Dry farming garlic in Pacific Northwest
 

Can you share your experience or provide me with any sources of info.

Thank you

Toby

Toby wrote:
Can you share your experience or provide me with any sources of info.




My experience is that garlic doesn't like it dry. It needs water to
produce a good sized bulb. If you are farming a dry area with limited
water availability you might consider drip lines with your garlic to
minimize water useage.

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Toby wrote:
Can you share your experience or provide me with any sources of info.

Get 'Growing Great Garlic' by Ron Engelund. Excellent book!

-frank
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Yeah, but it doesnt tell you how to dry farm garlic.

(Frank Miles) wrote in message ...
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Toby wrote:
Can you share your experience or provide me with any sources of info.

Get 'Growing Great Garlic' by Ron Engelund. Excellent book!

-frank
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I guess that youre too sophisticated for us.

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(Toby) wrote in message . com...
I bet that the smaller heads you get keep better.


not really. Anyone who grows garlic knows enough to stop watering two
weeks from harvest. If, like in my case, the garlic is interplanted
with lettuce or chicory, that will help dry the ground further. The
smaller heads will just be smaller.


My experience is that garlic doesn't like it dry. It needs water to
produce a good sized bulb. If you are farming a dry area with limited
water availability you might consider drip lines with your garlic to
minimize water useage.

I have done it for years here in northwest California, and it is very
possible. In fact, there is no need to irrigate garlic at all in our
climate because the time the Garlic needs water is during our rainy
season, and the time the bulbs are drying down, June-July are
ordinarily completely dry. I plant in October (I better get on it!)
and harvest in July. The only problem I have are gophers, which must
be trapped vigilantly if you got 'em. I hope this helps.
Dan

How much precipitation do you get? Do you deep plough, or cultivate to
retain soil moisture?

(Potato Rock Dan) wrote in message . com...
I have done it for years here in northwest California, and it is very
possible. In fact, there is no need to irrigate garlic at all in our
climate because the time the Garlic needs water is during our rainy
season, and the time the bulbs are drying down, June-July are
ordinarily completely dry. I plant in October (I better get on it!)
and harvest in July. The only problem I have are gophers, which must
be trapped vigilantly if you got 'em. I hope this helps.
Dan

I get 40-50 inches of rain in an average year, and I have never had to
do anything to retain soil moisture at all, although cultivation is an
excellent strategy which I've used on summer crops. I don't deep
cultivate because I have a deep sandy loam which garlic and gophers
both seem to love.

(Toby) wrote in message . com...
How much precipitation do you get? Do you deep plough, or cultivate to
retain soil moisture?

(Potato Rock Dan) wrote in message . com...
I have done it for years here in northwest California, and it is very
possible. In fact, there is no need to irrigate garlic at all in our
climate because the time the Garlic needs water is during our rainy
season, and the time the bulbs are drying down, June-July are
ordinarily completely dry. I plant in October (I better get on it!)
and harvest in July. The only problem I have are gophers, which must
be trapped vigilantly if you got 'em. I hope this helps.
Dan