My garlic has been lifted!

[blue411]

My garlic is starting to show green shoots but have been lifted by the frost ( and possibly birds), i can see the roots underneath, will it be okay if i leave it or should i put some compost around it???

[Pies]

push them back down they should be ok,i had a fox dig mine up i just replanted

[northepaul]

They did that with my onions, but I just pushed them back in and they seem fine

[FionaH]

Just shove 'em back in. I dug up a load last week by accident

[Jillyreeves]

Interesting that you should start this thread, went to my plot earlier and some of my Garlic was pushed or pulled out of the ground too, but my onions were fine. I just pushed them back in and I hope they will be OK.

[Pies]

Interesting that you should start this thread, went to my plot earlier and some of my Garlic was pushed or pulled out of the ground too, but my onions were fine. I just pushed them back in and I hope they will be OK.

how deep did you plant the garlic

[blue411]

I'll push em back in tomorrow

[Jillyreeves]

how deep did you plant the garlic

Clearly some of them were not deep enough

[blue411]

Ooopps! I must of had a brain freeze as i had fab garlic last year, hey ho.

[Two_Sheds]

You shouldn't push garlic or onions into the soil. It compacts the soil underneath them, and when the roots grow they push the bulb up and out of the soil.

It isn't birds. It happens in greenhouses too, where birds don't go.

You should make a hole and drop them in

[Flummery]

Feeling about it like Two sheds, that pushing in would break the roots, I'd be tempted to sort of earth them up. Make sense?

[Jillyreeves]

When I pushed, what I mean is put them back into the hole they came out of and pushed the soil back over them :-) Not pushed really :-)

[FionaH]

Errr yeah when I said shove, obviously I meant carefully re plant taking care not to damage delicate root structures

But you knew that right...........

[COMPOST CORNER]

I planted some yesterday and this morning half of them had been dug out and left on top of the soil. Very neatly dug out, and some had a very neat circular hole round them. I just buried them again.

[Jillyreeves]

Just been down to my plot and planted the last of the garlic, about 40 cloves, these are the ones that didnt get in the ground before the snow came in December, then came again in January, then came again this week, darn snow, I hope they are not going in to late only time will tell.