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sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 11 2:27 pm Post subject:
Oh should I be pulling it up now? I planted it last October/November. The leaves haven't started dying yet.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 11 2:34 pm Post subject:
Harvested some the other day - the flavour is phenomenal. This is the garlic that went in so late and did so badly last year that I just left it in the ground for another year.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 2:45 pm Post subject:
It's the Equinox, time to plant soon. My garlic was one of the few successes this year.

wildfoodie

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 2169

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 2:56 pm Post subject:
I thought garlic was planted on the shortest day of the year dec 21st and harvested on the longest? in which case we're only halfway to planting time! Anyone heard that rumour that if you plant saved cloves from your previous crop the garlic becomes more and more happy in your soil and performs better over time?

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 6:37 pm Post subject:
Best planted before december. And your ground might be frozen hard on the shortest day! October to November's best.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6613
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 6:39 pm Post subject:
October for those of us not on an island in the gulf stream

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 7:10 pm Post subject:
Halloooo long time no see! It's all to do with the frost I believe, vernalisation, and late planted garlic and a poor spring will take an age to get going and lead to small bulbs. I find autumn planted can be harvested in late may.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6613
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 7:14 pm Post subject:

I imagine that your advice is entirely correct concerning your own experience.

In my part of the world you need to get your garlic in the ground before the ground is frozen and has a foot of snow on it. Mid-October is probably the latest you'd want to plant it here. (not that there's necessarily snow by then, but you want the garlic to have a chance to grow some roots)

It will pop up and start growing in late March. Harvest by mid-summer

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 7:23 pm Post subject:
Yes, I've read some US websites who put a lot of effort in determining when the best time to plant is. My method is usually to start thinking about getting around to it sometime soon, about now, and then some domestic crisis happens or relatives with good intentions do something, the days get shorter and it's always dark, and eventually it has to be done in the pissing rain.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Nov 02, 12 12:46 pm Post subject:
Damn - must order garlic.....

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 13 11:35 am Post subject:

My garlic finally broke the surface this week after planting in November. However, the following morning they were all gone and there was a strong smell of garlic.

I assumed they had been had by mice and I spent the afternoon swearing about mice while sorting out some mouse-proof mesh to put on part of the bed to try to save any survivors which were still underground. When I went out to fit it, the garlic shoots had miraculously re-appeared!

We'd had a frost in the night, the ground had heaved and subsequently thawed; the garlic smell was possible caused by the shoots being scraped by the moving soil or as OH suggested was all in my imagination.

Good news but d'oh

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 13 11:04 am Post subject:
Tragedy! White rot claims crop.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 13 11:10 am Post subject:
Bum.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 13 11:18 am Post subject:
That's fine thanks, regular bathing helps.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 13 1:20 pm Post subject:
We have the best garlic we have ever grown.Planted in the poly tunnel in October last year. Dug an elephant bulb last week,weighed in at 1lb 2oz. Naturally, the old git at the plot said it wouldn`t work,but we more than happy with the result.

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