Which garlic? - Recommendation please

[Tora]

Hi all.  :)

I grew some garlics this year from supermarket garlic bulbs and had a good crop.
I want to make sure I get lots of garlics next year so I'm looking to buy proper varieties. Which garlic variety would you recommend?

Thanks

[Tora]

[tim]

They're all great. Nuances of difference.  Check out the credits?

www.reallygarlicky.co.uk/
www.garlicworld.co.uk/
www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk

[ruffmeister]

thats some expensive garlic!!!

[tim]

I'm not saying that you should buy it there - just read & learn.

But where do you source it cheaply? Like how cheap??

[ruffmeister]

we get ours from wyvale garden centres, have been very impressed with those

[Multiveg]

Have tried GarlicWorld but an email bounced back  ???
Have grown the different varieties from them but somehow labels got erm moved. Flavour was nice of all the ones I tried  :D
Have bought Marco (Taylors Bulbs) for overwintering. I have some garlic flowerheads that I might plant out.

[Robert_Brenchley]

After trying for several years to grow the appalling so-called garlic from local garden centres, which just didn't bulk up at all, I bought some from the Garlic Farm last year. OK, it wasn't cheap, but it was very well worth it, and you only need to buy it once.

[Rosyred]

Buy it once......so do you use bulbs from the lst year to grow for the following?

[supersprout]

Garlic, red of Sulmona, from Franchi.
Yes, I only buy garlic once and plant the fattest cloves from the fattest bulbs from then on - so I can't tell you what my white variety is any more! :-[

[Robert_Brenchley]

I just take the biggest bulbs and plant the cloves. I've just been planting Albigensian Wight, and I'll be putting in Solent Wight and elephant garlic as well as soon as I have a couple of beds clear. So far I've also put in the overwintering onions, walking onions and a few eschalote grise; most of the latter had rotted for some reason; I don't know why since all the other alliums are storing fine. I'll buy some more to make up the numbers; the harvest this year was pathetic with lots of very small bulbs but that could have been just the drought.

[OliveOil]

I bought 9 bulbs from garlic farm for £10, 4 of abyssian somthing and another one and 1 elephant garlic bulb with 10 HUGE cloves.  I am hoping for a bumper crop!

[MrsKP]

I'm still waiting for my Purple Wight and Solent Wight to arrive from Dobies. Each were £2.95 for 2 bulbs.

The bed has been ready for a week now and I'm beginning to drum my fingers but I've still got plenty of time.    ::)

[tim]

Just to say that you can still get something from as late as March - even in a raised bed. NOT the ideal place! Bone dry.

Some of these went in in January, the rest in March.

[Merry Tiller]

Just remember to always replant the very best of your crop, that way your harvest will constantly improve & acclimatise to your growing conditions

[supersprout]

Plenty of time to plant this year - plot wisdom here is November, not before ???
I go with the flow and plant garlic in November too, it seems to work fine here in P'boro :)

[MrsKP]

Just clicked through tim's links and the Dobies site.  Delivery won't be til October.   ::)

It's amazing what you can find out if you read !  I found some bulbils on my stored garlic this week and ate them.  Going to go and see if there are any more today to plant, just as a trial like.   :P

[Squashfan]

I've used Marshall's before but this year I've gone with the Garlic Farm Albisigan Wight (sp?) and their shallot offering. I'm also planting a head of the elephant garlic I grew this year for next year. Actually got to chat with the guy from the Garlic Farm at a show recently and he said the shallots will spoil me for other types. Expensive but hey, we're worth it, ha ha.  ;D

[Tora]

Thanks all!

Garlic Lover's Growing Pack from the Garlic Farm is tempting me! Red of Sulmona looks good too... and Music from Really Garlicky... and.... I want them all! I just love garlics :P
I'm going to plant some cloves from big bulbs I harvested this year too. I have no idea what variety they are, but they were great.

Glad to hear that I do not need to hurry up planting, as I have to clear tomato plants first to make room for garlics. ::) Yours look great, Tim! I hope to have a crop like that next year. How much space between plants do they need by the way?

I just love planning what to grow next year! Really exciting :D

[tim]

Ours were not great, & would have been much better in the ground but, with White Rot, we couldn't risk it.

And they would probably have been better planted in the Autumn.

[Tora]

Thanks Tim. Sorry to hear you had White Rot. Your garlics still look great though! :D

I'm going to try to make space for garlics before winter...  :)