Garlic is best planted in October/November as it needs to experience a cold period in order to form individual cloves. If your fresh garlic was grown in the UK then it should be ok for our climate ... if it was imported then it may not ... I don’t suppose you know the variety name?
It’s a bit late in the season to be buying wet garlic tho’ ... it’s usually harvested around midsummer so the majority of it can be dried for storage so that it’s available through the winter.
Freshly harvested garlic is known as ‘wet garlic’ has a slightly different flavour to the dried and needs to be used ‘fresh’ ... it doesn’t keep unless you dry it and that rather defeats the object of your enterprise. 😞
I’m sorry, but I much prefer the look of the second lot ... a good length of white which is where the best flavour and crispest texture is ... and that’s what I look for in a spring onion. I would only use those hollow green leaves in a vegetable stock.
The first one looks as if it’s running up to flower ... I suspect the stem may have a solid core rather than being in separate layers of leaf. But if that’s what you’re happy with then keep on keeping on 😊
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If 20 bulbs are too many to store and eat you can freeze whole, peeled cloves or grate them and freeze them or roast whole bulbs then squeeze out the softened cloves and store the resulting purée frozen or in a jar with all the air knocked out and a covering of oil to seal it. You can also use spare cloves to flavour il for cooking.
Just needs a bit of thought and time and then you'd obly haveto grow them every other year - or give away spares to friends and neighbours.
The only time I tried spring onions was in a window box near the kitchen so they got daily attention and regular watering. Worked a treat. I shall be doing it again next spring as it can be really hard to find proper spring onions here. All too often they are just immature bulb onions which have good flavour but very little usable green stem which I like for Asian recipes.
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Has anyone grown garlic from the cloves of Garlic of store bought garlic and spring onion.
Was it successful
Also how long does average store bought garlic take to mature ?
Thanks for the advice
I am actually going to be doing this on my YouTube channel (Forkin' Allotment) soon ("Seed" garlic vs supermarket garlic), I will be growing in containers to prevent white rot from infecting my plot
The length of white is good, but not thick enough. Maybe I planted them too close together or didn’t add enough organic matter to the soil (clay)
I prepare the ground and apply Fish, Blood & Bone a few days before sowing direct. I try to sow fairly thinly and then as they grow I thin them out several times, increasing the gap between them as they increase in size (using the thinnings as I would use chives). That way they grow quickly and stay tender.
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Which type of coriander did you grow? Calypso is the best to cut and come again. The other varieties tend to flower and stop growing as they were developed for coriander seed harvesting.
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Coriander is an annual so it won’t grow back at this time of year. You can start again by spring some seeds indoors in the spring and planting them out after the last frost ... or planting a shop bought one after the frosts ... but to be honest I find the shop bought ones are best kept in pots on the kitchen windowsill.
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It’s a bit late in the season to be buying wet garlic tho’ ... it’s usually harvested around midsummer so the majority of it can be dried for storage so that it’s available through the winter.
Freshly harvested garlic is known as ‘wet garlic’ has a slightly different flavour to the dried and needs to be used ‘fresh’ ... it doesn’t keep unless you dry it and that rather defeats the object of your enterprise. 😞
https://www.riverford.co.uk/uk-wet-garlic-x2
We eat lots of garlic, getting through at least a whole bulb each week ... it never gets the chance to start sprouting here 😆
Looking forward to the spring onion pics ... we eat a lot of those too 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The first one looks as if it’s running up to flower ... I suspect the stem may have a solid core rather than being in separate layers of leaf. But if that’s what you’re happy with then keep on keeping on 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just needs a bit of thought and time and then you'd obly haveto grow them every other year - or give away spares to friends and neighbours.
The only time I tried spring onions was in a window box near the kitchen so they got daily attention and regular watering. Worked a treat. I shall be doing it again next spring as it can be really hard to find proper spring onions here. All too often they are just immature bulb onions which have good flavour but very little usable green stem which I like for Asian recipes.
I prepare the ground and apply Fish, Blood & Bone a few days before sowing direct. I try to sow fairly thinly and then as they grow I thin them out several times, increasing the gap between them as they increase in size (using the thinnings as I would use chives). That way they grow quickly and stay tender.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can start again by spring some seeds indoors in the spring and planting them out after the last frost ... or planting a shop bought one after the frosts
... but to be honest I find the shop bought ones are best kept in pots on the kitchen windowsill.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.