How long for garlic

[zazen999]

Oh, that looks far too posh for any of my plants... I keep putting off taking the garlic outside, poor little mites.

Garlic is perfectly hardy!!!!

It develops better if it is cold - honest.

[glasgowdan]

The garlic I planted in October is about 6 inches tall now with each one having at least 3 main shoots.

Plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day, or so I've been told!

[bramble]

The garlic will be fine in the ground outdoors.
In a few weeks you will see shoots coming through.
Harvest the end of June or when you see the foliage dying back.

[sauzee]

Thanks for all your great help but i have not even looked at it for a while as i had to repair my door and tidy up after door was smashed in break in(previous thread) so i will look tomorrow and report back
Thanks
sauzee

[marathon]

Garlic can take forever to show itself (a good two or three months) - I plant at the end of Oct and it comes through about now.

my crop (SW) is finally showing itself. I planted them towards the end of October and apart from the odd one coming up last week I thought I'd lost the crop.

But this morning I was thrilled to count 23 green shoots and as i was at the lottie on Sunday I can't believe how tall the shoots are. They are at least 1.5 inches tall.

[pip1954]

hi
plant my garlic & onions in nov and they all have come up about 4 inches

[trish60]

Planted 3 types of garlic bought from The Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight on 2nd Nov. The Provence Wight & early purple wight were up a few weeks later and are now about 3" high. There was no sign of the chesnock until this week when they have just poked through. My wilko garlic, planted on the 9th November was up a week later & is now about 7" tall !!

[BUFFS]

i planted my garlic out the second week of december and it is now starting to show itself,i plant mine 1-1 1/2" below the surface and after 5/6 weeks of arctic weather,they seem no worse for it,some garlics that you can grow on, the little florets that look like blossom,and they remain viable for 3 or more years(have rehydrated then planted on with success),they must be the easiest veg to grow ,just plant..wait and harvest.

[sauzee]

sorry took so long i forgot i had not replied to say i had checked i have most of them popping through,about 8 or 10 3-4 in but a little yellow where the frost hit them but they should recover