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Post by richardw on Oct 5, 2018 15:35:24 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Oct 3, 2018 12:49:42 GMT -5
This does look like it has spread by seed though going by how far its spread over. There are house nearby but they are set back a long way off the road and with a sheep paddock in between, I'm going past tomorrow so i'll be taking my shovel so as to bring a square of soil with plants back.
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 23:22:02 GMT -5
#10 seedling was very weak and only just managed to get seed capsule off before dying. The last to germinate are by far the weaker seedlings
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 20:38:24 GMT -5
So if this patch is garlic it would have to have coming from overseas surely, cant see how it could have come commercial garlic given how difficult it is to grow seed here in NZ. May not even be garlic yet given the leafs are not flat neither are they fully round like a onion.
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 19:54:16 GMT -5
A stunning spring day here, light winds, a sky so clear and blue that thanks to having a horizon i could easily see mountains further that the Kaikoura ranges with are about 100kms away. Where's that flat earth when need it
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 13:41:39 GMT -5
There are lots of roadside garlic here in Kansas, USA. That is why I haven't got into breeding true seed garlic. Interesting project, but I harvest all the garlic I want from roadsides. The cloves are small, but lots of them. So what would happen to that garlic if grown in your garden, stay small?
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 13:36:33 GMT -5
I'm holding judgment on what it is till summer, but in the meantime i need to go and dig some up and bring home because the roadside mowers will be due at some stage.
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Post by richardw on Oct 1, 2018 20:40:46 GMT -5
I heard from a friend there was wild garlic growing on the side of the main highway so i went and had a look at it, it has a mostly flat leaf and smells like it, bit early to tell yet but the scape will tell me more in a few months, its spread about 200m along the road
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Post by richardw on Sept 27, 2018 14:12:35 GMT -5
So did you save the seed from this clone and kept separate or does it get mixed in with the rest of the seed.
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Post by richardw on Sept 25, 2018 16:21:13 GMT -5
For some unknown reason a third seedling has died during germination, reminds me of a whale seconds before lifting its tail out of the water. All three were right at that exact same point and then turn brown, odd.
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Post by richardw on Sept 25, 2018 13:57:39 GMT -5
Well done ferdzy, 2.7kgs is good size.
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Post by richardw on Sept 23, 2018 14:31:14 GMT -5
So many if not all the new houses being built today here in NZ have dark or black iron roofs which get so hot, but i think the idea is to extract warm air from inside the ceiling and use as house heating. Downside is not helping with climate change
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Post by richardw on Sept 23, 2018 0:46:04 GMT -5
Right, well that helps me plan how i will plant out, as you may have seen from past photos my beds are mounded, so i'll wack in a number of star pegs along middle, tie bamboo to them and then tie fence netting horizontally, might need two high if you reckon they can get that high.
Another seedling up today, 11 now
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Post by richardw on Sept 22, 2018 14:24:00 GMT -5
So how high would trellises need to be?
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Post by richardw on Sept 22, 2018 0:28:03 GMT -5
Purple foods are the in thing at the moment.
Two more seedlings up today, now 10.
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