Garlic questions - Page 3

 

Netter said:

I'm in southeast Michigan, and I plan to plant my garlic this weekend.


It's important to harvest the garlic while some leaves are still green to
get well wrapped bulbs.    

Hang or lay out to dry in a sheltered, airy place.  (Don't leave them
out in the sun.)

My garlic usually is ready to harvest in July.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)
  
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Now through November (I'm in the hills west of Albany)

You harvested too late and the wrappers were deteriorating.  About half the
tops should still be green when you harvest.

See above

Garlic is the worst of both worlds; a heavy feeder and a poor competitor.
Give it your best soil and keep well weeded.  Do as I say, not as I do!

Some basics on my personal web page, in the .sig below.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

 


Gary Woods wrote:

Not entirely true. pH tolerant, less thirsty than many vegetables,
excellent companion plant for many vegetables. If you interplant with
lettuce or mulch after the spears are one foot high there will be no
weeding.

 

Thanks for all the help