A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2003 Found the answer to me garlic question

Awhile ago I asked if anyone could tell me what the little round balls on my garlic roots were, Nash wrote and said they might be nemitods. Well, from checking with several garlic growers in Penn, I have found out that this variety grows sets. Appearently it is the only one that does this. Imagine that, garlic sets! Hopefully I will have alot more heads in a few years.

Thank~You, largelady@aol.com,
We love to hear about updates on the questions, projects and their outcome.
Do you remember the name of the variety??

I have ornamental garlics, my favorites' called either the walking or nodding kind.
I think it's a garlic, but I want to say it's called an onion. (non~edible) They curl under and back around again and then they make bulbs at the end of the flower, fall over and make new onions where ever they lay.

Thanks for the update!!!

What else do you grow??

Weezie

Hi, Weezie13. The "experts" in Penn say that this is a wild red skinned garlic ans they are not real sure of which variety it is from, other than the garlic I have had good luck with tomatoes. My garden area was taken over by chinese blackberries a few years ago and haven't been able to totally get rid of them yet so I have been limited to a very small garden space in frount of my house. I'm trying zuccini this year and the plants are big and healthy but having trouble with the usual flower end rot, some strawberries are doing good and have even planted an agel's trumpet which seems to be doing good too. Hopefully will have my garden area back next year and then watch out, will plant everything I can.

largelady@aol.com,
We gotta find you a shorted name!!!

How cool, at my mom's house on the hill,
we have wild either onions or garlic,
What does the top look like?
Was it really from the wild or wild one cultivared???

Gotta ask, who's the "experts"
Just curious???

Weezie

Sorry Weezie, just call me Largelady. Anyway the "experts" is the old lady that lives in the house next to my sister, she is like 90 yrs old and has lived in that house all her life so my sister figures she knows the area pretty well. My sister found the garlic growing in a patch by the side of the road and took some, it looks just like regular garlic. I think it needs a cold snap though in order to make the cloves, we don't get that here in this part of WA so all I'm getting this year is one central bulb instead of cloves. In NJ, at my Mom's house we had wild onion in the lawn too, really stunk when you had to mow. That looked like thicker, darker stems of grass until you cut it and had very tiny bulbs with very strong flavor.

Largelady,
Those types of "experts" are usually the best kind, good info and alot of it tried and true. Mother says my Grandmother sweared by manure tea to give to plants, and I was just reading the other day about some types of molds or something or other in the soil and that gets on to plants and that the "tea" cures it or makes it right!!!
I do compost tea and am finding the results very favorable too!
Interesting the info that goes around comes back around!!!
You wrote about the onions, in the lawn, I have the wild garlic on the side of my garage, my neighbor and I were standing there yakking and she looked down and went oh, my gosh is that wild garlic? She's lived there for some 20 yrs and never noticed it.?
But I had it up on the hill at my parents house. We always assumed it was the garlic as it was not looking like an onion we had grown. But smelled of the familiar oder of one. But the leaf is large and flat like a leaf lettuce, and very smooth.
I tried to look up info on the name, to no avail. I did write some one, so maybe I'll get an answer.

You mentioned the blackberry lily took over your garden, Make sure you save some seeds. I'm sure there is always somebody looking for them, I see that plant for sale in alot of gardening catalogs. I'm sure you could find some body that might trade you some other seeds for them?????????????????????????
I have the same problem with the zucchini blossom rot, I think it's the soil and deficency's, and too much moisture, alot of rain for me. The plant produces lovely produce but doesn't store long for me, so we pass them out to the meals on wheels people and they're just as happier than punch to get something fresh from the garden.
My strawberries are no coming in as I was having problems with 4 woodchucks eating them for dessert, finally had to put some chicken wire up around them and now they are growing nice and healthy.
What kind of tomatoes did you grow?
And the angle's trumpet is one of my all time fav's....... How ever, I don't have the space to over winter them, and I have little kids, and try not to grow anything that's poisonous to them, when they're all "growed~up" I'll try one again. The smell is absolutely heavenly. I could sit there with my nose in the flower all night!!!

Well, good luck reviving your garden space, and do let us know all about your gardening adventures!! Love to hear about them.

Weezie