Q: Can I propagate garlic from small cloves?
Friday, July 17th, 2009I just pulled a number of volunteer garlic and I noticed small bulblets growing outside/under the larger cloves. Can I propagate from these?
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10,000 Years and Planting
Friday, October 3rd, 2008From our limited perspectives on time, it is easy to forget, that humans have not always been farmers and gardeners. As we plant our fall crops, just before this year’s harvest festival, let us remember our ancient prehistorical heritage. Let us take a momentary look at those first few awkward steps from reliance on the bounty of nature and the luck of the hunt, to nurturing food-bearing crops. For over 90% of human existence on this planet we survived by picking what grew without interference in the wild, and also by the meat of the animals we could hunt by our strength and wits.
The exact beginning of plant cultivation is difficult to determine. In part, this is due to the fact that writing and thus written history, occurs thousands of years after the prevalence of hunter-gather type social groups. Yet also, it requires an act of luck on the part of modern researchers to find the remnants of plant material needed for evidence, when these fragments are tens of thousands of years old and highly perishable. (more…)
