Growing great garlic
COMPLETE waste of money. Discussion on varieties is difficult to follow due to poor writing style and lack of tables showing climate zones, varietal pros and cons. Diagrams are irrelevant. Section on soil types is unreadable. I couldn't find any useful information about growing in pots, fertiliser, soil Ph or moisture. Quite a lot on growing under snow in USA which is useless here in Australia. Dated, hippie tosh.
good book
this book was very helpful to me - it could of been cut in 1/2 because of all the unneeded material.
but it works for me now in my backyard in the city and it will be extra helpful when I am growing about an acre of garlic in 2 1/2 years
for someone wanting to grow only a a dozen or less bulbs, this book is probably not for you.
Great Results
I originally purchased this book to grow garlic for my own use and had such excellent results that I am now growing and selling several different types of garlic. At first the book seems to be redundant, but in practice it makes sense, since you can refer to the section that applies to stage of the growing cycle you are in at the time.
My only complaint is that sometimes the information is not completly clear and you may have more questions than answers. If you would like to see color photographs of almost all the planting stock available, with descriptions and characteristics, I would highly recommend "the Complete Book Of Garlic" by Ted Jordan Meredith.
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