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09-06-2005, 10:50 PM

In article ,
says...
"Dwayne" writes:

average sized from a garden centre. I'll wait a little longer but
once the plant is turning yellow are they likely to grow more?
--
Mike Reid

Mike, maybe the clove division is part of the ripening process.

Reading an article on garlic in a back copy of the RHS magazine this
morning, it needs to get properly cold to start the cloving. Tuck the
rounds away somewhere safe till September time, put them in the fridge
for a month, then plant them out again in October.

Anthony

Thanks for all the ideas posted. We had such a mild
winter here, that the lack of cold would make sense for
mine. I harvested one today to add to chicken soup,
but as the soup was needed for a heavy cold I'm still
not sure if it has a strong flavour as was claimed.
But to be honest the one single bulb was probably as
big as some of the groups of cloves I had last year, so
I think I will leave some to grow as long as the plants
look healthy and try the chill treatment on some
others.
--
Tricia, Scotland