[ruffmesiter_69]

How is your outdoor sown crops going, are they up, need thinning, or even harvesting yet or maybe still in the packet.

Here is what ours arw up to. Outdoor sown crops

[richyrich7]

My beetroot seem to be going Ok, unfortunately the couch that I thought I had killed is doing better  

[corndolly]

Beetroot and turnip up and needing thinning, carrots just starting to show and parsnips one or two, but the rain we've had will bring the germination rate up .

[WG.]

Does garlic count?
The taller stuff (18 inches at the moment) is porcelain garlic.  The shorter stuff to the front right is a regular hardneck.   The espalier apple tree is in the background

[crowndale]

Thats a lot of garlic wg!  I got about 21 plants in total!! (thats all I planted mind you so not complaining!!)

[WG.]

Thats a lot of garlic wg!  I got about 21 plants in total!! (thats all I planted mind you so not complaining!!)

21 plants gives you a bulb for approx every 2 1/2 weeks so that would be enough for most households.

I sell it fresh, pureed, pickled and smoked; I have about 4500 plants.  

[ruffmesiter_69]

Thats a lot of garlic wg!  I got about 21 plants in total!! (thats all I planted mind you so not complaining!!)

21 plants gives you a bulb for approx every 2 1/2 weeks so that would be enough for most households.

I sell it fresh, pureed, pickled and smoked; I have about 4500 plants.  

4500 wow!!! we decided not to grow any this year, but may return next

[richyrich7]

4500! do you plant by hand ?   :o

[dawninspain]

No vampires in your neck of the woods then!

A question - do you buy in fresh bulbs to plant every year or save your own to replant?

Our garlic is very patchy this year - read somewhere that you are only supposed to plant the largest cloves from each head.

Also here in Spain 'ajo tierno' is very popular - the garlic is harvested in the green before it has made its bulb and the whole lot is chopped up and used to flavour tortilla and sauces to go with fish.

Dawn

[WG.]

4500! do you plant by hand ?   :o

Yup.  And weed by hand.

do you buy in fresh bulbs to plant every year or save your own to replant?

Mostly fresh bulbs since they have better vigour.  I do also grow from seed.

ajo tierno

Yes, I do also sell garlic greens and garlic scapes for this purpose.   They are GREAT in stir fries !!!
NOTE: if you do cut garlic greens you will seriously limit the final size of the bulb underneath

[corndolly]

wow thats a lot of garlic, are there any pests and desease that can plague garlic ?

do you feed the plants at some stage? and when do you harvest?

I've grown some elephant garlic this year as well ,do I treat this any differently .

[WG.]

Garlic gets the heaviest manuring of anything in my garden - often applied as a mulch at planting time (October ideal but I start Aug & finish Dec).  Also any spare worm compost

White rot is very serious if you get it (lasts 30 years in the soil).  Botrytis costs a few plants annually but no big deal.   More info here : http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/FactSheets/Diseases%20of%20garlic/GarlicDisorders.htm

Harvest in July, can't remember exactly (early July I think)

Elephant garlic : sorry but it is devoid of any flavour IMHO

[Sam K.]

This is what I have been planting outside; being in the process of moving the greenhouse I have planted almost everything outside in the soil.

Nantes carrots just thinned last night Autumn King not long planted
Obviously onions garlic and Shallots
Peas, mange tout etc. coming up
First sowings of beetroot thinned
Spring onions up along with pickling onions
Radishes nearly ready to pick
Broad beans are in flower
Parsnips have not germinated well though more have started to come up with the rain, had to thin at some stations.
Summer cabbage seedlings doing OK

Dwarf French, tall peas and fennel no sign of yet, though they have not been in long! Also the chives are not showing yet and these were sewn at the same time as the spring onions.

Under cloches (outside? :? )
Dwarf French just about to flower
Nantes carrots coming on well roots are about 5” though thin (if I keep pulling them out to look there will be none left )
Salads been eating for a month

All in all happy with progress, though I never seem to do well with sowing chives.

That is ALLOT of garlic, how much space does that take up?

[ruffmesiter_69]

do you grow anything else in that great number?

[WG.]

That is ALLOT of garlic, how much space does that take up?

I've got it all over the place (containers too) so it is hard to figure.  About 3000 plants are for final crop so a 6" spacing gives 1500ft of rows 6" wide.  The remainder is for cutting green or pureeing or is growing from seed for next years crop

do you grow anything else in that great number?

Shallots (mostly from seed), leeks (for baby leeks).  Probably have similar areas given over to growing Jer Art, Chinese Art, potatoes, brassicas and parsnip.