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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You might like to read A Garlic Testament, by Stanley Crawford. I did.
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Looks like a good book.
Garlic is among my favorite crops. We grow a little bit of a lot of things, but if I were to actually farm a big crop, garlic would be at the top of my list. It gives you three crops, the chives, the scapes, and the bulbs, and two ways of reproducing (bulbils and cloves). The crops come in at times of year when other things aren't ready for harvest, so it fills in quiet times. And there is a wonderful variety of different kinds.
Of course, I'm also laying plans now to get over 50 varieties of peppers going next year (we did 30 last year and were trying for 40 this year - didn't quite make it because I got distracted).
