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tjg911 · July 27, 2007

i planted them on columbus day it was cold about 42-44 degrees.

i harvested them last night it was hot upper 80's with humidity, i could have rang out my clothes in 10 minutes and it was not very hard work.

i really did great, i'm quite impressed.

an unknown hardneck about 2" in diameter (about 20 bulbs), georgian crystal seem to have rather smallish bulbs (about 16 bulbs) about 1.5-1.75", german white just a little bigger maybe 1.75- 2" (about 40 bulbs) but the music are good sized bulbs (about 85-90 bulbs) about 2-3".

i'm seriously considering not planting potatoes next year (waiting to see the harvest but it's never that good) and using that 100-120 sq ft for garlic in addition to the 48 sq ft used this year. potatoes yield so little for the space, garlic is a much better use of that space plus i eat a lot of garlic.

tom

July 27, 2007	#1
tjg911 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: zone 5b northwest connecticut Posts: 2,570	garlic harvest i planted them on columbus day it was cold about 42-44 degrees. i harvested them last night it was hot upper 80's with humidity, i could have rang out my clothes in 10 minutes and it was not very hard work. i really did great, i'm quite impressed. an unknown hardneck about 2" in diameter (about 20 bulbs), georgian crystal seem to have rather smallish bulbs (about 16 bulbs) about 1.5-1.75", german white just a little bigger maybe 1.75- 2" (about 40 bulbs) but the music are good sized bulbs (about 85-90 bulbs) about 2-3". i'm seriously considering not planting potatoes next year (waiting to see the harvest but it's never that good) and using that 100-120 sq ft for garlic in addition to the 48 sq ft used this year. potatoes yield so little for the space, garlic is a much better use of that space plus i eat a lot of garlic. tom