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Virgin gardener needs container veg help!
On Mar 10, 1:18*pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , Bob Hobden writes Ive bought seeds - carrots, dwarf/bush bean and peas (these seeds all say to sow from late March, apart from carrots being May) * * * * * * * *bulbs etc - garlic and onions (just say plant in early Spring) Garlic can be planted outside now but it would have been much better planted in Sept, early October. It's as tough as old boots and will come through a winter growing well and you get a much much better crop from autumn planted cloves. When you buy garlic in the shops the instructions on the packets say plant in February or thereabouts. (But you can't plant them in the autumn because they're not sold them.) So last year I did as instructed, and they didn't do very well - though a wet allotment and last summer's weather probably didn't help them*. I didn't get round to replanting them last autumn (round the allotment the wisdom seems to be November) (but some of a batch that I thought had failed completely have come up again this year), so again I've planted them in February. So my question is, how late can you plant garlic, i.e. will you get away with planting in December and January? * A planting of shallots was killed off by flooding, as were too many other plants. -- Stewart Robert Hinsleyhttp://lavateraguy.blogspot.com* * * *http://www.malvaceae.in It depends on whether you're planting hard neck or soft neck garlic (the type you usually see in the stores). Hard neck garlic is usually planted in the fall in cold weather climates. This allows root development before growth actually occurs. When you plant in spring, it tends to put all its effort into greens, not the bulb. Soft neck garlic is usually planted in December-February in warmer climates like the UK or the southern States, with which I have no experience, but I think it is likely a faster growing garlic. I've read the ideal sprouting temperature of garlic is about 4 degrees C, btw which is the temperature of your average refrigerator and my experience seems to indicate this is true. So you can store your other seeds in the fridge (not the freezer) but don't use it for garlic or onions. Dora |
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