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Bolting Garlic

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  Posted by Diana Adams (U14506052) on Tuesday, 8th June 2010

  Garlic which I planted in the autumn is now going yellow but some have formed a seed head. Does this mean that they are no good? I thought they might stay in the ground for another couple of weeks as they are quite small.

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  Posted by poshHebeJeebie (U9319867) on Tuesday, 8th June 2010

  Just cut the flower heads (scapes) off - you can use them in stir fries: mild but delicious - and let the plants mature until you want/need to harvest them.
  
  Mine were more than ready to harvest - very early, and I was apprehensive about digging them up, so I tried a couple to check first. But they were a super size and they are now all drying off ready for plaiting.
  
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  Posted by realfood (U13916672) on Tuesday, 8th June 2010

  All hard neck garlics produce a "scape" which produce bulbils rather than seeds. You can take the scapes off and use as flavouring for stir-fries etc.
  As the scapes grow in between the cloves, it does not affect the keeping quality of the cloves.

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  Posted by Ian W (U8604472) on Tuesday, 8th June 2010

  I suspect they've reacted to the very dry and hot weather. I've found that garlic needs to be watered at this time of year as the bulbs swell, which also stops them going yellow. The rain will do them good.

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  Posted by Diana Adams (U14506052) on Wednesday, 9th June 2010

  Thanks very much for the advice and information.

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Wednesday, 9th June 2010

  propagation by division is really what you are looking for in garlic at this time of year surely, ie the division of the bulb in to more segments.
  
  I seem to recall from last year, that by August the clove (there is some confusion about the use of the word clove) had divided in to 10 or 12 segments. I ate quite a few and replanted quite a few more.
  
  Use them as you want them even now. Take a leaf or two for lunch; a leaf or two for making the mayonnaise and so on; dig one out to see how they are getting on...!
  
  If you have got flowers then presumably you will have seeds as well. If you are thinking about a regular crop as I am, then growing from seed rather than from planting your own garlic "setts"
  will be more economical.
  
  I am hoping to do that with my onions, but with garlic I am just enjoying the increase and the crop. If I get flower heads and seed, I shall be pleased, because then I can be more economical with the garlic too.
  
  I am something of a seedsman, and I am always challenged by growing from seed, saving over the autumn, winter and getting them going nicely in the following year.
  
  The best time to collect the seed, its ripeness, is always difficult to decide.

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  Posted by realfood (U13916672) on Wednesday, 9th June 2010

  Hard neck garlic do not actually produce seed but produce bulbils. These can be planted again, but will only produce rather small rounds of garlic in their fist year.

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