Garlic Cloves Coming Soon!

Solent Wight Garlic bulbs (approx. 12-14 cloves) will be available in the Hut late October.
How to Grow Garlic
Prepare your soil well. Mix in lots of good compost long before you want to start planting, or a minimum of two weeks before. Spacing 15cm/6” between each clove (more for elephant garlic). Plant in an area which will receive maximum sunlight hours. Good drainage is key.
Between January and March, break the bulbs into cloves, leaving skin on. Place cloves 3 to 4cm/1½” below ground surface, root down (pointy end up), 15cm/6” apart. Garlic doesn’t take up much room so you can plant around the edges of beds or intersperse between other plants too. If your ground tends to waterlog you can start off in pots and plant out when conditions allow.
Water your garlic during dry periods throughout the growing season, but stop watering completely during the last few weeks. Weed regularly.
From February, apply a high potassium feed to feed the bulb (like tomato feed – Tomorite £6.50/litre or Vitax Natural Pelleted High K Fertiliser with Magnesium £2/kg bag available from The Hut) to your garlic every 6 weeks to give it all the nutrients it needs to grow successfully.
In March, you can give them a single top dressing of Chicken pellets (1kg bags) or Hoof and Horn (1kg bags) both stocked in the hut, high in Nitrogen, to help build the leaves.
When the garlic leaves fall over and are brown, it’s harvest time. Too early and you’ll miss the final growth spurt, too late and your bulbs will rot in the ground.
Growing Garlic in Pots
Garlic can be successfully grown in pots. Use a fresh standard growing medium. Typically plant 3 cloves to a 15cm pot, 6 to a 20cm pot and 8 – 10 to a 25cm pot. Be sure to use pots with at least 15cm depth to allow adequate freedom for the roots. Keep well watered and stand them outside on a patio or window ledge, in a good sunny position.