All About Garlic & Onions

Barriehie said:
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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Is it better to keep it in the fridge then if it'salready been refrigerated?
 
ZCook said:
Is it better to keep it in the fridge then if it'salready been refrigerated?
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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.
 
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
 
Barriehie said:
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.
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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.
 
ZCook said:
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.
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I've lived with clay soil, and honestly I prefer it to sand. Ironically, both need the same treatment- organic matter.

I'm on unfertile sand here. Top of the mountain so no sediment and because the great dividing range is still growing, and is mostly rock, there's little to cultivate.

My OH has spent the last 2 weekends digging out the gravel and sand, sifting and mixing the soil under this rose with compost (as in organic matter, not the UK concept of compost) and rooster shit.

Pretty much ever patch of ground we want to grow something in here has needed exactly the same happening to it. We'll slowly work our way through the central border this winter. It's the final patch that needs it doing before we consider any new beds going in.

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It's hard and slow work because the land is solid compacted grit and sand. If it actually decides to allow water into the soil, it drains freely. Usually, the soil repels the water instead. Hopefully this patch can now get the 2nd maple tree i want to plant. The patch of reddish brown on the left just in view, is there first one I planted a few years ago. We've done all this to try to save the yellow climbing rose at the front on the right. We've got to move it back to the left, it tore in gales a few months ago and split down the middle. It survived that trauma thankfully, so we thought helping it with better soil and nutrient might work. Our next task is 2 stakes either side of the main trunk once we left the rose branches back into their normal location.
 
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