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Growing Great Garlic: The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small Farmers | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron L. Engeland
Publisher: Filaree
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 109207
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 213
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0963085018
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.26
EAN: 9780963085016
ASIN: 0963085018
Publication Date: November 1, 1991
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Ron L. Engeland has made his living as an organic garlic grower in Washington State for nearly two decades. He has cultivated more than 450 strains from all over the world. If you want to grow incredible garlic for yourself, he's the man to listen to.
Product Description
The first garlic book written specifically for organic gardeners and small-scale farmers
Growing Great Garlic is the definitive grower's guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult this book regularly.
The author tells us:
which strains to plant
when to fertilize
when to plant
when to prune flower stalks
how to plant
when to harvest
Plus, how to store, market, and process the crop.
Growing Great Garlic makes a genuine contribution in the field of garlic classification that will help the public recognize several distinct varietal types of garlic.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 All about garlic. December 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very well written with attention to detail. It is a must have for the serious gardener.
 Yikes.... July 27, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Type in growing galic in your search engine and 9 out of 10 will tell you it is a snap.
This author has at least 40 reasons why your crop will fail.
I don't recommend this book... too negative and too disorganized.
I love this book! June 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a gardener who loves to cook, and I love my kitchen herb garden best of all. When I decided to try growing garlic this book was recommended by the seed (bulb) supplier as a great place to start, and they were right! It's well-written, complete, and a great reference. Highly recommended!
Full of garlicky goodness May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd recommend this book no matter where you live as the author gives instruction for all weather conditions. My home here in the Southern Hemisphere is quite cold and snows in winter but is dry and warm in summer - so I now know what I can grow and have found a great organic site that I can buy my garlic bulbs from. Bliss!
 Pretty redundant and fuzzy January 17, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you finish this book, unless you're already a garlic farmer, you'll have been endowed with about 10 times the amount of information that you'll ever need. This book needs a major edit as the information is jumbled and unclear. I got the impression that the author definitely knows his stuff but was unable for some reason to convey it in any coherent way.
I read the book in its entirety and all I really wanted to know was WHEN to plant and harvest my garlic -- I THINK I know now but I had to go back and re-check what Engeland said on this topic. So, if you just want to know the simple things about growing garlic, just check the internet. This book would definitely be helpful if you were planning to grow garlic as a source of income.
Maybe a revised version will come out soon, which would surely be an improvement.
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