Topic: Garlic

[colleenemp]

Ok. So the garlic is fat and tall. All the advice I have found says harvest when the foliage yellows and withers. Mine are starting to put up flower spikes. I know they aren't supposed to set seed, but should I be letting them flower?! Do I harvest after that? Yup. Had an allotment for AGES, but haven't grown garlic properly before. Thankyou.

[caroline7758]

I think you are supposed to pick off the flowers.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Pick off the buds and treat them like you would spring onions.

[Fork]

Dip the garlic flowers in tempura batter and deep fry......delicious  :P

[cleo]

It seems far too early for garlic to be ready-those flower spikes make me suspect it has been stressed somewhere along  the line. You may get a decent crop but I`m not that optimistic

[floraldi]

I have completely forgotten where I planted mine :-[

Trouble is, I grow too much stuff.  Do they look like spring onions when they are coming up?   Must go search.

[Robert_Brenchley]

They look just like spring onions; mine are getting a bit big for that now.