Following up to Dwayne

Mike, maybe the clove division is part of the ripening process. If you can,
wait for another month, pull one and see if it has divided. If that doesnt
solve the problem I would look for another problem (watering or insects).

Yes, I'll leave the rest for a while, nothing to lose!
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Mike Reid
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Sarah Dale wrote:
: Mike Lyle wrote:
: The UK is at the northern limit of the range for garlic, and it won't
: always work even if given the longest possible growing season and
: very fertile conditions. Some people and some varieties do better
: than others: only experiment will tell whether you're one of the
: champs. I'm also a little suspicious of some of the varieties they
: sell in the GCs: it's absolutely got to be a variety developed for
: this climate. There's no shame in deciding to give up and rely on the

: Personally speaking, in the 3 or 4 years I have been growing garlic here
: in extreme NW wales, I have found it to be an easy, very rewarding crop.
:
: To date I have purchased my garlic bulbs for planting from Marshalls,
: split them into cloves and planted them in the Autumn - Oct / Nov. I
: then generally ignore them except for the odd weeding session or
: occasional water, and removal of any seed head. Harvest in Jul / August
: for enough garlic to keep the average family for a year.

Ditto. I've been growing it for 12 years. Near Wakefield at just under 400
feet altitude. And not had a single problem in that time.
Maybe it matures a few weeks earlier further south. Maybe the soil type
seriously matters - I've heavy loam over clay.

To be honest I've forgotten where my bulbs came from - I've add new ones
very occasionally. I think some came from a ones I bought from a visiting
french market, some may have come from the local market. As far as I
recall, I've never bought the stuff from a GC.

Jim

"The Reids" wrote in message
...
Following up to Dwayne

Mike, maybe the clove division is part of the ripening process. If you
can,
wait for another month, pull one and see if it has divided. If that
doesnt
solve the problem I would look for another problem (watering or insects).

Yes, I'll leave the rest for a while, nothing to lose!



Please let us know how it came out.

Dwayne