Has anyone grown garlic successfully

[keat63]

Is it too late to plant Early Purple Wight.

[Snoop Puss]

Blurb here
https://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/prod...seed-x-4-bulbs
says plant September to January, so I reckon you'll be all right. If you can manage six weeks at temps below 10 �C, you should be perfectly OK.

[toomanytommytoes]

The Garlic Farm recommend Solent Wight, Tuscany Wight, Picardy Wight and Lautrec Wight for 'Spring' (January to April) planting - https://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/growing/calendar

Maybe they bulk up quicker than other varieties? I once planted Solent Wight in April; they got smothered by courgettes but still produced good sized bulbs.

[keat63]

Just ordered 20 cloves, best get down the lotty and prepare a spot.

[Gman]

Garlic from Nairn

Interested to read this thread (although I recognise that I have read it late).

I have planted garlic once only and it was probably the easiest and most successful crop we grew. I stuck the cloves in my garden in November and next year they all came up. I did not feed it at all or give it any other kind of special treatment.

Garlic we planted came from a garlic farm in Nairn and they said it was their own variety. If you don�t have success this year my limited experience would suggest try some of their garlic, stock it in the ground in November and ignore it.

[Gillykat]

I'm doing garlic for the first time this year. Mine is Elephant Garlic which, as disorganised me, didn't have a bed ready, potted up into large pots and has kept outside since October Seems to be growing very well too.

[MarkHackwell]

I did some last year but I planted in December 2017 and they didn't do too well at all. I think it was the wet clay soil we have here.

I was looking at buying the garlic collection from The Garlic Farm plus some Extra Early Wight but it looks as if I'm getting a bit late now Just didn't want to put it in before because of my wet heavy clay soil.

[keat63]

I'm expecting the garlic to be here today. however this time of year by the time I get home from work, it's too dark to go down the allotment.

It will be the weekend (weather permitting before i get down there).

Any thoughts on starting these cloves, maybe in a seed tray in the greenhouse, or am i better off just keeping them as they are until i get down.

I know a week, is hardly enough to make much of a difference, but 'owt's better than nowt' as we say in Yorkshire

(anything is better than nothing)

[red157]

growing garlic

Hi to you all, I put some Solent wight and early purple wight in aboput 3/4 weeks ago, no green shoots yet, any idea how long they take to start sprouting?
many thanks in advance.

[toomanytommytoes]

Hi to you all, I put some Solent wight and early purple wight in aboput 3/4 weeks ago, no green shoots yet, any idea how long they take to start sprouting?
many thanks in advance.

Took 5 and a bit weeks for my Solent Wight to show above the soil, planted 1st January.

[SarrissUK]

Keat, I'd probably stick'em in the fridge until ready for planting!

[red157]

Took 5 and a bit weeks for my Solent Wight to show above the soil, planted 1st January.

Hi, I bought them off amazon, came from China! so was wondering if they were any good. I will give them another few weeks

[toomanytommytoes]

Hi, I bought them off amazon, came from China! so was wondering if they were any good. I will give them another few weeks

They'll probably grow fine but they might not be real Solent Wight! Usually get mine from simplyseed.co.uk or, more recently, growseed.co.uk.

[red157]

They'll probably grow fine but they might not be real Solent Wight! Usually get mine from simplyseed.co.uk or, more recently, growseed.co.uk.

Thanks for your help