Which Garlic Trial

[ceres]

I will certainly look into this as I had not been aware of issues around 'wight' garlic and had been going to buy some.

Save you looking around gwynleg here's the thread.  Not someone I want to give business to despite the free PR he gets here.

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,43562.0.html

[ceres]

[kt.]

Got mine from Dobies today. Looking good!

I ordered Solent Wight from them 2 days ago.  My in-laws partner is going to plant them for me in my absence.  Apparently it can be spring and autumn planted.  So once I get a few bulbs from next summer..... ::)

[Robert_Brenchley]

Funny, isn't it? Our workers are getting poisoned every day but, when it comes to Immigrants, it's not allowed!

What's done is done & he paid the price. Now let's buy British Garlic rather than Continental?

That's ridiculous, quite frankly. I don't whether you're an immigrant or not, but I do object to people having to work for next to nothing, and I do object to people being poisoned. The fact that they were immigrnats is relevant only to the extent that they get exploited rather more than the natives!

[mummybunny]

  :(

Still nothing showing from the garlic i planted at the end of september Around the 25th i think! Pants maybe i did that wrong too??

[Barnowl]

How deep did you plant them?

[mummybunny]

I cant remember exactly but i did follow the instructions on the pack as i didn't want to get it wrong? ???

Just read somewhere that i wont see anything till spring because of when i planted is this right?

Lucy

[Robert_Brenchley]

You may not, or it may come through earlier, it depends on the weather.

[mummybunny]

I will just have to keep my fingers crossed!

Thanks lucy

[hopalong]

Funny, isn't it? Our workers are getting poisoned every day but, when it comes to Immigrants, it's not allowed!

What's done is done & he paid the price. Now let's buy British Garlic rather than Continental?

Why restrict yourself to British garlic?  You're depriving yourself of some high quality, great tasting stuff. And is poisoning on the scale for which he was rightly punished, whether it involved immigrant workers or British workers, something to be dismissed so lightly?

[Barnowl]

Apologies for Off topic but this was the last thread to which Ninnyscrops posted. When I try to PM, I get a message saying "Unable to find member 'ninnyscrops'". Anyway just to say seeds are on their way.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I will just have to keep my fingers crossed!

Thanks lucy

Don't worry about it. I've planted garlic in December, had it sit till spring without emerging, and had a good crop. It's overwintering onions I worry about, if they're not up and well established before winter, the crop's going to be rubbish.

[Kea]

Don't worry about the depth, Lucy.  I did an experiment last year with depth and it didn't make a lot of difference.

[manicscousers]

my niece used a bulb planter to put mine in, they're all up and showing now  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

I dib a hole and drop the clove in. They always seem to work their way fairly well down by lifting time.

[George the Pigman]

Well I am interested in the comments on garlic. I have always planted it in November but the last couple of years have been disappointed with the crop so perhaps I will have a go at Spring planting. This year they all tried to sprout again in September! They are supposed to need a period of cold to build up the root system to guarantee big bulbs but I am not convinced and the Which trial would seem to point the other way.
On another tack what are peoples experiences with shop bought garlic?

[Eristic]

My experience is that selected shop bought garlic always outperforms specialist seedstock bought from proper sources. I plant at the end of October as this gets them out of the way rather than leaving them in the shed all winter to shrivel.

[hopalong]

The garlic I planted on 10th and 12th October -  some good quality French and Spanish varieties from a British supplier - is beginning to poke its head above ground. This is quicker than last year. I think I'll mulch it tomorrow.

[electric landlady]

I've planted 2 kinds: Thermidrome and Marco. The Marco popped up after less than a week which seems ridiculously quick, and is now about 4 inches tall. The Thermidrome has only just started peeping through after 3 weeks.

In previous years I planted naughty Wight garlic (before I knew about the "issues". I'm not keen on poisoning of immigrants or anyone else - plus I think he's very expensive) and this always seemed to take a good 4 weeks or even longer...seems garlic just does what it wants, when it wants.

My mission this time around: to get bulbs of a decent size rather than the teeny tiny minibulbs I seem to specialize in. Cute but useless ???

[kt.]

My Solent Wight went in at the weekend.  My in-laws partner did it in my abscence.  Hopefully my garlic crop will be better 2nd time around ::)

[Robert_Brenchley]

My purple wight and elephant garlic are in, albigensian wight and solent wight still to go. The overwintering onions are coming up nicely, which is a relief. they need to be up before winter if they're going to do anything. With the cold weather we've had, and more forecast, I was getting a bit worried.