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Strange garlic
Fingeomulch
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in Fruit & veg
This year I planted a row of last year's garlic harvest which I have done previously very successfully. Rather than grow into the typical bulb with identifiable cloves this year's garlic has formed a single clove/bulb with a fairly hard skin.
What has caused this?
Other garlic from purchased stock has done very well.
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Garlic needs to experience low temperatures to initiate the dividing into cloves. Perhaps your garlic just didn't get cold enough this year - different varieties might need different temperatures.
Use it for roasted garlic - my mouth is watering already
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
it happens some times if the seed garlic doesn't get cold enough over winter ,it also depends on which variety your seed cloves came from i.e. hardneck are autum sown softneck spring sown . it tastes the same and you only have to peel one skin off lol.
atb dd