reading (Growing Great Garlic)
Oct. 23rd, 2010 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI started reading this book about two weeks ago, as a reading break from ASP.NET. I would read as much programming as I could stand, then switch to garlic before going to sleep.
"Growing Great Garlic" by Ron England is a pretty easy read. It has a large section on the history of garlic and another section on the varities. The remainder of the book covers the stages of growing garlic: preparation, planting, growth, harvesting, and storage. Much of the advice is general because growing garlic is so very location specific. England tries to make general statements that apply to regions or climates rather than specific do this now statements. As such, the book is designed to encourage you to experiment, observe, and learn from your own plants in your own situation. I liked the history, but found it amazing that so little was known at the time of the writing about the varieties of garlic. I wonder if more progress has been made in the last 20 years or if people are still just blundering around between the one extreme of calling all garlic one variety and the other extreme of a different names for the same plants grown in multiple regions.
I picked up a lot of tips from this book and will certainly open it back for reference if I find my crop in trouble or feel the need to step my productivity up a notch.
24. Ron L. England "Growing Great Garlic"
"Growing Great Garlic" by Ron England is a pretty easy read. It has a large section on the history of garlic and another section on the varities. The remainder of the book covers the stages of growing garlic: preparation, planting, growth, harvesting, and storage. Much of the advice is general because growing garlic is so very location specific. England tries to make general statements that apply to regions or climates rather than specific do this now statements. As such, the book is designed to encourage you to experiment, observe, and learn from your own plants in your own situation. I liked the history, but found it amazing that so little was known at the time of the writing about the varieties of garlic. I wonder if more progress has been made in the last 20 years or if people are still just blundering around between the one extreme of calling all garlic one variety and the other extreme of a different names for the same plants grown in multiple regions.
I picked up a lot of tips from this book and will certainly open it back for reference if I find my crop in trouble or feel the need to step my productivity up a notch.
24. Ron L. England "Growing Great Garlic"
