Topic: garlic

[campanula]

I am hoping to get some garlic planted (have done overwintering onions) in my nice new raised beds - new plot so desperate to plant something/anything.
Do I need to use 'special' garlic. Can I just split bulbs from Sainsburys? Should I be looking to get a particular type?
Also, my strawberries have arrived - temporarily put in pots of compost. Should I be doing anything apart from planting - should i put a cloche up?
Gods, and raspberries too - in fact all the bulbs I ordered, and the seed catalogues and my soft fruits all arrived on the same day! Flap and Panic (if my teenager uses the word 'chill' again, I will beat him to death!
All advice welcome

[Palefire]

You'll probably find the Care For Onions and Garlic thread lower down of great interest for your garlic, Campanula.

Love, Palefire

xxx

[campanula]

Pale fire, I know I am being simple but lower down where?

[budgiebreeder]

Lower down the Notice Board we discussed planting Garlic

[Mrs Ava]

As for your strawbs, well, mine are just in and left to their own devices.  I checked out everyone elses on the site, and they are just all there, doing their thing.   If your rasps are bare rooted, then you need to 'heel' them in until you are ready to get them planted, so in other words, just cover the roots with damp compost.  Again, these are hardy and will stay in all the time, so I figure, once in, leave them to it, altho I seem to think you should prune the rasps back once planted.......  sorry, hope this total lack of information helps!   ;D

[Palefire]

Sorry, Campanula :), I meant on the Edible Plants noticeboard. If you scroll down the topics, you will find a long one called "Care for Onions and Garlic". I think it was started by Boxingtortoise.

My strawberry plants, because they are quite young, have been left to get on with it, but I will take runners from them next year (side shoots from the parent plant that root themselves) and plant them up individually. As I understand it, the life of a strawberry plant is not very long in terms of productivity, so a way of propagation is to take the runners, plant them up, not let them fruit in their first year so that they develop a good size, then let them crop. Please, anyone who knows more over turn or agree with this! ;D

Love, Palefire

xxx

[Beer_Belly]

Campanula - this board has a good search function as well so if you search for garlic you'll get a list of all the posts that mention it. -BB

[merv]

About 4 years palefire.

You just get in the habit of sticking the runners of prolific/tasty plants in pots every year, don't you.

[Palefire]

I did see AT show how to propagate strawberries by putting a pot of compost next to the parent plant and pinning the runner into it so that the root system would develop while it was still getting benefit from the parent plant, then he severed the stem when it was established a few weeks later.

My strawberries are in pots, as I haven't the room to let them run riot , so I will use the pot off-shoot method myself. Cheers for the lifespan tip, Merv, the ones I have are lovely, so I will continue with those until I fancy trying some of the delicious looking ones from the Marshalls catalogue!

Love, Palefire

xxx

[john_miller]

Strawberries are in the rose family (Rosaceae), mint is Lamiaceae, which is generally referred to as the mint family. They are not considered related.

[Palefire]

Thanks, John. Wasn't sure - another urban myth!! Or more like another grannys garden myth in my case! I have removed what I thought was related to what so that no-one else goes on to say it ;D ;D.

Love, Palefire

xxx