Garlic

[chuffa]

My garlic is going in today. Solent Wight and Iberian Wight. Anyone else growing garlic and what types.

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[dinah gale]

Yep. My garlic is going in this weekend.

I grow Solent Wight. This years harvest is beautifully pungent. I eat it chopped raw in toasted cheese sandwiches to keep the cold germs away. Love it but friends keep at a distance! Does Iberian Wight keep better?

I've grown elephant garlic but found I never really used it.

[Stacey Steve]

I put in 200 cloves in yesterday of a chinese garlic that I bought off the market 2 years ago and I have been developing along. So this will be the 3rd generation of it this year.

Last years chop was so much better than the first and of the largest corms I kept back, there 300 cloves. From these I have only planted the biggest cloves again.

So hopefully if all goes well, my crop next June/July should be perfect middle England garlic.

It has had a beautiful flavour, especially when roasted, when it has had an almost sweet flavour.

It minces well so we have had plenty of "easy garlic" bottled up to keep us going all year.

[butter fingers]

today i have planted my garlic. two bulbs of solent wight and two bulbs of i think its called german red.
last week i potted a bulb called blanac i have not planted much because i have not grown garlic before. also planted fifty sen shyu onions.

[rustylady]

Last year I grew Solent Wight and a bulb of supermarket garlic. The supermarket stuff grew better than the "proper" stuff, so I will be planting supermarket garlic again this year.

[djhs196]

Planted last Tuesday and opted for Cristo White and Marco (cloves held back from this year's crop). Marco (from Wyevale) earlier this year was great - big bulbs and cloves with good strong flavour - and I'd def. recommend.

I'm growing Cristo White this year as a benchmark for comparison

[chuffa]

Yep. My garlic is going in this weekend.

I grow Solent Wight. This years harvest is beautifully pungent. I eat it chopped raw in toasted cheese sandwiches to keep the cold germs away. Love it but friends keep at a distance! Does Iberian Wight keep better?

I've grown elephant garlic but found I never really used it.

hi there, i don't think Iberian Wight keeps as long as Solent, but it does grow larger.

[Birdie Wife]

I'm trying Cristo and Moldovan Purple against my 'gold standard' of Porcelain Garlic (really Garlicky Company). I put them all in on Sunday, two days later they are covered in 3 inches of snow so it's just as well I got them in when I did!

[perkin]

This will be my first time growing garlic - Purple Moldovan is going in this weekend.
Fingers crossed!

[snakeshack]

my first time with garlic ,bought the garlic collection from the garlic farm,ps its snowing here in harrow now can't remember it ever being this early

[JILLY JACKSON]

I bought some garlic to plant.It had no name except garlic in chinese.Planted that then bought some solent white .i also planted supermarket garlic.To date,the chinese garlic looks fantastic,its up quite high already but nothing is showing on the others.So next year will be quite interesting with all those in.

[BeBe48]

I would like to grow garlic shoots (had them in China earlier this year - delicious). Is it just a case of growing bulbs and eating shoots or is it something else altogether?

[Snadger]

I would like to grow garlic shoots (had them in China earlier this year - delicious). Is it just a case of growing bulbs and eating shoots or is it something else altogether?

Do you mean garlic 'scapes' BeBe48?

Here's a link: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-...ic-Scapes.aspx

[Carrie G]

Planted Solent Wight a couple of weekends ago - first time growing garlic so fingers crossed. Cloves were excellent, fat and firm. Problem is I keep referring to them as Soylent Green - slightly different food source altogether!

[BeBe48]

Snadger, I dont know - they were called shoots in China. They had a faint garlic taste and looked like a thin runner bean.