Planted my garlic yesterday - roughly 50 varieties and a total of about 600 cloves. Still have some bulbils and multiplier onions to plant. Most of the varieties are from saved stock, though I added about 10 new ones and dropped all the silverskins and some of the artichokes simply because I have not the patience to peel tiny cloves.
Sorting through the seed garlic provides a good opportunity to review the results from last year. The majority of the Purple Stripes did very well for me as did Asiatics, and Turbans. The Porcelains were generally small, but the cloves were very nice. I've been disappointed in the Rocamboles, as a group. They haven't sized-up very well, but perhaps they need another year or two to acclimate to my area. I've increased my spacing to 6" this year in the hope that the extra wiggle room will help.
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