garlic problems again

[chilli_grower]

Hi all,

Any ideas what is going on here? I had similar problems last year.

This is chesnok red variety.

It looks like each clove has started growing separately, so I pulled them up....

Should I have left them?

[Scarlet]

Well, the one on the left looks fine, although it doesn't look ready yet. The other one not. I remember the pics from last year, it's really strange - is it the same variety as you grew last year? It's never happened to me. I've got white onion rot on my garlic this year - gutted.
# just looked at the photo again! Yes, both are sprouting! Can you just pull them all up, mince the garlic and store in vinegar? Keeps for ages.

[chilli_grower]

Hi Scarlet, different variety to last year.

These are just 2 that I pulled up that are sprouting, but the remaining 30 or so are also exactly the same!!!!!

Each clove is growing!!!!

Shall I just pull them all up? As I guess thats that now...

[Scarlet]

I think it's really strange - I'd never seen anything like it until you posted the same last year. When you open them out what do the single cloves look like?

[roitelet]

When did you plant them?

[chilli_grower]

Planted beginning of November, this is seed garlic but I cant remember where from.

Cloves look awful, and tiny!!!!

See pic.

Can anybody please recommend a known good BIG BULBING garlic for next year please?

Check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLrOAFUdJw

THank you

[roitelet]

I planted mine round about the same time and the cloves still don't look very big. Variety Messedrome, seed garlic, and mine won't be ready until July.I think you should wait a bit loosen the soil round the plants and wait until the leaves start to turn yellow then see.

[chilli_grower]

Ok, I will just leave them in until foliage yellowing...

They cant really get much worse!!!

[roitelet]

But they might just get better!!

[chilli_grower]

hope so!!!!

[zxof]

I am experiencing the same fate I think...

One thing I remember, I planted by garlic cloves in 3 batches last fall (because of laziness mostly). First batches were planted in early Oct, then mid October and the last ones were planted on early Nov).

Yesterday I noticed 5-6 plants from the first batch were 'sprouting'. I am a novice gardener though, I had a decent result last year out of 10 plants and decided to plant more last year.

[Bal]

I think one of my garlic plants is doing that. It has a lot of thin leaves in the middle some of them look like they have been crimped. Will take a pic tomorrow .

[cilla]

I post a thread about my Iberian Wight and VC suggested I look at this thread. I found that a couple of garlic shoots had bent down. I brought them at the Garden Centre. I decided to pull one of them and discovered garlic cloves in the stem.
Do I use these cloves for new plants or just eat them? Showing photo again.

[chilli_grower]

I would say just eat them, at least that is what I am doing!

[chilli_grower]

Well I pulled half of them today, and they weren't actually that bad...