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March Garlic and Over-Wintered Kale

John — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:48:31 +0000

Back in November I posted about my experiment planting garlic purchased at Costco. I followed that up in December with a post about how rapidly the garlic was growing despite the cooling weather and my fear that it wouldn’t survive the long New England winter.

Well I am happy to report that all of [...read more]

An Eager Garlic

John — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:05:20 +0000

Imagine my surprise when I went out to the garden this morning and discovered that all of the garlic we planted a month ago, both hard and soft neck varieties, have already grown up through the mulch layer. In particular, the soft neck garlic (purchased from the grocery department at Costco ) is frighteningly [...read more]

My Garlic Experiment

John — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:50:28 +0000

The first killing frost of 2010 finally arrived on November 2nd, two days after Halloween. While I welcome a later than normal frost for the extended growing season it provides, I have also been eager and anxious to get my garlic in the ground. According to most reliable sources, garlic should be planted a [...read more]

bonus garlic

John — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:07:16 +0000

We didn’t plant any garlic this year but we had a (small) harvest anyway. It seems that we didn’t get it all out of the ground last year and two bulbs overwintered providing us with nine new plants; ergo, bonus garlic. Given all of the unpleasant surprises we gardeners face each growing season, this [...read more]

Garlic Scapes!

Phyllis — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:25:56 +0000

What? What’s a garlic scape? Well, when a hardneck garlic variety reaches it final growth phase it sends up a curly shoot called a scape. This is basically the garlic flower head and they need to be removed to force the plant to put more energy into making a bigger bulb. Scapes are edible [...read more]