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June is time to harvest Elephant garlic. No elephant size this year but the freezer is getting low on supply. This should last about 8-10 years.
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To re-plant, the clove cluster is broken into individual cloves and planted in September - October in gardening zone 6. Usually there are 5 cloves. When i break these apart in a few days after they've dried a little i'll try to remember to post a picture.
The Corms and Seeds are a mystery to me for re-production as i've tried about everything with those so i don't depend on them. I have so much garlic from volunteer i don't bother planting it anymore. A very strange plant. Example: I planted 10 cloves in two rows of 5 cloves each. Not either of those two rows produced in rows but just helter skelter at random. But i've also had garlic in that area for 30 years. As far as i know Corms may make garlic cloves in 3 or5 years but who knows and seeds another mystery.
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The Corms and Seeds are a mystery to me for re-production as i've tried about everything with those so i don't depend on them. I have so much garlic from volunteer i don't bother planting it anymore. A very strange plant. Example: I planted 10 cloves in two rows of 5 cloves each. Not either of those two rows produced in rows but just helter skelter at random. But i've also had garlic in that area for 30 years. As far as i know Corms may make garlic cloves in 3 or5 years but who knows and seeds another mystery.
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Generally speaking, yes.
I'm looking at getting a veg garden going next spring... Garlic wasn't really on my radar, it is now though, lol
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I have a hard time killing things so I plant all kinds of weird stuff. I will plant the bottom of an onion. I've never had corms, though, on garlic.
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In addition to garlic, we have a section of my lower garden which has my leeks growing wild in it. Love leek potato soup.
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I've gotta try that. With garlic each of the 5 cloves terminate down on the root end so i would expect 5 separate plants to emerge from that group. That may be equal to leaving one in the dirt at harvest time.
Similar to this pic in 2015 that i have no way in hell of knowing what happened there. :vs_OMG: Sometimes it comes up volunteer in the yard where i may have cleaned it but this pic was in the garden area. But i can say with certainty if you ever plant it you'll never be without garlic and sometimes it can be entertaining. Snow/cold doesn't bother it but it does enjoy a 6" layer of straw mulch maintained as most gardening plants do.
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That wasn't clear . . . I meant cut 1/2 - 3/4 inch above the roots including the meat of the garlic, plus babies.
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If the Corms are what you are calling babies, not all of those are dangling by a string free spirit but many are embedded shallow in under the skin. Those are easily broken out/off with the thumb for those that's to be consumed.
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Yes Sir
That in freezer bags in the O P.
The wife purees the cloves in a processor and bags it for the freezer which makes it easy to just pinch off what she deems necessary at the time and returns the bag to the freezer.
I did find one bag in the freezer that was labeled year 2012 and i suspect it to still be good. Must have been hiding. We kind of have garlic running out our ears but with the 6 ft.virus distancing that may be a good thing.:wink2:
It kind of makes the garage aromatic for a few days while drying.
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I see you are using regular freezer bags. Do you get any freezer burn with them? Recently I have been using one of the vacuum sealers for storing frozen goods, and it works great. No air, no moisture, no freezer burn.
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My wife did mention that. It sure was potent.
I was thinking about preserving it is water and citric acid.
If I stink up the freezer I'm dead.
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Does garlic really last 8-10 years?
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All i can say is that's what it says on the freezer bag. In fact i found 2 bags labeled 2012. I suspect she will tell me if they aren't good.:smile:
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Almost all frozen foods are still good long after the USDA published guidelines. Eventually they freezer burn but in the case of garlic I'm not sure it would matter as texture isn't all that important.
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