Garlic, shadyish ground or sunny container?

[CurlyGreen]

The last couple of years my garlic has been in lovely sunny spots and hasn't been too bad if I say so myself. Sadly the rotation this year means most of the garlic will go in a shadier spot. Not so shady that I didn't grow sweetcorn,a big squash, and french beans there this year but they are all tall which would have helped them get to the sun.

So I was wondering whether to do some big containers on my warm sunny patio instead?

Mr Curly Green would definitely appreciate it if I didn't grow 100s of tiny, tiny cloves that take him hours to prepare as I did three years ago.

[bramble]

Well CurlyGreen, like you I have also had to move things around the garden and have grown garlic in shady areas without any major problems.
Unless its in complete shade it should be fine.
Also, it is a crop thats planted in the winter so it wont be getting much sun anyway.

[Elfeda]

I got good crop of garlic planted along the fence that gets shade from fence and house.

[BUFFS]

Well CurlyGreen, like you I have also had to move things around the garden and have grown garlic in shady areas without any major problems.
Unless its in complete shade it should be fine.
Also, it is a crop thats planted in the winter so it wont be getting much sun anyway.

true, but the more sun it gets the better the crop/taste I find, this years dark summer meant my garlic only got 2/3rds the size it usually gets , but it was a cr** summer from may til the sun came out in September..

[bramble]

The last couple of years my garlic has been in lovely sunny spots and hasn't been too bad if I say so myself. Sadly the rotation this year means most of the garlic will go in a shadier spot. Not so shady that I didn't grow sweetcorn,a big squash, and french beans there this year but they are all tall which would have helped them get to the sun.

So I was wondering whether to do some big containers on my warm sunny patio instead?

Mr Curly Green would definitely appreciate it if I didn't grow 100s of tiny, tiny cloves that take him hours to prepare as I did three years ago.

You could grow some in containers and some in your shady area and compare them both at the end of the season.

[Scoot]

You could grow some in containers and some in your shady area and compare them both at the end of the season.

That's exactly what i am doing. Got some in a pot on my patio and some in the garden which is shaded by the fence.

[CurlyGreen]

Thanks, Bramble and Elfreda, it's good to know you have had reasonable crops in shadier spots. Mine spot sounds a lot like Elfreda's, next to a fence.

Great idea to try both. I have quite a lot of seed garlic, some saved and some cheap from the allotment shop so I will try and be scientific and plant half of each bulb in containers and half in the ground and see what works for me.

I was surprised BUFFS to get some good bulbs this year what with the weather but the garlic was in a deep raised bed along a south facing fence which basically gets no shade at all ever. And the bed walls are made of thick clear plastic.