[AlaninCarlisle]

A friend of my wife has just given me some garlic bulbs that are surplus to her own needs. They are Elephant and Solent Wight.

I have a couple of options:

• Plant them into open ground ASAP
• Start them off in my large propagator in fibre pots and then into the ground

Which is the better option?

[mumofstig]

If your ground is very wet at the moment you could pot them up - they don't need any warmth though.

[AlaninCarlisle]

I'd always planted in autumn previously so my thought with the propagator was to catch up on lost growing time by forcing things along a little to catch up with where the autumn planted ones are

[mumofstig]

The Elephant garlic is usually planted in Autumn, agreed, but Solent White is suitable for spring planting anyway.

http://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/product/solent-wight-seed-x-4-bulbs

[sonnycbr]

I agree with Mum, just pot them up in 3 or 4" pots and sit them outdoors. They are a very hardy plant, they'll be fine without heat.