.....Garlic

orchidpepper

Hi everyone,

I was in asda the other week and they had their gardening stuff reduced. Garlic was down to 60p for 3 bulbs.

Got it home and half was unusable and rest was ready to go off so........I planted them in wee modules in the greenhouse. They are getting really big now in only a week.

My question is......I know I've planted them both too late and too early if you know what I mean.

Do you think it will do ok once I plant it out?

Gx

valk_scot

I don't think it will do that well, but you never know! You can always treat it as garlic chives this year and eat the leaves, they're good in salads and stir fries. Then get some fresh cloves to plant at the proper time.

Badrick

You've nothing to lose and can't do much worse than mine planted in January, they were the size of pickled onions when the tops died back :rotfl:

Sambucus_Nigra

It will be fine. Plant out around Sept time. The garlic was obviously trying to grow so let it.

orchidpepper

Badrick,

I planted mine out in Oct last year and I assumed they'd been growing away nicely but mine were tiny too and that's 10 months worth of growing. Fed them too, weeded regularly, watered in dry weather. Really have no idea where I went wrong. That's mostly why I'm trying them earlier to let them get a bit of growth before winter. Don't care if I end up with one massive clove of garlic per bulb as long as I get a decent return

RAS

Hi

Get those wee moduoles out of the greenhouse. You want to grow garlic fairly hard.

If you have some ground, get them in as soon as possible, otherwise as soon as you have spare ground.

They need a period of cold hard weather to force them to split and some varieties need more than others. I had to pull mine early (and planted some late) but the ones I put in last September (from bulbs I missed) have done really well.

demystified

gayle21 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I was in asda the other week and they had their gardening stuff reduced. Garlic was down to 60p for 3 bulbs.

Got it home and half was unusable and rest was ready to go off so........I planted them in wee modules in the greenhouse. They are getting really big now in only a week.

My question is......I know I've planted them both too late and too early if you know what I mean.

Do you think it will do ok once I plant it out?

Gx

Theres an old saying which goes, plant Garlic on the shortest day and harvest it on the longest.

Although not the best time of year it's worth a shot, you might see something before they run to seed next year.

Badrick

gayle21 wrote: »

Badrick,

I planted mine out in Oct last year and I assumed they'd been growing away nicely but mine were tiny too and that's 10 months worth of growing. Fed them too, weeded regularly, watered in dry weather. Really have no idea where I went wrong. That's mostly why I'm trying them earlier to let them get a bit of growth before winter. Don't care if I end up with one massive clove of garlic per bulb as long as I get a decent return

I'm putting it down to the weather, everything I've grown this year seems miles behind compared to most other years, even Monty Don didn't get any decent carrots this year

Sambucus_Nigra

demystified wrote: »

Theres an old saying which goes, plant Garlic on the shortest day and harvest it on the longest.

Although not the best time of year it's worth a shot, you might see something before they run to seed next year.

That's more about it having to be done not that it has to be done on that day.

Garlic resprouts when it is ready, and anytime between the longest day and the shortest is time to put garlic in. I usually use the 21st Sept as my garlic and overwintering onion putting in date, right in the middle.

The trick is to loosen the soil around them in the spring, give them a phosphorus feed, and water it in so that the feed gets to the roots; and hope for a decent early summer for them to bulk up.