Garlic coming through late.

[muddylou]

This is just for info, I planted garlic (around 80 cloves of Solent Wight) in mid September, up until December I only had five or six shoots showing, well showing through the snow. I presumed they had all rotted but to my surprise, with this relatively mild weather we're presently having in the London area for January, they've nearly all appeared. I don't remember my over winter garlic taking this long to come through last year. Anyway four months seems like a long time to germinate but I'm very happy.

[muddylou]

[lottie lou]

Gosh, will have to go down and see if mine is going to appear

[PeterVV]

It takes a cold snap followed by ,ild weather to kick start garlic, it thinks its the growing season now. They are biennual.

[aj]

Yes, noticed mine planted Oct time were through today.

[pigeonseed]

Mine were tiny green tips last week and today they were much bigger. Milder weather has set them off!

[aquilegia]

Mine are only just showing. Some have grown to about 3-4in in the past week. Although many no-shows still. I'm in Greater London too.

I assumed it was just because I put mine in quite late (mid November).

[gwynleg]

Going off topic - I wonder if this means that there is hope for the broad beans sowed in late Oct - no sign of anything yesterday. I had given up and aim to sow more but you never know!

[CDave]

Planted a few different varieties in November. Allmost all have an inch or more green growth. Except Elephant garlic. Planted 3 bulbs - 20 cloved? and not one is showing any sign of greenery or growing. Am I being too impatient?  :-[

[muddylou]

Glad to hear everyone's garlic is coming through also (sorry CDave I haven't grown Elephant garlic so don't know). Last year my spring planted garlic produced larger bulbs compared to my over winter garlic. I read on the Garlic Farms website that spring was the best time to plant Solent Wight, and I got my bulbs from them. Just wish I could remember when I planted the spring ones.  ???

[Allotment18]

my garlic is through (how close to the path did I plant them!!!!)
and broad beans have finally put in an appearance too    :D

[Lottiman]

CDave. Last year was my first year growing garlic and i tried three varieties one of them was elephant garlic. They all went in at the beginning of November and I'm sure that the elephant was the last to show.

[Ellen K]

I planted all my garlic, winter onions and shallots and Aquadulce Claudia beans in the last 2 weeks of November.

All the bulbs are just about through now but some of the onion plants bought it and the beans are a noshow.

So I have started the pack of Witkiem in cells at home and hoping that they will do better.

[antipodes]

I only finished planting mine yesterday!  Not worried, the january planting did relly well in 2010. But i noticed that one of teh December planted has started to peep through, so hopefully the others will follow. Last year they were planted in January but did not show for several weeks, so plenty of time yet.

[1066]

Cdave - I've found that the Elephant garlic takes longer to show than standard garlic. I've yet to pop up and see if I have any shoots.........

1066  :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

Planted a few different varieties in November. Allmost all have an inch or more green growth. Except Elephant garlic. Planted 3 bulbs - 20 cloved? and not one is showing any sign of greenery or growing. Am I being too impatient?  :-[

Yes. The weather has been too cold for it to do much more than sit in the ground, but it'll soon be up. Some I left in the ground last year (I was too unwell to lift it) isn't showing either. I'm just going to dig it up and replant it., spaced out.

[CDave]

well I couldn't avoid a "look" today. Elephant garlic is now swolen, green tinge with definate green shoot at top. Panic over.  ;D

[1066]

well I couldn't avoid a "look" today. Elephant garlic is now swolen, green tinge with definate green shoot at top. Panic over.  ;D

Phew !!  :D

The ones I planted in the garden have yet to show through......

[Poolcue]

My October sown garlic is the size of a cigarette packet.If I knew how to post a photo I would

[terrier]

I usually plant garlic in November, but this time I decided it was too cold to go outside (for ME, that is,LOL), so I have only today put them into pots. I never plant straight out into the ground but wait until they're a few inches high. I checked the cloves last week and there were no shoots showing, but by today at least half of them were showing green tips.

[Tonythegardener]

My garlic is about 6 inches tall now.  They were planted with inoculated charcoal and mychorrhizal fungi.  It seems to be doing them some good.