General information and discussion about cultivating onions, garlic, shallots and leeks.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Near Philadelphia, PA
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Amazing looking garlic, everyone!
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Danbury, CT
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Thanks! Jen |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Danbury, CT
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Floyd VA
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I continue to till dehydrated chicken manure (Harmony) in each row before planting, and cover the entire garden with 2-3" of grass clippings that decompose and get tilled in. For nitrogen loving plants like garlic, onions, and corn I also add blood meal. It's time for another analysis so I plan to pull more soil samples at the end of the season and make additions accordingly. Any pH adjustments I would rather make in the fall tilling to give the limestone time to become effective, and if the essential elements are still very high I may skip the Harmony next year and just use blood meal. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
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BROAD side of the clove. BROAD ROUNDED SIDE. Drilling it into my brain. When I planted garlic this fall, somehow I got it into my head "flat side" planted 90 degrees from the row direction and then got it all screwed up when there were most times two flat sides to the clove. DUH! I should have gone back up to the house to double check your post but nooooooo, too lazy to do that. DUH!
![]() Needless to say they're growing every which way, as usual. Next fall.... BROAD ROUNDED SIDE! BTW, beautiful white Christmas pics! Your place is so pretty year round. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MA/NH Border
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I was hoping I got it right and didn't look it up either. Thankfully I got it right!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: SE PA
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Once again it is the lull after deer season that I have time to get the garlic in. It seems to work fine for me this late. But this time - they will be all lined up.
The leaves fan out perpendicular to the outside of the clove - got it! My rows are N-S so I will face the outside of the clove to the south to catch the most sun and keep them from hitting each other. They will be planted through plastic so no weeding down the rows will be necessary. |
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