Re: OT: Garlic who whas talking about it?

Posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on October 16, 2005 at 16:13:57 from (209.71.222.54):

In Reply to: OT: Garlic who whas talking about it? posted by Lesterr on October 14, 2005 at 09:55:21:

The best advice I have read says to avoid supermarket garlic as it has been treated so as not to sprout.

An organic grower warned me about some virus which affects the roots of garlic: it manifests itself as a brownish ring in the skin around the root part of the clove. These cloves are fine to eat but not to plant.

When it came time to plant our new garlic crop last week into a cover crop of oats, I used an old auger mounted in a cordless drill to make the holes, then pushed the cloves in with a finger. I wish I had used a larger bit. 3/4" made me favour the smaller cloves, pushing them deeper into the earth.

250' of planting makes for an interesting set of sore muscles and joints for a few days afterwards.

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