Brian, Yep, winter arrived Saturday afternoon. The garlic is snuggled under a couple inches of soil, 8" of marsh hay and about 4" of snow.
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Mild winter here in Maryland this year. The garlic is already bustin' through the mulch!
I'll leave the mulch on for a few more weeks though (just in case). The one tall one on the left is a stray onion that wouldn't die.
Brian L.
I'll leave the mulch on for a few more weeks though (just in case). The one tall one on the left is a stray onion that wouldn't die.
Brian L.
Brian, looking good! Actually there's no need to remove the mulch if the shoots are coming through. I use marsh hay as a mulch and the shoots have a hard time making it through it so I have to pull it off. I'd leave the leaves on but check to make sure that your spring rains are soaking through the mulch, if the rain is getting through leave all the mulch on. If it's not getting through remove all but an inch or 2.
BTW, onions are biennial, in other words, they go to seed in their second year of growth. You won't get much of a bulb out of it but you should get a flower followed by seeds.
BTW, onions are biennial, in other words, they go to seed in their second year of growth. You won't get much of a bulb out of it but you should get a flower followed by seeds.
KENtucky, well the flower is not much of a flower. Should look kinda like a big dandelion. Google onion flower and you'll see a bunch of different types, though mostly ornamental onions some of which can be huge, 8" diameter or larger and often white to pink to purple.
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Terry, looking good!
Your's is a bit ahead of mine. I finally got around to taking a photo of my garlic bed, here's what it looked like last Saturday.
Brian, wow, your garlic is way ahead. We seem to be about 2 weeks behind here, just ate the first asparagus earlier this week. At least it's off and running and tonight we should eat good. Here's two photos I took this morning of two of the 16 plants.
Kraig, You guys are way north of me (Maryland is the beginning of the South). When you were still having snow it was in the 60's here. Also ,we had a very mild winter about 3" of snow.
Asparagus looks yummy! That should be a future project for me.
Asparagus looks yummy! That should be a future project for me.
Terry, those are my home made tomato cages. I place them around the garlic bed after I plant it in the fall to keep the deer from walking through it and kicking up the cloves. I'm taking a break from planting tomatoes and peppers this year so I left the cages in place this spring. BTW, those cages work way better then the junk they sell in garden centers. I learned to make them from an issue of Fine Gardening magazine, from back in the early 1990's. About half are full height for "indeterminate" variety tomatoes and the rest are half height for "determinate" variety tomatoes.
Brian, nice! Keep it well watered, not wet, you just don't want it to dry out. It looks to be in the bulbing stage, consistent moisture is important during this time. Scratch away a little soil at the base of a plant and you can see if the bulb is forming and how big it is. Yeah I know it's like peeking at Christmas gifts before Christmas, but It's good to know how they are doing beyond the top growth.
When the leaves start to yellow it's time to harvest. Look at the archived page (link above) at the bottom of that page I posted photos that I took right after I harvested some garlic and you can see what the leaves should look like. Your's are still nice and green and healthy looking.
Thanks for the pointers Kraig. If mine turns out as well as your I will certainly be happy.(And so will Edie my 'garlic fiend' girlfriend).
Some of mine is from grocery store stock so I'm not sure what kind it is (probably Chinese).
I'll just treat it all the same.
Some of mine is from grocery store stock so I'm not sure what kind it is (probably Chinese).
I'll just treat it all the same.
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