Garlic?

Nozebleed

anyone come across garlic bulbs for sale? im hoping to pick some up today..not sure if b&q,woodies have stock in this early?

zombiepaw

Haven't seen them in stores yet, but you can get them online, here is one option. hope this helps

muckyhands

I planted mine in the Autumn but I was in the Orchard garden centre today, in Celbridge and they have garlic bulbs in stock.

redser7

The DIY stores should have them soon if not already. Try Mr Middleton too if you're in Dublin

TopOfTheHill

Once again the months slipped by and I did not get garlic in pre-christmas and hoping to plant in next few days.

For those wondering if its too late to plant - I planted around this time last year and harvested a good crop mid-summer and still eating

Conmaicne Mara

They were in B&Q today along with seed spuds, onions and a few other things.

bing3

Having grown it for a good few years now its one of my favourite crops. No diseases, you can sow it as early as you like and takes up hardly any space in the garden. But tbh its just as good to a sow a bulb you get from the greengrocers that you like; than pay 5 euro for a dozen cloves from a seed company.

maringo

Heard the Chinese garlic doesn't grow well here. But seen some European garlic in Aldi (or Dunnes) so will try that instead of buying the pricy packets from garden centre. No harm in trying them.

Supercell

Just planted a years worth last weekend, looking forward to trying it later on.
Planted Solent Wight and Provence Wight this time.
Great to get the first veggies of the year in the ground.

Happyman42

Supercell wrote: »

Just planted a years worth last weekend, looking forward to trying it later on.
Planted Solent Wight and Provence Wight this time.
Great to get the first veggies of the year in the ground.

How did you calculate a years worth?

Supercell

Happyman42 wrote: »

How did you calculate a years worth?

Rough guess to be honest, planted about 40'ish cloves, we use around one every 1.5 weeks or so . Nothing very scientific.

paddy147

B&Q Airside have loads of garlic bulbs on sale at the moment (just outside the main entrance door)

Granite Head

Looking to plant some garlic cloves this month. Just wondering where stocks seed cloves this early (in Dublin)? I've tried Woodies & Homebase with no joy.

I picked up some in a local garden centre.

You can use shop bought garlic and sow these too if stuck

New Home

My first port of call would be Mr Middleton (in Mary Street, IIRC, or online at www.mrmiddleton.ie).

RebelButtMunch

Mine all got rust this year

Supercell

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Mine all got rust this year

Mine were a disaster this year, were going great in the spring but the hot dry summer coupled with the hosepipe ban put an end to them.
This year i'm just sticking some Chinese cloves from Lidl in the ground and hoping for the best.

magicbastarder

ours were alright. definitely not the best year for them, but the elephant garlic did well. we've a couple of water butts so were able to keep them topped up a little longer than most people would.

Roen

Stuck Solent Wight into one of the raised beds last Sept. Got a bumper crop in June/July.
Tried planting some of that crop again in Sept and it looks like bugger all is happening to them now. Haven't sprouted at all.

i71jskz5xu42pb

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Mine all got rust this year

Same here but still got a decent crop, albeit small bulbs/cloves (except the Elephant Garlic which seemed fine)

I got mine here http://www.westcorkgarlic.com/buy-garlic.html, Mixed garlic pack means you get a number of varieties

Supercell

Whats the elephant garlic like to eat?, read that its meant to be eaten as is, not used like regular garlic. Is it more of a garlicky onion taste?, quite interested in giving it a lash.

Got 20 polish elephant corms on ebay for 6 euro delivered. Will take two years but seems far more economical than buying the elephant garlic starting out. Think I'll get the kids involved in it all too, should be an interesting little project.

Thanks for mentioning them ,looks like they are more disease resistant too which is a plus.

Ms2011

I planted some shop bought garlic in September, they are about 3-4 inches above the ground atm.
It's my first time planting garlic so we'll see how it turns out next summer!

Supercell

Ms2011 wrote: »

I planted some shop bought garlic in September, they are about 3-4 inches above the ground atm.
It's my first time planting garlic so we'll see how it turns out next summer!

Do you remember was it Chinese or Spanish garlic (the only two i've seen in the supermarkets )?

magicbastarder

ÌIRC, chinese garlic sold as food tends to be soft neck, but the varieties that do well here tend to be hard neck.

i71jskz5xu42pb

Supercell wrote: »

Whats the elephant garlic like to eat?

Much milder than regular garlic

Supercell wrote: »

looks like they are more disease resistant too which is a plus.

Still got rust but seemed to live with it much better than the other garlic. That said it was my first year growing garlic and we had the snow (apparently garlic loves that though) and the drought (not sure garlic loves that as much)

standardg60

Only gardeners could make a six year old thread spring back to life!

Ms2011

Supercell wrote: »

Ms2011 wrote: »

I planted some shop bought garlic in September, they are about 3-4 inches above the ground atm.
It's my first time planting garlic so we'll see how it turns out next summer!

Do you remember was it Chinese or Spanish garlic (the only two i've seen in the supermarkets )?

Not sure to be honest, I bought it in Lidl when they were selling it at 49c.

TheTeainEMT

Planted Tuscany Wight and Solent Wight a few weeks ago from http://www.quickcrop.ie


Planted some ones I got in woodies last feb.... epic fail this summer. Between birds getting at them then the hot summer all I got was a few swollen bulbs but no split cloves

Raised bed temp already at 10° with leaf mulch on top to protect it over winter and keep the worms happy