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Garlic
I planted garlic last year, just dug some up. I have a single
onion like bulb, not a group of cloves as expected. Advice please. -- Mike Reid Wasdale-Thames path-London-Photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
"The Reids" wrote in message ... I planted garlic last year, just dug some up. I have a single onion like bulb, not a group of cloves as expected. Advice please. -- Mike Reid Wasdale-Thames path-London-Photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap Is it a bulb bigger than than the original clove you put in? I'm thinking that, if it is, it is possibly hiding the cloves under an outside skin. I'm not too sure what mine look like ( I planted some last year too ), but I'm leaving mine in until the end of summer to mature. Andy. |
If I plant mine in the spring, it doesn't have time to divide, so I just
leave it alone for another year. I normally don't harvest it until the end of July and replant around the first of September. You may want to leave it for another month or two and try it again. Dwayne "The Reids" wrote in message ... I planted garlic last year, just dug some up. I have a single onion like bulb, not a group of cloves as expected. Advice please. -- Mike Reid Wasdale-Thames path-London-Photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:59:38 +0100, The Reids wrote:
I planted garlic last year, just dug some up. I have a single onion like bulb, not a group of cloves as expected. Advice please. Mine were like that too. The top growth went yellow and died back, so I dug them up and found marble sized garlic with no cloves just as you describe :-( I put it down to planting maybe a little too late (think it was march), but you say you planted last year. Hmmm...... -- Remove _rem_ before replying by email. |
The Reids wrote:
I planted garlic last year, just dug some up. I have a single onion like bulb, not a group of cloves as expected. That's called a "round." You get rounds when planting the small topset bulbils, or sometimes from too late spring planting. In this case, I don't know what happened. How big were the cloves that were planted? Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
Following up to Gary Woods
That's called a "round." You get rounds when planting the small topset bulbils, or sometimes from too late spring planting. In this case, I don't know what happened. How big were the cloves that were planted? 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 Wasdale-Thames path-London-Photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
The Reids wrote:
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? Probably not, though I often have some leaf tips turn well before the garlic is done growing. If re-planted in the fall, the round should make a normal bulb next year. Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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J Jackson wrote:
Tricia Weston wrote: In article jj3ea19gtqlnn6p48apihmrir4n21p1cgg@ 4ax.com, says... 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? Sorry, no solutions, but I would like to add to the discussion on garlic which doesn't seem to be producing cloves. Usually I have autumn planted supermarket garlic cloves and harvested a small crop in summer. Last autumn I invested in cloves from a garden centre, Dobbies I think, with a label which described them as strong flavoured and a name like Crisp. The plants look very healthy with a tall thick stem, but when harvested just have a single bulb - in fact they look more like leeks than garlic. Could it be weather conditions here don't suit this particular type?? Have you cut one open? I've harvested a garlic plant today - needed for some cooking. It looks like one bulb with several thin "onion" skins round the whole bulb but underneath are the seperate bulbs. It's just too early to harvest they have another 6 weeks of growing in lots of light and warmer weather - they'll but loads on yet. 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 greengrocer's imported produce. If the leaves are going yellow, the bulbs won't -- because they just can't -- develop much further. This may be because you didn't provide a steady supply of food, moisture, and sun; but it may be just that the variety was all wrong. Either way, they don't tend to go on much past midsummer anyhow. -- Mike. |
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. 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). Dwayne |
Next year try planting the elephant garlic which is now available in supermarkets.
Plant Sept/Oct about 3 inches deep and harvest July. Save some of each crop to plant next year and it gets better as the plant seems to acclimatise to our weather |
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. Sarah |
"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 |
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