Anyone Growing Garlic???
 

Interested in hearing from members that are growing garlic!
Please tell me the varieties you are growing... I will post varieties I am growing and pics to go with it, if there is interest!

Hope to hear from you!
Randy
BC, Canada
zone 7b

Randy,
I am growing one hardneck variety and one softneck variety from SESE. It is the begining garlic pack. This is my first year growing garlic, and the scapes are just coming up in the hardneck. I am looking forward to trying it, and next year have already ordered a few different varieties to grow.
Carol

I am growing 1 - 100 sq. ft. bed of the hardneck garlic German Porcelain and a second bed of two softneck varieties, Silver Rose and Italian Late. The Hardnecks have really outperformed the softneck so far. No scapes yet here... won't be long.

This is what I am growing this year:

[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Russian[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Dan's Russian[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Ukrainian Hot[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Georgian Fire[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Susan Delafield's[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Lorz[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Elephant[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Music[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Polish Jenn[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Inchillium Red[/COLOR][/FONT]

I have a few hundred plants growing. Italian Hardneck is in the lead to maturity.

Nothing goes with tomatoes like garlic, so YES, I grow a lot of garlic. I figure you need at least 1 head of garlic per tomato plant, and I'm up to 50 heads of garlic, all hardneck.

Unfortunately, it doesn't last all winter like softneck. So, this fall I'll try some softneck again, and hopefully if I mulch it thickly, it'll make it through the winter here. Any ideas on the hardiest softnecks for up north?

Gotta grow it down here because the only fresh (splutter), stuff comes from china where it is fertilised with human poop. No thanks. Got a good crop gowing but dont know what it is.

[COLOR=#0000ff]I have 48 sq ft planted with garlic 6" on center. Probably 75% is Music, 10% each G[/COLOR][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#0000ff]eorgian Crystal and German White about 5% is an unknown grocery store soft neck. The 3 hardnecks are doing great but the softneck looks pretty bad but we'll see.
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Tom
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You guys do know there is a secret garlic society here at T-VILLE that does not really exist.

So if I did grow garlic I could not tell you.
If I said I dug up some garlic today from stuff I planted from the store it would just be hear-say.:?

If it was rumored that some of us are growing hard neck garlic that Earl sent to us it would just be gossip.:roll:

Worth

My DW informed me "if you are going to grow all those @$#^$! tomatoes, can't we at least have some garlic". I am more than willing. How about some good sources for garlic? It is one thing I have never grown in 40 odd years of gardening.
Tom

Secret society. If I told you, I'd have tequila.

What I have going:

Russian Red
Lorz Italian
Georgian Crystal
Red Toch
Chet's Italian Red
Persian Star

I also tried Chinese Purple garlic, but they all died (yep, all 28 cloves) right after that 'killer' freeze we had here, late March I think it was. The other garlic, along with the Dixondale onions and the mustard greens recovered. I lost the Chinese purple garlic, and believe it or not the *kale* died off too. Didn't think that was possible.

I think SSE is the best place to get good garlic. Best selection for sure. There's a commercial place called 'Gourmet Garlic' or something, but $16+ per pound sounds way too expensive. I wouldn't want a pound of just one kind anyway.

J

Here is the over priced garlic link that was mentioned above.
And you can get assortments for even more money.
Heaven forbid someone actually try make a living from his farm.:roll:

[URL]http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/[/URL]

the best source is the farmers markets, i paid $4 a pound. if you buy locally grown garlic it is already adapted to your location. grocery store garlic really is not the right king to grow in our area. most garlic is from california and is softneck tho chinese softneck is also becoming popular. hardneck is the correct type for up here.

tom

while i thought i made it clear (but did not) this was to the person from mass.

I'm growing German White and Music. My first try at it. They were planted late last fall. One variety had a higher percentage come up, and the plants are substantially larger. I just wish I knew which is which....maybe I'll find a note I made of it last fall.

This hardneck was dug and TRANS-planted on 3-28-07 from garlic I grow for green garlic. Looking pretty good with about 6 more weeks to grow. In a week or two I'll move some soil and see how the heads are coming along. The big allium in front is a Catawissa walking onion.

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My hardneck garlic has curling scapes. I know I am suppose to cut them off. How long from now do I dig up the garlic? I also have softneck growing as well. When do I harvest that?
Thanks,
Carol

Hi caascher2(Carol),

Your garlic looks great! What varieties?

