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You ladies who grow garlic:  Here's a tip:  When the garlic sends up those scapes, don't remove all of them.  Depending on how much garlic you have planted, and whether you want to significantly increase your planting, let a lot of those scapes mature.  They will set a bunch of bulbils at the top.  You can then harvest them for the chickens:  they will eat them like they are candy!  Or you can harvest them after they have matured, and scatter them where ever you want to grow a crop of garlic.  I always scatter a lot at the base of my fruit trees, hoping that the chickens won't find them all.  Garlic is a natural vole repellant, and I also suspect it repels a lot of insects that attack fruit trees, borers being the one I'd most want to send packing, and one that I suspect would be easily deterred by a nice base planting of garlic.  

SG:  tell me about your wormwood please.  Latin name?  I bought seeds for wormwood, but not a one of them sprouted.  I can find Sweet Annie, but can't find the shorter "true wormwood".  Wondering if Sweet Annie or any of the other artemesias would work???
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Thanks for the tips! I'll have to scatter some around our peach trees for sure! Have some " wild garlic" patches :)


On the wormwood; its artemesia absinthium... I got it here:

https://www.mydirtygardener.com/pro...=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=19923846277

I didn't really research any of the others for worming potential, but I have grown "silver mound" artemesia in the past as a decorative plant. In comparison, this one gets much bigger and spreads out more. I did a horrible job of planting them, though. Only ONE plant came up lol (I think the chickens were getting in there and scratching everything up) but its a good big plant now, about 4 feet tall and has a 3' spread. I cut it down every winter and it comes back bushier in spring.
 
I would like to plant some in front of my run. It would make a nice natural border, not to mention the herbal benefit of it. Will have to pursue it again this year. I planted some day lilies there this spring, and the worm wood could go between them. Of course the worm wood would take over the day lilies if it actually got going. I'll just let the 2 plants duke it out.
 

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