Growing Onions and Garlic

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• Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:50:31 -0700
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Does anybody on this list have experience with the practice of breaking
over or "kneeling" onions or garlic to promote bulb growth when the
plants start to head out.  Organizers of our annual "Sweet Onion
Festival" have been recommending against this practice because of the
risk of trapping moisture from rain (not a problem here in the desert)
causing the crowns to rot.

Last year I conducted my own experiment by breaking over every other
plant.  With onions the "kneeled" plants seemed to bulb earlier with no
discernable increase in bulb size.  But with eleplant garlic, there
appeared to be a definite bulb size improvement.  Experts at the
Cooperative Extension don't believe my sampled population was large
enough to be statistically significant.

Olin Miller <millero@worldnet.att.net>
USDA Zone 9b

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