Growing garlic

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

Hi

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

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 :-)

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  

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! 

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!