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OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 15 9:35 pm Post subject: This years Garlic
This is the third crop from my own selected bulbs - I save the biggest from each year's crop to plant in the following October/November. This year's been a good one: In comparison the squash leaf on the left is perhaps 15ins across.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 15 10:03 pm Post subject:
Looking good. What variety?

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 15 10:10 pm Post subject:

Tavascarow wrote:

Looking good.
What variety?

These started life as Early Purple Wight

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15600

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 15 5:58 am Post subject:
Good crop Otley Lad. I have had the Wight varieties too. It ought to work for us as we are not too far from the Isle of Wight.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 15 6:39 am Post subject:
White rot has claimed my crop.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 15 11:46 am Post subject:
I bought huge bulbs in a market in Spain last year, planted them in October. Best garlic we have grown. Will be saving some to plant this year.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15600

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 15 6:55 am Post subject:
You were lucky they grew so well GG. Sometimes Spanish garlic is rather disappointing in the UK, but as you are in a fairly mild area, you may have been all right. I have grown the Wight varieties and find they work quite well for us.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 15 9:05 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

You were lucky they grew so well GG. Sometimes Spanish garlic is rather disappointing in the UK, but as you are in a fairly mild area, you may have been all right. I have grown the Wight varieties and find they work quite well for us.

I've grown mine in polytunnels for the last 3 years as really cold/wet winters can rot them off. They do occupy a bed for 7-8 months but then can be followed on by useful summer-sown crops that will give me stuff into the autumn (French Beans, Spinach, etc.).

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 15 4:19 pm Post subject:
Yep, we now grow ours in the tunnel. Great laughter from the ``````````good old boys`, but we had the last laugh when they saw the size of the bulbs. We also feed ours with sulphate of potash.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15600

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 15 6:40 am Post subject:
Growing in a polytunnel will help a lot. I grow mine outside and the bulbs don't get very big, or taste very strong either. I added wood ash to them one year, but think the sulphate of potash, as recommended, works better. I haven't grown any the last couple of years, as we don't use much and it didn't seem worthwhile.

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