Garlic surprise
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:45 am
I rarely grow garlic and do very little container growing apart from pots of herbs by the kitchen door.
But in February this year we had some very good bought violet garlic which was beginning to sprout. So I put a dozen in a single row in the polytunnel on 14 February. We have just finished eating these as wet garlic. I had another half dozen sprouting and nowhere to put them, so I thought I'd risk putting them all in a single pot in two litres of peat-free compost. They were planted on 27 February and have had no attention except for watering. I unpotted them yesterday and was very surprised to find they had all produced reasonable sized bulbs. Not impressive by the standards of you regular garlic growers, but made me a very happy cook! They won't last long.
But in February this year we had some very good bought violet garlic which was beginning to sprout. So I put a dozen in a single row in the polytunnel on 14 February. We have just finished eating these as wet garlic. I had another half dozen sprouting and nowhere to put them, so I thought I'd risk putting them all in a single pot in two litres of peat-free compost. They were planted on 27 February and have had no attention except for watering. I unpotted them yesterday and was very surprised to find they had all produced reasonable sized bulbs. Not impressive by the standards of you regular garlic growers, but made me a very happy cook! They won't last long.
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