Next season's garlic

[veggiechicken]

I've just bought next season's garlic cloves from a local organic veg grower - Early Purple Wight - and only 60p a head.
Here they are compared to my own teeny garlic bulbs - why do I bother?

Its a beautiful warm evening here, its Carnival day and I can hear a Folk group playing down at the Rugby Club, so share it with me with a sunset photo.

[Jelliebabe]

Looks fab! I cant tell you about Garlic - I grew some for the first time this year and mine is small too! At least I have some!

[bearded bloke]

Bung a few heads in a bag VC,post them on & I will do you an England v Wales comparison grow

Good sunset you have there BTW

[veggiechicken]

I should have bought all he had having seen the price of them on the net (�10 for 4 heads at the garlic farm!). You can have some cloves if you like, BB?

[Dead Dogs]

VC I grow early Purple in 2010 and had a great crop in 2011.

Stupidly I never saved any cloves and was not able to find them on then net. Would try them again any time.

Send a bag north and I'll do a far north Scotland V south Wales.

[veggiechicken]

I wonder whether I can buy some more from this grower? Maybe next week at the next market? If he has any more I'll buy all of them and we can do a countrywide test!! No promises as I don't know how much he has. Watch this space!!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Save Your Own Garlic for Next Year!

I've found that garlic is one of those crops that acclimatised to your soil, so for the past five years I have saved the best of my bulbs and planted the biggest 10 cloves from each of about three bulbs (the bulbs yield about 17 cloves each) which does my needs for the year.

It seems that the BIGGEST cloves planted make the BIGGEST bulbs next year. I laugh in scorn at the puny supermarket bulbs - ha! - mine are a good half as big again AND they keep in the garage for a full 12 months.

Er... ....except for this year when the ones that I have dug up of mine have been a bit puny - they are only supermarket sized bulbs this year.

Still - not bad given the terrible year we've all had this year - and it saves forking out for 'seed' bulbs to grow too.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Hazel I hope I have a head start with these as they were grown just a few miles away so our soils ought to be similar. I think the care and attention on his organic smallholding and my garden may be just a tad different though!

[bearded bloke]

You can have some cloves if you like, BB?

That's a very kind offer VC but hang on & see ..........

I wonder whether I can buy some more from this grower? Maybe next week at the next market? If he has any more I'll buy all of them and we can do a countrywide test!! No promises as I don't know how much he has. Watch this space!!

IF they do come up please put me down for a couple

[veggiechicken]

Will do, BB

[Snadger]

I've just bought next season's garlic cloves from a local organic veg grower - Early Purple Wight - and only 60p a head.
Here they are compared to my own teeny garlic bulbs - why do I bother?
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Its a beautiful warm evening here, its Carnival day and I can hear a Folk group playing down at the Rugby Club, so share it with me with a sunset photo.
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Have you not got any of the wild variety in your wood VC?

Lovely sunset btw.............is that the outlook from your window? Lucky you if it is.

My house now looks out over a wind farm of six huge windmills. It looks like a scene from 'War of the Worlds' Grrrrrrrrrrrr

[Thelma Sanders]

I've grown early purple this year, and got some big bulbs considering the weather
but the write up says they don't keep for very long

We'll see, but the biggest cloves are already put aside for planting later

[veggiechicken]

Have you not got any of the wild variety in your wood VC?

Lovely sunset btw.............is that the outlook from your window? Lucky you if it is.

My house now looks out over a wind farm of six huge windmills. It looks like a scene from 'War of the Worlds' Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Hi Snadger. No wild garlic in the wood as far as I've sniffed but there's plenty for the picking in my local wood and three cornered leek in the garden - and I'm getting quite fond of that!!
The view is from the garden, just a bit higher up than the house roof!! I bought the house because of the view but stupidly overlooked the fact that its 50 steps up to the front door and no road access I still love it though! Its awful when they steal your view for development

[Florence Fennel]

I'm up for trialling some of that garlic in Yorkshire VC please (if you get it). Mine is shocking this year, worst ever. It's so titchy I am going to boil it up to make insecticide, it's all it's fit for !

[alldigging]

I'm up for trialling some of that garlic in Yorkshire VC please (if you get it). Mine is shocking this year, worst ever. It's so titchy I am going to boil it up to make insecticide, it's all it's fit for !

I've read somewhere about keeping the bulbs and just putting them back in shortly to grow again...