Okay,thanks.
I’m new to garlic. What do you mean spoil? I planted some this spring. What happens if I leave them till next year?
Pick your garlic when leaves are dying but 4 are still green for longest storing time. You can leave them in the ground all year but it increases the chance of disease and rotting. I’ve had some in the ground for several years but some have died off.
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Also, it looks like you left the garlic scapes on. If you cut them off when forming, you can use them for various purposes like stir fry or pesto. It is supposed to leave more energy for larger bulbs as well.
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once the whole top dies the cloves separate from the bulb and are more prone to dying out and rot . yes they will regrow in spring but once the casing splits open the cloves wont store long. thats why you harvest once the 2 bottom leaves brown so the bulb will store longer.
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I bought one of those big $5 bags of mystery garlic from walmart. They wanted like a buck a piece for seed garlic. Potted them up in some composted wood chip mixed with dirt and seems to be working OK. Potting using the plastic bins from walmart is my new method for items you have to dig. End of the season you just flip it over and get whatever it is. Works great on horse raddish. I’m also experimenting with the potatoes grown in straw/woodchip
above ground.
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Okay,they are all dug up.So,the tops and roots get cut off and then hang them up to dry?
What are the little nodules,attached to the bulbs,in the second pic?
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I believe that is elephant garlic
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Yes,I looked it up and they are called corms and can be planted to get a mild onion like bulb the first year.If that is planted,a full multi-clove one will grow.
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If it is elephant garlic ( Allium ampeloprasum) it is a different
plant from typical Allium sativum garlic. The flavor is different.
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This works great for ginger too.
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Question: How the hell did I end up with an entire orchard of fruit trees, when all I wanted to do was ask a few pomegranate questions?
This occurs to me each time I see the miracle that is growing in my ‘backyard’! And all because of this forum. I learned almost everything from this forum’s members . . . and a few things from YouTube! We are still ‘amazed, dazed and confused’ to see all the beautiful fruit !!!
How did this happen? 
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like i tell new members. welcome to your new addiction! better than drugs. 
my wife’s 3/4-acre lawn is now broken up 1/8 acre.
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For those that graft rootstock the same year they receive it.
Do you-
Pot the rootstock and wait for it to wake before grafting?
Graft and pot at the same time?
I benchgraft, then pot.
I did 12 grafts this year- 4 fig (Frankenfig project), 3 apple, 2 plum, 3 avocado. one plum, all the figs and I think one apple took.
the apple grafts are springy and alive on the graft, but the branch (cleft graft) it’s grafted to looks dead and dry. maybe I should chip bud them, give them another go? it’s too hot to graft any other way I think.
the avocado I thought one took but it’s brown at the graft area, it looks like that connection area is dying. the rest of the graft is still green and the rest of the tree is fine- is it too late to cut and try to regraft? it’s pretty hot out but no buds have broken parafilm.
one I pulled as the branch I tried to graft to definitely dried up, I’m trying to propagate/root it instead. it seems ok. the other avocado grafts all dried out quickly, but they were 2 very small scions.
How tall will a Prok persimmon tree get? I’ll be replacing a Bradford pear with a Prok next to my cider block. It’s 30 feet south of my apples. I’m gonna let it get tall, but I don’t need a monster shading out my cider block in 15 years.
@Chills Looks like young Xylaria polymorpha, Dead Man’s Fingers. They grow on rotting/dead wood, but don’t cause it. They look like this when they are older:
Do you have photos? It could be callus, or it could be starting to desiccate. Duke in particular tends to form a large, ugly, brown, bulging callus on most grafts. Assuming this is one of the scions I sent you a couple months ago, I’m doubtful there would be enough energy left in the scion after this time for it to survive regrafting, especially if it’s already turning brown at the end.
I can definitely send more scions if you want to try again! I’ve got Jade, Royal-Wright, and Duke all ready to be trimmed a bit.
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