Growing Garlic

Pip Judgeford · « **Reply #15 on:** September 05, 2010, 00:53 »

Quote from: jansoldman on August 31, 2010, 14:51

this was my best year for garlic , probably due to cold weather , garlic likes a longish period below 5 degrees in jan or feb ,and we had that in the royal county this year alright so i have loads of the stuff !!!
i plant in october , solant white ,sic, from wallis seeds my favourite seeds merchant very good value.
My tip is keep the garlic from being in a waterlogged state and feed as already suggested with a high potash feed or comfrey in the spring

Potash - does this mean I can use wood fire ashes? I've never done this before with garlic.

I do put ashes around my gooseberries in the winter and have fabulous cropping, but they are dormant when I do it, unlike garlic would be.

Thanks, Pip

jansoldman · « **Reply #16 on:** September 17, 2010, 13:49 »

i buy potash as a chemical feed from my garden centre vitax and chempak both sell it

bigben · « **Reply #17 on:** September 17, 2010, 14:32 »

Potash - does this mean I can use wood fire ashes? I've never done this before with garlic.

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my neighbour grows 2000+ onions each year (before you ask -I think he sells them). He swears by putting the ash from his wood burning stove onto them - it certainly seems to work as he gets great results.

Pip Judgeford · « **Reply #18 on:** September 18, 2010, 21:23 »

my neighbour grows 2000+ onions each year (before you ask -I think he sells them). He swears by putting the ash from his wood burning stove onto them - it certainly seems to work as he gets great results.
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Cor, thanks Bigben. I'm trying not to use chemical fertilisers and have 2 tin buckets of ash (= free

)...so I'll give it a go today.
I'm growing rocombole (hard top garlic that does that fantastic loop-the-loop thing with its "flower" stalk) and a pink skinned soft top garlic. Used to grow elephant garlic but too wussy for my taste and if I didnt track down all those little hard bulbs I found I was getting it everywhere.

regards, Pip

Kristen · « **Reply #19 on:** September 19, 2010, 10:11 »

Wood Ask contains a much higher proportion of Lime than Potash, so beware that it will raise the PH of your soil too (i.e. make it more Alkaline). Not necessarily a problem ... but it might be after a few years!

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