HiDelight
Deeply Rooted
Ok I have been growing lots of garlic for many years and always waited for those wonderful scapes as my first harvast of the garlic crop!
well this year because a friend insisted I split my bed and planted half in he fall (like I usually do) and half in the spring (I have never done this because ..well it broke my tradition! and I knew no other way)
the fall garlic as usually is doing fantastic ...big heads that look like they will be ready to harvest in in a few weeks ..the tops are turning a bit brown and they just look fantastic ..but NO SCAPES????
what the heck happened? I have never grown garlic had it mature and not gotten my wonderful scapes?
the spring garlic ..while it is another species of hardneck (I only grow the hardneck the soft one always rots for me here)
does not look as hardy ....the heads are doing ok but not all that well ..they are healthy but a bit small for the size of the cloves I put in ..and I did get a handful of scapes but not nearly what I usually get ...
funny but I think I will be harvesting the spring and fall garlic at the same time ..they look about equal in growth and readiness
my questions
when do you plant your garlic fall or spring?
do you always get scapes? because up until this year for every garlic clove I got a scape and I am wondering about the development of my bulbs and how no scapes will matter ..or if it does ...
I feel deprived of one of the bonus perks of growing garlic!
I am going to ready two beds for a fall planting starting in August ...loading them with lime and this year plan to go back to planting a LOT more so it will last a year for us ...what I planted this year may only last a couple of months at best
I hope the prices go down this year ..last year buying my planting garlic from the growers cost about twice the year before and was so much I cut my beds down to half just because I felt almost insulted by the prices ..it was crazy high so they must have had issues ..but there were loads and they all looked so healthy ..guess I could have asked why the huge hike!
was it expensive all over this year to buy your seed garlic? I wonder if it was just our state?
in the past I replanted my own larger heads then after a couple of years ended up with a mess of disease and fungus so I closed the beds to garlic and moved to the other side of the garden ..along with now purchasing it from a wonderful grower here .. now have no problems with disease at all
ok I am rambling now and must actually go to work
any ideas or advice greatly appreciated!
well this year because a friend insisted I split my bed and planted half in he fall (like I usually do) and half in the spring (I have never done this because ..well it broke my tradition! and I knew no other way)
the fall garlic as usually is doing fantastic ...big heads that look like they will be ready to harvest in in a few weeks ..the tops are turning a bit brown and they just look fantastic ..but NO SCAPES????
what the heck happened? I have never grown garlic had it mature and not gotten my wonderful scapes? the spring garlic ..while it is another species of hardneck (I only grow the hardneck the soft one always rots for me here)
does not look as hardy ....the heads are doing ok but not all that well ..they are healthy but a bit small for the size of the cloves I put in ..and I did get a handful of scapes but not nearly what I usually get ...
funny but I think I will be harvesting the spring and fall garlic at the same time ..they look about equal in growth and readiness
my questions
when do you plant your garlic fall or spring?
do you always get scapes? because up until this year for every garlic clove I got a scape and I am wondering about the development of my bulbs and how no scapes will matter ..or if it does ...
I feel deprived of one of the bonus perks of growing garlic!
I am going to ready two beds for a fall planting starting in August ...loading them with lime and this year plan to go back to planting a LOT more so it will last a year for us ...what I planted this year may only last a couple of months at best
I hope the prices go down this year ..last year buying my planting garlic from the growers cost about twice the year before and was so much I cut my beds down to half just because I felt almost insulted by the prices ..it was crazy high so they must have had issues ..but there were loads and they all looked so healthy ..guess I could have asked why the huge hike!
was it expensive all over this year to buy your seed garlic? I wonder if it was just our state?
in the past I replanted my own larger heads then after a couple of years ended up with a mess of disease and fungus so I closed the beds to garlic and moved to the other side of the garden ..along with now purchasing it from a wonderful grower here .. now have no problems with disease at all
ok I am rambling now and must actually go to work
any ideas or advice greatly appreciated!
Our prices were average here last year--$1-2/bulb. Catalogue prices are insanely high. The $ I quote is farmer's market price. 
