http://tinyfarmblog.com/garlic-now/ Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://tinyfarmblog.com/garlic-now/#comment-675 Mike Tue, 01 May 2007 12:23:50 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/04/22/garlic-2007/#comment-675 Amanda: Music is a hardneck garlic that, as far as I know, is propagated exclusively from cloves (asexually reproduced, clone), so it'd be as heirloom as it gets. It's named after Al Music, who popularized it around here, the one variety at the seed houses I use. I read that it was a variety he brought from Italy. A neighbor right across the fence used to grow garlic for sale and actually knew Mr. Music... I don't think there's much if any hybrid garlic available in general, they only discovered fertile garlic and how to produce garlic seed in the last 20 years or so, it's apparently been propagated exclusively by cloning from cloves for thousands of years! (I qualify everything because I grow less trusting of the accuracy in history and scientific conclusions practically by the day... :) It's good garlic, strong and flavorful, that much I know from first-hand experience! Amanda: Music is a hardneck garlic that, as far as I know, is propagated exclusively from cloves (asexually reproduced, clone), so it’d be as heirloom as it gets. It’s named after Al Music, who popularized it around here, the one variety at the seed houses I use. I read that it was a variety he brought from Italy. A neighbor right across the fence used to grow garlic for sale and actually knew Mr. Music… I don’t think there’s much if any hybrid garlic available in general, they only discovered fertile garlic and how to produce garlic seed in the last 20 years or so, it’s apparently been propagated exclusively by cloning from cloves for thousands of years! (I qualify everything because I grow less trusting of the accuracy in history and scientific conclusions practically by the day… :) It’s good garlic, strong and flavorful, that much I know from first-hand experience!

]]> http://tinyfarmblog.com/garlic-now/#comment-673 Amanda Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:58:20 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/04/22/garlic-2007/#comment-673 That garlic looks really good! Is Music an heirloom variety or hybrid? That garlic looks really good! Is Music an heirloom variety or hybrid?

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