Re: Winter garlic
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  • Subject: Re: Winter garlic
  • From: j* s* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:50:36 -0800
And so do some of us non-raccoons.
On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI wrote: 


It's well known that raccoons like their crawdads with garlic butter.
:-)

Cyndi

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of BONNIE_HOLMES
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 2:37 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Winter garlic

Ugh. I planted a full bed of garlic, as I mentioned earlier. This
afternoon, I went to my garden to harvest some potatoes and found that
something had dug up my bed exactly where the garlic was planted. :(
Garlic? What in the world gets into garlic? I've never had that happen
before. I have plenty of berries and seeds for wildlife so why did
something pick garlic?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 9:33:05 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Winter

Thank you everybody. I'll look into that. I've been wanting to grow
and harvest it for YEARS. The only time I have ever grown it, was
next to my roses. It was supposed to be one of those "companion
gardening" plants to help keep pests away. So I never harvested them.
I could always get a book and start reading up on it...but you guys
always seem to have the ANSWERS! So thanks.
(I'm with you Tricia...think I'll go ahead and plant them. Oklahoma
winters are so unpredictable)


On 12/5/09, Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com> wrote:
we plant garlic here in late fall - harvest in July or August when the 
tops

start to die back.

On 12/5/09, Patricia Dickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:


I think you should plant now too! You never know what our weather

will

be here in Oklahoma. I thought the garlic man from Tulsa planted

garlic

in December!


Sent from my iPhone Patricia Dickson

On Dec 5, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Catharine Carpenter

<cathycrc@comcast.net>

wrote:

I would give it a try... or plant it in late March, in which case,

you

would probably harvest later. If I were you, I'd hedge my bets -

plant

half now, half in early spring and see what happens!

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Dec 4, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:

So for my zone (6) is it too late to plant it?


On 12/4/09, Catharine Carpenter <cathycrc@comcast.net> wrote:
There are two types of garlic, soft neck (which can be braided to

store)

and
hard neck (with a very rigid central shoot). Hard neck is hardier

through

my
winters, but does not "keep" as well as soft neck once harvested. I

plant

the cloves in the early-mid fall. Sometimes green shoots appear,

sometimes

not. (Any shoots generally last through the winter for me.) The next



summer,
I harvest my garlic when about half of the leaves have turned

yellow,

usually July/August for me. Any longer, and the bulbs may start to

rot.

Cathy, west central IL, z5b


On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:

Bonnie (and any other garlic experts out there....). When do you
harvest your garlic? I have the perfect place for some, but not sure



when to dig them up?


On 12/4/09, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote:

Winter is slow to come to us in ETN. Last week, we still had plants
trying to bloosom again. This week we had a hard frost so more and

more

is going into dormancy. Snow is definitely forecast for the Smoky
Mountains, an hour away. We may get some flurries. So, this morning

I

got out the garlic bulbs and got them in a raised bed: six of Kettle



River Giant; three of Chilean Silver; and three of Inchelium Red.

All of

the bulbs had lots of cloves so I filled up one of my five raised

veggie

beds. All my decidious holly look great, as well as the oak-leaf
hydrangae, red twig dogwood, and Natchez crepe myrtle. Since we

don't

get much snow, I have tried to put some color interest in my

gardens.




Thanks for the dehydrator info. I may try to work up a batch of figs



next year.




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