the end of the week. I will let you know how it goes. If it doesn't work, I will just be back to buying garlic, until I can plant again this fall.
Hi defoe,
If u have bad luck let me know, cus I will send you some transplants from the ones I put in last fall. I don't have a lot, but enough to spare about 15 I can ship you. Lemme know how you do and if you need some.
Thanks.
Laf
Lafko, that is so kind. This year is just an experiment, as I potted these up late. So if I can transfer them to the garden, I think it would be better they would have more room. But I will sure keep your kind offer in mind, in case this fails. I almost panicked, I thought I read 151 when you were saying 15, I, I thought 151 would be an awful lot of garlic!! Even for garlic lovers!!
Yah, but I bet we'd eat all 151!!! Just let me know... good luck!
I will. Good luck with your gardening this year.
I transplanted 76 garlic plants on 3-28. Seedlings came from my green garlic bed. I eat a lot of green garlic. I covered it with remay cloth during this recent cold snap, and uncovering it today it looks fine. Here is picture of it on day I transplanted.
That looks great, hope it continues to do well.
I love garlic, and have played with it for years here in the low country of South Carolina(Supposedly z8a, but I've had more luck with zone 8b/9a stuff). Zone doesn't seem to matter much with garlic. It all grows well here, but some varieties better than others. Soft-necks do better than hard necks in my experience, and the "best of the best" has been "Inchelium Red"---a softneck variety. The best hardneck I've grown is something with "Siberian" in its name, an unlikely candidate for a low country garden, but nevertheless, it's what worked. The key in this zone is to get it in early in the fall. Local folklore has it that "plant by Thanksgiving, harvest by Easter" is the way to do it, but that hasn't worked for me. I plant in September or October(depending on the temps), and harvest May/June. I can get all the way through to March of the next year without using "store-bought" garlic---and then it's only for a month or two. We're still using garlic from the crop sown in the fall of of 2006, but it's starting to sprout, so it's basically over for that crop. But I could pull a plant right now from the garden and get useable garlic if I had to...just have to accept puny cloves...
The first time I planted garlic I did it in August.. SO it ended up sprouting beforer the weather got cold..but I just left it alone and when it got cold the foliage died and came back in the spring. I wait until the leaves start to brown before I dig..sometimes i wait too long and "lose" some.. But they always come back so it isn't really a loss..
The first time I harvested my garlic I tied the leaves together on some and hung them over a line in the basement.. others I made into a garlic braid and hung on my kitchen wall.. Last year I look an onion net and put all my garlic heads into that and hung it from a line in the basement.. The garlic braid worked well and the garlic lasted until I used it up..I think the garlic that was hanging over the line did ok also.. However the garlic that I trimmed and put in the onion bag dried up fairly fast. I ended up taking them outside to plant to see if they would grow at least and produce some more.. I figured if they didn't nothing was lost but if they did, I regained my garlic.. I will let you know if they come up this spring. .
I was wondering how everyone stores their garlic and what works best.. and if garlic type affect how well they store?
I think that's how it's supposed to work, Jazz, from my readings. The early fall planting is to get those roots established. I started by planting my garlic in November here in the low country, and it worked just fine. Harvested in June, but the bulbs were smaller than I expected (gets too hot too fast for them), so I moved to planting the cloves in October. Bulbs were bigger, cloves were bigger, but harvest moved back to late May. The harvest date only matters in that it's really hard to create conditions that allow for proper storage of garlic here (too hot and humid!), so I ran out of "home-grown" garlic a month earlier than I had with the November planting. It's a trade-off between size and storage time for me. I think ideally, I should plant late september, early october for my environment, but I haven't found anyone shipping bulbs in that time frame. So I hoarded a few of my own 2005 crop and planted them last fall (first week of October..."Inchelium Red"). Looks great so far...
That's cool. I wasn't as impressed with the garlic I got when I planted at the "normal time" probably due to less growing time.. lol if so then the ones I 'missed" last year should be awesome!