Anyone Growing Garlic???

[Suze]

Originally Posted by Grub

Suze,
What is being sacrificed to grow the garlic?
Surely not tomatoes
G.

Nothing is going to be sacrificed. We'll just build a couple more raised beds, heh heh. I ordered at least 5 lbs of garlic, all said and done. I know, I am a maniac.

Bob told me that a pound is probably enough for one of my 3x12 beds. I'm planning on doing two or three beds of garlic, and splitting the rest with a couple of other Texas gardeners.

[shelleybean]

Randy, how did you like Kettle River Giant? I have ordered some for this fall. Also growing Sicilian Silver and Creole Red this year.

[JerryL]

The LOML (she’s Italian) and I really like Garlic and use quite a bit of it in our coking. However, every year we seem to have more than we can use and some of it goes bad before it gets used. So this year we decided to pickle some.

[robin303]

Suze, Where do you get your garlic from.

[henry]

How we crack our hardneck garlic.





An old time grower showed us this and it works great.

[Suze]

Originally Posted by robin303

Suze, Where do you get your garlic from.

Robin, last year, from two sources: Filaree Farm and Gourmet Garlic Gardens. This year, I picked up some from Filaree Farm and Seed Savers Exchange.

They are all good sources, IME - depending upon what you are looking for. I seem to have the best luck with Artichoke and (some) Creole types here.

[Medbury Gardens]

My 2008 garlic crop i grow in rotation with the strawberries

[missionrandy]

Hi Michele,

Kettle Valley Giant is actually a pretty nice tasting Softneck Garlic. Very nice size heads produced with some zing.
Not the best in my garden, but in the top five varieties.

take care,
Randy

[shelleybean]

Thanks, Randy. I planted a lot of Kettle River Giant but not sure I'll be able to taste any this coming summer. We've decided to move so it all depneds on when we sell this property. I might have to wait and plant it again next fall in a new garden.

[missionrandy]

Hi Michele,

That's to bad to hear! You will love the taste of Kettle Valley Giant.
Another I recommend for Artichoke Garlic is Wildfire if you can find.
Large bulbs full of flavor and fairly early.

I love a Spicy Korean Garlic I found three years back. Very strong and flavourful!

Randy

[shelleybean]

Thanks for the suggestion, Randy. The way the market looks right now, I'll still be here in July to enjoy my Kettle River Giant.

[salix]

Randy, would you mind posting your source of the Spicy Korean Garlic? It is one crop we usually have good success with up here in P. G.

[Medbury Gardens]

I`ve being watching this thread for some time,thinking how i would so much like to try some of those varieties that you NH folk are able to grow.We have so little choice here in "downunder NZ" in what can grow,and in that the only choice we have is to select from the limited varieties available, which is either ,heirloom or Chinese.
Even the commercial growers here are now looking to Argentina for new clones to replace the existing varieties that have deteriorated in vigour recently.
Why they haven`t looked to some of these heirloom varieties
is a bit of a mystery.

[sht]

hi I'm in z7 nj. I planted 4 hard neck types this past oct but only the germ white has sproted this far. Are the other 3 dead or are the just waiting for spring?
Thanks Jesse

[johno]

I got those mutant Majestics up to a size (from 'seed')where I think they will make bulbs this year - really looking forward to that!

Also planted: Asian Tempest, Collosal, Simonetti, Italian Hardneck (I think it's aka Roy Croft), Sam Loiocano, Red Toch, Polish White, Chet's Italian, Bud's (my dad has been growing them for decades from a supermarket variety, so don't know the real name), and Osage.