Hello Permie mates, im in southeast Australia. Long time reader, first time responder. Id like to share my experience of Garlic growing. Our region has hot summers and cooler than average temps in winter than a lot of the state of Victoria and is very dry. We are off grid, we have stand alone solar power with battery storage and 100000lt of tank space for drinking water and 25000lt of dam water storage to water our gardens comprising of 2 cracked concrete 25000 litre tanks that can only hold half capacity before they leak out. We have a good catchment into our dams from the bush. Some years like this La Nina year are great for catchment although our last 8 weeks have been extremely warm and dry. But I digress. Garlic...Last year I thought i was smart and planted early, as the weather was still warm i continued the garden watering regime that led to my garlic plantings all rotting in the ground, which i found extremely confusing because in previous years, leaving it late to harvest and the dried leaves dying off and making it impossible to find the grown garlic, I just left it in the ground and it sprouted the following year, although im unsure how much i may have lost due to rotting. So, a later planting of garlic ensued and produced a wonderful crop of this years garlic. Im going to give some pot growing a go this year, seems strange to be thinking about planting when i havent thought about preserving the last lot yet, which i will slice in the mandolin slicer and dehydrate. in betweek processing tomatoes, eggplant, beans and zucchinis. Take care Permies
