What did you do in the garden today?

[Elyrian1]

Well, this move is a 12 hour drive, so we're aiming for one and done. At that point I'll also be 7 months pregnant, so not making that trip twice personally even if DH needs to. I'll check them in the days prior to the move and see how big they are and whether I can get away with an early harvest. If not, I'll pay MIL, lol.

 

[Sueby]

@BReeder! I've never started garlic in pots so I'm not much help. But I would imagine they might not enjoy being in a pot with others for too long, but here at least, they don't really start getting big till the end so you should be ok for a bit. They seem to grow their leaves first, then the bulb so I would think you'll be ok as long as the roots don't get all tangled.

I plant my garlic in the fall, it starts to sprout then spends the winter under the snow & then I harvest around July when most of the leaves have turned brown. Cold & snow aren't an issue for garlic (if you buy for your zone), but too wet is.

 

[WthrLady]

Just get some old bricks and arrange them in a circle, presto, instant moveable sort of flower pot! Maybe use a plastic trash bag as a liner with a drain hole or two. Ok Im rednecking it here but just thinking out loud

Aaron

Use feedbags. They drain water but hold soil.

 

[Ascholten]

Now THAT is an idea, there is a guy up from me who raises chickens to sell. He uses the feed bags to put the manure in when he cleans the hatchling / younguns pens out once a month. I might have to work a deal with him. I give him 5 gal plastic buckets with lids which he uses for water..ers and other uses and he gives me feed he gets from the grain mill an hour or so down the road. It's a mutual agreement, ill have to see if I can arrange something to get his semi poopy mulchable pine shavings for buckets and then grow plants in it, around it, with it, etc.

Aaron

 

[BReeder!]

the bulb DOES like to go deeper.

Are you saying they grow below the planting depth or that they just prefer to be planted deep. I plant planted them near the bottom of the pots. That said, these pots do have plenty of drainage. I keep the soil moist but not saturated. I thought the new bulb forms around the planted clove, which itself disappears s it's used s for too feed the plant early on.

As for the replanting, this was something I discussed about a month ago here in this thread. I am new to growing garlic and didn't realize I should have planted in the fall. I was going to try to get it in the ground while we had mild winter weather, but that soon changed and there's a few feet of snow with extreme temps now so I opted to try to stay garlic indoors and carefully transplant it outdoors.

 

[Elyrian1]

Personally I like experiments, BReeder. I believe what was meant was that they like to be planted between two and four inches deep depending on the variety. I know nothing about transplanting garlic... I'd be curious to see how it goes for you.

 

[Ascholten]

BReeder. They grow deeper, onions, you see their heads on top of the pot kind of, and THAT is where they are, garlic now, you dig a few inches down to get to where the bulb is. You said you had them in pots, so did I, unfortunately the lower levels of my pots were at a place where the water could collect, and after 10 days of straight rain, standing in that water 'down there' they neck rotted. Where as, since I didn't know better, I poked my finger in the top regions and said, oh ok, they are good, not water logged.

I have a few here that I am growing in pots and I move them around the yard all the time, they don't seem to mind it one bit. If you did have to transport them, I don't think it will hurt them any at all.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

Now THAT is an idea, there is a guy up from me who raises chickens to sell. He uses the feed bags to put the manure in when he cleans the hatchling / younguns pens out once a month. I might have to work a deal with him. I give him 5 gal plastic buckets with lids which he uses for water..ers and other uses and he gives me feed he gets from the grain mill an hour or so down the road. It's a mutual agreement, ill have to see if I can arrange something to get his semi poopy mulchable pine shavings for buckets and then grow plants in it, around it, with it, etc.

Aaron

can also grow potatoes in the bags and strawberries

 

[Thunder344]

I did nothing. It snowed.

 

[Ascholten]

Planting garlic in the fall, I thimk is more important in the south than in the north, as it gets hotter down south sooner and they don't like that as much. If you are up north, barring frozen ground, I think you have a little more leeway as to when it will do it's best growing wise.

Aaron