seed garlic prices

[snakeshack]

I've bought seed garlic in the past and saved for following years and always had a reasonable crop from autumn planted . However I've now switched to growing elephant garlic only for the last 3 years as it gives such a good return for the space it takes,you can plant at the same distance as other garlic but the resulting bulbs are 3 x the size and easy to peelthe flowers are nice too


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[Scarlet]

I always grow elephant garlic and it's often a talking point if I make dinner for friends....they've usually never seen it. Though I find it doesn't have as much use as your average garlic bulb, it's very mild and rather than a seasoning I use it whole roasted and it often goes in a sauce. When I bought my garlic bulbs last week I think the giant garlic cloves were selling for £2 each!!!

[Kristen]

Perhaps we should by as a co-opperative that way we can max the saving on postage?

Have looked into that before, for similar things, and the cost and effort of then distributing it has never worked financially. Fine if folk live nearby, or have a meet up planned (but even then someone can't make it at the last moment and the meagre financial savings are then out of the window ...)

Can I but in and ask a garlic related question please. Can I plant my garlic in pots to plant out later next year. My beds won't be ready in time for an autumn sowing

Yes. The pots need to be outside though - they need the cold, over winter, to split the cloves. Not sure how late you can plant the pots out, but the sooner the better

[Bex]

Wilko's have 2 bulbs of Germidour garlic for £2.00 also 50 onion sets for £2.00. I bought the garlic and snowball onion


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[Kirk]

C_G, One option that avoids the cost from a specialist grower and avoids supermarket offerings is to get one from a local market or farmers market.

That way they should cost less then the specialist supplier and should be grown in your area so be suited to your, and UK, conditions.

The Saturday market I visit for some veg states the town the assorted items came from. So if it said "Garlic, locally grown at Bedford" I would be fairly sure it was suited to UK culture. That does assume they haven't raided Aldi and bought a load and rubbed compost over them, then stuck the label on.

[bramble]

The weather also has to be considered. if conditions are favorable then the chances are the crop will be good. Likewise a bad year can ruin the whole lot.

[Snooze]

Hi, hope you don't mind me coming in on this thread. My garlic failed this year and I dug up the small round bulbs which I was planning on replanting this autumn to see how they went. Yesterday I noticed that some that I had missed when digging up have sprouted, should I leave them as they are and see what happens or dig them up now?

Thanks

[Scarlet]

Did your last lot split into cloves? If there's not many I think I'd be tempted to leave them alone but if there's quite a few try digging one up and seeing if you can split it, replant straight away with the required spacing. I left a giant garlic clove on last year, missed it completely, so it grew in a clump of 5 bulbs, slightly smaller than normal but still a reasonable crop.
Though if I'd dug up and given it some space I'm sure they would have been much bigger..

[Snooze]

No they didn't split, the leaves died off and left small round bulbs. I think there are only three or four left in that have sprouted, so I'm guessing they didn't split either.


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[Noosner]

You folks are making me think I WILL do garlic again this autumn and replant some of the cloved but very small garlic I grew this year. It's Germidour. I read somewhere else on this forum that garlic gets used to your local conditions over the years if you replant it, which is really interesting. Wonder if that is also true of other plants where you save seed.

[Scarlet]

No they didn't split, the leaves died off and left small round bulbs. I think there are only three or four left in that have sprouted, so I'm guessing they didn't split either.

Just leave them in then! Fingers crossed they will do well.

[Kristen]

I've done the "just leave in" thingie before. Worked a treat for the following year but mucked up my crop rotation a bit ...

[BUFFS]

Isn't is also £4.95 for postage though? I might just see what wilko's have.


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OH came home with some cracking seed garlic from wilkos and I only asked for a new ball of twine....result...I think I will send her to the bank next time to see what she comes back with.....

[Kristen]

I think I will send her to the bank next time to see what she comes back with.....

Handcuffs?

I'll get my coat

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I grew Te$ko value, A$d@ organic and jumbo planted in October. The resulting crop was well worth it for the outlay. However, all the resulting bulbs were quite small.



A few of them above.

I have always been put off by seed garlic prices, but the Wilko price does sound reasonable to me so I might just treat myself and do a few supermarket and wilko.