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Growing garlic
Started this discussion. Last reply by Catherine Dec 12, 2011. 24 Replies 0 Likes
Hi,I just joined this evening so I just wanted to say hello and ask a burning question ! Is it too late to plant garlic, and if not, is there a particularly variety that you would recommend. I live…Continue
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Colin Dixon replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Same here Sue. Last years took about 3 months to appear too. However this year i planted about 50 cloves from the cornershop near where i work in early November, and it came up about 4 inch a week later (i swear). Just planted some from Sainsbos…"
Sue Gollop replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"My best garlic last year did not appear for 3 months-I contacted the seller in despair and they said 'Just wait-it will be all the better for being longer underground' And it was. Still not appeared yet this year and planted…"
elaine rickett replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"It will be interesting to read about the end result Gareth."
Gareth Bannister replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"
In my grand garlic trial 2011/2012 i'm growing 7 different types
1 My own saved 'Red Toch'
2 Vayo from Dobies
3 Chesnok red from T&M
4 Edenrose from T&M
5 Mystery saved garlic 'Roshni's mum'
6 My freind…"
John Cross replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Hi again. Seems theres quite a few differing opinions on garlic - what works for one person may not work for another - too many variables maybe. Charles Dowding is a vegetable grower whose ideas I admire - in his book "Organic Gardening"…"
Colin Dixon replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Hi again. Like John i grew garlic from Lidl last year with excellent results. Hower as an aside. Earlier this year i was on a BSI auditing course, and one of the attendees was a guy from the food trading standards agency. Now he swore that all veg…"
Malagrowther replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Don't bash the greengrocer. The important thing is that your garlic was grown in the UK and not impoted from Egypt or Spain. I go to organic vegetable shops where they name their sources and try to get Scottish grown stock to grow…"
elaine rickett replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Right - I'd better get cracking then. Thanks"
Sue Gollop replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Still time to do it given the warmth (unless you are in Scotland?)-then you will get the frost to come which will enable vernalisation - the hard wintering process enabling good growth/lots of cloves
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elaine rickett replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Although I have already planted out some garlic - I still have two bulbs left to plant - what is the latest you can do this and still get a good crop?"
Sue Gollop replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Absolutely-after a major disaster one year with disease and a measly harvest using greengrocer bulbs, I would never do this again. My garlic harvest is too precious to me (and to my Brazilian daughter-in-law). Sadly only 5 fat bulbs left…"
elaine rickett replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"I have also harvested much bigger bulbs from proper stock rather than saved cloves from the supermarket."
VP replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Interesting - I did the same comparison one year with the opposite result!
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John Cross replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Hi - I buy whatever bulbs look good in my local greengrocers and plant them and have always had a good crop-in fact one year I invested in bulbs from a garden centre and the bulbs from the greengrocer did better - I also grow some in…"
VP replied to Paula Green's discussion Growing garlic"Hi - if you do find some garlic bulbs and the ground's too hard by then, you can start them off in pots. I do that every year because I'm on clay and they'd rot in the ground. Leave them outside so the frost gets to them - they need a…"
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