Transplanting Garlic.

[Peter]

I have done something I now think may not have been sensible.

On clearing part of the plot to rotovate a couple of days ago I found that some of last years spring sown garlic had hibernated through the whole of last year and shooted this spring.

So I dug it up, stuck it in a barrell of water and replanted it today, using the leek method without any trimming.

Anyone got any thoughts on what I can expect?

[Nicos]

2 years ago we planted some elephant garlic in the spring. By the Autumn it had turned into tennisballs!
We left it in over winter for the cold to encourage it to seperate into cloves, but in the early spring we created raised beds, and they were growing just where the path was going to be ( why is nothing straight forward???!)
Needless to say they needed moving,so we gently lifted them with soil and transplanted them. (you've not put them in holes made with a dibber have you?-they don't need blanching!)
Outcome- good, strong healthy plants!

[berksmike]

Most alliums are shallow rooting, hence why you need to be so fastidious about weeding.
I think if they are transplanted gently about 2 in deep then I'm sure you'll be ok.

Mike

[Flummery]

My garlic from last year is still growing. I got a pitiful crop and thought I'd removed & used it all. Evidently I hadn't! Interesting to see how it does - it looks ok at the mo.