[Hampshire Hog]

Hi all I normally get a good crop of garlic but this year I don't seem to have any crop.
How is everyone else faring is this the excess water in spring??
Cheers HH

[Ma Lowe]

I planted my garlic in February and it looked like it was growing fine and then in May the leaves started to die off and now I have a row of dead garlic. not happy.

[JayG]

Mine were also planted in Feb and are looking good, although I have to say my confidence levels about what is actually happening a few inches underground are diminishing by the minute! 

[Madame Cholet]

Just pulled mine excellent except rust planted in Oct though

[snow white]

Disaster.  Garlic rust.  Small bulbs.   

[Beetroot Queen]

Two lots fine apart from rust one lot didnt clove, rust, really not good enough.

[wighty]

I cheated and bought ready grown ones from the Garlic Farm in their sale.(  The Farm is only down the road from me.   ) All mine have blown over and split the neck and are really pathetic, not had a look at what is happening underground yet though.  May take a diversion later in the week and see what is happening down on the Farm.

[Lardman]

I pulled one today, looked fine above ground but there was very little bulb to it at all.  Thinking of leaving them a little longer to bulk up, but Im getting twitchy for the space.

[Auntiemogs]

Went for an excited furtle and found mush!    That was the Music, I'm afraid to look at the Early Purple...

[JohnB47]

Pulled mine today,  average sized bulbs but that's ok. A few were left in the ground  from last year's harvest and they were the biggest, so I'm planning to sow next years very early, say mid august.

 A question - how are we,  on this forum,  to compare sizes?  Width of bulb? I'm not too hung up on size, because I usually have too much to use each year.  Although a bigger clove is easier to prepare. Just interested.

[Hampshire Hog]

Thanks for all your comments.
HH

[Nobbie]

Mine were all planted in October. I dug up an early purple wight a couple of weeks ago and it hadn't bulbed up at all, but dug a solent wight yesterday and it was a decent bulb 2" across. All have really bad rust, but I think I've been lucky they didn't rot given the puddles on the surface of my sticky clay over winter.

[louiseyoungs]

Planted some cloves from sets indoors as weather was pants up North. They came through a treat but after transplant they shrivelled to some kind of nothingness. Between times I also put some sets directly into the ground and they also carked it. Mum's did exactly the same, though I think she hoed some of hers up by accident.

[BabbyAnn]

Apart from very early varieties, I'd say it was far too soon to be pulling up garlic so hardly surprising they haven't bulked up yet.

[Beetroot Queen]

Apart from very early varieties, I'd say it was far too soon to be pulling up garlic so hardly surprising they haven't bulked up yet.

I think some peoples had gone over, mine was brown as brown, no growing left in it