The King of Green

Growing Garlic from Bulbils

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:03:00 -0400

Growing Garlic from Bulbils

Growing Garlic from Bulbils https://norwegiancreekfarm.ca/bulbils

Why we do it.

Growing garlic from bulbils is an excellent way to quickly increase the amount of garlic that you are able to grow, but more importantly it improves the vigour of the garlic plants and helps reduce garlic viruses in your crop. As well, soil-borne diseases can be avoided as long as you are careful to keep the bulbils away from the ground.

Garlic is adaptive to it's environment, and growing from bulbils allows the garlic to adapt more quickly to your local conditions.

How we do it.

My preferred method of growing garlic from bulbils is to plant in raised beds in short rows running across the bed. Small bulbils can be crowded together, while larger ones like an inch or so of space between them. Leave a few inches of space between each row to facilitate weeding with a narrow hoe.

Plant the garlic bulbils about one inch deep and cover with soil. Sometimes we add about an inch of organic potting soil over the entire bed to help with weed suppression. We like to plant quite heavily because during the first year plants seem to like being crowded.

Fertilize as required and water often, as they do not tolerate getting too dry.

Keep the beds as weed free as you can, and they will be ready for harvest around the same time as garlic grown from large cloves.

Harvest and Replant

By harvest time the plants have produced small bulbs with cloves, or more commonly single rounds. Rounds will generally produce a bigger bulb when they are planted, but in time they all get up to size.

We try to harvest while the plants are still green as this facilitates getting the bulbs out of the ground. We dig up clumps of plants and gently shake the soil out of the roots.

One important observation - plants that have produced a scape will have a bulb with cloves, while a plant without a scape will produce a single round. Both kinds are perfectly fine for planting, just make sure to separate the cloves as you would for a full size bulb.

Granddaddy portulacaria bonsai

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Mon, 8 Oct 2018 08:18:00 -0400

Before and after new pot

Grand Daddy Portulacaria Bonsai from 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:54:00 -0400

earliest photo I could find

The Postage Stamp

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 07:10:00 -0500

The Postage Stamp

There was a little postage stamp

No bigger than your thumb,

But still it stuck right to the job

Until its work was done.

They licked it and they pounded it

‘Til it would make you sick;

And the more it took a lickin’

The better it would stick.

Let’s all be like the postage stamp

In playing life’s game;

And just keep on a-stickin’

Though we hang our head in shame.

The stamp stuck to the letter

‘Til it saw it safely through;

There’s no one can do it better-

Let’s keep sticking and be true.

-author unknown

Drivers licence international 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:22:00 -0500

Early Morning Autumn Sunlight

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:33:00 -0400

The morning sun was shining brightly on the vivid fall colours of the woods next door. The air was crisp . The brilliance was powerful.

Gerry T Okimi
Turf King Hamilton Halton Haldimand
95 Hempstead Dr Unit 14, Hamilton ON L8W 2Y6
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At Demetre's brownie caramel cheesecake, Sundae and who's fighting over the whipped cream on the side

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sat, 17 May 2014 21:46:00 -0400

Happy Mother's Day

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sun, 11 May 2014 14:31:00 -0400

Sunrise sunset depending on which way you facing unless you are looking in the mirror - course the mists and fogs create an interesting effect (I-ffect) for apple-0nians

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:33:00 -0400

Gerry Okimi
Turf King Hamilton Halton Haldimand
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Snowdrops are up! A sure sign that spring is near

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sun, 6 Apr 2014 07:51:00 -0400

Front garden

April 2/14 Finally spring enough to start digging in our raised vegetable garden bed- well one of them anyways. It's a start!

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:24:00 -0400

More Japanese Church Photo

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:47:00 -0400

A red fox in the field looking for mice. Sorry shot is a bit far away and blurry. Second photo as he scurries off

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:33:00 -0400

Lythmore Gypsum Plant

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:27:00 -0400

Toronto Japanese Adventist church circa 1955?

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:44:00 -0400

Annalise announces

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:24:00 -0400

New bundt pan

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry Okimi) — Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:55:00 -0500

Basic recipe:
400 g butter
375 g sugar
2 pkg. vanilla sugar
7 eggs
425 g flour
100 g corn flour
1 pkg. baking powder
Beat softened butter, sugar and
vanilla sugar until frothy; add eggs
one by one. Sift flour, corn flour and
baking powder over the mixture and
stir until mixed.
Pour dough into the greased baking
pan and bake about 60-70 minutes in
the center of an oven preheated to
180°C
Suggestion:
The cake can be varied as
desired by adding nuts,
almonds, chocolate or fruit.
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Gerry T Okimi

Turf King Hamilton Halton Haldimand

95 Hempstead Dr Unit 14, Hamilton ON L8W 2Y6

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