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Gidday

Well old Phil may be right when he said, "One thing fer sure, you ate some, and yer still here!
Research is needed!"
For research you will need to do something to yourself to prove that you are still alive. If you are you will know they are O.K to eat.

I reckon they are cos I often eat any vege tops I have without even thinking and I think I have tried raddish but caint remember now what they were like.

Gidday

Like I said they are usually staked down here. As for the height, in a glasshouse situation where they are wound around a string dangled from about, when they get to about 6 feet they let the string loosen a bit and move it along so the old trunk will go along the ground a few feet before going up and sometimes the plant will be up to 20 feet long. We always kee our to a single trunk by cutting off all the laterals.

Gidday

Can someone tell this dumb old Kiwi what are tomatoe cages, and how do you use them and for what reason?

Gidday

Well blessa ma sole. I never knew growing garlic could be so technical.

I am lucky because I have found a very good variety. Flavour is great with heaps of juice and a bloody good size.

And what's more, I have never seen any garlic as easy to peal. In the picture above you can even see some of the skin have just fallen offa it.


What I understand is that you must use only the best of your bulbs, like biggest and best lookin, and then to only plant the best cloves off that.

I alway plant on A.N.Z.A.C. Day which is like your Veterans Day but is on the 25th. April, so you can work that out for your season. I have never bothered doing raised beds and all that sorta stuff, but I might just be lucky there. I have always just poked them into the soil so that the tops are only just level with the surface. They seem to grow alright for me so I will just keep on keepin on with them.

You can notice there are two sizes of garlic here. The big ones are from the cloves like I have just described. The smaller ones are from the litle bulbetts that grew on top like seeds. The trouble is I eat so much of the bloody stuff and I haven't been able to build up enough stock for planing so I am trying those little bulbettes. I beleive that it will take a couple of years to get the good big sized cloves this way but at least I know I will have plenty of planting stock for next year.


I've learned not to be too impatient about seein them little bits of green as I know they have to first grow their root system. In fact often the poke those roots out with so much vigour that they shove themselves right outa the ground. And it is often late winter or early spring before the green shows.

I don't fertilize my garden at all but with my garlic, I always empty our ash pan from our fireplace

onto my garlic too. Ummm. The ashes and not that lump in front of the fire because he often digs me bloody garlic, or anything else for that matter, right outa me garden, The bugger.

Gidday

Yeah, they still go good in just rotten weeds. You just build a coffin, (raised bed) with a couple of planks on edge and fill in between with the compost and plant into that. The reason plant my carrots thast way or in the straw bales is because of our clay soil. It's just so nice to have them easy to pull and come out clean.

Gidday

Tell ya what mate, I just hate those death traps. Most dangerous things man has ever invented.