Topic: At last... a decent crop of Garlic.

[vegmandan]

Well considering the terrible weather this year I'm amazed how well my garlic has done.

Planted it on March 28th and dug it up yesterday.

Decent size too.

Best thing is that they were planted from some bulbs I had left over from last years crop so I must have inadvertantly developed a new strain which does well in a rubbish summer. ;D

[Sparkly]

they look great. What is the variety?

[kt.]

I had never grown garlic till last year.  I planted 6 garlic I got given and only got 1 piddly little bulb about the size of a spring onion... and it had gone to seed :(

[vegmandan]

they look great. What is the variety?

Not sure of the variety but they were from Wilkos and cost £1.49 for 3 bulbs.

Bargain. ;D

[star]

A fine crop :D, they put mine to shame :(

[caroline7758]

My early planted ones from King's were good but the ones I planted in Feb were from B&Q and were disappointing- got rust so had to dig up when they were small.

[glosterwomble]

I want to know what I did wrong!!! I planted proper seed garlic last year (Oct/Nov sometime) and I got NOTHING!!!  :'(  Totally zilch came back out of the ground, the foliage all died off and there wasn't a single bulb or clove when we dug around. It must've all rotted away  ???

Maybe I should copy you Vegman and plant later on, your crop looks fantastic!

[vegmandan]

I've never had any success planting in Autumn as it just seems to sit in cold wet ground all winter and suffers as a result.

I would really recommend planting the appropriate variety in late March like me.

I know garlic needs a spell of cold weather to grow well but March is cold enough for it to get a cold snap.

I've had a great crop ever since giving up Autumn planting even including the last 2 years of rubbish Summer weather so If you've had a problem with Autumn planting and had a disappointing crop then I'd give Spring planting a go.:D

[tim]

Just proves the point, doesn't it?

Brilliant!!