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    Yet another garlic question............

    Last year when I harvested my rather pathetic garlic I must have missed a few plants.

    These old plants have now shot away and are about 8 inches high and the foliage looks really healthy. I would guess there are about four or five lots of foliage to each plant.
    What I was wondering, is if its worth leaving them in situ and will I get a crop?
    I think I'll leave em anyway but just wondering if anyone had done this before and got any sort of crop?
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    Originally posted by Snadger View Post
    Last year when I harvested my rather pathetic garlic I must have missed a few plants.

    These old plants have now shot away and are about 8 inches high and the foliage looks really healthy. I would guess there are about four or five lots of foliage to each plant.
    What I was wondering, is if its worth leaving them in situ and will I get a crop?
    I think I'll leave em anyway but just wondering if anyone had done this before and got any sort of crop?
    I'd leave a few as they are, and as a test I'd separate & replant some of them.

    There was a row of garlic left in situ when we took over the plot, which had all sprouted, so I split & replanted them and we had a fantastic crop (although admittedly I did the dig-up-&-replant bit in January not April - but it's cold up north, isn't it..? )
    Last edited by Hazel at the Hill; 07-04-2010, 09:44 AM.

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      I'd separate them all- just as if you'd intended to plant them out last Autumn.

      Nice surprise to have the extra crop!!!

      urm....an afterthought- have they split- or are they one clove with several leaves coming out of the top?...if the latter then leave in the same place and watch they don't bolt- but you should still get a crop in a few weeks!
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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        Originally posted by Nicos View Post
        I'd separate them all- just as if you'd intended to plant them out last Autumn.

        Nice surprise to have the extra crop!!!

        urm....an afterthought- have they split- or are they one clove with several leaves coming out of the top?...if the latter then leave in the same place and watch they don't bolt- but you should still get a crop in a few weeks!
        No, they've split Nicos and each strong vertical growth is about one inch from the next.

        I already have garlic planted some where else (though I've forgot where!) and I have a tray full of garlic which is about 6 inches high ready to plant out as well.
        If all come to fruition I'm going to have an awful lot of garlic this year!
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

        Diversify & prosper


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