On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 usenet2012 wrote:

If I grow garlic in greenhouse - when should they be planted out

As far as I know garlic should go directly into the garden. Thats
what I do
and apart from this year always have a very nice crop.

My wife and daughter have just come back from the Garlic Farm Shop and
there are no greenhouses there. The Garlic goes straight into the
ground.

I was told by someone on my allotment that garlic cloves should be
frosted so that they divide otherwise all that grows is a very large
single clove rather than a bulb of cloves.

Urban legend!

If you let garlic flower and then produce bulbils from those flowers, if
you then plant those bulbils the resulting crop will be a one bulb
garlic. However if you then plant those single bulbs the resulting crop
will then be the usual bulb with cloves. Which reminds me, I have some
bulbils that I must plant.

And the best time for planting garlic is November, though I've got away
with it by planting in March. Didn't get very big bulbs, though.

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
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