"Bob Hobden" wrote:

The trouble is a lot of the GCs are now stocking IOW garlic as seed garlic
and the IOW is on chalk whereas we are on acid clay which is probably the
reason that any IOW garlic I've tried has not done well

So the guiding principle is the same as on this side of the pond: Buy your
seed garlic from somebody as close to you as possible. For the more
economical of us: buy just a couple of bulbs, separate, plant, grow your
own seed stock. In a couple of years you'll have all you need, and not
have wasted time/space on varieties that aren't good in your spot.

Some varieties I grow store from harvest in late August until early spring
of the next year. They're stored in a cool dry cellar pantry; not an
actual root cellar, which would likely be too cold.


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Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G