I tried once but wasnt very successful... i want to grow garlic next year.. if i remember rightly i could never get the plants to produce anything but green shoots...?

i want it like you get it in tescos

anyone got any garlic growing tips??

i have the ones i got were like tatties ya know seed tatties i just stuck straight in ground they are doing well

Buy your garlic 'seed' from a garden centre instead of using supermarket bought bulbs as the ones bought from the supermarket for cooking can carry disease.

I planted this years crop last October and have recently harvested about 5lb of garlic from just over 1 m2

feed wise i gave them a good few hand fulls of blood, fish and bone worked into the soil before planting and in the spring i gave them a top dressing of pelleted chicken manure, apart from a couple of liquid feeds early summer i pretty much left them to get on with it

Totally agree with Joolz,

But if you can find an Asian shop that sells just asian veg the bulbs are fine they are also fresh, the only problem I had early this year were some little tinkers eating the top growth, all along the row at the same height, roughly 8" up, some netting has stopped that now.

Split the bulb up into cloves I add wood ash before planting.

JOM

thanks guys much appreciated

Joolz is it too late to plant garlic?

I can put them into a glasshouse if that makes a difference....

late sep to early nov is best for planting, harvest is may to july depending on var, soft necks store longest, hardnecks taste best, look at dt browns, dobies etc web links are the head of the this forum.

Solent Wight is a good long keeper softneck on light to medium soil, sprint is a fast hard neck on any soil.

On the market I can buy a huge bag of garlic bulbs for €1. Not worth the effort trying to grow your own.

I have had great success with 'Marco' this year - lovely big cloves. I plant three batches, one in March and two in September/ October. The late september ones usually do best unless the winter is very cold.

Homegrown garlic is way better than the dry rubbbish you can buy..It actually has garlic juice in it.

Give them plenty of potash and very little nitrogen, or you'll end up with thick stemmed bulbs that don't store very well.

HAHA no wonder mine aint grown then!!

I planted mine in April
I just got little green shoots.

Its always worth growing your if only to get up monsantos nose

probably too late

i planted these in feb and pulled about 15 decent sized bulbs last week, i've eaten and given away most of them though





Can't beat fresh garlic.




Nice one ot1, think I'll go for solent wight next, just about to prep the bed for sep planting.

Does anyone know how far apart garlic should be planted?
Or if I wanted to yield 50 medium-sized bulbs per year, how big would my patch be? I got 15 decent sized bulbs from that red container above, if I made it 4-5x bigger, should be enough for 50 bulbs?

Cheers

Can garlic be grown in pots I wonder ?

And I have read somewhere that where it grows it keeps greenfly at bay - anyone heard this?

SL

I don´t think you do.
The large succulent bulbs that I buy at my local market are a million times better than the small, hard, dry things, that are probably already sprouting, that Tesco knock out.

Yes, you can grow garlic in pots and containers. The soil should be well-drained and they can be fed easily. Also water the containers / pots well and place them in a sunny position, avoiding winds. By the edge of the house where they still get the sun is ideal.

You could have eaten the green shoots they are still well garlicky, and in my book prefrable to the dry stuff. I cut them up and chuck them in salads, stirfrys, mashed potato etc. Kind of like spring onions but garlicky. The flowers are also delicious in salads soups etc
Or maybe I have been on the continent too long
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hey gromo............ you've not been on the continent too long.

i miss seeing this stuff, like in your pic. food = life... all to be enjoyed.

eats shoots and leaves!!!!!