posted December 21, 2002 04:09 PM           

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may sound silly...

But I have some garlic that got too old and now three of them have sprouted and have long shoots coming up out of them. Now I can't throw them away because I'll feel guilty! heh!

So... how do I grow these little suckers? Throw them in some dirt in a pot and put them on the window sill?

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posted December 21, 2002 04:58 PM           

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id imagine just some water with a bit of plant food to grow the roots out a bit before you actually put them in some compost (not soil - COMPOST!)

but im not exactly Alan Titchmarsh...anyone else here to any gardening?

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posted December 21, 2002 04:58 PM           

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oh yes, and if i remember rightly keep the roots out of direct sunlight, i think it damages them but im not sure.

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posted December 21, 2002 11:37 PM         

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I always grow garlic, just put them in a pot, and water them and you'll have garlic bulbs

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posted December 22, 2002 12:00 AM         

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Hi, about the garlic it is worth your while to try and let them grow w/ minmal care. However, were the cloves from the grocery store and are they organic?

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posted December 22, 2002 12:01 AM         

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Hi, about the garlic it is worth your while to try and let them grow w/ minmal care. However, were the cloves from the grocery store and are they organic?

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posted December 22, 2002 12:09 AM           

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I did get them at a grocery store but I don't think they were organic.

*goes to look for a pot to plant them in*

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posted December 22, 2002 08:55 PM         

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LOL, I swear, w/o going into to much of an irate tangent session (!) Typically anything that you could potentially grow from a grocery store has a high rate of failure. The growers of any sort of plants now are using so much unwarranted technology that They genetically modify everything (arrrrrrrrrrrr) Like If I were to grow the eyes from a potato there really would be no edible fruit. I would really like to see how they turn out! Good Luck!

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posted December 22, 2002 10:55 PM           

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Humans have been genetically modifying everything through selective breeding programs for over 6,000 years!

Its more the chemicals and stuff they put in to make them more "palatteable" than GM.

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posted December 22, 2002 10:56 PM         

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That's so interesting BugginOut I never thought of that.

I do know that i love to eat lemons and when I was a kid sometimes the seeds would get in the bottom of the dishwasher, and sometimes from the hot water I guess we would find a sprouted one! And it was pretty cool.

And didn't your mothers tell you if you ate an apple seed it would grow into a tree inside you?? or maybe that was just my mom?!

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