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Post by philagardener on Apr 15, 2017 6:22:27 GMT -5
Welcome, grampathom ! Good luck with those - looking forward to hearing how they do! |
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Post by richardw on Apr 15, 2017 15:11:28 GMT -5
C'mon, richardw, unless your icon is fibbing, you're not yet eligible for the Fraternity of Coot-hood. Dont be fooled by my youthful appearance steev I'm only 9 years away from being eligible for retirement pension, surly i could stick me boot in the door |
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Post by reed on Apr 16, 2017 5:56:37 GMT -5
reed I am afraid there is a discrepancy on the planting notes I made so now there is confusion regarding whether the row of RHH is in fact RHH or Old Homestead. A stretch, but maybe you can tell which is yours from the photo, I can't see much difference on my screen and looking at my patch I also can't see much difference color wise, between any of the varieties. Glad to see tough even if we don't know for sure which it is it must be taking to your climate. I haven't culled the Red Russian but it is still pretty puny. German Brown looks good and Spanish Roja has almost caught up to RHH in height but not in thickness of the stalk. I think maybe Red Russian resented the couple little cold snaps over winter. It is hard for things to just be growing along and then get hit by temps in the low teens for a night or two. I think a lot of stuff might like it just fine to spend a couple months of cold but getting hit intermittently is another story. I think I broke ice on the chicken water maybe five times this past this winter but a couple different mornings it was froze solid. I'll put ya down for more bulbils this fall. I actually have some left over, checking to see how long they keep I guess. Apparently for quite awhile. Dug cloves are drying up but the bulbils are still the same as when I picked them last year. [add] I just went out and looked again. The RHH, Chesnock Red and German Brown are all about the same, a nice green with a bluish cast. RR and SR are maybe a little lighter green but not what I'd call yellow. |
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Post by reed on Apr 16, 2017 12:35:04 GMT -5
It grows happily during weeks long spells punctuated now and then by occasional sub zero for a couple nights. It also isn't bothered by the cold wet but not frozen clay. I think one or both of those is what the RR didn't like but the rest of the new ones don't seem to mind too much.
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Post by philagardener on Apr 19, 2017 5:07:35 GMT -5
Happy National Garlic Day!  |
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Post by reed on May 18, 2017 7:02:50 GMT -5
My Red Russian garlic which did poorly compared to others through winter is really doing poorly now. A couple days of dry 90 degree wind and half of it just fell over. Some Spanish Roja did as well. German Brown is holding on OK but gets pretty wilted in the afternoons. Chesnok Red is about the same as German Brown.
Even RHH wilts a little in the afternoons but it's used to it. Some of the bulbil planted RHH are almost as big as the wild ones. A couple of those that I thinned around are biggest I'v ever seen, close to three feet tall I'm guessing.
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Post by reed on Jun 3, 2017 9:49:03 GMT -5
I found another patch of feral garlic! We went over to the lake where we fish for a couple days and followed a for sale sign down a road we had never explored before. The property was absolutely wonderful but don't think we could afford it.
Anyway the county had done a lot of work on a culvert last year or two and growing in the sill mostly bare ground was a patch of huge garlic, way bigger than any of mine. Got to looking around and both sides of the road and creek were big thick patches of the stuff in about the same state of growing scapes as mine is.
I might not have noticed it in the weeds had the ones in the disturbed area not stood out like they did. The soil there was excellent and I pulled up a big armload. I imagine it will die back when planted but hopeful it will start regrowing when it cools off this fall. There is a LOT of it, will also go back and collect bulbils as well as harvest mature cloves when they are ready.
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Post by steev on Jun 9, 2017 21:33:44 GMT -5
So impressive; why do I suspect you have a riding-mower?
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Post by kazedwards on Jun 10, 2017 9:30:57 GMT -5
We are talking about getting a rider for the new place. We are both on board but I would be fine if I still push mowed it. I somewhat enjoy mowing anyway. As far as walking for exercise I'm good. I walk enough at at work. She use to always to think that she walked farther at work being a nurse. Then last winter we got apple watches and well I kick her ass. She typically walks around 6 miles in a 12 hour shift. I average about 13/14 in a 10 hour shift. There have been a few busy days that I hit 17 or 18. One week this spring I hit 100 miles for the week too. Now that I write that I think I'm definitely going to look for a rider. Lol
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Post by philagardener on Jun 11, 2017 5:33:51 GMT -5
I chuckle when I think about those days back in the 1970s. The family could never afford a riding mower back in those deflation/inflation days. I remember pushing a mower when the handle was at my shoulder height. First thing when we were old enough and (almost) physically capable, we were taught how to check oil, fill gasoline in the tank, and go off mowing. Three or four kids at a time running garage sale oil-burning push mowers one right after the other in convoy. It was a solid, practical upbringing. My grandfather was a live-in caretaker on a large estate and did just about everything on the place, including growing a huge kitchen garden for the big house that was a showplace. They had a powered, walk behind mower that was amazing - I think it was a British make. I still remember the smell of oil and steel from the garage bay in which it was kept, and he taught me how to use, respect and maintain equipment like that. Today's kids rarely know how to check the oil on their cars.  . I understand on some high end BMWs, they have even eliminated the dipstick . . . Sorry for the wander - back to garlic! |
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Post by mjc on Jun 11, 2017 6:30:05 GMT -5
I understand on some high end BMWs, they have even eliminated the dipstick . . . Sorry for the wander - back to garlic! No...it was just moved...to the driver's seat. |
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Post by steev on Jun 11, 2017 19:24:23 GMT -5
Indeed so.
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Post by reed on Jun 22, 2017 16:49:30 GMT -5
One heck of a garlic patch. Do you sell your garlic?
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Post by mjc on Jun 23, 2017 9:35:06 GMT -5
I have two criteria for my garlic...
1. Does it taste good.
2. Does it keep well.
It doesn't matter too much if the size is there, although I do prefer larger bulbs/cloves to work with, if the taste and keeping ability are there, size isn't a deal breaker.
Once I stopped obsessing on size, growing garlic became enjoyable, again.
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Post by reed on Jul 14, 2017 13:20:58 GMT -5
Glad to see a new entry on this thread, it reminded me I should go harvest my garlic. I'm sure all would have done better, as in getting larger if I had been more on top of weeding and mulching but it turned out as follows. FROM BULBILS German Brown - best of the new varieties with cloved bulbs as large or larger around than a quarter. Spanish Roja - not bad but only a few quarter sized bulbs, most smaller Red Russian - I never got around to culling it earlier so it ended up making a total of two cloved bulbs, both very small, I'm done wit RR My own Reed's Hoosier Homestead - comparable to but many larger than German Brown NEW FIND 2017, I'm calling it Lake Monroe for now Plants rudely pulled out of the ground a few weeks ago and stuck in the dirt went ahead and developed decent sized bulbs with some being the first rounds I have ever seen. They are decent sized and solid inside. Not that it matters I guess but I was expecting to see rings like in an onion. Here's the shocker, (to me) . In all the years I'v let RHH grow I rarely saw a cloved bulb approaching even1/2 dollar size. This year the volunteer plants that I thinned, transplanted and cared for made the biggest bulbs I'v ever seen, easily bigger than a silver dollar, easily bigger than most store bought I'v seen and to answer kazedwards question from sometime back, yes there is lots of purple in RHH, guess it just doesn't show up as much in little ones. All of the above made an abundance of bulbils but no seeds. Bulbils on the jumbo sized RHH are also jumbo, as big as nickles and very spherical. Will take some time soon to resolve the photobucket issue so I can put up some pictures. |
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. I understand on some high end BMWs, they have even eliminated the dipstick . . . 