Garlic

16 years ago

I planted my saved Russian red hard neck garlic last fall and as a change I as well planted a dozen or so store bought stuff, its likely Chinese white. My old garlic is doing fine and sprouted as expected but, the white cloves have leafed out earlier and are at the point of falling over with some of the outer leaves browning. Neither is of any decent size yet so my question is... do I take the scissors to the tops of the white garlic and try to promote growth or was it just a bad plan?

Someone likely knows out there. Thanks

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bejay9_10
16 years ago
I've noticed something similar, and decided to wait awhile. The weather is just beginning to warm enough here to affect soil temps - and I'm wondering if that may be a factor. If the "wimps" don't shape up soon tho - I'll pull em and put them in a quick stir fry anyway.

Just my 2 c's.

Bejay
skeip
16 years ago
I've never had luck with the grocery store garlics, or most soft necks for that matter. I don't think they like my climate, and are used to a little more pampering than I am able to give them! I have excellent results with hardnecks however.

Steve
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cyrus_gardner
16 years ago
Fall planted garlics should be ready for harvest in June, in zone 7.
At that time the tops will give up. That is the time ti dig them up.
Yellowing outer leaves is ok. But they need balanced fertilizer (10-10-10 is fine).
In the meantime you can dig out some and use them as YOUNG FRESH GREEN
galic.The green are just as tasty thgough not as pungant as cloves.
MGPinSavannah
16 years ago
I'm still puzzling about growing garlic, and I've gotten lots of great answers in the allium forum, which addresses garlics and onions and leeks, etc.
tn_veggie_gardner
16 years ago
You may just need to wait until mid to late Summer.

I'm doing 5 containers of garlic this year. One is an Elephant Garlic from last Spring that looks like this guy mentioned. I checked on a clove in late Fall before frost & it looked like a halfway formed clove almost (with like the original piece indise maybe?). Wondering When that will be harvestable. Anyway, my other 4 containers are clove pieces just planted. 2 soft neck varieties I forget the name of & 2 pots of Calofrnia White garlic. I was told, planting it a week or so ago, that it would be harvestable in August.
- Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Steve's Garden
bella_trix
16 years ago
If they don't make it and you have holes in your garlic bed, you can interplant carrots. I did this last year and it worked very well.

I've had the same problem with softnecks. It seems that if they grow too much in the fall, they are easily damaged in the winter (even with shredded leaves on top). I have several that look the same as yours. Last year, some recovered, some did not.

Bellatrix
ronnywil
16 years ago
Don't cut your garlic back. This will cause it to spend its energy to produce a new stalk and the bulb will suffer. It will be just fine. You might want to fertilize it with some composted manure. After the hard winter we have had, some of the leaves didn't fair so well but it will recover. I'm growing 66 varieties and it is all starting to grow again.