Garlic patch

[pmcgrady]

Great story Worth!
Ahhh the good ole days...
And set a potato in the trap for me!

[pmcgrady]

I just read your post again, and I'm still laughing my a$$ off!

[Hellmanns]

I once read that when the world was growing maters as ornamental plants, because they were thought to be poisonous, the Italians were making pasta sauce.

[henry]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I plant garlic in the fall around October.
I dont know if the hard neck will do well down here it isn't cold enough.
I have heard the creole does well.

Worth

Garlic is both day length and heat sensitive. A link that gives the information much better then I could.
http://www.slideshare.net/Sustainabl...g-great-garlic

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by henry

Garlic is both day length and heat sensitive. A link that gives the information much better then I could.
http://www.slideshare.net/Sustainabl...g-great-garlic

Thank you very much Henry this I might be able to deal with.
Keep the soil temps below 60 with insulating leaves and put a cover over the garlic so it doesn't get 13 hours of light.
I like trying to do things people say cant be done.

Worth

[pmcgrady]

Stick it in the ground, and see if it grows. Then decide or form an opinion.
Might have to leave the garlic in the fridge for a couple weeks/month then plant, not sure...
If it makes it, it's worth the trouble.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

Stick it in the ground, and see if it grows. Then decide or form an opinion.
Might have to leave the garlic in the fridge for a couple weeks/month then plant, not sure...
If it makes it, it's worth the trouble.

I think I might dedicate one whole 5X12 raised bed to garlic this fall.
With my tight grid growing strategy I can get at least 120 or more garlic plants growing.
Worth

[pmcgrady]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I think I might dedicate one whole 5X12 raised bed to garlic this fall.
With my tight grid growing strategy I can get at least 120 or more garlic plants growing.
Worth

Like!
I'll help!

[pmcgrady]

Hard neck garlic scapes would go for a premium in Austin, then you get to pick the garlic!
Scape are going for $5.00/lb around here(in season).

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

Hard neck garlic scapes would go for a premium in Austin, then you get to pick the garlic!
Scape are going for $5.00/lb around here(in season).

I really need to start thinking about this I could make money from scapes even if I didn't make garlic cloves.

Worth

[pmcgrady]

The garlic that makes it... Biggest cloves plant, smallest eat, pretty soon (3-4 years)
You'll have Worth's Texas Hardneck. It'll be AWSUM

[henry]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Thank you very much Henry this I might be able to deal with.
Keep the soil temps below 60 with insulating leaves and put a cover over the garlic so it doesn't get 13 hours of light.
I like trying to do things people say cant be done.

Worth

One always needs challenges, mine is to grow Creole garlic in the north. I find the only way to get any size here is to plant in the spring. The cloves have been water soaked for 4 days just a test to see how well they had made it through the winter the Burgundy bulb is just short of 2 inches wide when I fall plant it 3/4 to 1 inch is normal.