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Garlic Bulbs For Planting Recipe

	Thegoldminer / All my dishes 1 year, 7 months ago The link below is for Peaceful Valley located in Grassvalley California. They have the best garlic at the best price. I planted many varieties and picked 3 commercial wheel barrow loads! If someone was walking by the house I would give a huge bundle. They loved it.... More Prep:60m Servings:4	Thegoldmine
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Plant in September or October and pick next June. Wonderful hard neck varieties to pick from. JJ

http://www.groworganic.com/default.html

Type Garlic bulbs in the search window and you will be taken to the page in the catalog. Order their catalog, it is full of great stuff.

Garlic is available in September. Not sure you may be able to order now or call them and find out when. Once available, they sell out fast.

Directions

Order early. Plant in September for a June harvest.

Dig a hole about 6 inches deep and 8 inches across.

Fill the hole with a good planting mix. You want the ground soft for the roots to grow and more important for the clove to form a large bulb and start separating into cloves. Loose soil = larger bulbs.

Use only the largest cloves for planting. Smaller cloves for cooking. The size of the clove determines the size of the finished plant.

Plant the root end of the clove down.

Plant the clove so it is covered with 2 inches of soil.

If you have tilled the ground well enough, make holes ith your fingter or whatever 8 inches apart and 3 inches deep. Make all the holes first, then put a clove in each hole and cover with dirt

Water.

The clove will send up a small stalk and it can get as tall as 12 inches before it goes dormant for winter.

In the spring it starts growing again.

Keep and eye on the plant starting in late April.

Once the hot weather comes on and the plant is getting near the final stage a stalk with a seed pod is sent up. Cut the stalk off! It robs the bulb of nutrients.

Mulch around the plants to remain moist.

When the stalks start to fall over it is time to check a plant to see if it has formed cloves. Don't pick to early.

Once you have determined it is time to pick, dig up the whole plant and tie about 8 bulbs together and hang to dry.

There you have the process and it will produce copious amounts of incredible garlic.

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Comments

mystic_river1 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Hi I checked the site but none available until sept. Thanks

thegoldminer 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Hi, I updated the recipe about when you can get the garlic. Thanks for the reminder. JJ

trigger 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Thank you for posting this Garlic planting tip I love garlic and plant it every year.
Michael

silverqueen 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Hi JJ,

Thanks for the garlic site it will not be available until September got my order in now. Moving to an apt. but they have a space for a garden for each resident so my garlic will go in there, YUM I cook with a lot of garlic. and love it to.

Thanks JJ have a great day.

SQ

jett2whit 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Great info! Thanks for sharing

rosemaryblue 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Great information, and thanks for sharing!

laurakaay 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Thanks for sharing the info! It will come in handy next fall. ;D

notyourmomma 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Thanks for the link and the post. Garlic lover from long ago. YUM.

raelene1951 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Another GREAT POST! Thank you

cherylannxo 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Good afternoon JJ, with as much as I use garlic, which in one way or another, every day. It is amazing, when I lived in Arkansas, I was buying a house from a woman who was 85 years old. The house was on an acre of land and the whole yard was an over grown country garden, you didn't know where one plant started or ended. About 1/2 of it was medicinal herbs and the rest was flowers. In 5 years I learned a lot about the herbs, and I consider myself a self-taught herbalists. But garlic is the only thing that I have not grown, unless there are new herbs that I don't know about. Since I moved back to Calif., I have not had a chance to start up any herbs and I really need to get started back up. So anyway, I guess I can start off with mint and garlic. You really do deserve my 5. Thank you so very much for sharing. have a wonderful night...Cheryl

lumpy1 11 months ago said:
I found this website because i planted spanish roja and was looking for garlic recipes. this is the first ive seen this. last year i planted garlic that came from my sister in WI. she got from friends, and so i only know it was a winter hardy hardneck variety. i planted it and i didnt know anything about it. i didnt cut it back, and i didnt harvest it at the right time and the cloves that did multiply started regrowing in the ground. next season will be good though. i planted the spanish roja and covered with a bed of straw.

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