Meteorological autumn ....

[Kirk]

Can I plant some garlic out now?
Everything I try in the more "normal" Autumn comes up tiny, so as I can include (just) the term Autumn in the possible planting any thoughts?

[Penellype]

No harm in trying if planting later doesn't seem to work.

[Kirk]

That basically was my thinking.

I had one good/reasonable year, the first year I tried garlic, and since then pretty poor.
Last year they started well, stems grew well then the actual stem seemed to get smaller and the garlic bulb was best described as: Not impressive.

Kind of out of ideas.

My spring onion are really a complete joke. Have seen chives bigger and stronger.
Have to decide if digging up the carrots is worth the expenditure in energy.
Have to decide what I may try next year, all the "simple" or "easy" ones seem a kind of disaster.

[BUFFS]

It seems that we get better garlic after colder winters, I always do mine first week of September and that seems to suit this area, so our problem is global cooling where the onion family now tend to rot in the ground before it is time to lift them. Its the only thing that trumpsky says that makes sense as here we have not had a proper summer since 2006, and it is getting colder and wetter each year, we used to get maybe two good weeks each year but that hasn't happened since 2008, so the garlic now goes into the back of the greenhouse border where it won't be disturbed, but I can't put everything in there..