All About Garlic & Onions

Z-Cook said:
Wow. Amazingly hardy. We've had a mild winter this year 🤞 and as usual the main consideration is always moisture. Will start indoors, then. Also good for garlic shoots if nothing else 🙂
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We want to see when they're going!!! 👍
 
I just got an email and Keene Organics is taking pre-orders for spring. It's what I did for my fall order 2 years ago. You order, while they've got stock, and then they'll ship it to you in time for planting per your hardiness zone. It's a good system that precludes your storing what you're going to plant.
 
I start my garlic in there fridge. It gives then there cold spell it needs to start growing.

Then it's free draining soil (no issues with that), plenty of fertiliser (borderline here) and watering (which is where I fail, my soil doesn't hold on to water at all, it's an Aussie thing: it's hydrophobic literally, it repels water. I've been adding organic matter to my soil, but it still needs more. )
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I start my garlic in there fridge. It gives then there cold spell it needs to start growing.

Then it's free draining soil (no issues with that), plenty of fertiliser (borderline here) and watering (which is where I fail, my soil doesn't hold on to water at all, it's an Aussie thing: it's hydrophobic literally, it repels water. I've been adding organic matter to my soil, but it still needs more. )
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I do that too with the fridge. It goes in there in a paper bag for 2 months prior to planting.
 
I've been meaning to try this fridge thing, but I tend to eat the batch ....
I'm almost out of fresh garlic, so I may try depending on the price of the next batch.
(I do have garlic cloves in the freezer for emergencies)
 
badjak said:
I've been meaning to try this fridge thing, but I tend to eat the batch ....
I'm almost out of fresh garlic, so I may try depending on the price of the next batch.
(I do have garlic cloves in the freezer for emergencies)
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Garlic is one of many veg that need a cold period to trigger growth. It's why you're told not to put it in the fridge to store it. It only needs about 2 weeks to start growing. I then put it over a jar of water to trigger rapid root growth (balanced on toothpicks) before planting them out. It gets them ahead of growth if the trial ones i did one year, by about a month or so.

I just need to get better at remembering to water them in winter.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Garlic is one of many veg that need a cold period to trigger growth. It's why you're told not to put it in the fridge to store it. It only needs about 2 weeks to start growing.
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Did not know that! And that's how I often store it in the summer when it gets hot.

Edited to add:
Perhaps the newly created best ways to store garlic thread could be added here and this thread title could be enlarged to growing and storing? 🙂
 
Depending on the producer, some store it refrigerated, but it's shipped, in the US, in refrigerated trucks. Most big Agra companies, for insurance reasons, do store it refrigerated so when it gets to the store it's been 'wintered' so that's why it starts to sprout when you get it home.
 
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