All About Garlic & Onions

[ZCook]

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.

Is it better to keep it in the fridge then if it'salready been refrigerated?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Is it better to keep it in the fridge then if it'salready been refrigerated?

It will slow sprouting down but not prevent it. I have some in the fridge at the moment which I forgot about. It went in there because I had planned to sow it, but didn't. I was too short on spare space in the veg plot at the time. The result is that I have garlic in a border that I know baby rabbits can get into (they may try nibbling it once) and another lot in a bucket I had to drill some holes into. Which means I have 3 patches of garlic to remember to water through winter.

 

[Barriehie]

ZCook Garlic is pretty hardy. Like SatNavSaysStraightOn indicated about watering hers that's about all that will slow it down, at least in these parts. You'd probably have to water yours too. I'm in a pretty wet place so I don't water anything. I mulch it at the outset and that works.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This is my garlic taken this morning.

Veg plot

Border

Bucket

The bucket gets lots of sunshine, and it has the tallest thickest garlic at the moment

 

[rascal]

We have friends in the country side ( ohoka) Mike grows it for us.. we get garlic plaits like the French do..I split up and freeze. It keeps for years.

Russ

 

[Barriehie]

This is my garlic taken this morning.

Veg plot
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Border
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Bucket
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The bucket gets lots of sunshine, and it has the tallest thickest garlic at the moment

You're going into winter when will you be harvesting?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

You're going into winter when will you be harvesting?

Mid summer for these, they're late season ones. So hopefully January. I think

 

[karadekoolaid]

The last 3 days, I've used about 750 gms ( 1½ lbs) of garlic. Chutneys, more chutneys, hot sauce, etc. I bought it in the market, ready peeled.
And yet - I'm damned if I can grow any here in the garden!

 

[ZCook]

ZCook Garlic is pretty hardy. Like SatNavSaysStraightOn indicated about watering hers that's about all that will slow it down, at least in these parts. You'd probably have to water yours too. I'm in a pretty wet place so I don't water anything. I mulch it at the outset and that works.

Yep, realise about watering. I've grown shallots here - they do well with watering - but haven't grown garlic. Soil is pretty lean unless amended and gets hard - needs a lot of cultivation. Pretty extreme and arid climate and soil is mostly clay right here, with sandy in patches. But a lot of people do farm and have kitchen gardens and they don't amend.