[CH] Not exactly chiles, but more on-topic
Jonathan Smillie (jonathan.smillie@gmail.com)
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:03:11 -0400
I posted a while back that we're growing garlic in our vegetable garden
for the first time this year, and (according to the growers we bought
the seed garlic from) you're supposed to harvest when the leaves on the
lower third-to-half of the stalk dry out and die. We're about at that
stage, and so this week we pulled up two heads of the Bzenc variety, a
Czech garlic that is supposed to give medium-sized heads with a reddish
skin.
Out they came - but the heads are only about the size of my thumbnail.
Aside from a late cold snap in early May when we had two nights below
freezing, the weather has largely cooperated; we let the garlic grow its
scapes, or seed pods, and then cut those off when they got curly, like
you're supposed to. So I'm a bit mystified as to why we appear to be
growing mini-garlic. Anybody else had this experience, and have advice
on what to do to avoid it next year?
Thanks!