Fertilizing Garlic

[Livewater Farm]

been growing garlic since 1988 started out with 8/10 varieties and have thin it down to 2

german white and a variety we call bulgarian   got it from a women visitig a friend from bulgaria she was a healer and this garlic was in her tool kit   very strong and hardy stiff neck been acclimated to southern vt soils now performs well and is great used to make my pesto  stores well and  large gloves easy to peel

used to grow 1/2 acre of garlic but now down to about 1000ft  age and labor getting to me as well as we no longer do any farmer markets used to do 5 markets a week with everything from meat to cheese

Bill

[wild millers]

We started with about 8 different varieties almost as many years ago and have culled down to our 3 favorite at this point. We didn’t know the name of those originals varieties to begin with although we do know that at this point we have one rocambole type that we have named “Wild Millers Choice” because it doesn’t grow very tall in the field, but it’s not to be underestimated because it consistently gives us door knob sized heads. (Both Annalisa and I also don’t stand very tall in the field) Then two porcelain types, one I think is German extra hardy but the other we call “Lovely Luoma” after our sister in law whose maiden name is Luoma and both she, her husband and this plant grow very tall.

Besides these differences we tend to believe in the idea that there is really only one variety of garlic, but because it’s grown in so many different soil types, over time it has taken on different characteristics of the parts of the world in which it is grown. I see some credence to that just because some of our varieties started out spicy and have mellowed out over the years we have been growing them. It seems our soils grow a less pungent garlic. Don’t know if there is really any truth to all that but we like to think so, anyway its more fun to cultivate “your own variety” of the great garlic.

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