How much garlic are you growing?

[crichmond]

Hi All

Just wondering how much garlic peeps grow, as I love garlic and often just eat it raw (The wife cant stand garlic ).

This time round I have made a raised bed just for my garlic it measures 24ft x 3.5ft, although I have only filled just over half so far with compost I have 87 cloves planted in it at about 4 inch spacing so I reckon next year I should easily get 150 (well it is supposed to be good for you) in the bed and there must be at least 70 already poking up above the surface.

[Iamhanuman]

cripes that is a lot of garlic

LUVVERLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crichmond]

Well I do also eat 2 or 3 cloves of pickled garlic a day as well.

[Iamhanuman]

i am a garlic lover too, but i think you must be the most extreme one i've ever come across
how on earth can you live with a garlic-hater?
how does that work?

[selfraising]

Well I'm afraid my amount sounds pretty meagre in comparison. I've planted 16 cloves.

[crichmond]

how on earth can you live with a garlic-hater?
how does that work?

Well I have my own chair in the front room, and in the room upstairs she tends to face away from me.

[zazen999]

Oh bugger.

I've got 100 cloves in that were bought esp for growing [not eating], plus the 50 that I'm growing for the moon trial, plus a few more that i found in the compost heap that were going great guns, plus some more that Finedon Dandy sent me, plus a few more that grew from cloves that didn't do much last year...I'd say about 180 all in all.

I have every intention of all family and friends receiving a garlic plait for next Christmas though.

[Iamhanuman]

Oh bugger.

I have every intention of all family and friends receiving a garlic plait for next Christmas though.

an admirable goal!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HotStuff]

This is my first season growing Garlic, so I wanted to try a number of varieties to see what worked for me. I bought the Garlic Lovers pack from theGarlicFarm. I have about 80 cloves consisting of 7 different varieties that were planted last Autumn. Some are in raised beds made of compost, some are just in the earth in the garden, some are in pots & troughs. So far all appear to be growing quite strongly, some of the above ground green bits (scapes?) are about a foot long now. Being new to the whole GrowYourOwn thing it does feel like a long time to wait for a result, but hopefully come August I will have a good crop and teach myself how to make plaits and be self-sufficient for several months if not the whole year. The amount of Garlic I use in cooking it should save me a few quid

[SarzWix]

I have every intention of all family and friends receiving a garlic plait for next Christmas though.

I said that to the OH after Christmas Although I don't think I've got enough in to give everyone a full plait, I have a few foodie friends that I'd like to give a half dozen or so to.

I'm not sure how many cloves I've planted, but it's 8 bulbs so far, and 2 more Wight Cristo to go in as soon as I can.

[dammad49]

I didnt count how many cloves went in last October. There is about 9 square metres of Elephant and about 4 square metres of assorted others, I'd like more but space is very limited.
I must admit to being a total elephant fanatic but as a versatile vegetable in it's own right, not as a substitute for "proper" garlic.
This year I must be more organised, 300 elephant and around 100 others sounds about right. Something will have to give so watch out lawn.

[cupcake]

I have about 40 cloves growing. I get frozen garlic 100g for 54p from Morrisons!

[tamsin]

42, who new three bulbs had so many cloves! They're all scattered around the garden too wherever there was space so it's gonna be fun finding it all to dig up.

[Safhyre]

hmmmmmm....I guess I am going to have to plant more...lolol...

[Eyren]

Last year I got my garlic from the Garlic Farm and it was my first decent crop despite the rubbish weather, so I thought it was worth the expense. However I ended up with a lot more than we could use (even allowing for some giveaways), so this year I've bought the Garlic Lover's pack again but sold the spare cloves to reduce my costs a bit.

So far I've planted 36 cloves from the six "early planting" varieties, plus the elephant garlic, in one of my raised beds at home; the Solent Wight will go in at the lottie in about a fortnight, as I need to clear the ground a bit first.