Topic: garlic - falling over

[antipodes]

When they are ready the stems go yellowish brown and flop over.  I dunno what our harvest will be like this year, I was quite late, but some of the stems seemed well developed, which is usually a good sign. I planted Spanish supermarket garlic! LOL It is purplish but dunno the variety exactly. Bugger using planting stuff, about 4 euros for a couple of bulbs? I bought a bag with huge bulbs from Lidl, cost about 90p  :P

[irridium]

mine are from 'the garlicky company' up in scotland, a porcelain hardneck called 'Music'. they were about 80p each with only 4 cloves in each bulb so i was a bit gutted they were that big and thus, i won't be expecting much of a harvest this yr, for eating and saving. i was thinking of some nice, purplish ones in a small basket that Lidl had a few months ago but i didn't want the disappointment later if they didn't grow well in the UK. did anyone else grow these?

[Robert_Brenchley]

If it looks good, give it a whirl. Some garlics do have a very few large cloves; I like them myself, but I haven't grown Music.

[Alex133]

Have seen advice not to plant shop bought garlic as often treated with growth inhibitors etc and may not be suited to our climate.

Dug up Marco and wouldn't win any prizes but looked better than I expected.