Last year, I planted two overwintering garlic varieties - thermidrome and germidour. Both looked rather good until this month when the thermiwhatsit turned yellow. The Germidour still looked rather good. Anyway, with the wind, a number of the stems had keeled over so I thought I would harvest them. Most of the thermithingy hadn't even grown - still just one clove, whereas the germidour was a sizeable crop.
Right - Thermiwhatsit, I had 28 plants and got less than a dozen useable bulbs (12oz of cloves).
Germithingy, I had 34 plants and got 32 bulbs.
Funny huh MV. My garlics have all been infested with bloody rust and they have looked soooooooooooo poorly, and yet, they have all produced lovely generous sized bulbs, bigger and juicier than any supermarket produce. I remember on Gardeners World they said if the garlic doesn't get sufficiently cold then they won't split into lots of cloves. Could that have been the problem? Tis curious. :-\