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Old July 7, 2007   #1
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Default Garlic can't be transplanted, eh?

Some said garlic won't transplant, but I've proven differently. I dug up several clumps of green garlic on 3-28-2007 and transplanted it, 72 plants I think it was. I dug up a few heads to check them. Not huge heads, only 1 3/4" but they'll do fine.




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Dumb question, I bet, but is there a noticeable difference in taste between the best store-bought garlic and homegrown?

I discern as much even with eggplants...

Grub, who hasn't grown garlic but loves the look of the above spread.
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Old July 8, 2007   #3
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Do you need a recipe for Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic?
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Feldon, sure do, and one for 40 kinds of tomatoes in about 2-3 weeks. :-)
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grub...i grow garlic. IMO, there is a huge difference between store bought and self-grown. my garlics are juicy, and very strongly flavoured. in fact, six months after harvest...they were still juicy! sure makes you wonder how old the garlic in the store is.
garlic are a winter crop here...and i think that tomato plants like growing near garlic. if that's true...then you could be putting all your tomato pots to good use in the down season.
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from this site on companion planting:

http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html


TOMATOES: Tomato allies are many: asparagus, basil, bean, carrots, celery, chive, cucumber, garlic, head lettuce, marigold, mint, nasturtium, onion, parsley, pepper, marigold, pot marigold and sow thistle. Basil repels flies and mosquitoes, improves growth and flavor. Bee balm, chives and mint improve health and flavor. Borage deters tomato worm, improves growth and flavor. Dill, until mature, improves growth and health, mature dill retards tomato growth. Enemies: corn and tomato are attacked by the same worm. Kohlrabi stunts tomato growth. Keep potatoes and tomatoes apart as they both can get early and late blight contaminating each other. Keep cabbage and cauliflower away from them. Don't plant them under walnut trees as they will get walnut wilt, is a disease of tomatoes growing underneath walnut trees.

GARLIC: Plant near roses to repel aphids. Accumulates sulfur: a naturally occurring fungicide which will help in the garden with disease prevention. Garlic is systemic in action as it is taken up the plants through their pores and when used as a soil drench is also taken up by the roots. Has value in offending codling moths, Japanese beetles, root maggots, snails, and carrot root fly. Researchers have observed that time-released garlic capsules planted at the bases of fruit trees actually kept deer away! Hey, worth a try! Concentrated garlic sprays have been observed to repel and kill whiteflies, aphids and fungus gnats among others with as little as a 6-8% concentration! It is safe for use on orchids too.
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Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic (PDF)
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Gee I am surprised by this.

I did not comment about this but I would not have thought garlic would transplant well.

FYI, based upon your photo, those bulbs would have gotten bigger. The time to dig them is when the bottom 1/2 of the plant's leaves turn yellow/brown and are drying up, yours are still dark green. If the lower 1/2 of my plants looked like the bottom set of leaves on my plants, I'd be digging now. I think I need to wait at least another week, maybe 10-14 days.

What variety did you grow?
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Tom, my garlic has no name. Some of what I'm growing was taken from a clump already here when I moved in. The other is from a friend who was given some by a French lady he said about 20 or so years ago. Some is rocambole [not many large bulbils], some porcelain [many bulbils and small sized].
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