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in the spring. Dont know what the problem was. Miss the weather forecast too! Any idea what I can plant just now in raised bed beside my garlic and onions? Don't want to plant salad. I am in my second year of veggie growing and have had some success and failures

clove but if they get frosted in the ground they become a bunch of cloves so plant them at the start of winter and pick them in july >This is true - garlic will just go to flowers & seed if it's planted in late spring ! Can anyone help with growing

Grow garlicGarlic is a key ingredient in much of our cooking and nothing beats the flavour of a home-grown crop. It needs a long growing season in the UK so the key to success is early planting, between November and the New Year.Cover soil

Does anyone grow wild garlic please? I took over this garden and it is over run with it. It seems to be a bit of a weed here. It needs shade, reasonable drainage and moisture, and that's about it. Don't plant it in the ground because it spreads

Can someone please remind me of the anti slug spray used by the Hosta loving lady on Gardeners' World 9th May Malvern Show edition? It involved 2 bulbs of garlic but can't remember what else. Hi Jo, here is Una Dunnett's Garlic Wash recipe

and must admit it's looking pretty dismal. I wont harvest it just yet but I'm not expecting a magnificent harvest because of the mild winter we had but as it's my first attemp at growing garlic I'll be extactic if I even if what I do get resembles a giant

Hi Everyone, I have been watching some cookery programmes and they have been using wild garlic. This plant usually has a white flower. In my front garden I keep getting garlicy smelling flowers growing, looks the same, but they have yellow flowers

first attempt at growing garlic) when they were all rather small, though tasty. One odd thing is that two of the smaller bulbs haven't split into cloves - they're just little globes a bit smaller than a ping pong ball - even though they've had exactly

and shown steady growth through February and March but now they are all have rust. Is this because of water logging, and will it affect the bulbs which seem to be growing OK but have not yet begun to multiply? I have harvested my garlic from my allotment

I have a few autumn planting shallots, onions and garlic sets that I did not get round to planting. Will they grow just as well if I plant them as Spring sets? Does anyone know if they are different varieties? Any help would be appreciated. Richard