Garlic failure

[Mike Vogel]

It is indeed, Chantal. It is interesting that my wife, while violently allergic to onions, chives and leeks, experiences no adverse reaction to garlic, including elephant garlic. I get the benefit of her culinary genius. So I have not been pleased to read Lord Ezra's diatribe against garlic in the Times, although I have some sympathy for him because it is a devil of a job trying to find stuff in supermarkets which hasn't got onions mixed in surreptitiously or otherwise. Sorry, wandering off the point rather.

mike

[dshannon]

I tried garlic for the first time ever (well, I tried everything for the first time ever - spot the newbie)

and the pitiful harvest I had with my garlic has already all been used up - I only planted this Feb/March time after reading an article in an old mag.

Next time (ie this October) I will be growing double the amount I sowed this year.

Learning all the time.

Dee

[Chantal]

Don't worry about a garlic failure Dee; if I worried about that one I'd have quit years ago. Everyone says how easy it is to grow garlic and my crop has been rubbish for a least the past 10 years. Ever year I say "never again" and every year I plant it again