{"id":11191,"date":"2011-10-17T04:05:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11191"},"modified":"2011-10-17T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:05:13","slug":"help-with-garlic-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/help-with-garlic-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Help with Garlic Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Garlic by mullica, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mullica\/2723206247\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3259\/2723206247_31385d68ca.jpg\" alt=\"Garlic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will not need a lot of help growing Garlic if you select UK Garlic bulbs that are appropriate for our climate. Buy from seed merchants rather than use the greengrocers supply which may be a tender overseas variety. Plant separate cloves in rich soil from now until January but sooner the better.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main types of Garlic with either hard necks or soft necks both are fine with many varieties and flavours.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Help Growing Garlic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Garlic should be planted in a sunny spot during October or November so that they form a good root system before winter.<\/li>\n<li>Garlic will stand at least 10 degrees of frost and needs cold weather to help it form cloves next year.<\/li>\n<li>Garlic needs plenty of phosphate for root growth before planting, a little nitrogen in March to develop the leaves and help it photosynthesise and plenty of potash to harden off.<\/li>\n<li>Break up the bulb into cloves and plant each one 1-2&#8243; deep &#8216;nose up roots down&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Leave 5-6&#8243; between each planted clove.<\/li>\n<li>When planting use the outer cloves with one rounded and one flat side from each head. The inner cloves, which are square or triangular should be used in the kitchen.<\/li>\n<li>The best crops will be produced on light well drained soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Help Gathering Garlic<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Water the plants regularly from spring. Stop watering a month before harvesting<\/li>\n<li>Gather the crop in June or July.<\/li>\n<li>The garlic with soft necks will bend over like an onion when raedy to be cropped. Hardnecked garlic should be picked when the leaves start to change colour.<\/li>\n<li>Snap off any flower spikes as soon as you see them. Eat them in stir fries as revenge for taking energy from your plants.<\/li>\n<li>Store Garlic in the dry. They are fine in platted ropes like the old French onion sellers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Help Am I too Late to Plant Garlic<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can plant Garlic in frost free soil until January.<\/li>\n<li>If you need to plant them later than January then, according to the <strong>National Vegetable Society<\/strong>, &#8216;the early root system can be enhanced by a form of chitting. Half fill a cardboard toilet roll tube with damp compost and set a clove on top. Stand the tubes indoors on capillary matting for a week or two, so that the roots start into growth. Once the roots emerge from the bottom plant the clove, tube and all, as soon as soil conditions permit.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Help Selecting Garlic Varieties for the UK<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Solent Wight &#8211; a heavy cropper with large cloves<\/li>\n<li>Albigensian Wight &#8211; spring or autumn planting good keeper<\/li>\n<li>Purple Wight a &#8216;hard neck&#8217; best used fresh as it is a poor storer<\/li>\n<li>Long Keeper large white bulbs to harvest in July from autumn planting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Early Wight<\/strong>another &#8216;hard neck variety&#8217; with AGM in purple variety<\/li>\n<li>Luatrec Wight fat pink cloves with white outer skin and a good keeper.<\/li>\n<li>White Pearl autumn planted will store reasonalble well.<\/li>\n<li>Pink Lady a pink skinned bulbs and gloves that can be eaten raw.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Germidore <\/strong>softneck variety that is well adapted to British conditions. Produces large, white bulbs with a mild but rich flavour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chesnok Red <\/strong> a hardneck variety from Georgia with attractive purple striping and a lovely, full-bodied flavour. Lovely choice for baking as it has a lovely creamy texture. Great for garlic bread!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong> Elephant Garlic<\/strong> would be in many best top ten lists but is closely related to the Leek side of the allium family <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/elephant-garlic-10-tips\/\">see Gardeners tips<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> Bulbs of various varieties are from available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=garlic\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credit photo &#8216;Garlic, food, roadside market, farmer&#8217;s market, culinary, cooking&#8217; by mullica, on Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will not need a lot of help growing Garlic if you select UK Garlic bulbs that are appropriate for our climate. Buy from seed merchants rather than use the greengrocers supply which may be a tender overseas variety. Plant separate cloves in rich soil from now until January but sooner the better. Read on for help with growing, harvesting your crop, late planting and a list of suitable varieties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}