Dissapointed with this years garlic (music )

I've praised it before but this year it's been terrible  I bought 5 bulbs - managed to get 20 plants, which were started in 3" pots. Of those 20 plants, 10 simply rotted away without growing and another 2 have struggled to get about 6 inches, leaving just 8 bulbs and I've not checked what the bulbs are actually like.

I also bought some purple stuff ?castano? at the same time, treated them the same way and put them in the same bed - I've lost 3 of those from 32 plants.

Anyone else purchase fresh bulbs for this season and having a problem with them?

All of mine is suffering  terribly from rust. Never had a problem with garlic before and usually grow far more than I ever need and it is massive but this year I may have to give up my garlic crown.

Mine spent the winter in the GH and were planted in to a nice warm fluffy bed in spring so I don't think it's the wet - but I am wondering if last season was poor for the supplier (certainly the bulbs supplied weren't anywhere as good as previous one) and it's having a significant impact on this years crop.   

There's not enough for me to save any this year either so I may be defecting to another source next year , shame - but with the cost of the bulbs and the enviromesh, these 8 bulbs must be the worlds most expensive 

I was really looking forward to some proper garlic 

Mine are looking great... but do have a fair amount of rust. Got about 6 varieties and furtled one today and its growing really well and bulbing up. I had them in the gh till 2 Feb and they were very thin and puny.. but they soon caught up. Some are now sending out scapes.

I bought a new lot in from T&M that didn't arrive til 30th Nov . About 10 varieties. I planted them in modules in the garden in Jan & planted them out in March? They've all got some rust on them but are quite tall. What's do you all do for rust, I ripped off the worst leaves, have I done the right thing. 2 just keeled over as I was weeding yesterday & didn't seem to have developed very many roots

My garlic all has rust quite badly. I've taken off leaves before now, but it's getting to the point where it's not judicious pruning out of leaves, but a crew cut.

The carcassone looks to be the worst of the bunch and was sown last October-ish. Definitely going with spring planting next time.