[suesowsseed]

I've been wondering what's happened to my garlic which was planted in the autumn.  Dug up a few cloves today a none have grown any roots at all!  Some look like they may have had a top sprout growing but that has been chewed off.  Really can't understand what's happened!  Any ideas?  I was careful not to damage the base plate on planting and the soil is good, well drained and improved with home made compost.  I'm so disappointed  

[Judithm]

Hi did you cover them. As they grow the birds think they are worms and pull them out. Maybe this is what has happened.

[Puenktchen]

I know that rabbits eat garlic shoots (and onions + leek as well) in winter when they are hungry. So maybe they are the culprits. 

[Ema]

alliums are toxic to rabbits its more likely to be birds.

I've had no shows from homebase cloves everything else is ok

[suesowsseed]

Mine were from Wilko, they are perfectly intact, not rotting, just how they went in really 

[allotmentann]

You could try digging them up and potting them and see what happens, or just leave them. I have had garlic not come up the first year then grow the second. You might find that they have a sudden spurt this year. If they are not rotting or damaged, they will probably grow eventually when the conditions are right for them.

[Hamani]

I always have a few that don't come up, but never a whole batch.

Did you buy them all from the same place? Might have been something wrong with them if not 1 grew =/

[Ema]

My understanding is they do need a dormant period of 3 months or so.

After my failures I tried some supermarket uk varieties and they've shot up probably because they were in refrigerated supermarket storage

[surbie100]

My January-sown garlic came up in 4.5 weeks, but my Feb-sown garlic is only just starting to show itself after 6.5 weeks. All the cloves are the same variety, they are growing in the same area, although the Feb-sown are in individual pots and the Jan-sown are in one big bag. Mebbe yours will come up in a bit?