Grew lots of garlic. Planted and covered with leaves in raised bed. In Spring, planted tomatoes around it. Great harvest and easy to cure. Planted lots of onions everywhere. Tried Wala Wala (long day) several times but did not do well. My white onions were the stars. Remembered to fertilize those onions. Cured for a couple weeks in my greenhouse. Some of the onions, I dehydrated. Today, will put in food processor to make dried onion bits in jar to use later. Have so many garlics, I won't grow this season.
Our winters get down to 15 at least a couple times up here in Oregon. Our garlic does just fine, even with several inches of green growth when that hits. We plant in late October, then toss a cover crop over top with a little more compost. The cover dies, and then we blanket with shredded leaves to let the soil biology break it down. Nice big bulbs by the end of June!
I grow elephant garlic and will just stick a few cloves of softneck garlic around in different places, Garlic is one of the easiest new gardener plants to grow. Plant it and forget it. Kind of like growing Aloe Vera except Aloe can't take cold. I bring mine inside for winter and then forget it. Water it every month or two and put it back in the spring after last frost. Garlic is easier than that. Cover it with crushed leaves or straw and forget it.
Music and Purple one, both hard neck. I plant them first or second week of November and I pull them around Father's Day. (Halloween to Father's Day) I don't grow onions however, I do grow leeks and shallots.
@sandybottomhomestead has to be about getting the garlic used to growing in your climate I mentioned this in a video a few days ago, I've been growing the same garlic a few years now and onley just getting the results I want
I have a weed all over my property that spreads through a rye zone. It super sucks. It almost looks like a Strawberry and it has invaded my Strawberry patch. Yuck. At least with the morning glory issue I use to have, it can be pulled up. It's deep but you can get on top of it. This weed is terrible.
Grew lots of garlic. Planted and covered with leaves in raised bed. In Spring, planted tomatoes around it. Great harvest and easy to cure. Planted lots of onions everywhere. Tried Wala Wala (long day) several times but did not do well. My white onions were the stars. Remembered to fertilize those onions. Cured for a couple weeks in my greenhouse. Some of the onions, I dehydrated. Today, will put in food processor to make dried onion bits in jar to use later. Have so many garlics, I won't grow this season.
That sounds like a great system
Our winters get down to 15 at least a couple times up here in Oregon. Our garlic does just fine, even with several inches of green growth when that hits. We plant in late October, then toss a cover crop over top with a little more compost. The cover dies, and then we blanket with shredded leaves to let the soil biology break it down. Nice big bulbs by the end of June!
The only time I cover is if we have had really warm weather with excessive growth otherwise I let it ride.
I grow elephant garlic and will just stick a few cloves of softneck garlic around in different places, Garlic is one of the easiest new gardener plants to grow. Plant it and forget it. Kind of like growing Aloe Vera except Aloe can't take cold. I bring mine inside for winter and then forget it. Water it every month or two and put it back in the spring after last frost. Garlic is easier than that. Cover it with crushed leaves or straw and forget it.
Music and Purple one, both hard neck. I plant them first or second week of November and I pull them around Father's Day. (Halloween to Father's Day) I don't grow onions however, I do grow leeks and shallots.
Hi mate new sub here some great tips there I tend to grow softneck here in North Wales I do grow eliphant garlic too
Thank you. Which one do you like better?
@sandybottomhomestead has to be about getting the garlic used to growing in your climate I mentioned this in a video a few days ago, I've been growing the same garlic a few years now and onley just getting the results I want
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I have a weed all over my property that spreads through a rye zone. It super sucks. It almost looks like a Strawberry and it has invaded my Strawberry patch. Yuck. At least with the morning glory issue I use to have, it can be pulled up. It's deep but you can get on top of it. This weed is terrible.
You sure it's not strawberries. They spread aggressively