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Post by wheelgarden1 on Oct 21, 2018 18:52:09 GMT -5
Thanks, lisaann, after all this time planting garlic it's the first time I've planted without sprouts, and I was very interested about how long it might take before showing growth. Different zone but calendar marked accordingly. |
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Post by lisaann on Oct 21, 2018 18:58:10 GMT -5
it's the first time I've planted without sprouts, Okay, I think you mean your garlic was getting old and had already sprouted when you got it in the ground? Was that in the spring? Or fall? |
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Post by lisaann on Oct 21, 2018 19:03:49 GMT -5
Different zone but calendar marked accordingly. Let me know if it took 3 weeks in your neck of the woods. Some lower zones plant now, but never see growth till spring. Here in my Maryland zone 6, I see nubs in 3 weeks if planted now. |
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Post by gardendmpls on Oct 21, 2018 21:34:31 GMT -5
I usually don't see the stalks poking through until February, but never planted garlic this early before. Got a bit more to plant, probably Tuesday. This time I am stomping on the soil over it and covering it with hay in case the Italian squirrel is trying to find it to dig up.
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Post by binnylou on Oct 23, 2018 1:12:20 GMT -5
gardendmpls, is the Italian squirrel the one that you were fostering? The squirrels here are so busy. I was headed for the garden this afternoon...my garden cart plus trailer is not the quiet kind...and I saw a squirrel running across the garden, apparently planning to take refuge up the fence post. About four feet into his trip, he had to change plans because he ran out of fence post.
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Post by Mumsey on Oct 23, 2018 5:13:43 GMT -5
Garlic is in finally. Only 160 this year. Cutting back to give back more space to onions. I have about 30 left over, Dad mentioned his Italian friend wants to grow it but will need help as he has never done it before. I was surprised, at 90 he has never attempted garlic.
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Post by desertwoman on Oct 24, 2018 10:46:05 GMT -5
OK all you rainy area gardeners.... it rained all day yesterday, through the night and is still at it this AM. Remember, this is highly unusual for us. I was supposed to plant my garlic yesterday. Won't be able to do that until at least tomorrow. Question is, is it OK to plant garlic in water soaked garden beds or should I wait for it to dry out a bit. Will the cloves rot if it is too wet- as in prolonged saturated soil? wheelgarden1 , lisaann , gardendmpls , binnylou , Mumsey , tom 🕊 datgirl pepperhead212 |
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Post by Mumsey on Oct 24, 2018 10:49:28 GMT -5
desertwoman, My soil was still pretty wet when I planted the other day. I'm sure your soil dries out much more quickly than ours. I'd go ahead and plant. If it rains, it's going to get water logged anyway. I'm thinking it will just grow quicker with rain.
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Post by wheelgarden1 on Oct 24, 2018 14:35:29 GMT -5
desertwoman I try not to plant anything in wet soil, as my dirt is clay-based. I waited til it was moist but friable. |
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Post by brilly on Oct 25, 2018 2:50:47 GMT -5
desertwoman , thanks for the suggestion of using large pots. Next week we should have warmer weather, so I can remove pepper plants from the large pots and then plant some of the garlic, though I am still hoping to plant most of it in the garden. and they're predicting more snow this weekend for us - just can’t find the time to clean up the garden in the mud! Whatever the weather, I will surely plant the extra garlic in pots or grow bags. I have planted in April a few years back, but was unhappy with the results. I really liked the grow bags this year for dwarf tomatoes, though the hail got them too. Try again next year. Hi, I'm really late this year although we didn't have to much problems weather-wise, I just had so much work to do. Anyways it is still pretty warm and I think it still might work out just fine. As some of you are complaining about the rain I'd love to get some here.. it didn't rain a lot during the last few months! Brilly |
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 25, 2018 15:56:40 GMT -5
A friend came over and 'tilled the row for my garlic today. I separated all of the cloves, and got the Metechi soaked, and planted, then measured the remaining row (actually, a double row) and only have space for 48 each of the Siberian and Estonian red. I knew that it wouldn't all fit, but these two had a lot of small cloves, along with some huge cloves, while the Metechi was very uniform, so I planted that first - 72 cloves of it. It is usually my best garlic for storage - the other reason I planted more of it.
And here I said that I wasn't going to plant as much this year. 🤔
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Post by reuben on Oct 25, 2018 16:25:24 GMT -5
I'm just amazed to see a thread about garlic, which requires very little work, already at 4 pages at planting time.
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Post by binnylou on Oct 25, 2018 16:31:00 GMT -5
reuben, kinda makes you anxious for spring when we start reporting "garlic is up!". 
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Post by reuben on Oct 25, 2018 16:50:53 GMT -5
Oh, mine's up. I get sprouts that have no problem overwintering here. If garlic can grow in the frozen steppes of Asia and the cold of eastern Europe for centuries, it's a pretty safe bet that it won't have a problem here.
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Post by Tomato Z on Oct 25, 2018 19:35:40 GMT -5
Most of the garlic was finally planted in the damp garden, but I was lucky enough to have 2 - 5 gallon fabric pots to use for about 10-12 cloves each. We shall see how well the pots do for the garlic. They did pretty well for the dwarf tomato plants.
And yes, we will all be excited in the Spring when the garlic pokes out.
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