George Shirley wrote:
....
We grow both garlic and onion chives, mostly around our fruit trees as
they are supposed to keep borers away from the tree. So far it has
worked. In addition we plant scallions, bunching onions, and regular
onions. Generally we plant a few Texas 1015Y sweet onions too. Some of
our bunching onions are the children of some a friend gave me over
twenty years ago. Pull a bunch, put one or two back in the ground and
cut the top off above the start of green. So far so good.

garlic chives are a whole different plant than
pulling garlic early to eat. we planted some
garlic chives some years ago and i've yet to even
try them, but i sure do like the plant and the
flowers.


We had another horizontal rain burst last evening, scared the heck out
of us as we were sitting on the back porch when it hit. Got another two
inches of rain out of it plus some corn stalks blown over.

those sure can scare the heck out of a person and
make them run for the basement! glad you didn't
have worse damage.

today, just had a bit of rain come through from the SE
(which is very rare) -- looks like more may come through
later on when the SE stuff runs into storms coming from
the NW. interesting to see on the radar storms moving
from the SE to the NW and then also a few miles below
storms going from the W to the E.

the forecast only had a 30% chance of rain for us so
i watered earlier in the day because the seeds needed to
be moistened anyways.


songbird

Ross@home wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:13:15 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Well , I got some now , how do I prep it for storage and store it ?
Cool dry place , I figure , but I'm not sure how to dry it for
storage .

Good advice on this page.
https://www.garlicfarm.ca/garlic-har...g-pospisil.htm

Ross.
Southern Ontario, Canada

Nice page , good info on how to treat the garlic (no bumping , bruises
easily etc) and how to cure it . I finished harvesting mine today , and it's
all hung up in the shade in my "multi-use auxiliary work space"* . Well ,
except for a few bulbs that I want to use fresh . This is gonna be an
interesting summer !
* That space started out as my foundry area , is also now the garden
supply area , the build-a-bee-box space , and now the garlic curing shed . I
don't cast in the summer anyway but ...
--
Snag

On 6/29/2015 2:39 PM, songbird wrote:
Gary Woods wrote:
songbird wrote:

i purposely grow green garlic to use like green
onions (burying the cloves a few inches deeper than
normal) because it grows very easily here as compared
to green onions.

A commercial grower I know takes all the small cloves left over at planting
time (you know, the "tweeners" and others too small to make a good bulb
next year) and throws them at the end of a bed, to be harvested next spring
for green garlic. Good cash source at a time of the year when not much
else is feeding the till! He has a goodly Asian community nearby, which
helps.

that's the first time i've heard of anyone selling
green garlic commercially. i love cooking with it or
eating it right out of the ground when i'm out weeding
it's not too rare for me to pull up some garlic and
chomp on it right there.

some year's i've buried five gallon buckets full of
scapes or the tiny cloves i've found during processin in
deep holes because i can't ever use all of them for
planting. the worms take care of 'em. worms also seem
to thrive off garlic pieces and left over chaff from
peeling and sorting through them. i cut the cloves near
the bottom to keep them from resprouting if i'm going to
feed them to the worm bins as otherwise they'll keep
trying to regrowing for quite some time.


songbird

You've now got a new source of food, garlic worms. Let us know how they
taste. G

On 6/29/2015 3:52 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
...
We grow both garlic and onion chives, mostly around our fruit trees as
they are supposed to keep borers away from the tree. So far it has
worked. In addition we plant scallions, bunching onions, and regular
onions. Generally we plant a few Texas 1015Y sweet onions too. Some of
our bunching onions are the children of some a friend gave me over
twenty years ago. Pull a bunch, put one or two back in the ground and
cut the top off above the start of green. So far so good.

garlic chives are a whole different plant than
pulling garlic early to eat. we planted some
garlic chives some years ago and i've yet to even
try them, but i sure do like the plant and the
flowers.


We had another horizontal rain burst last evening, scared the heck out
of us as we were sitting on the back porch when it hit. Got another two
inches of rain out of it plus some corn stalks blown over.

those sure can scare the heck out of a person and
make them run for the basement! glad you didn't
have worse damage.

today, just had a bit of rain come through from the SE
(which is very rare) -- looks like more may come through
later on when the SE stuff runs into storms coming from
the NW. interesting to see on the radar storms moving
from the SE to the NW and then also a few miles below
storms going from the W to the E.

the forecast only had a 30% chance of rain for us so
i watered earlier in the day because the seeds needed to
be moistened anyways.


songbird

I gave up on garlic in the garden years ago, did have some success with
elephant garlic and everyone in the family seemed to like the mild
variety. The chives do well for us though.

George Shirley wrote:
....
You've now got a new source of food, garlic worms. Let us know how they
taste. G

like worms!


songbird *peep*

songbird writes:

Gary Woods wrote:

Keep the tops on, if your dirt is as sticky as mine, wash the bulbs with a
garden hose nozzle; spread out on a screen in the shade until dry to the
touch. Then tie up in bunches of 25 or so and hang up in the shade (my
shed has a bunch of nails in the rafters for this), and let cure for a few
weeks. Then trim and enjoy!

when do you take the roots off?

After drying as above for a few weeks, I cut the tops down to about
12", tie in bundles and hang in the kitchen for use. I don't take the
roots off. Our soil pretty loose and friable, not sticky, so no wash
step is needed.

Do that about the same time I pick out the cloves for the next
planting, November here when it's getting cold and wet but not yet
freezing.


--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada