Garlic pics

[jomoncon]

I'll be growing garlic for the first time this fall. I ordered a warm winter sampler from Gourmet Garlic and they arrived this week. The state Ag Dept says to plant garlic starting 10/01, so I'll be holding onto them until that time.

 

[Dchicken207]

Wow! Nice!! What varieties are these? And how did you get the roots so gleaming white?? Mine usually still has little clumps of dirt on them.

Most of it is a Porcelain variety I have been working on for a few years, and there is about 20 heads of a purple stripe variety i grew for seed stock. Take a while but I clean each head by hand really well. Soft brush works good

Ive never grown garlic. I plant it in the fall right?

Yes plant in the fall depending on where you live. Up here I plant around oct.25th- nov.1st

 

[hereorthere]

I love garlic, could u please give some info how to plant and grow. After you pick it do you hang it to dry??

Mskayladog - check out this link.... there's lots of good info/links on growing garlic (and pls don't think this is an endorsement for these guys- but they were very nice and answered all my other questions.) So to answer your question about letting it dry - yes it needs to cure. Best way for me was by bundling & tieing about 5 plants and let hanging on a line in my barn - took about 3wks. Hope that helps.

http://www.filareefarm.com/links.html

 

[hereorthere]

Great looking garlic.

Mine didn't do as well this year, small heads. I'm working the bed to plant with next years crop sometime in September depending on the weather. I put a good bit of chicken compost on it and hope that will help next year's crop.

How's your drainage? Is your ground too wet? Amending the soil doesn't hurt one bit either.

 

[Dchicken207]

Bump

Don't forget to plant your garlic folks

 

[CoopersCoop]

Are these Hard Neck? They look yummy!

 

[Dchicken207]

Are these Hard Neck? They look yummy!

Yes they are. I took the nicest 100+ heads to plant. Looking forward to spring here, as I ended up planting 500+ cloves last fall.