Garlic Planted

**Durgan** · 10-08-2009, 02:14 PM

Garlic planted
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RZUHC 8 October 2009 Planting Garlic (Allium sativum, Hard neck)

Planted using 2009 best and largest cloves. Seventy five cloves were planted for the main harvest.

Forty five bulblets from another garden, and fifteen one year old cloves, which grew from bulblets last year in another garden, were planted as an experiment to see how large the bulbs will get.

Spacing is 6 inch centers, and depth is about three inches for the base of the clove. The bed was prepared on the 10 of September and covered with wood chips to diffuse rain water and to reduce moisture evaporation.

After planting the wood chips were raked over the bed to limit frost heaving of the soil during the freeze and thaw cycles during the winter. The mulch will be moved away from the emerging shoots in the early spring.

**Contrary Housewife** · 10-08-2009, 11:39 PM

I need to get mine in the ground asap. It is supposed to go down to 35 this weekend. I hope that won't affect it too much.

Your Pomeranian is so cute, what's its name?

**Durgan** · 10-09-2009, 05:36 AM

Originally Posted by Contrary Housewife

I need to get mine in the ground asap. It is supposed to go down to 35 this weekend. I hope that won't affect it too much.

Your Pomeranian is so cute, what's its name?

Garlic likes it cold, but humans don't much appreciate digging when it is cold. This week is fine for garlic planting in Zone 5 or lower.

The little Pomeranian is called Neena. She is a working dog. She keeps rabbits and squirrels out of the garden area, and hassles robins.

**pat in east texas** · 10-09-2009, 09:10 AM

Mine will go in later this month if it EVER stops raining. I bought garlic from a "garlic farm" here in Texas, different varieties, which should be interesting. Then I guess I can pick the ones I like best for next year's planting. The instructions that came with my order say to put the cloves in a baking soda and water solution the night before planting, and then into alcohol 5 minutes before planting. I think it's to prevent disease. Last year I planted store garlic, and every one thrived without prior treatment. I do know to plant where garlic didn't grow for a few years, but I wonder if the solutions are really necessary.

**Contrary Housewife** · 10-09-2009, 05:45 PM

Yay! I got mine planted today. I hope I remember not to till that area come spring.

I can tell by the photos that Neena is a "helper".

**RetiredVeryEarly** · 10-18-2009, 12:44 PM

I have been planting the same strain of "store garlic" for about 5 years now. I never do anything special to treat it, that seems like a waste of time and resources, unless they are saying their stock tends to be diseased. In which case, why buy it from them?

I pulled some of my garlic up quite late, so had to plant it immediately because it was starting to grow already! The garlic seed heads I had planted experimentally are all regrowing like gangbusters so I had to just leave them alone. Will have to harvest those next year, I wonder what they will be like, must be getting awfully close together as each tiny garlic has become a bulb with many stalks.

**Lindsey** · 10-18-2009, 01:52 PM

I would like to try planting garlic... could I so it on my balcony in a pot or does it need to be in the ground? Do you have to have big cloves (like the pictures?) because we don't have any that big here right now. What's he difference between the big cloves and smaller ones?

**Peaches** · 10-18-2009, 02:05 PM

My DH put in 24 cloves this past weekend. Here's hoping for a dry winter!

**redmaples** · 10-19-2009, 10:45 AM

We are just getting our garlic in today in zone 5!
A little later than usual, but have been sick & it has been rainy!
We finally have a sunny day to get it done.
It would not be good if we didn't have garlic to harvest next summer.

**udwe** · 10-20-2009, 10:29 AM

DH & I planted garlic & strawberries. The garlic cloves were our own & the strawberries came from Gurney's. The weather has been all over the map, from nice, to rain & snow, cold. We did cover the garlic & strawberries with straw. Got it from the neighbor who bow hunts. He sets up his target against the straw. When the bales fall apart, I get them.