Garlic in the ground for more than a year

[jonahjonah]

Hi all,

I planted garlic cloves late winter/early spring of 2018. They sprouted last year but did not bulb up. I didn't get them out of the ground as I became rather too pregnant to be bothered. They're shooting again this year. What can I expect to happen with them?

Thanks!

[Thelma Sanders]

Dig one up and have a look, if it did split at some point it would be best to separate them and replant each clove, or eat them like spring onions.
If they didn't split at all you can just dig them up and eat them like a garlicky flavoured leek

[Scarlet]

I haven't grown garlic for a few years as I've got onion rot.....but I still grow elephant garlic away from my veg patch.Ocassionally I don't dig up some - I have a bad back and it can depends on how I feel

They seem to grow ok crowded together - they are smaller but I think you will get a crop. I have a few myself this year

[Jay-ell]

I left a couple of bulbs in tother year and they grew but with small cloves. If they didn't bulb up and split the first year (or only created a monobulb) then they should bulk up and split the second year round with the possibility that heads grown from large monobulbs tend to be BIGGER.

[jonahjonah]

Dug them out today. Perfectly ordinary looking garlic. It's like the first year didn't count. I'm very pleased.

[annie8]

Just reading this I wonder if I should leave some of my garlic in the ground for another year. It still needs to be ‘minobulb’.

[Snoop Puss]

Bet you're pleased, jonahjonah.

Annie, not sure I understand 'minobulb'. What does it mean?

[annie8]

Duh just my typing I meant monobulb -haven’t split

[Snoop Puss]

^Sorry, that should have been obvious to me.

When did you plant them? Do you know if they are soft or hard neck?

[annie8]

Just thinking about my autumn planting garlic. Looking at the crop I got there are certainly a few that never split into individual cloves so am thinking of planting them again. What do you think?

[Thelma Sanders]

go for it

[greenishfing]

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Just thinking about my autumn planting garlic. Looking at the crop I got there are certainly a few that never split into individual cloves so am thinking of planting them again. What do you think?

I left some in last year that didn't split, tops died off, forgot about it until it sprouted again, it did well this year. I ended up with a potato plot with a row of garlic in the middle.

[Mr Bones]

I've missed odd ones at harvest time before and they've made lovely bulbs the following year. Go for it Annie.