Garlic's in the ground.

[smokey]

Nice day today so I got my garlic planted in the beds for the year. 72 nice large cloves planted with a few smaller ones culled and assigned culinary duties.

 This is a bit later than I usually plant garlic but I ran late due to being forgetful and not getting the lnchelium seed ordered that my wife had requested I grow this year.    Thankfully the folks at Whistling Duck farm still had some and shipped it fast.


 Anyone else still have garlic to plant or am I the last one to get mine in this year? 

[farmerjack]

Nope, just put mine in the ground this morning. Not nearly as many as you

[mogal]

Haven't done mine either. DH got off work early so we got the hoop house frames prepped to put the covers on the next sunny calm day. I may just put the garlic in there this year. It's a lot easier and more pleasant to keep the beds in there weeded after we take the covers off because I can stretch shade cloth over the frames while I work in there. Instant shade!

[mogal]

Oops.  Double post so I deleted.

[solargeek]

Just put mine in the end of last week. Good thing is it’s getting really cold in the next couple days!

[Tallpines]

I did mine yesterday.
Only 20 bulbs.

[smokey]

My wife used one of the small lnchelium cloves I'd culled from planting stock in a chicken dish last night and it's really good imo.

Nice "medium" garlic flavor without overpowering the rest of the ingredients.

[mogal]

I finally planted our garlic in the outside bed in late November and got it mulched just before all the wind from the storms that hit Kentucky. That blew away a good bit of the mulch--chopped leaves--so I replaced a good bit of it day before yesterday. Already had a few tiny shoots showing due to this warmer than usual weather. Supposed to break a record of 70o today that was set in 1889 and tied in 1955. Too warm but at least we won't get snow. We could use a slow easy rain.

[smokey]

The garlic I planted on October 26th has done well and it looks like most of the cloves took root. I'm looking forward to harvesting them next summer and seeing how big they are.

[mogal]

I am a bit dismayed to have found our garlic is a couple of inches tall before this storm came in. I hope the extreme cold doesn't hurt it.

[jenn]

Anyone using store garlic? Mine in Nov 5.

[bowdonkey]

Jan 8, 2022 20:05:09 GMT jenn said:

Anyone using store garlic? Mine in Nov 5.

I have in the past and it turned out well every time. It's was among the first garlic I planted up here in zone 3a. I also had two types of hardware store bought seed garlic. All did equally good. I had a mix of soft neck and hard neck. I now grow only Martin's. A huge medicinal and culinary variety, that was superior to the others. Yields at least twice as much per bulb, flavor equal, though the landrace variety was a little better. As always I go off topic, yes store bought can be used, but there could be a chance of disease.  I believe Martin did give instructions on mitigating that. Not sure if it was here or another forum.

[smokey]

Jan 8, 2022 20:05:09 GMT jenn said:

Anyone using store garlic? Mine in Nov 5.

 I've planted store bought garlic from the health food store before and it did OK.  From what I've read recently some of it, Mostly from Chinese suppliers have the root part on the bottom cored out and won't grow but I'd think any with the root intact would be fine. 

[Weed]

Due to sacrificing my entire garden after giving my son several acres, today is the latest I’ve ever planted garlic.  I wasn’t able to go the traditional route of “in the ground”, instead planted them in a 4’x12’x20”deep raised bed.  The upper 5” was a frozen crust & peeled off clean after breaking thru and prying it off in large sections using a 4’ prybar.  I planted a few dozen Russian Red that originated from Feather’s patch and over a hundred Martin’s (bulbils) that he sent me a few weeks before he passed.  This spring I’ll begin working the ground at the new location and plant a cover crop…perhaps begin gardening big again next fall.

Edited to add…besides being a bit nuts, the primary reasons I bothered with this in the middle of winter while the ground is frozen is because I didn’t want to skip the vernalization process that I’m near certain hardneck varieties need (and didn’t want to risk losing my seed stock

[Weed]

Jan 9, 2022 13:48:23 GMT bowdonkey said:

Jan 8, 2022 20:05:09 GMT jenn said:

Anyone using store garlic? Mine in Nov 5.

I have in the past and it turned out well every time. It's was among the first garlic I planted up here in zone 3a. I also had two types of hardware store bought seed garlic. All did equally good. I had a mix of soft neck and hard neck. I now grow only Martin's. A huge medicinal and culinary variety, that was superior to the others. Yields at least twice as much per bulb, flavor equal, though the landrace variety was a little better. As always I go off topic, yes store bought can be used, but there could be a chance of disease.  I believe Martin did give instructions on mitigating that. Not sure if it was here or another forum.

Donk, Martin’s instructions were to soak the seed in vodka for about half an hour prior to planting.  I had some questionable older stuff one year and followed his instuctions and every one of them grew just fine.  That man should have wrote a book! 

[smokey]

Jan 26, 2022 2:21:01 GMT Weed said:

Jan 9, 2022 13:48:23 GMT bowdonkey said:

I have in the past and it turned out well every time. It's was among the first garlic I planted up here in zone 3a. I also had two types of hardware store bought seed garlic. All did equally good. I had a mix of soft neck and hard neck. I now grow only Martin's. A huge medicinal and culinary variety, that was superior to the others. Yields at least twice as much per bulb, flavor equal, though the landrace variety was a little better. As always I go off topic, yes store bought can be used, but there could be a chance of disease.  I believe Martin did give instructions on mitigating that. Not sure if it was here or another forum.

Donk, Martin’s instructions were to soak the seed in vodka for about half an hour prior to planting.  I had some questionable older stuff one year and followed his instuctions and every one of them grew just fine.  That man should have wrote a book! 

   Weed, Did you rinse the garlic after the vodka soak or plant immediately?  The company I bought my garlic from this year advised a short soak in a mild bleach solution before planting which seemed a little harsh to me but it appears that most if not all has taken root.

 I think I'd prefer to use vodka instead of bleach if it works just as well.

[Weed]

smokey , I did “not” rinse the cloves but should add that after a good soak the paper coverings tend to want to slide right off. Many were planted without the paper coverings & I recall being pretty concerned about it at the time. I actually went as far as to mark the exact location of one at the end of the row so I could easily find/dig it a month or so after to see if it was growing or rotting. Surprisingly, the clove was still completely solid and intact with about a dozen healthy 3/4” long roots.

I actually still have a picture of that clove in my photo library and tried to post it but this site has always been next to impossible to post pictures for me🤷🏼‍♂️