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Post by richardw on Oct 18, 2014 23:50:23 GMT -5
A better photo of my TGS plant with 90cm long leaves  |
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Post by kazedwards on Jan 22, 2015 22:03:46 GMT -5
Any advice on how to start TGS?
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Post by richardw on Apr 2, 2015 14:30:42 GMT -5
Since having the above TGS grown plant in the photo taken away by MPI ive had to turn to what varieties are already here,during the middle of summer i found this bag of hard neck that i harvested over a year earlier,its was grown from bulbils and none have shown signs of going off and none have grown shoots,i didn't think garlic would kept that long.  I then planted some to see what would happen and with five days there were shoots showing,remembering this was mid summer and the weather was at its hottest.  |
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Post by richardw on Apr 2, 2015 14:42:03 GMT -5
I hoping that because they have had such an early start to the growing season they may produce scapes earlier. Here's how they look today in mid Autumn.  |
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Post by steev on Apr 2, 2015 20:45:16 GMT -5
Good-looking garlic. Do you eat that cheese-weed?
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Post by richardw on Apr 3, 2015 0:11:29 GMT -5
Is that the Mellow??
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 3, 2015 9:19:07 GMT -5
I found a TGS sprout in the first batch that I started back in January. That batch I had two seeds come up in early February then I kinda forgot about it after I moved the seedlings. It has been all dried up in the garage for about a month now. Last week I smelled garlic in garage and checked it and nothing. The sprout was on top of the soil so I transplated it as soon as I saw it in to fresh damp starting mix. I had smelt a strong garlic smell before the first two sprouted as well. I will keep that in mind for the future. I hope it survives. Either way it was a pleasent surprise. I will be keeping that first set watered now for sure.
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Post by steev on Apr 3, 2015 11:06:14 GMT -5
Yes; cheeseweed=mallow.
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Post by richardw on Apr 4, 2015 17:43:48 GMT -5
I thought that Malva neglecta was is not overly eatable compared to Malva crispa which i do have in the garden as well. |
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Post by blueadzuki on Apr 4, 2015 18:06:25 GMT -5
I don't think the "cheese" part has anything to do with edibility. As I recall, calling mallow "cheeseweed" refers to the fruits. With their round capsules made up of wedge shaped seeds, they resembled a wheel of cheese that had been sliced up. It's why velvet leaf (another Malvacae) is sometimes also called cheesweed, or pie-maker (again round shape, wedge like seeds)
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Post by flowerweaver on Apr 5, 2015 12:50:34 GMT -5
I've eaten the 'cheeses' and they are OK. We have a lot of mallow species down here, including the velvet leaf. Malvaviscus drummondii, or Turk's Cap, tastes like a strawberry-potato, kind of sweet but grainy.
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Post by kazedwards on May 11, 2015 14:18:35 GMT -5
So far the first set of TGS that I started has had 5/96 seeds come up. The winter sown has had 4/50. So I would say inter sowing is the way to go. http://instagram.com/p/2h3HCtCpzP |
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Post by reed on May 19, 2015 14:03:11 GMT -5
I don't know how may I planted (all I had) but I have one lonely little garlic plant form my seeds. It is actually growing pretty good, maybe six or seven inches tall. I couldn't resist and tasted the tip of a leaf. It was much stronger than I expected for such a tiny thing and left a little bit of a sweet aftertaste, very pleased with the flavor. Can't wait to see what it does, I suspect it may take more than one year to bloom. I haven't gave up hope that maybe some more will come up although it was still pretty cold when this one did.
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Post by kazedwards on May 20, 2015 1:41:19 GMT -5
I don't know how may I planted (all I had) but I have one lonely little garlic plant form my seeds. It is actually growing pretty good, maybe six or seven inches tall. I couldn't resist and tasted the tip of a leaf. It was much stronger than I expected for such a tiny thing and left a little bit of a sweet aftertaste, very pleased with the flavor. Can't wait to see what it does, I suspect it may take more than one year to bloom. I haven't gave up hope that maybe some more will come up although it was still pretty cold when this one did. of the Two sets that I did the indoor one how the first germination on 2/8 and the latest on 5/7. The winter sown set had fist germ on 4/17 and the latest on 5/17. I have had 1 vigorous plant and 2-3 more that might turn out to be as well. So far I have had 10/146 come up. Winter sowing has worked the best for me. |
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Post by oldmobie on Jul 23, 2015 1:08:05 GMT -5
kazedwards sent me a bunch of the bulbils he removed from his garlic last year, from the garlic that produced TGS for him. I didn't expect too much this year, just little "rounds" to replant next year. They're wedged between the radish seed-bed and the turnip seed-bed, so I don't know what the bulbs are doing, but they have bulbils now. Since I didn't expect to get this far this soon, I haven't read up enough on the subject, but I gather that it's sometimes necessary to remove bulbils to encourage seed production. I guess I'll want to remove the bulbils from half of them. I think I also read that removing the bulbils too late can cause more trouble than leaving them in place. Is that right? How do I define "too late"? Besides maybe removing bulbils, is there anything I should be doing about this?
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