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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:10

Title: Garlic
Post by: mdjlucan on March 19, 2017, 15:10

Garlic what's the best way to start these off in pots or straight in the ground have I still got time to plant them

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: mumofstig on March 19, 2017, 16:48

Get them in quick for any chance of a crop - they should have gone in before now, or at least been started off in modules

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: Kathogur on March 19, 2017, 16:50

I planted some garlic a couple of months ago and nothing has emerged as yet.  I have planted more a couple of weeks ago.  Am I hoping for too much from the first ones?

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: mumofstig on March 19, 2017, 16:55

They'll have been busy making roots and they'll be fine :)

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: whitehill1 on March 20, 2017, 10:59

I prefer to sow garlic through out spring , autumn and winter. And wait for an year .

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: jambop on March 21, 2017, 09:24

If you are going to grow garlic now then grow a rose variety Printanor would be a good choice they do very well spring planted, in fact I have just planted my garlic out yesterday. If I were you I would start them off in three inch pots in the greenhouse to get them away then later in the spring say late April plant them out. That is the way I do it anyway it gives you more choice of planting time if the weather is bad and the ground is un workable you can wait for better conditions.