When are you all thinking of planting of planting your garlic for next year? Got a nice bargain from Wilkinson, 3 bulbs of Thermidore garlic for £2, says can be planted sept to Dec.... was thinking of planting mine on the weekend?
Also how do other people prepare the soil...? My garlic was a bit poo this year so wanna improve it.
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Hi,
Due to the fact of heavy clay around here, I always add lime to the soil to help keep a good crumb. Other than that just plant and wait.
My garlic was also poo....
I am changing variaty, also too wilkos best, but also adding some lime to the soil to increase the PH.
Will plant soon, but need to work out where on the plot it should go.
Did you get buy any of the Wilko's onion sets? I bought all 3, when I got home I noticed that the packs did not have variaty names, they just said Red,White & Japanese. I know the red is red barron, anybody know what the others are called, would be nice to know.
Used Marco last year and planted out in Oct. I too am on heavy clay but added a bag or two of sand to the bed a couple of weeks prior to planting - best year for me so far so I will repeat this year.
We try to get ours in when we do the onions in October. Trying the saved cloves from the elephant garlic this year. have to go to Wilkies sometime this week so will have a look at the garlic(nowt else) ;D. Haven't bought their onions this year cos they are too dear. An allotment sec friend of mine has bought some wholesale and we got 80 radar sets frof £1-50.
Conthehill,
The onions are Red Baron, Shenshyu (sp?) and Snowball. We are trying them in an onions/allium bed at school this year - if nothing else, the different colours might spark some interest! I expect that we'll plant our garlic fairly soon toon.
Best regards,
Sue
Hi,
Just wondering, can you plant ordinary garlic you buy from the shops instead of buying special ones?
QuoteThe onions are Red Baron, Shenshyu (sp?) and Snowball
Cheers Sue
Quotecan you plant ordinary garlic you buy from the shops instead of buying special ones?
I was going to try this, but when I looked in the shops, they all seemed to be grown in the middle east, and I think we need one that will grow in our climate.
Quote from: Gritgrit on September 17, 2009, 13:28:32
Hi,
Just wondering, can you plant ordinary garlic you buy from the shops instead of buying special ones?
You can but results can be very varied. My mate at Barriedale plants what he buys from Lewisham Market and gets great results but other have tried shop bought and get very poor growth. Something to do with storage and temperature I think. For a couple of quid I'd go use the speciality ones.
I planted Marco and some othes I bought in Spain - Marco were brilliant - the Spainish ones were tiny.
Quote from: conthehill on September 17, 2009, 14:10:09
I was going to try this, but when I looked in the shops, they all seemed to be grown in the middle east, and I think we need one that will grow in our climate.
Garlic needs a cold spell to form cloves so our climate isn't necessarily a problem. See this thread on using supermarket garlic:
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,54601.0.html (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,54601.0.html)
Having followed ceres thread recently
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,54601.0.html
decided to try my own experiment this year. Not anywhere near a Wilkinsons and all the planting garlic I can find seems quite expensive and in the past haven't had great results. So have been looking out for shop garlic and got a little collection. 3 really large bulbs, all spanish, each cost no more than 39p each then for a bit of "class" went to Waitrose and found a net of Music from the really garlicky garlic company in Scotland. I've been surprised at how much garlic in the shops is from China, have avoided that!
I think that they all might be hardneck so am still on the lookout for some other specimens and plan to plant towards the end of October.
I'll be planting mine next month. I've got to dig some bindweed out of the bed I'm planning to put them in first.
I still have to raise the level of the bed and then they'll go in, along with my winter onions. Probably next week.
I've been given three bulbs of single-ulb garlic... Got them in pots outside ATM, waiting on DT Brown for the regular garlic and a swap with another A4A-er for some elephant..... will go in when it arrives I guess... sown overwintering onions outside a couple of weeks ago and will start some more in modules this weekend (Hi Keeper F1, red baron and LRF). Trying to overwinter a shallot from seed this year as I got the seeds in the Wyevale 50p sale (and kept a packet for next spring...) Prisma F1 IIRC....
chrisc
mine will be going in in mid Oct, still have to finish lightly digging the bed over (weeding etc), then will add some more grit to the area. I was thinking of trying planting some out on small ridges, to see if I have a better rate of survival / germination :-\ I think whether I do or not will be deicided on the day I plant them out :)
Gonna do mine tomorrow, it's nice to have something to wait to peep through the soil....
Gonna Lime it as well, never added lime to my garlic bed before.... so thanks for the tip... ;D
couldn't find any garlic around here last year so planted garlic bought from tesco. very poor results, mostly small, some broke open and started to grow again. in a word rubbish