What was on your to grow list this year that either didn’t succeed or you forgot to grow? I’ve always wanted to grow garlic in my home garden and have never been able to find healthy garlic seed when I need them. While visiting the Veggie Trials in California in August friends from Sustainable Seed Company stopped by the trial garden at Seeds By Design and brought gifts – including Garlic!!!! Garlic is at the top of my 2016 Harvest list.
Now there is only one problem with owning my first Garlic to plant … I have NO CLUE what to do!
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Harvest List 2016
Below in the photo collection are a few other goodies I’ve got on my list to grow in 2016. I’m planning Garlic and other HOT Seeds for 2016 Harvest. Click on each image to find out more about the seeds.
Sustainable See’s Hot Edible Garden Picks For Spring and Summer
By Debra Prinzing in the Los Angeles Times
” Fendley, whose company is based near the Mendocino National Forest, was motivated to collect old varieties after he noticed that the number of broccoli seeds in the nonprofit Seed Savers Exchange catalog dropped from about 80 types in the 1980s to only four or five in 2003.
“I wondered, is there anyone else freaked out that there are only a few broccoli varieties left to grow?” he said …. ” continue reading Here
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Dear Bren. The garlic challenged me also. For years, I tried to grow garlic from grocery store garlic pieces, without any result. Finally we ordered from seed store an old garlic type, which was ancestor of all today garlic. It not grows too big, and not so strong taste as the casual garlic what everyone use in food, but finally I had a success. Also very important, that you take the single cloves of it straight to the ground, just right to the surface, that its upper end can be still viewable, right before winter. (Almost every bulby things, bulby flowers like this, the best to plant them before winter, or during). In this summer finally I have harvested my own garlic. On the side of it are forming new little cloves, which at harvest I just pushed back in the ground and on this way I have continuingly growing garlics. I wish you good seeds and patient with it. Once you succeed you will see, it is not so hard, just have different requirement, like other vegetables.
Bren, I left a picture and some explanation about my type of garlic on my Facebook, please check it out!
Thanks for sharing!
I’ve always wanted to grow my own garlic but I’ve never really got round to it, maybe 2016 is the year where I can!