Garlic cloves forming above ground?
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Garlic is forming a flower...what do I do?
Comments (11)Softnecks have "necks" just like hard necks. I have never grown a softneck, but from what I understand it is more flexible than the stem/neck on a hardneck. Anyway, one doesn't harvest garlic simply because a stalk forms. When to harvest is not an exact science, but the general rule of thumb is to wait until 1/3rd or so of the leaves have browned and then sample them to see how the cloves/bulb are doing. If satisfied, harvest them all. If not wait a couple more weeks. Much after that there won't be any further growth as the leaves are all dead....See MoreGarlic formed clusters of cloves not bulbs?
Comments (40)What country are you in? I am growing garlic for the first time this year. I bought a box of white garlic (don't know what type) from a garlic farmer in NSW. I ate some, shared some and planted some. They are doing well and still growing. I had some garlic in my kitchen and it had been particularly delicious so planted the last four cloves in the garden along with my white ones. The white ones look very normal (as far as I can tell) but the purple ones are all blooming with several stalks which I guess is witches blooming. I pulled one up and used it on the weekend and it was absolutely DELICIOUS but looked like a bunch of spring onions. If this is the intro to home grown garlic I will never buy garlic again! I will grow it. Do you think the individual garlic strands will grow into something if I just leave them to mature more? Could be the result of all of the above. Thanks everyone for your input....See Moresingle clove garlic
Comments (62)This is an interesting thread. I am going to guess that there are several "single clove garlics". I think I have one, too, but it is a standard garlic that stays single clove by apparent culture. I planted very small cloves off full bulbs at the beginning of June this past summer. This particular type seems to produce scapes and cloves very easily if fall planted to winter over, but the cloves I planted in June never were cold treated. They were last of the previous years harvest of a feral I collected in Iowa. Original bulbs were tiny with very tiny cloves. Proper spacing and fertilization has increased the size for fall plantings very nicely. Bulbils are about the size of a pea; so they are nice sized, too. Back to the June planting. Every clove sprouted very quickly and grew to about foot to 14" tall. Not one ever sent up a scape, and the plants never went dry. Nor did any of them ever divide. Just this past week I dug a few and found two distinct types, both still very well rooted by the way - I couldn't pull em I had to dig em up. About half looked more like scallions with very little bulbing and these had the thicker stems. The thinner stems had singleton rounds up to close to an inch and a quarter, larger than even the first true bulbs I originally collected. Not one of this planting has divided nor scaped and the plants are still normally green going into winter. I am leaving about half of the original bed in place to see how they handle the Minnesota cold from a summer planting. They took care of themselves just fine in the zone 4 of NW Iowa for almost 30 years; so I am not too worried their hardiness. This seems to be one of several ways to grow solo garlic (I hope). I definitely expect that different kinds of garlic respond to vernalization differently or require different types of vernalization and probably respond differently to day length as well. I am going to try spring planting on some spare tulip bulbs, too, next summer. A little more size going into autumn would be nice for my Appeldoorns, hoping I can add bulb size, if I sacrifice the vernalization needed for the flowers....See MoreGarlic and onions not forming bulbs
Comments (11)I don't have a lot of experience growing onions and zero experience growing garlic. tracydr has a good thread on garlic in the Allium Forum. As per what I have learned about onions its more about planting and early fertilizing and watering and full sun. I planted onion plants. They are supposed to be planted 1" deep with the green part sticking up. I added a little 21-0-0 to the soil and tilled it in before planting. Once they started putting on new growth I mulched them. They are on a drip system and get watered a little every day. When they start bulbing the bulb will expose itself to some extent because they are not planted very deep. As the tops start dieing off I cut back on the watering. When the top looks completely dead I stop watering all together and pull them about a week later and start the curing process. I have Potato Onions too but their planting is different as they start as bulbs....See Moredkmarsh
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