Kira Dirlik wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:50:20 GMT, "Anne Lurie"
wrote:


Does the same advice go
for garlic? Never had success with that either.

Ah, garlic! For that you plant even earlier! Plant in October for an
early summer harvest (depending on variety). The advantage there is
that you won't have all that much growing over the winter, but the
garlic will be establishing itself, growing roots, etc., and be ready to
bust forth as the weather warms. Depending how you set it out, you can
leave room for lettuce or beets or something to grow in the early spring
kind of interplanted among the garlic sprouts.

They say softnck garlic is better for the south, but I have had decent
luck with the hardneck varieties. Many of those do not keep all that
well, though. You have c. 250 varieties to choose from, so have fun!