DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME ! I thought I would be clever and try bottling the cloves in olive oil. I now have three jam jars of garlic cloves, that are slightly fermented, and when I try to open them, it is like having a champagne bottle of garlic explode in the kitchen ! Takes days for the smell to disperse ! Like being sprayed by a skunk, it permeates clothes, fabrics, drawers, towels and hair to such a degree that people either turn away from you or ask if you are English !
can anyone tell me how to grow the small garlic you buy from the deli infused in oil and what sort are they and has anyone the recipe for the oil used as its very expensive to buy ,any help out ther.
Our garlic doesn't seem to be producing separate cloves will this be rectified in the next few months or should we pull them up and use the space to grow another crop?
What this guide fails to mention is soil type for garlic. I tried growing it last year and it never got big enough to eat. This was despite regular weeding, watering etc... I am going to try again this year on my, new, allotment plot.
Mine are now well up as usual. Planted in October/November. Very frost-hardy. Bought originally from a market - the slightly purple type grown in N.France. My spacing greater than advised here.
Peteballan - How about using this unpleasant concoction to spray plants against aphid - good organic way!. As for making garlic oil - just make a small amount and use within 3/4 weeks and then discard and re-make. I usually decide to discard when the cloves start to discolour, however making a small amount usually means it is all used up before getting to that stage.
I planted my garlic in november and I assume because of the wet winter not one bulb sprouted. I have replanted in February. Are these bulbs likely to produce a crop this year or am I wasting my time and money?
Questions - did you use supermarket garlic or 'seed' garlic?
If you planted it in November it would probably only just be showing above the soil level as like any plants it goes into a dormancy, however garlic needs at least 30days at below 10C this helps to produce the split to make the cloves. It needs to be planted about 2.5 cm or so deep and space about 18cm.
A garlic that has been planted in the autumn often need 1-2 months of low temperatures before it starts to sprout.
My garlic planted in early december is only just appearing above the soil
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DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME ! I thought I would be clever and try bottling the cloves in olive oil. I now have three jam jars of garlic cloves, that are slightly fermented, and when I try to open them, it is like having a champagne bottle of garlic explode in the kitchen ! Takes days for the smell to disperse ! Like being sprayed by a skunk, it permeates clothes, fabrics, drawers, towels and hair to such a degree that people either turn away from you or ask if you are English !
Anyone want a bottle of garlic wine ?
Peteballan - How about using this unpleasant concoction to spray plants against aphid - good organic way!. As for making garlic oil - just make a small amount and use within 3/4 weeks and then discard and re-make. I usually decide to discard when the cloves start to discolour, however making a small amount usually means it is all used up before getting to that stage.
Questions - did you use supermarket garlic or 'seed' garlic?
If you planted it in November it would probably only just be showing above the soil level as like any plants it goes into a dormancy, however garlic needs at least 30days at below 10C this helps to produce the split to make the cloves. It needs to be planted about 2.5 cm or so deep and space about 18cm.
A garlic that has been planted in the autumn often need 1-2 months of low temperatures before it starts to sprout.
My garlic planted in early december is only just appearing above the soil