[Munchkin]

Cool!

[Trikidiki]

My Early Wights are just up but no sign of Albigensian yet. Another batch of Early Wights plantd about a month later haven't shown yet.

All pretty much as last year when I got a great harvest

[Paul Plots]

Cool!

That's just what they love = loads of "cool"   

[Dirt Diver]

Hi

My Elephant are no show as well!!!!!!!

[realfood]

Elephant does not usually show for several months, but the roots will be growing mightily.

[eli]

hello all :-)

i need to buy myself last-minute hardneck garlic, nowhere near me sells it (i live in brighton) so it'll have to be via the internet.
do you folks have any recommendations?
i'm on a limited budget, and they all seem to have such expensive postage costs, so somewhere reputable with cheap/postage would be great.
thanks in advance for any tips or leads :-)

[Munchkin]

Another garlic question from the noob...
Can I plant any garlic clove now or do I have to plant cloves that have gone to seed or something?

The cloves that I've planted were bought on ebay and were kinda pricey so I'm guessing they were seeded cloves lol.

[mumofstig]

You can plant cloves from bulbs from the supermarket, but it's risky.
They may carry disease and secondly, they may not succeed in our climate...so it's up to you.

Certified disease free seed garlic is available cheaply in places like Wilkinson, (about a quid last time I looked) and I think it's worth the extra  

[Munchkin]

Ah thanks for that.
I measured the tubs that I just transplanted to and they are about 20cm deep. Someone said earlier that they should be 30cm deep for the root system....am I wasting my time with the stuff I planted?

[Sophie_Chilli]

I was also wondering if I could plant garlic (in pots) now?  I started in Feb this yr and possibly stuck to many cloves in each pot (pink garlic), which meant they all grew but only to a small size    That was after I researched it as well! 

[realfood]

While you can grow garlic in pots, you will get a much better crop with far less hassle, if you grow it in the open ground.

[Gleavo]

Ok, newbie so bear with this please...

a) I'd rather get 'growing garlic' than supermarket types but does wilkinsons stock it at the moment (or are all their seasonal aisles given over to rockin' santas/snowmen/penguins?)

b) do I split the bulbs into cloves or just plant them whole?

c) how far apart?

Thanks in advance again!

[Salmo]

Click GROWING HELP at the top of this screen for all your answers.