It’s a great garlic season, early warm spring, gentle summer and a lot of rain. The garlics have grown wonderfull. It ended a bit early by rust attackin the garlic leading to an early harvest, but stille well developed garlic.
The first varieties to be harvested was a nicknamed silverskin “Grethes supermarked” and a nicknamed artichoke “Tanja’s tyrkiske grønthandler”. Both have adapted well to this 56 northern latitude (Denmark)
I’m new to blogging, so foregive a slow start,
Yours, Søren.
July 29, 2007 at 10:30
Your blog looks really nice! I like your pictures.
I also had ‘rust’ on my garlic this year, but it came late enough that it wasn’t really much of a problem. I am in contact with several other people in Holland, Belgium and the UK who grew garlic this year. As far as I know, except for you an me, everyone else lost all of their garlic because of the rust.
August 1, 2007 at 12:25
Hi Soren,
That garlic looks good – mine was attacked by rust but I managed to save some heads but we’ll see how they keep. I’m interested to hear what other varieties did well in a northern climate.
August 2, 2007 at 14:57
Ups, rust can be a serious problem in garlic, and Patrick and I have been lucky. Here in Denmark everybody tell me the had a great year for garlic, despite the rust.
John, I will make a new post with my garlic varieties, right now.
August 5, 2007 at 15:23
Since making the comment above, I’ve been in touch with a number of people I thought had crop failures (some of them read this comment) and the situation turned out to not be so bad. Many people did in fact end up with garlic of acceptable size and were able to cure it for storage and probable replanting.
It does seem that the further north you are, the better the garlic stands up to the rust. It may also have to do with the area it was grown in. My garlic was grown in a fairly remote area with a clean environment, rich in biodiversity. I suspect yours was too.
August 5, 2007 at 15:38
Hi Soren,
Your blog and your garlic looks great! Garlic is probably my favorite crop for growing in the garden.