Overwintered Garlic

Hi, so I planted Germidour and Carcassone Wight Garlic last September. This week I pulled some to see how they were going; Germidour 3 lovely bulbs and 2 with white rot (that will do for me) but the Carcassone is just a stem with straggly roots. I snapped it near the base and could see the tiny divisions of a bulb but zero swelling had occurred.

Is it just too early for the Carcassones or are these plants failures?

I normally grow my garlic in the spring / summer but last year my wife bought some top notch autumn grown garlic at a local market , no idea what the variety was. It was straight from the field beautiful thick green stems and huge bulb. Anyway I planted out some of them when they started to sprout much later that year and grew them over the winter as an experiment. The have done really well... I won't be growing any garlic in the spring again  In fact I think the would have done even better if the ground they went into had been better prepared. I am going to keep three or four good sized bulbs for planting in the autumn.

Phew, thanks all, bit of a relief. No scapes as yet so I'll let them crack on.

Thr Germidour are ready really early, though Im only pulling those as I use them as they dont store well. Beautiful looking things too, purple skins with a pure white clove. Deffo grow them again.

Early Purple Wight is the one that always catches me out as it is sometimes ready at the end of May/early June, it's not a keeper though, so I only plant a few:(
It just helps bridge the gap between last year's and the new

We use quite a lot of Garlic so aside from 1 row each of Germidour and Carcassone Wight, we have a further 2 rows of Mersley Wight, a mega keeper. It looks like things have worked out quite nicely, the Germidour finishing early to allow the CWs to swell, allowing a later harvesting of the MW, which should store until next June.

Year round garlic!