On 11/2/2020 1:13 PM, songbird wrote:
Frank wrote:
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Will let you know. The garlic, half dozen plants, is still flourishing
in a deck pot maybe because we have yet to have had a hard freeze.

For some reason she also planted a couple of cloves in a pot with a
little holly tree she has been nursing for a couple of years. She said
it looked drooping and told me to plant it in an open spot out front
under a Norway spruce. It was getting pot bound and cloves did not
want to be pulled so I left them. Will be interesting to see if they
survive too.

don't be surprised if it does and for several years
after until the holly completely shades it out.

one thing about any allium family plant is that the
roots will attract worms (if they are around your area).

when i clean up the garlic and clip the roots and
stems off and also any dirt that comes off and extra
tunic (bulb wrapping) - all of that goes into the worm
farm here and the worms really like it. same for onion
peels, etc. i don't like to put a lot of onion stuff
in the worm buckets from when we cook, but if i can
dry it out completely that helps a lot.


songbird


Area I put the holly might get only few hours of sun every day but I
think it may thrive there.

We have a shade and deer problem but seeing good results wife had this
year and reading deer do not like garlic I think I will plant some next
year close to the house.

My neighbors got stuck in India last spring and most of the summer and I
planted his garden with tomatoes, squash, green beans and carrots and
deer ate everything to the ground.