RE: @CreativeTruth's July Garden Update 2020 [Gardening]

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We started some garlic from store-bought cloves this year and had the exact same issue as you. I was surprised because we have wild onions that grow right in the lawn here during the fall and early winter when the grasses go dormant. I thought it would do better. I think I might try to start some garlic again in September to try to mimic those conditions that the onions seem to like. My theory is that it might get too hot in the spring and summer here for garlic to thrive.
I remember my father had some pretty wild success with turnips years ago (great lakes plain area of NY, a bit different climate and soil from the Piedmont area of NC I'm in now). He ended up with so much yield and nobody else in the family would eat the turnips so he had to give a bunch of it away. I wish he was still around to ask him what he did and relay the information.
He used to do weird stuff with his gardening sometimes. My brother and I had a contest with him one year to grow giant pumpkins and see who could grow the biggest one. We laughed as he put a piece of PVC pipe into the ground and fed milk to the roots (he did compost as well along with normal fertilizer). I just dug a deep hole and tilled in compost along with regular fertilizer. My brother was the laziest and just put his straight into normal soil and fertilized it once in a while. I came in second place but my father's pumpkin was more than twice the size of mine. I don't remember the exact weight, but it was heavy enough that we needed to move it around with the bucket loader on the tractor. I'm thinking maybe 400 lbs. Not a world record but pretty respectable for a first try.



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Straight Milk for fertilizer? That is hilarious.

Awesome story.

Something weird you said reminded me about wild garlic that was growing all over my lawn one year. It seemed to sprout only in the mossy sod of the lawn. Maybe that says something about the type of drainage and moisture care it prefers.

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