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Re: garlic

The best time to plant garlic is in the fall.  I don't know what zone Quebec
is in so ask a local nursery just to be sure.
Furthermore, try to pick a spot where you wouldn't mind having garlic
forever.  No matter how much you dig up, there is always something left
behind that will sprout the following year.  So you only have to plant your
garlic once.
If you do plant in the spring and the garlic doesn't get big enough to suit
you, just let it go and, as I said, it will come back the next year.
Whether or not you plant stuff you buy in the supermarket or bulbs from a
catalog depends on how much money you want to spend.  I planted bulbs from
the supermarket.  I get these bulbs whose skin so tightly adheres to them, I
curse every time I have to peel them for cooking.  But they taste like any
other garlic and keep exceedingly well.

In a message dated 97-08-15 03:16:58 EDT, you write:

> Subject: Garlic
>
>  I want to try planting garlic in one of my elevated planting boxes.When is

> the
>  best time to do this? Does the garlic need to over winter in the soil or
> should
>   I
>  wait for spring? also would I be better off to purchase garlic bulbs from
> the
>  garden supply shop or just use my kitchen supply?
>  Paul-Laval Quebec
>

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