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Old March 26, 2013   #1
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Default First garlic of the year.

Garlic showing it must be spring, still snow on shaded or north facing slopes. Some garlic poked through the mulch yesterday - 7 C this morning.
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Old March 26, 2013   #2
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A sure sign spring is on the way!

I had a few garlic sprouts poking through late last fall before I mulched, but I have no idea what it's doing now. I'm hoping the snow finishes melting and the ground dries up a bit so I can get across the back lawn to my beds soon.
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Sometimes the garlic pokes up through the snow it seems to be running on a time clock of it's own. If your snow is on the way out your garlic should be showing up soon.
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Old March 27, 2013   #4
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Henry,

Do you fertilize in the spring? If so, when and what do you use? I do know you're a garlic farmer and you grow thousands of heads.
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We fertilize in the fall with alfafa pellets and ground fishbone meal thats all we need to add here. We have used liquid fish fertilizer in the spring in the past but find the garlic does better with the fall treatment.
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in my north bed which gets more sun this time of year they are up as of 2 days ago. in the south bed a few are up but i left the leaf mulch in place for a few more days.

as to spring fertilizing i'm using dehydrated chicken manure this year, 1 application then spray with neptune's harvest fish and seaweed emulsion 1x a month.

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Mine are still under a foot of snow. I don't fertilize mine either in the spring. I added composted manure and some wood ashed and lime on top and turned over the ground in the fall where I had pumpkins last year. I'd dug a trench there and filled it 6" deep with cow manure last spring for the pumpkins. That should be some real fertile ground now!
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Can you approximate how many pounds of alfalfa pellets you use per 1000 sqft in the fall? I'm using alfalfa meal at home and that should easily translate to pellets. The reason I'm asking is that I'm growing in a new, previously neglected area. I planted last fall for the first time and would like to amend the soil for next years harvest.


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We fertilize in the fall with alfafa pellets and ground fishbone meal thats all we need to add here. We have used liquid fish fertilizer in the spring in the past but find the garlic does better with the fall treatment.
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We use 180 pounds of alfalfa plus 15 pounds of ground fishbone meal per 1000 square feet.
We have used alfafa meal in the past there is no difference other then it is hard to spread on a windy day and my lungs are not happy with the dust.
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my garlic is still under about 4 ft of snow, maybe a little less now.
i planted through several inches of well composted horse manure 2 yrs ago. this year i filled each trench with composted cow manure. i haven't used any additional fertilizer, but have powdered fish, and kelp on hand.


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Finally pulled the straw off the bed today and the garlic is looking good! I could almost sense it taking a deep breath and stretching in the filtered sunlight coming through the clouds.
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I have harvested some of my garlic that was in my greenhouse over the fall/winter-nice to have garlic already. I had them in city pickers, swc's.
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My garlic grows all winter. The tips of the leaves usually turn brown from frosts but they still grow anyway.
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