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    garlic question

    Hi,

    I luuuurve garlic.......music has done fantastically well this year, much better than the wights.......however a query I have is this......i planted small cloves in the spring in modules as I had no room for them anywhere and was loath to compost them (I even have planted clumps around my rose border I had so many.

    With the modules they have formed larger single cloves and as they have died down I am now drying them off but can I use these to plant in the autumn for garlic to pull next year or am I better off just using them for cooking ?

    I know that small cloves makes small bulbs but is there any way to 'grow on' small cloves in this kind of way to make them better for planting ?

    thanks
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    I would just use whatever you have available. Cannot say I find a great deal of advatage to planting a large clove or a smaller one. As they have come from the same bulb size is dependant on where they grew, the smaller ones are in the centre. Genetically I would expected them to be the same.

    Find that reasonable preparation and adding a manure to the bed and digging that in has resulted in better and bigger garlics, immaterial of what I put in as regards size.

    Last year I planted some large cloves from IoW and the result was pathetic, couldn't really say any formed a bulb, I used the "larger" ones chopped up for stir-fry, most went to the compost pile. This year I planted some from nowhere in particular and they are looking impressive and I expect some good large bulbs. The cloves for this years crop were half or less the size then the ones of last year.

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    • #3
      The Linear Legume: Why planting little shallots gives you bigger shallots...

      I've found that the small single cloves that grow into round cloves without splitting don't recover and grow into big bulbs - so just eat those and use either fresh garlic or the ones that have split for your next year's 'seeds'.

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        thanks both.....i'll experiment I think and see what happens....Ive got plenty thankfully

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