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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Riffster on February 17, 2008, 21:25:27

Title: IOW Garlic - survivors
Post by: Riffster on February 17, 2008, 21:25:27
Last year we put in some IOW Garlic Seed cloves and promptly watch them rot and all came to zero.  - Much sadness - never mind.  Now this year, I move some soil bags and find that there are 70 % of them 8 inches high, many leaved, and apart from being a bit blanched, and buckled they look very good.

I my mind they deserve to be given the chance.  Am I just being a softie - might they come to much ?
Title: Re: IOW Garlic - survivors
Post by: cambourne7 on February 17, 2008, 21:42:48
what can you lose?
Title: Re: IOW Garlic - survivors
Post by: star on February 17, 2008, 23:45:26
Exactly.......if they have the guts to grow under soil bags they deserve a chance. Might be worth fleecing them as they have been sheltered under those bags, just a thought ;)
Title: Re: IOW Garlic - survivors
Post by: Riffster on February 18, 2008, 01:04:00
Star - good thought - I'll get them fleeced tomorrow.
Title: Re: IOW Garlic - survivors
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on February 18, 2008, 08:00:27
Garlic's really hardy stuff; I bet they'll be OK. they may not have got any light, but they'll have established good root systems which is what matters at this time of year.