And also for varieties. Google for "soft neck" / "hard neck". If you live where the climate seldom gets good and cold, I think you'll need to plant soft neck varieties and you'll need to plant them on a different schedule than a northern gardener.
Bill
il Tue, 18 May 2004 01:07:00 -0400, Anonymous ha scritto:
This started with a question from a person in Osaka, which was pretty hot when I was there. Not to mention of dubious air quality.
As for soft neck and hard neck, I'd never heard these terms used before. I just planted garlic from what I had or bought some from the nursery. They just called them 'garlic'. They've never flowered though.
I'll have to till my garden if I want to plant anything, it's as hard as a rock at the moment. Unfortunately I can't hover over the soil to weed it.
Soft neck, then. Hard neck generally has fewer cloves wrapped around a hard stem, and the hard stem is the remnant of the flowering stalk.
Hardnecked garlic has a zippier flavor; softneck generally stores longer and has smaller (and better wrapped) cloves.
il Tue, 18 May 2004 06:05:28 -0500, snipped-for-privacy@someplace.net.net (Pat Kiewicz) ha scritto:
I've just read that elephant garlic is actually a type of leek.
Verrrrry purrrrdy ... what varieties are you growing? I have Ajo Rojo, Leningrad, Metechi and California White (grocery store bulbs). Yours in April look pretty much like mine now.
Bill
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