Drew, Thank you very much! It is very generous of you, appreciate . I will take any grade cloves. I have small garden and don’t need many. I will send you address
Hey no problem, PM address. I will be out of town till Sunday. leaving in 30 minutes, later!
Plant after first frost or by Oct 15th.
I harvest them to get some room and some we eat. Also less chance of fungus or virus if they are hanging dry in the shed. I replant in October here in NY.
I am just curious of what is the use of flower head, Can you plan the flower head too?
When the flower gets pollinated small garlic bulbs, called bulbils, develop. The flower head in the photo I posted has about 40. I separate them and plant each one. Next year I’ll have 40 small garlics all started from that single flower head.
Year one a single clove of hardneck garlic produces a single flower that has 40 bulbils.
Year two the forty bulbils grow and some may produce flowers. Even if they don’t in year three there will be forty flowers each with 40 bulbils so in year four you may have 1600 plants. Much more productive than Peaches.
Oh my goodness… That dish looks soooo good!! Recipe?
Ginny
Look’s like I have a LOT of catching up too do!! We had our first light frost last Saturday, and I had already picked most all the tomatoes whether they were ripe or not. We had a lot of rain mid summer and over the last few weeks. I also had a problem with the birds pecking at my tomatoes, so I picked a lot at first signs of blush and some at the green stage. I let them ripen up in my GH…
Ginny
More heirloom tomatoes.
Ginny
Lot’s of extra black ripened tomatoes. Black Krim and Margaret Curtain… Time to make some Bacon Black Tomato Jam!
Ginny
It is a recipe from fabulous Mario Batali for Eggplant Involatini. Really delish!
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I made 5 pints of Bacon Black Tomato Jam. It was so good the hubby and I already ate 1 1/2 pints. Next year I plan on planting and devoting a few black heirloom tomatoes just for this jam. Ha
Ginny
Jam looks really great (would love some!) as does your remarkable tomato harvest. I had maybe a 6th of of what you harvested this summer and early fall. Very impressive and the tomatoes are beautiful!
A garden friend on another forum sent me some green onion seeds labeled ‘Shandong Green Onion.’ She got them from a friend who received his from a market in China, I believe. They are a green bunching onion that is popular and grown all over Northern China. They are vigorous plants and can grow very tall. I sowed seeds in late winter, and had great germination. I transplanted the seedlings in a fertile raised bed along with strawberries and nasturtiums. I dug them up recently.
Ginny
Shandong Green Onion…The top of the green stalk and leaves to the bottom of the long white stem measured 40 inches. The long white stem/onion was between 8 to 10 inches long.
Today, for supper, I cooked up some Shandong Chicken with a Shandong Sauce to drizzle over the chicken and served with white rice.
Ginny
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Thank you mrsg… I lost count mid way through the summer on just how many pounds I harvested. LOL We had a heck of a heat wave this year. My tomato season has ended and I can breath again… Almost! 
Ginny
Ginny,
Your Shandong Chicken looks super delicious! How strong is the onion flavor?
Tom
Hi, the onion is very flavorful! It has a milder taste than the regular green onions. They are referred in China as the “Shandong Giant Green Onion,” or, “Shandong Da Cong.”
Ginny
Ginny, I really enjoy the pics you post, and your dinner looks absolutely scrumptious!
I have to ask, though, since you’re way up north, what is considered a heat wave there?