quick question about garlic (MERGED)

Lotus-eater

silvercharming wrote: »

That's the theory, anyway. The reason we're all saying get it in the ground (or bucket or whatever ) as soon as possible is because if garlic doesn't get cold enough weather it doesn't form cloves properly.

You can still use it though, I had that one year and just cooked with the whole bulb, easy to cut up! I love using fresh out of the ground wet garlic, most of mine never gets to the drying and hanging up stage

sammyjammy

I've got a Solent Wight bulb, I know its quitew late but I'm in Sheffield so plenty of frost and cold weather to still come, I'm planting my garlic in pots, can anyone tell me how deep they need to be? I know that I need it to be about 6" wide to ensure there is room for the bulb to grow but not how deep?

nodwah

I plant mine with the top just showing thru the soil and then put a net over to stop the birds pulling them out

billieboy_2

I bought some from Wilkinsons a few weeks ago (£2 a pack of three as another poster said - I got 21 pots from two bulbs and gave the other one to a friend). On advice from a gardening magazine (I think it was Grow your Veg) it said to start them off in pots then (January) and stick the pots in a cold frame where they will fill the pots with roots and you can then plant them out. I haven't got a cold frame so stuck them in my mini plastic greenhouse where they have enjoyed a few weeks of very cold weather. They are now shooting and I will wait until the roots are coming through the bottom of the pots before planting out. I'm also starting off some carrots and parsnips in there in toilet roll middles.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i just wanted to confirm that i can put my garlic outside?

i planted them up in a module tray last week, and they have started tp root and sprout, so well on the way, i need to make some extra room in the greenhouse, so can i put hem outside in a sheltered spot?

also i am planting up a load of broad bean seeds in module trays can i put htese out too? or is it best to keep them in hte greenhouse and on my windowsills..lol....?

i havent grown broad beans for years, and my mind has gone totally blank

Lotus-eater

Garlic can go anywhere outside. Broad beans can go outside as well, although it wouldn't hurt them to stay inside in a unheated greenhouse for a while.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Garlic can go anywhere outside. Broad beans can go outside as well, although it wouldn't hurt them to stay inside in a unheated greenhouse for a while.

ooo thanks for that.... this will give me more room in my greenhouse:D

angelavdavis

OH and I planted garlic in January when the ground was frozen (except for the panel we were planting on as we kept it cloched so we could plant easily.

The garlic is now sprouting to about 3 inches high!

I think garlic prefers some cold weather in order to develop properly.

Last year, we forgot to cover the soil so the soil was too hard, I grew the garlic in large modules for a month or so until the soil was ready for planting - they did well enough!

kazwookie

My beans are currently planted on toilet roll cardboard inner tubes, the idea being is once big enough, I can just plant the whole thing.

livefornewt

Sounds silly even writing this question but.....what do you plant as garlic? could i plant a the flffy bit of garlic after i have used all the segments?