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Bob Hobden wrote:
"Fred" wrote I have some garlic growing but some of the stems have been bent either by the wind or an animal. I notice the plat appears to be growing cloves at the point where the stem has been bent. Has anyone noticed this before? Why does it happen? What should I do? Is the plant damaged: do I need to harvest it now, or will it continue to grow? We harvested our Garlic about 4 weeks ago. If you planted yours at the correct time in Sept/Oct then it should be ready by now with all the leaves falling over and going brown. If you leave it too long, for all the leaves to turn brown, the head will start to open out and the individual cloves start to grow again, then it is of little use and certainly won't keep. That said some varieties of Garlic do produce a flower spike that turns into small cloves, these will grow into a garlic head in a couple of years or so if planted, with luck. Yes indeed, the leaves fell over and browned on mine. Sadly on harvesting they were much smaller than usual, any ideas as to why that might been? Previous years they have been fine these were treated the same, except they were planted in a different area. Anyway I also planted some in early Spring, so I am hoping they will be bigger! -- Please reply to group,emails to designated address are never read. |
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