Garlic

[kittykat8]

Will garlic planted in the polytunnel, be ready quicker than garlic plant outdoors.

thanks
marion

[Geordie]

not necessarily but stands a better chance of being bigger.

[kittykat8]

thank you

marion

[Lesley Jay]

Great signature Geordie!!

[Digger-07]

I thought that garlic needed a period of frost to make it split into cloves and not just end up like an onion??

[Geordie]

It needs a period of cold, not necesserily frost and I assumed polytunnel wasnt heated.

[Lesley Jay]

Another good one Geordie!

[Geordie]

You're googling these aren't you!!

[Alice]

Your garlic will be fine outdoors KittyKat. I would keep the polytunnel space for something that needs it. If you get it ready 2 weeks earlier does it matter ?

[Lesley Jay]

Who me????

As if I would Geordie!!!

[Alice]

Watch where you're peeing Geordie, and yes, the way things are at the moment , you should stick to rubber ones !
Vita brevis, ars lunga !

[kittykat8]

garlic

It has been in the tunnel since october , when I just put in to see what would happen, the tunnel is unheated.


marion

[JennieAtkinson]

not necessarily but stands a better chance of being bigger.

....... but not necessarily tastier. My best garlic is grown outside. It is small but very strong tasting. The ones I grow in the polytunnel grow faster, and give me a nice supply in early summer, but are certainly not as tasty.

Good luck!