How's your garlic doing?

[Bal]

I plait them anyway. The rust fungus isn't going to attack them in storage as long as you hang them up somewhere dry.

They will be stored in my potting shed which is attached to the green house. Will it affect the plants in it ?

[cptncrackoff]

well, really wanted to leave them in for a few more weeks but the bed was needed for Chinese cabbage..

Not too disheartened!

[Bal]

Pulled up my garlic yesterday. Not too bad, a few really large heads, some very small ones , the rest ok. Wish I could remember which one it is. I've put mine in the shed to dry out as the rain ain't stopping here

[Martin H]

They will be stored in my potting shed which is attached to the green house. Will it affect the plants in it ?

Shouldn't do, assuming the shed is dry.

[cptncrackoff]

Mine was out yesterday, but now it's sheltering in the greenhouse.. rain all week!?

[Mr Growser...]

Quite a lot of rust here, with Christo and Thermidrome.

I was going to ask chums here what they were doing, as the bulbs on The Patch are beginning to falter, and although they're not that big, they'll be useable - just!

Although they're small, they take little preparation, and can be zoinked though a garlic press with very little skin removal, so it ain't all bad I suppose!

And also, the kitchen smells great the next day too! The fresh stuff really cannot be beaten!

[chasingmytail]

Garlic looks poor

I put IOW in late - I bought 2 plants from the garden centre and replanted and used a bulb broken up (Mid May). They look underwhelmed slightly yellow and leaves not strong but thin and weak.

Is there anything I can do to improve this?

[lmayhow]

Took mine out today and have left to dry in the shed main stem had bent over and brown.... looking forward to using them as first time....

[1Bee]

I've harvested mine, but they're looking very unhappy, the dangling leaves are rotting. Should I strip them and then hang up to dry....? Not sure what to do next. :-/

[Jay-ell]

I dug up the elephant garlic the other day. The bulbs had started to split open but we're a decent size.

I'll have to use them up soon I guess. As long as then last till it's time to plant them out again.

There were 20 little corms on the outside of 6 plants so these have gone straight into pots before the hard she'll develops to see if that improves the germination rate.

The rest of the garlic was spring planted so still has a bit to go.

[the big lebowski]

i grew 3 types and i dug them up about a week ago and put them in the shed to dry out ,i had some rust on them but not that much ,on one variety had a little bit of white fluff on the bulbs which i presume is a fuguss due to the amount of rain and moisture in the soil so i threw those on the compost but overall i think i have about 120 garlic bulbs in total ,cheers

[Dorothy rouse]

Dug mine up today, not good this year at all, most had just rotted, due to the excessive rain, the elephant garlic is usable, but not as big as last year.

Might not bother with garlic next year, hardly worth it, or might just grow elephant garlic

[susieq100]

Had to harvest mine a couple of weeks ago ... rust. They weren't really ready but at least I have a crop.

[Scoot]

Had to harvest mine a couple of weeks ago ... rust. They weren't really ready but at least I have a crop.

I just harvested mine today and they don't look really ready but are ok.

How well do they store when they're not quite ready?

[greenjelly]

My garlic is awful. The whole crop ruined by the rain - the ground was so wet and the poor bulbs were so wet and claggy.

Next year I'm going to try growing in pots as this is the 2nd time this has happened.