[Salmo]

Some of my Marco garlic planted last October are growing lots of thin leaves at the top whereas others have a normal growing point. Is this the start of scapes forming or what is going on? It seems a bit early for scapes.

[Trikidiki]

Garlic can form bulbils part way up the stem. Maybe yours have done that and it is the bulbils that have sprouted leaves.

[BabbyAnn]

Last year a few people on my allotment site reported that the newly formed cloves inside the developing bulb had started to produce foliage (thinner leaves than the parent plant that grew up to the top)  These were all freshly planted cloves in autumn not bubs that had been left in the ground.  Not sure what caused it, but wasn't normal - and the bulbs could not be stored on lifting.

[Growster...]

It's a funny year for garlic...

We planted Cristo and Thermidrome last autumn, and after a sad winter, when they all got knocked about, I spent a happy hour or so, straightening them up, cooing to them, and generally giving them a bit of TLC!

Seems it was right (so far), as they're all sitting pretty, and asking what happens next!

I wish I knew..;0)

[Gardener and Rabbit]

It's a funny year for garlic...

It certainly is, mine was looking so sad and battered a couple of months ago that I was thinking about starting again with a spring-planted variety, and now it's about 18 inches high...

[Growster...]

They look alright, G and R!

It takes a good few weeks of sun and the rest to get 'em all going, so don't despair!

I'd be pretty proud of getting those plants this far!

[Urbanite]

my november planted garlic sulked for ages, the solent wite didnt start showing till january, now the necks on some of the early purple are thicker than some of the leeks i harvested last year...go figure.