Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Lardman on February 15, 2019, 10:04
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After a decade of garlic failures due to ALM I've all but given up on it. As a last resort I'm musing over one more attempt in one of the greenhouses. I'm concerned it wont divide as it won't be cold enough though :unsure: Has anyone grown garlic successfully to completion in a greenhouse or polytunnel ?
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I usually grow 2 or 3 cloves successfully in the greenhouse, although I plant the cloves in October so they're in the ground over the whole of winter. I usually find that the bulbs grown 'inside' tend to be bigger than those grown outside.
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I haven’t but imagine if you’re going to do spring planted you need a variety that’s suited to Mediterranean weather. Worth a try
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I haven’t but imagine if you’re going to do spring planted you need a variety that’s suited to Mediterranean weather. Worth a try
Last years bulbs are still in the GH where I threw them in disgust at the end of the year :blush: , some have spouted. I figured I'd split them up and put them on the glass side of the greenhouse behind where the tomatoes will go.
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Mr. Dog's autumn planting method has to be the surest method of ensuring the bulbs split into cloves if growing indoors, but I've never been entirely sure whether the sub-10C period for vernalisation must be when the cloves are actually rooted and growing.
Sounds like yours have been given a severe warning and might take the hint - let us know what happens.
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Grow mine every year in the polytunnel, never had a problem.