Dunganski, hard neck Garlic

crunch1224 · November 9, 2023

I couldn't keep myself out of the garden. I thought I was done for this year, but I think I caught the garlic bug. Here it is 11/9 in zone 5b and im planting again

This time around I bought one pound of Dunganski hard neck size jumbo. The bulbs were very nice, firm, clean, blemish free. Each bulb had 10-11 cloves, and of those cloves most of them were large a few were smaller. I received 9 bulbs in the package. After cracking, I ended up with 106 total cloves. 80 of those cloves were large, 13 were medium, 13 were small, and there was two micro sized cloves.

I plan on planting all of the cloves just to see how the smaller ones size up. I just finished sterilizing the cloves by soaking them in 70% isopropyl alcohol for 10 minutes. I then drained the alcohol, and put the cloves in a liquid fertilizer and baking soda solution. I will soak them in this solution over night, and plant the cloves tomorrow.

This variety of garlic should store around 10 months once its cured.

November 9, 2023	#1
crunch1224 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 15	Dunganski, hard neck Garlic I couldn't keep myself out of the garden. I thought I was done for this year, but I think I caught the garlic bug. Here it is 11/9 in zone 5b and im planting again This time around I bought one pound of Dunganski hard neck size jumbo. The bulbs were very nice, firm, clean, blemish free. Each bulb had 10-11 cloves, and of those cloves most of them were large a few were smaller. I received 9 bulbs in the package. After cracking, I ended up with 106 total cloves. 80 of those cloves were large, 13 were medium, 13 were small, and there was two micro sized cloves. I plan on planting all of the cloves just to see how the smaller ones size up. I just finished sterilizing the cloves by soaking them in 70% isopropyl alcohol for 10 minutes. I then drained the alcohol, and put the cloves in a liquid fertilizer and baking soda solution. I will soak them in this solution over night, and plant the cloves tomorrow. This variety of garlic should store around 10 months once its cured.