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Garlic in pots - feed?

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  Posted by Lokelani (U8896212) on Friday, 10th September 2010

  I grow summer veg in pots & always just stick a garlic clove in the middle when they're finished & hope for the best.
  
  They vary wildly in success & size, but that maybe more to do with the fact I use supermarket ones if I can't be bothered to get proper planting stock.
  
  I've been given some proper garlic this year to plant so I'd like to know if it's worth putting some feed back into the soil at all for them.
  
  If so what do they like? Also is it too early to put them in yet?
  

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  Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Friday, 10th September 2010

  Plant your garlic now, however - you only get out whet you put in, so I would add some nutrient to the soil. Cheers, Tony.

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  Posted by jamie01 (U14066574) on Friday, 10th September 2010

  Just finished planting my garlic into the pot where my beetroot used to live. I'd pre-mixed the recommended amount of slow release pellets so now it's just wait and see. Plenty of other things to be done before the end of Autumn.

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Friday, 10th September 2010

  You say some "proper garlic"
  
  I have harvested my seeds probably about 1000 of them from about 15 seed pods, which are a little like flowers, and there is little difference between the appearance of the 'clove' segment(?)of a small garlic, and the seed which comes from the seed head.
  
  I am told that the seeds themselves will take two years to grow to maturity. I suppose it does not really matter too much 'when' you plant seeds, as long as you take in to account possible bird and insect depradation.
  
  I might even have left them to seed themselves, but decided on a more organized intervening approach, serried rows perhaps.
  
  The segments are about 20 times the size of the seeds, so it does give them a head start but fewer plants perhaps, and fewer eventual full bulbs.
  
  Onions, by contrast, have a similar Allium style flower/seed head, once they have been allowed to "bolt" in the way so much disapproved of by onion enjoying gardener/cooks.
  
  In these seed heads there are say 40-50 seedpods
  within which you may find between 2 and 5 black onion seeds; a rather different way of procreating, would you not say?!
  
  Whilst the fairly small seed head of the garlic may have 30-40 large seeds, the onion seed head has several hundred individual seeds, once the pod has been split up, several thousand seedsato plant ready for next year.
  
  The question with both of these seed types is when to plant them for the best effect,and control
  of one's own research interest.
  
  I am told again from these columns that I should plant inside in January/February to get them going on well.
  
  Is that right, or shall I plant my few hundred garlic true seeds now, just like a field of winter wheat?

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  Posted by Lokelani (U8896212) on Saturday, 11th September 2010

  I just meant a bulb sold as planting garlic, in this case Iberian White, as against using a supermarket eating bulb.
  
  Good luck with your seed ones though!
  
  

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  Posted by Swedboy (U14400604) on Saturday, 11th September 2010

  Planting them now? I thought October was the right time.

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  Posted by jamie01 (U14066574) on Saturday, 11th September 2010

  K-J, the pack I bought says September to December or February to May. The ones I planted last Feb weren't blessed with the best conditions weather wise, but small though they are I'll enjoy using them.

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  Posted by Lokelani (U8896212) on Saturday, 11th September 2010

  Ah well I can't be bothered while it's pelting with rain so it will be at the earliest later in Sept by the time they go in!
  

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  Posted by jo4eyes (U13654107) on Saturday, 11th September 2010

  As long as it's before the shortest day is what I try to do. I'd add 'food' to the pot if reusing the compost- hadnt thought about that, could use my spinach pot! They do better in the ground, but as we may be moving before they would be ready to harvest, a pot it'll be this year. J.

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