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Durgan · October 27, 2016

I have experimented with my perfect hard neck garlic on a scale of about 100 plants each year.

I now leave the scapes on the bulbs produced are larger than if the scapes are removed.

I don't harvest in early July anymore. The plants are left in the ground until the bulb skin begins to crack due to the cloves enlarging and raking he envelope.

The extended life bulbs keep as long as the enclosed types in storage.

I also found the clove size in general has no bearing on the size of the bulbs produced.

This year I am growing the main crop from garlic produced from the sequence of bulbils, rounds, and bulbs. Also a row of selected large bulbs were planted for comparison documentation.

I have attended garlic festivals looking for garlic with larger cloves than what I grow. Never have I found any appreciably larger and often much smaller.

http://durgan.org/2016/October%20201...20Garlic/HTML/ 16 October 2016 Planting Garlic
Garlic was planted today. Two rows of bulbils (60), two rows of one year rounds (40), one row of typical cloves for comparison (20), and five rows of one year old rounds (100) which is the main crop. The bed was prepared earlier, covered with wood chip mulch. The soil is a good texture with compost and moisture. The cloves were pushed into the soil to make firm contact. The bed was heavily wood chipped and the plants have no difficulty pushing through in the Spring. The bed requires no care except maybe some water if the season is dry. Nothing attack my garlic and it is always excellent quality.

October 27, 2016	#10
Durgan Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Brantford, ON, Canada Posts: 1,341	I have experimented with my perfect hard neck garlic on a scale of about 100 plants each year. I now leave the scapes on the bulbs produced are larger than if the scapes are removed. I don't harvest in early July anymore. The plants are left in the ground until the bulb skin begins to crack due to the cloves enlarging and raking he envelope. The extended life bulbs keep as long as the enclosed types in storage. I also found the clove size in general has no bearing on the size of the bulbs produced. This year I am growing the main crop from garlic produced from the sequence of bulbils, rounds, and bulbs. Also a row of selected large bulbs were planted for comparison documentation. I have attended garlic festivals looking for garlic with larger cloves than what I grow. Never have I found any appreciably larger and often much smaller. http://durgan.org/2016/October%20201...20Garlic/HTML/ 16 October 2016 Planting Garlic Garlic was planted today. Two rows of bulbils (60), two rows of one year rounds (40), one row of typical cloves for comparison (20), and five rows of one year old rounds (100) which is the main crop. The bed was prepared earlier, covered with wood chip mulch. The soil is a good texture with compost and moisture. The cloves were pushed into the soil to make firm contact. The bed was heavily wood chipped and the plants have no difficulty pushing through in the Spring. The bed requires no care except maybe some water if the season is dry. Nothing attack my garlic and it is always excellent quality.