Growing Garlic

janibrown

I have planted lots of garlic earlier in the year and its doing really well but i have cleared some more space and was wondering if i could still plant some or is it now too late, also can I start some broad beans off now aswell ?
Any help
Thanks
Jani

kazwookie

I would put them in and see how it goes, after all the weather is warming up now.

wayne1983

Is garlic growing an annual thing or is it perrenial as i love garlic in just about everything and it would be nice to have it to hand when i need it!:beer:

TonyMMM

wayne1983 wrote: »

Is garlic growing an annual thing or is it perrenial as i love garlic in just about everything and it would be nice to have it to hand when i need it!:beer:

No - it needs to be lifted and dried for storage ....although you can use it fresh from the ground (known as greeen or wet garlic).

Ideally you plant it in late autumn or very early spring and lift in summer ... some say you "plant on the shortest day and harvest on the longest day" .

I planted mine in Nov last year and lifted it last weekend (when the foliage all flops over) - it is now on a rack drying and will then be made into strings and hung somewhere cool/dry.

realfood

You can plant broad beans now for a late crop.

wayne1983

TonyMMM wrote: »

No - it needs to be lifted and dried for storage ....although you can use it fresh from the ground (known as greeen or wet garlic).

Ideally you plant it in late autumn or very early spring and lift in summer ... some say you "plant on the shortest day and harvest on the longest day" .

I planted mine in Nov last year and lifted it last weekend (when the foliage all flops over) - it is now on a rack drying and will then be made into strings and hung somewhere cool/dry.

Cheers, although ive just read it can be perrenial, although i would have said its annual i wasnt sure.:beer:

Kay_Peel

I kept garlic in a pot for about three years. It did well the first year, not so well the second and by the third year it was weak and tired, so I pulled it up. So it can be a perennial, but not a very good one.

TonyMMM

It is a perennial in the same way that any bulb is ....however, as it is the bulb that you eat there wouldn't be much point in just leaving it to grow every year !

COOLTRIKERCHICK

my garlic isnt doing that well this year:(

i thought garlic needed a good cold spell to help it 'split'

last year i used some of my garlic wet, and dried some out which i am coming to the end of now

rosie383

I just lifted the first garlic today as all the plants have flopped over this past week. It's quite small, so i am a bit disappointed. If I leave the rest, will they get any bigger, or should I just lift them now? I planted them in November, and used some 'cheap' garlic and some proper horticultural garlic. It is one of the 'proper' ones that I just lifted.
And if I use it 'green', is it strong, or would I just waste it if I use it now?

Lotus-eater

TonyMMM wrote: »

It is a perennial in the same way that any bulb is ....however, as it is the bulb that you eat there wouldn't be much point in just leaving it to grow every year !

I was thinking that, I wonder how it looks after being left for year after year. Millions of tiny cloves I would guess.

Garlic is one of those plants that man has mucked about with so much, it really requires us to help it out by poking and prodding, to let it live a normal life. Well to get it the way we want it to anyway. If we let it go wild, I suppose it would go back to something like wild garlic relatively quickly.