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Hi all, my name is Steve and I have recently created a website based on my two allotments in the West Midlands, I would appreciate your views and comments on it, look forward to many discussions with you all, thanks Steve.
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Steve wrote on the newsgroup URG via Gardenbanter Hi all, my name is Steve and I have recently created a website based on my two allotments in the West Midlands, I would appreciate your views and comments on it, look forward to many discussions with you all, thanks Steve. http://www.myallotments.blogspot.com Very nice Steve, but what's all this about planting Garlic on the shortest day? It should be planted in September or early October. -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:12:13 +0000, PLOTTY wrote
(in article ): Hi all, my name is Steve and I have recently created a website based onmy two allotments in the West Midlands, I would appreciate your viewsand comments on it, look forward to many discussions with you all,thanks Steve. http://www.myallotments.blogspot.com-- PLOTTY Nice website Steve - and interesting to see progress every week. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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Steve wrote after Bob Hobden replied: Steve wrote on the newsgroup URG via Gardenbanter Hi all, my name is Steve and I have recently created a website based on my two allotments in the West Midlands, I would appreciate your views and comments on it, look forward to many discussions with you all, thanks Steve. http://www.myallotments.blogspot.com Very nice Steve, but what's all this about planting Garlic on the shortest day? It should be planted in September or early October. Thankyou Bob for the advice about when to plant Garlic, is this to allow it to put on enough growth to withstand the winter better? It's about the hardiest plant you can grow but the old gardeners thought it "foreign" and therefore tender so it was planted in the spring...wrong if you want big heads like in the shops. Where the shortest day comes from goodness knows. If you plant in the autumn it will get it's roots down and be into growth before the worst of the weather, then in any warmer spell during the winter it will grow some more and be quite large by the time spring comes when it will romp away giving you much better heads. It's had a longer growing season. I've tried using shop bought heads to plant (cheaper) and heads from seed merchants like Marshall's and now always use the latter, we get a much better crop. -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
Steve wrote after Bob Hobden replied: [...we seem to have the attributions mixed up here...] Very nice Steve, but what's all this about planting Garlic on the shortest day? It should be planted in September or early October. Thankyou Bob for the advice about when to plant Garlic, is this to allow it to put on enough growth to withstand the winter better? It's about the hardiest plant you can grow but the old gardeners thought it "foreign" and therefore tender so it was planted in the spring...wrong if you want big heads like in the shops. Where the shortest day comes from goodness knows. If you plant in the autumn it will get it's roots down and be into growth before the worst of the weather, then in any warmer spell during the winter it will grow some more and be quite large by the time spring comes when it will romp away giving you much better heads. It's had a longer growing season. I've tried using shop bought heads to plant (cheaper) and heads from seed merchants like Marshall's and now always use the latter, we get a much better crop. I used to believe the shortest-day superstition, too. Joy Larkcom's Veg. for Small Gardens says to put it in as early as possible from early autumn. Some varieties, she says, need four to six weeks' frosting to break dormancy. BUT if the soil is badly drained or very heavy, she says to plant out in early spring -- preferably after growing in modfules in a cold frame over winter. I'd always use sets from a seedsman, not supermarket bulbs: the ones you buy for cooking won't be varieties adapted to British growing conditions, which is why they'll generally give a poor yield. -- Mike. |
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