Growing Garlic

Z-Cook said:
Really interesting - I've grown shallots here (with watering) that produced really well, but never garlic.

Also wondering about the cultivation techniques shown - I know what mulching is about, but what's the cardboard for? I know some of the local permaculture people use it in a particular way.
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Hah! 😁 The cardboard preps the area I'm planning to grow in. When I cover the area it all dies underneath, spell mulch, and then you can till with no weeds. There's a link here with a bit on that. You can see, to the left, the garlic bed being prepped. Right now, like 5 minutes ago, my garden looks like this.
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Long about January I'll take the wood and cardboard off and cover with mulch. I'll till it in March and plant about April. Cardboard back down between the rows. The cardboard, starting off as wood, decomposes releasing lots of nitrogen but that's another thing.
 
badjak said:
I need to find a tropical garlic variety....
My soil temperature will never get as low as 12-13 oC
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I always start mine off in the fridge and then resting over a jar of water until the roots and shoots are about 10cm long each. Then i plant them out. That gets them going and thinking it's grow time. We do get that dormant period in winter as well, but you might be able to trick them into thinking they've had it by a longer stay in the fridge first.
 
Barriehie said:
Hah! 😁 The cardboard preps the area I'm planning to grow in. When I cover the area it all dies underneath, spell mulch, and then you can till with no weeds. There's a link here with a bit on that. You can see, to the left, the garlic bed being prepped. Right now, like 5 minutes ago, my garden looks like this. View attachment 138270

Long about January I'll take the wood and cardboard off and cover with mulch. I'll till it in March and plant about April. Cardboard back down between the rows. The cardboard, starting off as wood, decomposes releasing lots of nitrogen but that's another thing.
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Ohhhhhh. 👍 Thought maybe that, but alsi thought there might be a deep or arcane farmer's almanac type of reason 😅

Actually, I believe the permie peeps use it as some sort of mulch component 🌱
 
It takes considerably more over here to kill the unwanted plants. I tried when I first started the veg plot with something similar and black. The weeds loved it. But they can grow meters underground over here before needing daylight. Killing anything requires the heat of a very hot and DRY summer for all of summer before it will consider being dead. :(

How people kill plants in Australia is beyond me.
 
Z-Cook said:
Ohhhhhh. 👍 Thought maybe that, but alsi thought there might be a deep or arcane farmer's almanac type of reason 😅

Actually, I believe the permie peeps use it as some sort of mulch component 🌱
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Eventually it does break down completely providing you're not getting it with colored inks on it and are removing the tape and staples. The black inks, for theost part, are soy based so that's okay.
 
Barriehie said:
Eventually it does break down completely providing you're not getting it with colored inks on it and are removing the tape and staples. The black inks, for theost part, are soy based so that's okay.
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any idea on the glue? most glue is animal product based, so I guess would decompose but I have to say the idea does not appeal to me.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
It takes considerably more over here to kill the unwanted plants. I tried when I first started the veg plot with something similar and black. The weeds loved it. But they can grow meters underground over here before needing daylight. Killing anything requires the heat of a very hot and DRY summer for all of summer before it will consider being dead.
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I will second that from tropical Venezuela. I could put 40 tons of cardboard on all the damned weeds I've got, and they'd still come back alive.
 
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