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My garlic is going in today. Solent Wight and Iberian Wight. Anyone else growing garlic and what types.

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good Diggin, Chuffa.

Vescere bracis meis.

Yep. My garlic is going in this weekend.

I grow Solent Wight. This years harvest is beautifully pungent. I eat it chopped raw in toasted cheese sandwiches to keep the cold germs away. Love it but friends keep at a distance! Does Iberian Wight keep better?

I've grown elephant garlic but found I never really used it.

I put in 200 cloves in yesterday of a chinese garlic that I bought off the market 2 years ago and I have been developing along. So this will be the 3rd generation of it this year.

Last years chop was so much better than the first and of the largest corms I kept back, there 300 cloves. From these I have only planted the biggest cloves again.

So hopefully if all goes well, my crop next June/July should be perfect middle England garlic.

It has had a beautiful flavour, especially when roasted, when it has had an almost sweet flavour.

It minces well so we have had plenty of "easy garlic" bottled up to keep us going all year.

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I am certain that the day my boat comes in, I'll be at the airport.

today i have planted my garlic. two bulbs of solent wight and two bulbs of i think its called german red.
last week i potted a bulb called blanac i have not planted much because i have not grown garlic before. also planted fifty sen shyu onions.

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a good put down line to use !

If having brains was a fatal disease, you would be the only survivor.

Last year I grew Solent Wight and a bulb of supermarket garlic. The supermarket stuff grew better than the "proper" stuff, so I will be planting supermarket garlic again this year.

Planted last Tuesday and opted for Cristo White and Marco (cloves held back from this year's crop). Marco (from Wyevale) earlier this year was great - big bulbs and cloves with good strong flavour - and I'd def. recommend.

I'm growing Cristo White this year as a benchmark for comparison

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hi there, i don't think Iberian Wight keeps as long as Solent, but it does grow larger.

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good Diggin, Chuffa.

Vescere bracis meis.

I'm trying Cristo and Moldovan Purple against my 'gold standard' of Porcelain Garlic (really Garlicky Company). I put them all in on Sunday, two days later they are covered in 3 inches of snow so it's just as well I got them in when I did!

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This will be my first time growing garlic - Purple Moldovan is going in this weekend.
Fingers crossed!

my first time with garlic ,bought the garlic collection from the garlic farm,ps its snowing here in harrow now can't remember it ever being this early

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I bought some garlic to plant.It had no name except garlic in chinese.Planted that then bought some solent white .i also planted supermarket garlic.To date,the chinese garlic looks fantastic,its up quite high already but nothing is showing on the others.So next year will be quite interesting with all those in.

I would like to grow garlic shoots (had them in China earlier this year - delicious). Is it just a case of growing bulbs and eating shoots or is it something else altogether?

Do you mean garlic 'scapes' BeBe48?

Here's a link: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-...ic-Scapes.aspx

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Planted Solent Wight a couple of weekends ago - first time growing garlic so fingers crossed. Cloves were excellent, fat and firm. Problem is I keep referring to them as Soylent Green - slightly different food source altogether!

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Snadger, I dont know - they were called shoots in China. They had a faint garlic taste and looked like a thin runner bean.

Got about 200 mixed cloves to to plant but worried that the ground is too wet and the cloves will rot. I have worked the soil since i first cut it 18 months ago and it is broken nicely having supported beans last year and brasicas this, but still a reasonably heavy clay loam.

does anyone have any suggestions please?

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Cheers

Gary

Dont let the weeds grow under your feet

Muddy G, you can drill the soil up into ridges (as if you were earthing up potatoes) and plant the cloves into the top of the ridge. That way you'll get better drainage.

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Thanks Alice - it is soo soggy out there at moment after two days of constant rain - i'm going to leave it a week - ordered all my timber for raised beds yesterday too so that might help.

is there any specific hieght for the ridges that would give a significant advantage?

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Cheers

Gary

Dont let the weeds grow under your feet

This is my first year growing garlic, so like snakeshack I bought the variety pack from the Garlic Farm, seven varieties plus some Elephant. Planted on 10/10, first signs of growth noted on 26/10. Apropriately this was Early Purple Wight, although the Lautrec caught up pretty soon and now a few of the others are starting to show. I'm keeping track of progress on my blog.

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I'm growing garlic for the first time, I planted it late October so I can use all tha advice I can get I planted Elephant garlic as we love roasting it and using it as butter on toast or roasted potatoes. I know Garlic needs a good frost to clove better but for now I have them in pots inside my unheated greenhouse is this ok to do? I also think I planted them a bit deep so may need to unearth and bring closer to the surface is this ok to do too? Thanks for any advice

ok checked my gralic and its ENORMOUS already, with great roots established, I'm SO xcited

Planted mine on the 10 10 08 and are just poking through this week in the ground not in pots jacob marley

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