On 2024-10-03, T  wrote:   
   > On 10/2/24 16:27, Bob F wrote:   
   >> On 10/2/2024 7:11 AM, Snag wrote:   
   >>> On 10/2/2024 6:44 AM, T wrote:   
   >>>> Hi All,   
      
   >>>> Anyone have a favorite place to purchase garlic for   
   >>>> planting?  Some place the does not want $$$$$$   
   >>>> for them   
      
   >>>> Many thanks,   
      
   >>>    Walmart , in the produce section . Relatively cheap , so buy plenty   
   >>> . You only want to plant the biggest cloves . Big cloves = big bulbs .   
      
   >> Buy where ever you can find what you want. You only have to buy it once,   
   >> and you can keep growing the ones you like forever. Just set the largest   
   >> bulbs aside for planting in the fall.   
      
   > I have been trying to grow garlic for probably ten years now.   
   > They always fail on me.  I am not about to spend 40 U$D plus   
   > shipping for planting garlic.   
      
   > We have a lot of commercial garlic farmers out here.  What they   
   > grow is top secret.  If I could get my hands on some of it at   
   > one of the farmers markets, I bet I'd finally get a good crop.   
      
   > Unfortunately, our local farmers markets mostly sell crafts.   
   > You know the stuff that you build yourself and costs you   
   > three times what just bought it prebuilt.   
      
   > I am thinking of just getting some from the local supermarket/   
   > Wally World etc.  The organic bulbs have been rather small   
   > lately.  I will pick through the bin.   
      
   i read somewhere grocery store garlic may be treated with something   
   to help prevent it from sprouting on the shelves.   
      
   that somewhere may have been here;   
   https://greyduckgarlic.com   
      
      
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