Starting garlic now?

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Starting garlic now?
« on: April 01, 2012, 22:34 »
We planted some garlic back in December and the plants are doing well at over 20cm high and all cloves germinating but we have come to realise that we should have planted more due to our excessive garlic usage.

Is there any point in planting some now to attempt to rectify this situation. I have heard of people putting the cloves in the fridge/freezer to simulate winter conditions before planting late.

Has anyone tried this or should we just plant more in the autumn for next year.


Thanks,

Tom

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Re: Starting garlic now?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2012, 23:08 »
You can get spring planting garlic which can be planted now.
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Re: Starting garlic now?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 07:59 »
and spring planting garlic is readily available in GCs now
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Re: Starting garlic now?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 12:38 »
I thought garlic needed a good prolonged cold snap to make the bulb divide into cloves, or is this all myth and folklore???

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Re: Starting garlic now?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 12:39 »
I think that what the garden centres sell as spring planting garlic has been stored cold so that it can be planted now  ;)

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Re: Starting garlic now?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 12:49 »
I think that what the garden centres sell as spring planting garlic has been stored cold so that it can be planted now  ;)

Ah!...makes sense. Gardens centres playing god again!


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