Growing garlic as perennial

wayne1983

Hi, i use a lot of garlic, and love it. So ive been reading that it can be grown as a perennial, and just wanted to know if anyone has tried growing it this way and if so how does it come back as a perennial when you pull the bulb out the ground? Many thanks.:beer:

Farway

Never grown garlic, cant stand the stuff, but I guess take a couple of cloves off & plant them for following year

wayne1983

Thanks Will give it a try, take it with the lack of replies it cant be something popular people grow, myself i can eat it all day!:cool::beer:

Farway wrote: »

Never grown garlic, cant stand the stuff, but I guess take a couple of cloves off & plant them for following year

Mrs_Huggett

Found lots of info on this just by typing the question into google, here is one example http://greenshireecofarms.com/2011/11/23/garlic/

wayne1983

Thanks will take a look, been searching and finding that you can grow it has a perennial, i was just having trouble understanding how when youve pulled the bulb out the ground how it grew back! , however would love perennial garlic!, heaven!:beer:

Mrs_Huggett wrote: »

Found lots of info on this just by typing the question into google, here is one example http://greenshireecofarms.com/2011/11/23/garlic/

unrecordings

I think the gist of it is that you don't pull all the bulbs, just some of them. The bulbs that remain in the ground will (I assume) eventually spread to form clumps - much like daffodils.

Davesnave

Err....yes.... garlic is perennial.

I expect that's what most of us thought, so we didn't understand what there was to discuss!

Those of us who grow it a bit carelessly often find a few bulbs popping up where it was a year ago. However, I wouldn't advocate doing that deliberately, because it's probably better to move them about to lessen the chance of disease build-up, particularly rusts.

Oh, looks like I've discussed it anyway!

wayne1983

Ok thanks, well im going to grow this and if any comes back all well and good, cheers.:beer:

trollopscarletwoman

Normally garlic is planted clove by clove in the same way as an onion set.

And now is the time to do so. Did mine over the allotment today.

I can see how the bulb could be left and indeed grow into a clump.

wayne1983

Just put about 50 cloves in the ground, and put some hay over them has it said it was recommended. Ill see how they go now.:beer:

trollopscarletwoman wrote: »

Normally garlic is planted clove by clove in the same way as an onion set.

And now is the time to do so. Did mine over the allotment today.

I can see how the bulb could be left and indeed grow into a clump.

Mojisola

wayne1983 wrote: »

if so how does it come back as a perennial when you pull the bulb out the ground?

It doesn't. You have to leave some cloves in the ground to grow on again for the next year.

With this system, it's the bed that's 'perennial', rather than the plants, in that you continue to grow garlic in the same place year after year.