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    Is garlic worth growing on your own? I'm not sure it would be worth it. Garlic at the market is extremely cheap. How easy does it grow? How long does it last?

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    I'm growing it for the first time this year so I'll let you know.

    My next door neighbour has a lottie and he sometimes just grows things to see if he can. Last year he grew garlic even though they don't eat it so they gave it to me (bonus!) and I have to say it was the best garlic I ever tasted. Still have 5 bulbs left and it was his garlic that I planted at the end of October.

    Our nearest market is Birmingham City Centre and I don't go there very often...thank heavens!

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    • #3
      I have grown garlic over the past few years, quite easy to grow and stores well. I hung up about 2 dozen bulbs
      In some tights that I had obtained in the garage, they lasted us all through the winter. Will be doing the same
      This year. As far as the garlic being cheap to buy, isn't that the same with a lot of the veg you can grow?
      I find a lot of the veg I grow I could probably just pop to the super market and buy some but where's the
      Fun in that
      All my projects including my brewing adventures!

      www.make-your-own.info

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      • #4
        i am growing garlic for the first time this year planted out in october but not very big yet but looking forward to it when its ready and thanks chefgage for the storage tips

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        • #5
          Advantages to growing garlic:
          1) a couple of bulbs split to about 35 cloves which grow to 35 new bulbs
          2) garlic planted in Oct/Nov uses space not used for anything else, and is out the ground by end of June ready for catch crops of lettuce/carrots etc
          3) replanting your own 'best' bulbs each year increases yield - I look at puny supermarket garlic bulbs and choke at the price, and laugh at the size
          4) lasts in a plait in a cool dark place (e.g. garage) from harvesting in July through to the next year's harvest with barely a shoot

          Disadvantages:
          1) when you have a huge plait of freely available garlic hung up in the garage, you eat PLENTY of garlic - health benefits (yes), social benefits (no)

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          • #6
            garlic needs a cold spell to encourage it to split into cloves, not sure if you have them?

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            • #7
              Your own garlic tastes like nothing else, go for it!!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by taff View Post
                garlic needs a cold spell to encourage it to split into cloves, not sure if you have them?
                I'm not sure this isn't an old plotter's tale...and yes, they do have cold winters in North America!

                OP - the price of food is different here in the UK so perhaps the comments given here reflect the price here - if it's so cheap there then it's up to you to grow what you think is worth it.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Mato View Post
                  Garlic at the market is extremely cheap.
                  3 garlic bulbs: 59p

                  Once planted, they will produce for me 20-30 new bulbs, so I've saved myself £5 ?

                  The best garlic I ever grew was planted in a lasagne bed, so the growing medium (the compost) didn't cost me anything
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                    I'm not sure this isn't an old plotter's tale...and yes, they do have cold winters in North America!
                    I don't think they do in california.....actually, I planted last years garlic in February and it was useless. It was tiny tiny, but it did have individual cloves, so maybe it's not the cold, but the extra length of growing time.....I feel a test coming on next year if I remember
                    Last edited by taff; 19-05-2012, 09:30 AM.

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                    • #11
                      The garlic I planted in October didn't show till late Jan or early Feb...can't remember. I thought it was a gonner so I planted some spring planting garlic called Marco (that's what it said on the label) early March. So far nothing.

                      This is the garlic I planted in October between the pear and the strawberries about 5 weeks ago.

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                      • #12
                        People plant garlic in the spring don't they? I know our springs aren't exactly sweltering but they're not really comparable to a winter. Most Garlic in the supermarkets comes from Spain or Egypt, do they have cold spells (genuine question)?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by taff View Post
                          I don't think they do in california.....actually, I planted last years garlic in February and it was useless. It was tiny tiny, but it did have individual cloves, so maybe it's not the cold, but the extra length of growing time.....I feel a test coming on next year if I remember
                          Sept to dec is the best time I found...any later and they don't have the time to bulk up. North American is a big place - I'm not saying some Southern States don't have a winter - but the Northern States have very cold winters...
                          Last edited by zazen999; 19-05-2012, 10:33 AM.

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                          • #14
                            Have a look at this site Garlicworld for garlic growers, seedstock and garlic flavour

                            There seems to be a lot of conflicting advice.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by taff View Post
                              I don't think they do in california
                              Depends on where in California - it's a big state. No cold winters in the southern coastal areas, but the eastern areas are drier and higher elevation, and thus have a much less temperate climate. And the north coast has a very similar climate to the UK (OH is from there, and gets fed up with people asking him why he would leave California to come here!).

                              They do grow plenty of garlic in California... Gilroy, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
                              March is the new winter.

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