whoops.. my garlic error

brians_daughter

urm, ok its my 1st year growing garlic, so thats the excuses out the way. Whilst speaking to the postman this morning he informed me that when i planted my garlic i should have split the bulb of garlic into cloves..urm well, i didnt and i only planted it in a small 10cm pot! what should/shall/can i do now?

Orange_King

When did you plant it?

If it is only recently then maybe you could make amends but I put my garlic in way back in February for a crop in July/August.

kings981

Too late for this year. Try again in November!
we all learn from our mistakes!!:)

brians_daughter

ah well, as you say you live n learn! They have been in since feb. The packet does actually say plant the bulb as soon as possible blah blah it doesnt state anywhere that i needed to split it... it was probably so obvious they didnt think to put that it needed to be split

Winged_one

I have missed a bulb or 2 over the years, which then sprouted again the next year. OK - the results weren't brilliant, but they DID grow.

Hopefully you'll get something this summer, but you'll also have more knowledge for next year's growing!

Lotus-eater

Even a clove of garlic would need a much bigger pot than a 10cm one I would have thought!

What does it look like?

pookiewn

There's a video on Gardeners World site about forcing garlic. Perhaps it might be ok if replanted into a bigger pot? They leave the bulb whole and apparently each clove still grows into a new bulb, just slightly smaller.