I tried that on half of my elephant garlic this year. The conclusion was: It didn't help any. The only thing it seemed to change is, the ones I trimmed dried up sooner. I could not see any significant difference in the size of the bulbs.Aren't you suppose to cut the scapes off to help the bulb form?
Got no leaves, Gix, but I know where I can go to get some. Let me know the next time you plan to take the family out for dinnergixxerific wrote:It's getting late Stella and Wolfie so get out there and do it this weekend or next.
Just an inch or 2 deep pointy side up and mulch heavily with leaves or straw.
You wouldn't happen to have any leaves laying around would you Stella?![]()
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Roses do love garlic also chopped up onion in the soil. Most everything loves garlic it is a natural pesticide or at least a pest repellent. I have been researching companion planting with a write up coming soon.applestar wrote:The author of the companion planting book Carrots Love Tomatoes has a 2nd book called Roses Love Garlic. So last year, I interplanted garlic where I intended to grow a distant cousin to roses: strawberries. That worked out pretty well this summer. This fall, I've been planting them around another distant cousin: apple trees... as well as other fruit trees. The strawberry plants have spread so much that I'm not sure if I have room for garlic among *them* any more.... Maybe I can find some room in the back of the strawberry beds.
This pic has inspired me. Thanks. I would like a bed of Elephant garlic one day.jal_ut wrote:Here is another pic of elephant garlic in bloom.
[img]https://donce.lofthouse.com/jamaica/e_garlic_in_bloom.jpg[/img]
I find Garlic does not take up much space. I put to down the sides of beds or leave spaces between rows of it and plant carrots between.don't think I can plant any cuz I don't have any room to plant something that won't be done until next august