[suesowsseed]

Hi,  I've been looking for signs of life from my garlic for a while now.  I planted the cloves late September last year and nothing seems to be happening.  I'd have thought after the cold snap recently they would have germinated and been poking through by now but no 

I've had a furtle    they are still there all safe and sound just not doing anything 

Is there any hope of them gerninating now?

[compostqueen]

I would have thought so.  Some of mine are not up yet 

[BabbyAnn]

the reason you plant in autumn is so that the cloves can throw out roots, but you don't really want the green shoots up until the worst of the winter weather is out of the way - strong winds especially can be damaging to foliage.  I planted 5 different varieties in October - only the early varieties have made an appearance and probably as a result of the mild weather we had in late December/early January.  Come spring, the later varieties will start poking through and I'll be happy with that 

[suesowsseed]

There are no roots on the cloves, they are just as they went in really, still firm.  I'm not sure of the varieties.  Some were cloves which we bought whilst in France last summer, not seed garlic just a few cloves from the bulbs were were using in the kitchen.

I also planted some from Wilko ones but don't think they stated the variety on the packet.

I planted wilko ones the previous year and I'm sure they were sprouting green shoots in Dec when we had snow, It might have been later in the year though.

[Willow_Warren]

I went to check out mine at the weekend.  I couldn't see anything from the row of garlic I planted.

There was a very wonky row of onions growing (winter ones from sets), I think they must have moved around in the gound after planting 

My ones in planters are showing much more growth though, the proof will be when it is harvest time.

Hannah

[Hamani]

I would wait and be patient. There shouldnt be much else going on in the garden right now so I would just see what happens in the next dew months.

If garlic is really important to you maybe plant a few more cloves now just incase?

Also, may I ask if you dug a hole and placed them in or if you pushed them into the ground? Pushing them in the ground can damage the root plate and kill the clove.

- Gary.