Disappointing Garlic

[Two_Sheds]

Well, the title says it all.
I bought £10 worth of Solent Wight garlic, and have harvested : b*gger all.

It's been in the ground since Nov, and I dug it all up today. Half the plants were marble size, the rest were golf balls. Pants.

The only thing I did wrong was to not feed them. I don't feed anything else, and get good crops, so perhaps garlic is especially greedy. I also pulled them up in June, not August (but they were brown and crispy, and I needed the space)

Will try harder next year ! http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_...l_3_garlic.asp

[Tam]

Has your garlic plot been very wet this year ? I suppose at times it would be much colder than normal.

[TinyT]

My shop Garlic's are tiny. I was hoping they'd do what some of the onions done and suddenly start getting big.

[Flummery]

My solent wight is still growing - most planted in November but a few in March. I've had a furtle and have hopes of a few bigg'uns. One lot has rust but they seem to be the biggest. Rum old game eh?

[Wren]

My Autumn planted garlic is pants too Two-_sheds.
Mine was looking brown and ready so i pulled it 3 days ago and its no bigger than when it went in

Wren

[baggyman]

must be the year for crap garlic... mine was rubbish too.
planted in November, fed it, looked ok but the bulbs were very small. I planted some in may last year and had good results when pulling up in sept. I might just bung in some shop bought and see what happens.

[PAULW]

Mine didn't do to bad but I think a lot of overwintering stuff was stunted because of the cold ground

[Two_Sheds]

Nice bulbs PW. Isn't overwintering stuff kind of supposed to be in cold ground though?

[Cutecumber]

My Solent Wight is rubbish, too. Virtually no bulbs.

I've grown other varieties before, but this is the first time that I've tried the autumn planting.

I won't be doing it again!!

[queen of the cobs]

yup - me too. the cloves have formed bulbs and sort of split but are, as you so accurately say, the size of marbles!

I'm giving up with garlic - I had the same trouble last year and the conditions were totally different. i must have the wrong kind of soil.

[moggssue]

I planted Marco garlic, from a GC, in Feb. The stalks have mostly died but the bulbs still look exactly as they did when I planted them. I didnt feed either, other than a sprinkle of BFB when they went in, but they grew away quite healthily at first so I didnt think they needed any more - how wrong can you be?!

Still, I will not give up and will plant in winter this year rather than spring.

[PAULW]

TWO SHEDS
Isn't overwintering stuff kind of supposed to be in cold ground

Yes but the ground is supposed to warm up in the spring then the stuff starts to grow again.

[Julesb]

I planted 5 bulbs garlic in November which I had bought in the local and supermarket for less than £1 and 5 bulbs from garden centre which cost four times the amount. Bulbs produced from supermarket variety done far better than those from garden centre!!!!!! Now got over 120 decent bulbs of garlic hanging in shed!!!!!!!!!!!

[vegnut]

I sowed garlic cristo last september, and they have just succumbed to rust. After pulling them up, i have found that they are a fair size, at least, well worth eating. I'm very happy with the outcome, and will be sowing them again in september.

[busylizzie]

I planted Arno garlic in spring so it's not quite ready to pull up yet, but I had a root around the other day and the bulbs seem nice and big. I hope they've done well because I gave away the majority of the plants because I had so many!