Garlic: missed a few!
 

Hi All,

The snow finally melted from my little garden. So I went
to check out the garlic I so lovingly planted in the
spring (probably should have done it in the fall). They
are surviving "okay" with all the snow and ice.

Well, in a different section of the garden where I
planted garlic, not last year, but two years ago,
I have several "clusters" on new garlic shoots. Ooops!
I must have missed harvesting them. RAT! They are really
YUMMY!

Question: what happens when a whole cluster sprouts
like that? Do I get a HUGE bulb or a bunch of stunted
bulb?

Any suggestions as to what to do?

Many thanks,
-T

Garlic: missed a few!
 

T wrote:

Question: what happens when a whole cluster sprouts
like that? Do I get a HUGE bulb or a bunch of stunted
bulb?

You get a whole cluster of small bulbs and if those are left, even smaller
ones. Of course, you can harvest them in the spring for the much-prized
"green garlic"...think garlic scallions.

--
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

Garlic: missed a few!
 

On 01/22/2016 11:57 AM, Gary Woods wrote:
T wrote:

Question: what happens when a whole cluster sprouts
like that? Do I get a HUGE bulb or a bunch of stunted
bulb?

You get a whole cluster of small bulbs and if those are left, even smaller
ones. Of course, you can harvest them in the spring for the much-prized
"green garlic"...think garlic scallions.



Thank you!

Come spring I think I will dig one up and see what I find.

Garlic: missed a few!
 

In article , T wrote:

Question: what happens when a whole cluster sprouts
like that? Do I get a HUGE bulb or a bunch of stunted
bulb?

Any suggestions as to what to do?


Depends - I've had one of my better harvests the year after we forgot
the whole patch. Not that I do that deliberately, but it CAN work. If
you want to dig them up and eat them young that's your call - I'd let
most of them run to harvest time, probably.

--
Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by
Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away.

Garlic: missed a few!
 

On 01/23/2016 04:50 PM, Ecnerwal wrote:
In article , T wrote:

Question: what happens when a whole cluster sprouts
like that? Do I get a HUGE bulb or a bunch of stunted
bulb?

Any suggestions as to what to do?


Depends - I've had one of my better harvests the year after we forgot
the whole patch. Not that I do that deliberately, but it CAN work. If
you want to dig them up and eat them young that's your call - I'd let
most of them run to harvest time, probably.


This will be interesting!