Gardening

MyOwnPeace

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2. Don't know about zones or 'starter pots'.......

Tue Sep 26, 2023, 06:51 PM

Sep 2023

I'm up north in the Pittsburgh area and I always just took my remaining garlic bulbs out in early October (Columbus Day - Italy - Garlic - easy 'reminder' for me!), peeled off cloves and put them into the soil about 2 inches apart and waited until spring! Crazy simple - and kept the same 'strain' going for over 30 years!
I've not tried ANY way to preserve/can/whatever to keep them 'fresh/viable' - just dried them out in late May/June and had a bunch of great flavor through the rest of the year!

Again, I'm a fly-by-night gardener - who knows what I've done wrong or could have done better - but I got a great run with my garlic!

Good luck!

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garlic, does anyone grow it? [View all] onethatcares Sep 2023 OP

It really is a low maintenance thing to grow Siwsan Sep 2023 #1

Don't know about zones or 'starter pots'....... MyOwnPeace Sep 2023 #2

I used to store my peeled cloves in a canning jar of vinegar or sherry in the niyad Sep 2023 #6

We planted ours last fall and it grew wonderfully Bristlecone Sep 2023 #3

I usually harvest when orthoclad Sep 2023 #8

It grows well in my neck of the woods (zone 4), but I don't like it Ocelot II Sep 2023 #4

We have a very large garlic farm about a mile from us. Good loamy soil and drainage. erronis Sep 2023 #5

Easy to grow orthoclad Sep 2023 #7

As soon as the bulbs I have grow roots onethatcares Sep 2023 #9

Ah! I see orthoclad Sep 2023 #11

it's one of the easiest up north ShepKat Sep 2023 #10

western NC here - I just plant cloves in September, and harvest them in June NewHendoLib Oct 2023 #12

Hard neck purple and soft neck for storage codfisherman Nov 2023 #13