[bluelou]

I planted my garlic sets last November and I checked on them this week as the leaves have go yellow and they are still only the one clove that i planted. What have i done wrong? Do I leave them in until next year or do i start again?

Help!!

[Elcie]

You can still use them like this, just will be a bulb rather than clove.  If they have started wilting then nothing will be gained from leaving them until next year as they will not grow any further.  Garlic needs a cold spell to split into cloves but, if yours were planted in November, they should have got that.  Not sure what other reasons there are, sorry not to be more help.

[aelf]

Mine were dissapointing this year. I think (having read up a bit) my soil was not rich enough so will add a little rotted horse muck next time. Also read that they benefit from a bit of lime and some wood ash so will try that too.

[strangerachael]

Me too, a few of mine have split properly, some have only split into one, two or three cloves  Still - fine if you like big cloves!! 

[SG6]

Disappointed concerning the size but they all formed cloves and are usable for cooking.
Will try more manure or whatever for next year.

Garlic need a cold spell to form cloves but if planted outside last November then the frosts we had should easily have caused whatever it does for them to form cloves. You didn't have them protected in a green house by chance?

[mikespatch]

How strange this was my first garlic batch & exactly the same happened to me today - I thought I had developed a new onion/garlic cross !! Still made the lasgane taste good though

[Elcie]

The garlic bulbs that I have used so far have split, but.. they have split into two rings of cloves if that makes sense?  One inner ring of cloves and then another ring of cloves outside the inner one!

Still tastes ok so I'm not too bothered!

[Jay Dubya]

Hi, this is more common than you think i think you could put them in earlier to give them time to split, they used to say plant on the shortest day lift on the longest day, and not too deep.

[strangerachael]

Well I put mine in in November which is well before the shortest day and despite the very cold winter they still didn't split properly so there must be some other reason 

[BrianK]

Roast them as an accomponimant to sunday lunch.

[Dreadmeister]

I do know that upon sowing of individual cloves,they require to be kept below 10 degrees Celcius for 30 days,with good watering. This i believe is to swell the seed and start the oil production for a good segmented bulb!

[blackisgreen]

i m begining to wonder about this cold spell to split garlic idea for two different things
1/ why does it grow really well in countries like spain etc {maybe different garlic ?}
2/ i put some in in late march  just cropped it and they are all split  ,so no cold it was quite warm and dry early on and they still split .
i m going to try and grow in a tractor tyre next year so the soil it fairly dry and water every now and again . tried pickling onions this way and they have gone mad  best year with them ever . still this is my idea so dont blast me for trying some other way.
i wonder with one bulb garlic whether the moisture over winter is constant as to make the one bulb just get bigger