Topic: What's on my garlic?

[Tee Gee]

Like a bag of liquid.

Need I say anymore? :-[

Get down to the supermarket and buy a couple of bulbs and try with these.

For now, its a cheaper option than buying from a dedicated supplier.

If you go to a dedicated supplier and assuming you can get some, it will be a bit late for sowing by the time the time they arrive, so at least this way you might be able to grow some.

Sorry!!

[lee79]

If I get some ASAP will it be too late?  On other threads they say it is.

Thanks everyone for the help.

[Tee Gee]

If I get some ASAP will it be too late?  On other threads they say it is.

This is quite possible but I would have thought you will get some.

As things stand you are not going to get any.

Personally I would give it a go on the old proviso........ ..nothing ventured nothing gained.

And getting your bulbs from a supermarket is certainly the cheapest option.

I would have thought you would get back as much as you put in. By the way only sow the biggest cloves ........eat the rest!

What you might find is that the cloves won't split, they need frost for this, and who is to say that we won't get any??

At the end of the day the choice is yours!

Best of luck

[lee79]

Cheers Tee Gee, with you on that one 'nothing ventured, nothing gained'.

I'll give it a go and see what happens.

[goodlife]

Looking at your photos...I just wonder if your cloves were just too old/past their best and didn't have enough energy in them to put some growth on..and thats why they rotted off...

[lee79]

Looking at your photos...I just wonder if your cloves were just too old/past their best and didn't have enough energy in them to put some growth on..and thats why they rotted off...

Haven't a clue.  Although, soon after first planting them they were starting to grow foliage and had roots.  Looked to be doing good, so think I got a false sense of security and concentrated on other things, without realising what was happening to them.

[Robert_Brenchley]

In that case they're dead.

[star]

It sounds like they were old then Lee, garlic doesnt usually sprout that quickly. They need to put roots down first.

It appears they sapped their own energy to fast with no nourishment.

Good luck with the new ones ;)

[lee79]

Cheers Star, will see how I get on.  Fingers crossed.

Thanks for the replies.

Lee.

[Thegoodlife]

lee take a look at this link may help


http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r584100511.html