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How To Grow Garlic In UK for BIG yields

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🧄 Growing masses of BIG juicy garlic bulbs at home or on the allotment isn't hard, but some planting tips and tricks worth knowing will make the difference between a bumper and a poor harvest.

In this video, I'll show you how I prepare, plant and grow garlic for a big 2023 harvest. I planted 131 cloves of Pink Germidour and White Casablanca. Join me and find out how.

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12 Comments

@myrustygarden 3 years ago

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas keep warm and safe 🤶🎄⛄️🇨🇦

@ThatBritishHomestead 3 years ago

i LOVE Garlic so much. I cant wait ti have fresh garlic we are running very low!

@MotosAllotmentGarden 3 years ago

😊👍

@David_Bell_growing 3 years ago (edited)

Think I may have planted some Casablanca garlic on the same day as you. All my garlic succumbed to rust in 2021 (together with many others) and was too unsightly for plaiting.

This year I planted around 300 cloves of about 6 varieties, mainly saved stuff starting in late October then through November as my local garden centre reduced them down to 75% off.

I didn't like the look of Wilko's tiny Casablanca garlic bulbs this year, then only in December I discovered that The Range were selling 3 packs of very large bulbs (2 per pack), still in excellent condition for £5 and they provided 72 plump cloves for planting. I split them before departing for my allotments as my wife doesn't appreciate being given a handful of muddy reject runts on my return !

Will have to see how my harvest compares with yours.

P.S. Also have a three plots with total area of 600 m2 (having downsized from over 2,000 m2 lost to housing development).

@annettemosell6947 3 years ago

Great video

@happydigging 3 years ago

Very informative, thanks for the video! 😊

@natureza123-linda 3 years ago

what wonder

@nickthegardener.1120 2 years ago

Hi, i did this spacing 2 years ago and had a great crop. Ive improved the soil since then so I planted a bit closer together this time, i also used mycorrhizal fungi to see if it helps get fatter bulbs. Did you say that soft neck can send up scapes if they are stressed? I ask because i bought germidor soft neck and everyone had scapes, i thought that they had sold it wrong😂. I will see for sure if they are hard neck as i planted the home saved cloves this time. New sub. Book looks great.👍👌

@dfabella85 2 years ago

Wonder what is the result? Do you have a link for the video.

@cherylhowker1792 3 years ago

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@taffpatch1 3 years ago

Aren't Leeks and Onions aliums ?? Same as Elephant garlic x

@ameliagfawkes512 2 years ago

Do you add any amendments? My two varieties have just been pulled up and very, very poor, with so much rust. They didn't even form proper garlic bulbs - just a sort of globe, the size of a chip shop pickled onion. The leeks have rust too. I'll have to plant in potato buckets next year and don't want to waste so much space, as I'd given over a whole 8 x 4 raised bed in the garden in anticipation of a harvest to last us all year. Won't give up just yet, but it's disheartening.