Check out this great garlic source:

[url]www.thegarlicstore.com[/url]

Posting images later per variety...

Take care,
Randy




[QUOTE=caascher2;59566]Randy,
I am growing one hardneck variety and one softneck variety from SESE. It is the begining garlic pack. This is my first year growing garlic, and the scapes are just coming up in the hardneck. I am looking forward to trying it, and next year have already ordered a few different varieties to grow.
Carol[/QUOTE]

[B][COLOR="Red"]Here is my Majestic Porcelian Hardneck[/COLOR][/B]

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Developed from a natural mutation, it is the most impressive Porcelain in our collection producing the strongest plants and largest bulbs. Porcelains are tall, majestic plants, often reaching a 6-7' height if the scapes are left on. Bulbs are satiny white with 3-5 huge, plump, rounded cloves. Cloves are easy to peel, making them popular with restaurant chefs. Most Porcelains are late maturing and store well, 8-9 months or more. Well-harvested and cured ones can last a full year. Flavour is hot and robust. Roasting them tones down the "heat" into a pleasant, nutty flavour. With a low yield ratio of only 3, 4 or 5 to1, Porcelains are the most expensive garlic to grow commercially but their rising popularity makes the extra cost worthwhile. Northern-hardy, though Southern friendly....

[B][COLOR="Red"]Here is my Spicey Red Korean[/COLOR][/B]

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A very large bulbed hardneck from Korea, via Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada. Third year grown, and hard not to, due to taste, smell, size and overall quality. Its garlic that makes food have lots of zing with abit of spice! The big cloves are also easy to peel. Lots of double cloves...

[B][COLOR="Red"]Here is my Pyong Vang Korean[/COLOR][/B]

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A rare Asiatic variety with purple stripe blush outer wrappers.. The pointed brown and rosy purple-skinned cloves come about 7 to the bulb. The raw taste has overtones of apple, but with lots of heat. First year grown from "The Garlic Store" [url]www.thegarlicstore.com[/url].

*****Always soak Garlic Cloves with Baking Soda & Water for two hours, rinse well, then sterilize with pure alcohol for 1 minute before planting – Gets rid of any disease before planting in the Fall*****

[B][COLOR="Blue"]My Current Garlic Grow:[/COLOR][/B]

*Armenian(Hardneck Porcelain) 2

*Majestic(Hardneck Porcelain – Huge Mutation)

*Spicy Korean Red(Hardneck Rocambole)

*Yugoslavian((Hardneck Rocambole)

*North Korean(Rocambole Garlic)

*Genki(Turban Garlic)

*Transylvanian(Artichoke Garlic)

*Limburgh(Artichoke Garlic)

*Italian Three Clove(Porcelian Garlic)

*Inchelium Red(Artichoke Garlic)

I harvested my garlic today. This was a first for me. Most of the bulbs are good size, a few small ones. However, I planted all the garlic when they sent it to me not knowing I should have planted the largest. Next year I am branching out with different varieties.
Thanks for your help Randy in answering all of my questions.
Carol

Mantis,- so that's why chinese garlic tastes so tangy:mrgreen:

Try Spanish Roja or any Russian or Siberian for winter hardiness. Northen Quebec is also a good and originates close to where you are from. Make sure to plant no later than mid-October and that the soil drains well and is rich in organic nutrients. I usually work some steer manure into the plot several weeks before planting. Lastly don't plant the cloves too deep, about two inches max.

For onions, start indoors in late January and transplant around your last frost date.

Alex

Try Italian Porcelian or Asian Tempest!
Plant cloves in October and mulch with straw to stop frost from getting to them... Remove straw in the spring...

Zone 5 grows garlic very well!

Randy

Good tips Alex!

Randy

Has anyone ever heard of a garlic out of Chicago called "Ganster Garlic"?
My neighbor was telling me about it and I can't find any info.

With 3 weeks to go before harvest here's one of the transplanted garlic plants I did about 3 months ago. So it seems one can transplant garlic in the spring from a clump of green garlic. Head may not be as big as fall planted, but it is a head.

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Not garlic for me, but awhile back we cooked a receipe that called for the green part of a 3 leeks to be used, so I stuck the rest of the leek in the garden. To my surprise 2 of the 3 grew. I haven't pulled them up yet....