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  • How to plant elephant garlic the VC way ;)

    If you're a traditional gardener who believes that all plants should be in rows, leave this thread now!! At the very least, find a bottle of smelling salts and sit down.

    My method is almost no-dig, involves minimal effort and is very simple. The only tools you need are a trowel and a cup. You too can have two jobs completed in minutes using the VC method.

    Also works for onion sets, daffodil bulbs and anything chunky.

    Find the spot where you want to grow garlic - mine was in the rhubarb patch, which is full of tufts of grass. Now I could have dug this out, raked it smooth, hoed a row and measured equidistant spaces along it to plant the garlic.

    However, you know me better than to think I would do all that! Instead I pulled up a tuft of grass and bunged a garlic clove in its place. Wherever a tuft came out, it was replaced with garlic. It should make an interesting pattern when it all grows.

    I'm not too worried about the grass that was left as Elephant garlic is such a strong plant it will push its way through anything. Some of it will be left in situ over next winter to bulk up. By next winter, all the grass will have returned anyway but am I worried? What do you think???

    Conventional growers - how's your heart?

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    OK...someone has to ask...
    What's the cup for?
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      haha I love it VC! You are my absolute inspiration lol
      https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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      • #4
        seems a bit overly complicated to be honest...
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        1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Nicos View Post
          OK...someone has to ask...
          What's the cup for?
          I'm guessing to hold the elephant garlic while pulling grass tufts with the other hand lol
          https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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          • #6
            you also had a flask of tea, thats why there's a cup?
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            • #7
              The Cup was a test to see whether you'd read it properly ............and its for the coffee

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              • #8
                As stylish as ever VC

                I will be using one of your technique again this year. Randomly scattering old seeds on the raspberry bed

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                • #9
                  I gew two elephant garlic plants last year and they grew into ping pong ball size rounds. I intended to replant them this year but have forgot where I put them.
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                  Diversify & prosper


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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by MyWifesBrassicas View Post
                    you also had a flask of tea, thats why there's a cup?
                    Surely a glass of wine would be more useful
                    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                    Location....Normandy France

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