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Should I plant some garlic right now?
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Creek-side 5 - Central Iowa (
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Wed, Feb 13, 13 at 19:28
| I've never grown garlic. I was going to plant some last fall, but I didn't get around to it. It's been warm enough lately that the ground in my garden isn't frozen at all. I'm wondering if this is a good time to plant, and would the process be the same as what I've read about fall planting. |
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RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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- Posted by lonmower zone8 Western Oregon (My Page) on
Wed, Feb 13, 13 at 20:13
| garlic should be planted in the fall. it will grow if planted now but not form cloves and will not store |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| Do you already have it and just didn't get it planted? If so no need to waste it. Plant it and hope for the best or use it in cooking. If you haven't bought it yet then I'd save the money and order for fall planting this year. Dave |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| Yeah, cook what you've got and eat it. Get more for this fall, as you're not going to get a good harvest out of them planting this late. You might get cloves, but they'll be very small. |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| If you've got some just lying around, you can plant it in small pots and then place them amongst your upcoming summer crops. They're supposed to be good at deterring certain pests, like aphids. Kevin |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| I put some cloves in pots a couple of weeks ago, and I'm going to transplant them to the garden as soon as I can work the soil. The room they're in is in the 40s all winter, so we'll see it that's enough to get them to divide and form cloves. The roots are already around the bottom of the pots. |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| Actually, late winter/early spring planting is recommended by several extension service pubs in Zones 5 and northward. Here in Z 6, several local organic growers plant extra garlic as soon as the ground thaws. |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| It often happens the experts disagree,,,I always fall planted my garlic, and i still do with quite a bit of it. The past two years i have planted my red russian in feb. and have had fantastic results,,, one of the problems with winter planting is getting that window of weather good enough to carry it out, great sized garlic thats keeps cannot be planted too late granted, but in my opinion too early often leads to freeze back on tops that got too far along before winter hit, as they say timing is everything, success is also related to the genetics you have in your seed garlic, rich soil, ample composted manure(chicken lately here), and good curing practices, if the weather allows and you have some local grown garlic give it a try. |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| I'd agree, plant it now if you have it. While I generally plant garlic in the fall, on several occasions I have gotten frozen out and end up planting during a warm spell in Feb. Those planting have worked OK. Perhaps not as big as they would have been fall planted, but still respectable. |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| 50 degrees here today, so I went ahead and planted three large bulbs' worth of organic cloves I got at Trader Joe's. I had an old bale of straw, so I covered it with that and put a piece of plywood over that with some cinderblocks on top to hold it down in the incredibly windy weather we've been having here lately. I'll take it off as soon as it looks like precipitation is on the way. It felt good to be out there. The ground seemed to be frozen about 4 inches down. Sometimes it's just a lot of fun to see if something will work. |
RE: Should I plant some garlic right now?
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| Not sure about Iowa, but in California, I plant them in October or November. These turn out very well. Once I planted garlics in Spring, but they didn't mature, and very few turned to cloves. They withered and died in the summer heat. |
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