Green sprout up or down?
In deference to my young cousins who are students at Texas A&M - I will NOT tell the "Green Side Up" joke ...
But yeah - green side up!
Green sprout up or down?
This is a very helpful post. Thanks for starting it, Spryte. I planted my onions and (second-year) asparagus this week, so I might as well pop in some garlic with it. They'll probably all be ready at the same time! And we'll have roasted asparagus and onions with garlic mmmm.
One question- Do I peel the cloves before planting, or leave the skin on? Does it even matter?
I'm not following your logic on planting your asparagus and garlic and the same time and having them ready at the same time. When do you expect them to be ready?
Yes, you leave the skin on each clove of garlic.
Am I wrong?
In deference to my young cousins who are students at Texas A&M - I will NOT tell the "Green Side Up" joke ...
But yeah - green side up!
I even cultivate "wild" garlic.
If I see some anywhere, I dig it up and take it home. I plant it and ever year I have more. I only dig what I can use and make sure I take a little here and here in the bed evenly. The rest I just let grow.
Wild garlic has a stronger, and I think better flavor than cultivated garlic. My family and friends like it better than store garlic.
Very interesting site!!
well, I think garlic is quite facinating, and I did learn a few things from this link. But it makes me wonder, how many folks here think "store bought" garlic is all there is?
I think so, from my understanding. If you have just recently planted 2 year old crowns, you can take a light harvest next spring and full harvests after that. Asparagus is a spring harvested vegetable. You harvest them when they first start popping up each spring. Here in southern Ohio, my asparagus just started coming up last week. And I am working with a new bed that has one, two and three year old crowns. I am not touching the two year old crowns, even though they look enormous. It will weaken the plants to harvest from the two year old crowns. They need this time to grow and establish themselves in order to produce for the next 20+ years. By late summer, they should be tall ferns, nothing you would be tempted to harvest to eat.
I am only relating what I have read and I am following the recommendations on my new (and old) asparagus bed. I have not tried to harvest two year old plants on either my new or old bed. My old bed lasted 22 years so the recommendations do seem prudent. Good luck, you are lucky to have these asparagus plants!
last question...does the original clove become part of the new bulb?