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From: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: question: organic broccoli & garlic
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Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 16:15:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  4 16:15:48 1986
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Broccolli is probably aphids favorite meal.  I had good luck with
frequent washdowns using Safer Agrochem's Insecticidal Soap, and
hitting them with a hose spray whenever I thought about it.

I've grown regular and elephant garlic, and found that the plants
vary widely in their robustness, somewhat related to the size of
the clove.  Think of a normal head of garlic - some large, mostly
normal, and a few teensy cloves.  Your wimpy plant may have been
from a wimpy clove, OR you may have had something sprayed to prevent
sprouting (most storebought garlic is treated, unless is says
otherwise).  Re creating a whole head from a clove - garlic is
biennial, the first year it creates the head full of cloves and
the second year (if you allow it to stay in the ground) it exhausts
the energy stored in the head of cloves to grow more and flower.
The ones that I didn't manage to dig out of the ground provided
a very nice little bed of flowers the next year!


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
 "every time that wheel goes round, bound to cover just a little more ground"
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