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Posted by tristate (My Page) on Mon, Jun 22, 09 at 10:30
My daughter and I are total newbies. I'm trying to do complimentary gardening (in the sumemr house) and read that animals and pests hate onions and garlic and that we should generously plant both around our garden (with a few exceptions). So last weekend I cut up a couple of supermarket onions and garlic and we just dropped them into the ground. I figured that if they can sprout in my fridge, they can sprout anywhere. When I cut them up I was thinking that maybe the roots of the plants might need some of the original roots so I made sure the onions/garlic were cut in wedges. But other than that, I didn't create a raised bed, didn't prep with phospherous (per websites I've now read) and haven't been around the house to check on them for over a week.
Should we expect anything? It's an experiment that won't cost us more than a couple of pennies but still, it'd be nice to know if we could potentially eat them, however small or pungent they may be! |
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| Garlic is planted in the fall. Harvested in July. I have never grown onions so I will beg off on that one. |
RE: Onion & Garlic just dropped into dirt-expect anything?
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| You can grow both for greens at any time. But don't chop them up! And don't peel them. Plant them sprout side up, root side down. You'll get scallions from onions, and garlic greens from garlic. And they do help repel some pests. Some supermarket garlic is treated to prevent sprouting. Buy at the farmer's market to be surer that it will grow. You might get some sprouts depending on whether there were any intact cloves or bulbs in what you planted. Have you seen any yet? |
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