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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2017 0:11:07 GMT -5
This small plant was a bulbil that came off a what would have normally being a flower stem, instead of a flower it had three bulbils, only one grew last summer nine months ago, these tinny bulbils were(1-2mm round). Today's photo shows it growing a scape, I'm amazed  |
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Post by kazedwards on Nov 15, 2017 2:58:40 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Nov 15, 2017 12:24:50 GMT -5
Thanks Zach, that scaping bulbil above goes against what was considered normal for garlic in that it needed some winter chilling to be able to produce a scape, it never got frosted at all as it spent the winter in the tunnelhouse. Some of the first to regrow last summer are now about a month ahead of last year in the scape production  |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 8, 2017 20:48:38 GMT -5
Richard: It's great to see growth of garlic, and continuation of this thread during my winter.
I took the time to go through this thread today, and fix my images that were broken by !@#$%^&*()!
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Post by richardw on Dec 8, 2017 22:39:16 GMT -5
The garlic is looking good so far, temperatures have been well up on the average so far, many areas around NZ have been experiencing bad rust but nothing here, humidity has been to low. One lesson learnt though, dont put coffee grinds to close around the stem of the garlic, made some go soft and fall over.
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Post by richardw on Dec 14, 2017 23:41:11 GMT -5
Garlic is looking the best ive had for the last few years, low humidity, dry weather, only had 7mm of rain two months so the garlic is loving it. vgy.me/7A0vwW |
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Post by derekp on Dec 18, 2017 3:23:25 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
My first post here! Had a wonderful time reading up through this thread a few months back and have finally gotten to writing a post.
I've been growing organic garlic for 10 years in Victoria B.C. Canada. I started out with 20 varieties in the beginning and widdled down to my favorite 11 over the years. Never have I grown more than 10000 bulbs per year. I sell at market to the people who eat the garlic I grow and have been involved with CSA's. I use a strict 4 year rotation and as it turns out through moving locations have never replanted in the same spot before. This past winter I lost lots of my planting (which is a topic of its own). The way I chose to replenish my seed stock was to seek out as many different varieties as I could get my hands on. I have been able to broaden to 170 varieties in total. These all have come from Canadian sources. I would have loved to collected more varieties from places outside Canada but customs is not easy on shipping commercial plant material. Still interested in this!
Currently I have 11 70ft beds planted with around 8000 bulbs. 5 beds contain the majority of these 170 varieties (2 or 3 bulbs per variety on average in these beds). The other 6 beds have fewer varieties (planted with leftover stock from 2016-17 planting mostly. I will put up a list of varieties and a few photos another time 😃
I've had a wonderful journey so far learning as much as I have on the subject of garlic. I have made some dear friends and am happy to know many skilled garlic growers in my area!
My learning has led me to TGS which I am aiming on getting involved with this year. My direction is not yet set in stone, as to how I will choose to work TGS production in this year. I'm very excited about TGS for strenthening local food security, new varietal identification trials, assisting garlic to revert back to sexual reproduction and most importantly... for the fun of doing it!
I look forward to reading, learning, engaging and sharing more with all of you.
Derek
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Post by ferdzy on Dec 18, 2017 6:12:31 GMT -5
Hello Derek and welcome, from a fellow-Canadian. I look forward to seeing more of your posts.
It was a terrible year for garlic here in Ontario too. Everything we replanted showed signs of fairly severe viral stress. We are hoping for a better year with better garlic in 2018; if not we will need to replace ours as well.
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Post by philagardener on Dec 18, 2017 6:42:29 GMT -5
Welcome, derekp ! Sounds like great diversity in your fields. Would be interested to hear more about the challenges you have been facing and how you are working through them. Glad to have you join us! |
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Post by richardw on Dec 18, 2017 19:58:34 GMT -5
Hi Derek and welcome
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Post by steev on Dec 18, 2017 23:44:55 GMT -5
Sounds like pretty heavy lifting, derekp; glad for your input; actual experience can't be beat.
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Post by richardw on Dec 21, 2017 21:09:00 GMT -5
This small plant was a bulbil that came off a what would have normally being a flower stem, instead of a flower it had three bulbils, only one grew last summer nine months ago, these tinny bulbils were(1-2mm round). Today's photo shows it growing a scape, I'm amazed  The scape straightened up and started to split open so i removed it, the size of the flowers is amazing, more like a onion flower head. Next few days will be interesting to see if there any bulbils under the flowers. |
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Post by richardw on Dec 31, 2017 17:11:20 GMT -5
While removing bulbils i noticed a flower stem with mutable flower heads, or they may turn out to be small bulbils which will be the second time ive had this happen, anyone noticed a flower stem like this.  |
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Post by derekp on Jan 3, 2018 19:24:08 GMT -5
I sowed around 200 TGS today. Laid 20 seeds out in grid pattern on damp paper towel. Laid paper towel on wax paper, folded wax paper over and taped wax paper shut. Layered these in a Ziploc bag and put into freezer. Thinking I'll remove them after 4 weeks or so. Excited to see how they do.
Does anyone have any experience with this method? Advice to offer? Subsequent actions to consider?
I know this thread has lots of great info in it already but I figured I'd ask as there may be some more up to date opinions on the matter!
Cheers
Derek
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Post by richardw on Jan 3, 2018 23:44:32 GMT -5
Ive not tried that method myself At the other end of the growing season, i'm removing bulbils, done 21 heads as soon as the straighten  |
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