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MagpieDi
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Oh to be as wise..... !!!
Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #60 on:
October 31, 2003, 22:36:40 »
ok clever clogs!!..... ;D hope you manage before Eric throws a mega wobbly!!! ;D
btw...at bottom of right click option is print!! quick route if you don't want to save info before printing!!!
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Hot_Potato
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #61 on:
November 01, 2003, 00:48:48 »
;)thanks everyone for all the info you've given me on here re the garlic & printing ( :-[embarrassed to say no success with that yet :-[) but takes me ages to grasp things re the computer......spent an hour or so on the lottie today.....lovely to turn it over after the rain of yesterday - other than all the roots/weeds I've got! ??? it's like coconut matting in places....just as I was leaving.....a fellow lottie holder...the one who lent me a fork last weekend turned up with these little trays....and guess what....she brought her garlic up to plant....it looked brilliant....little green shoots from all the bulbs...she'd started them in her greenhouse & was now ready to plant.....H.P.
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campanula
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double digging dudette
Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #62 on:
November 01, 2003, 01:15:41 »
hi everyone, great site
also just started allotment and have put in electric, radar onions, jermon (i think) shallots and aquadulce claudia b.beans. hope it is not too late to get some garlicin - i thought i might have missed the window and would have to plant in containers, any suggestion. also, what peas are OK for planting now?
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tim
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Just like the old days!
Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #63 on:
November 01, 2003, 12:34:55 »
NOT too late for garlic - see above.
Jermor are great shallots, I reckon.
HP - wonder what you gain by sprouting garlic?
MD - thanks! - Tim
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Hot_Potato
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #64 on:
November 01, 2003, 13:02:46 »
:) morning all - gather from your reply today Tim that it's not necessary to sprout them then....they can go straight into ground as they are?....I have assumed that as the neighbours were sprouted...that's how they should be?.....H.P.
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Doris_Pinks
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #65 on:
November 01, 2003, 15:43:34 »
HP I still have not gotten around to planting some of mine, have to say they are I find easy to grow, just divide the heads up and bung em in! Have never bothered to sprout mine first, and they produce some great heads! DP
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Beer_Belly
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #66 on:
November 01, 2003, 16:03:29 »
I planted my first lot on Oct 16 and when I checked on them today I could see some tips pushing through the soil ;D
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tim
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Reply #67 on:
November 01, 2003, 17:52:16 »
I think you may find that the sprouting ones are from the s/market - like I said above, they may have been in cold store and now want to get going?
Home grown stuff should last through till the last planting time of Feb or so.
When the onions hanging in the kitchen start sprouting, I find them very useful as 'spring' onions! - Tim
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john_miller
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #68 on:
November 01, 2003, 18:04:29 »
I don't know how relevant this is but garlic started to early over here can be subject to substantial damage during the winter. If store bought garlic, which, as has pointed out, may have a difference
provance
to native cvs., is planted too early the young growth may be damaged, setting the plant back next year, possibly killing it even. Most store bought garlic here comes from California, (the town of Gilroy, Ca. calls itself the garlic capital of the world! People from Italy, France or Indonesia would probably scoff at that?) and is completely unsuitable for our climate, not being hardy here. Just thought I would throw that in.
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budgiebreeder
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #69 on:
November 01, 2003, 20:39:32 »
I just love your Rooster Doris.
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Doris_Pinks
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Reply #70 on:
November 01, 2003, 23:25:32 »
Thank you BB, have just donated it to Palustris, so it may be strutting on his messages!! Me I am going back to my Pinks for a while!! ;D
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budgiebreeder
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Reply #71 on:
November 01, 2003, 23:58:41 »
I have been trying to put a budgie on mine for the last hour .I'll give it another whirll tomorrow when i have spoken to one of my sons.
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Hot_Potato
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #72 on:
November 02, 2003, 01:56:24 »
:) just thought I'd mention re the sprouting garlic neighbour brought to lottie yesterday and Tim's posting No. 67.....I asked her where she'd got them from and she told me she'd ordered them from Marshalls. She'd split them and put into those little individual cell trays - whatever they're called - and had them in her greenhouse but was waiting for it to rain...which is why they'd sprouted rather more than usual.....hence her doing it yesterday......she had two varieties....says they're always successful.....as soon as I've got suitable bit of ground ready I'll put some in...H.P.
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tim
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #73 on:
November 02, 2003, 10:50:25 »
Yes, Marshalls are excellent for everything.
Which gives me the chance to say let's be fair about costing. Yes, Merv is happy with shop garlic (sounds smashing value - what weight were they?), and he doesn't want big fat cloves in the kitchen. But if you want certified seed, and a good choice of variety, compare Marshalls price (23.5p per clove) with the Garlic Farm (15p) - I still like to give my money to the chap who grows them.
Tim
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legless
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #74 on:
November 02, 2003, 14:33:06 »
mine came from marshalls - elephant and ivory. just popping their first little shoots out today! (i'm so proud!)
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tim
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #75 on:
November 02, 2003, 18:53:13 »
- come harvest, we must all put our results on the gallery? Having spent £15, or whatever, sterilising their plot, I expect a good return! - Tim
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budgiebreeder
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #76 on:
November 02, 2003, 23:35:56 »
I see that you have succumbed to the gifs Tim .Very nice one too.
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legless
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Re: Care for Onions and Garlic
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Reply #77 on:
December 01, 2003, 20:40:57 »
i met the garlic farm people at the good food show yesterday and i told them that they are widely respected in the internet allotment gardening community!!! as welll as buying yet more garlic to plant!!! ;D
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