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13 Jul 11, (Australia - arid climate)

If you have divided the bulb into cloves, plant in the ground with the pointy end upwards about 10 mm from the surface. Bruce

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11 Jul 11, Kate (Australia - temperate climate)

Trying my first lot of garlic; russian and another darker organic one. Do I need to do anything to the cloves before I plant them?

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01 Jul 11, Cygnetian (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I heard an interesting-sounding garlic-growing tip recently (unfortunately just too late for my plantings this year), which was to *not* firm down the soil/compost (or whatever you plant them in) at all, the idea being that the bulbs will grow bigger that way since they *(& their roots, I guess) aren't tightly packed into the growing medium.

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14 Jul 11, sara drummond (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I planted some in June but I aim to put some more in. bought the purple argentinean pack from safeways I know it mid July but I will give them a go today and see what happens in Novemver/December I will take your idea on board to keep the soil cover loose ... having fun in the garden sara

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17 May 11, Greg (Australia - temperate climate)

I planted three varieties of garlic about four weeks ago, including the (large) Russian garlic variety. The other two all came up after about two weeks, but not a single sign of the Russian has come up. Does it normally take longer to come up or have I got a dud batch?

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02 Jun 11, Greg (Australia - temperate climate)

Thanks all - you were on the money. They've just started to poke their heads up!

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02 Jun 11, pete (Australia - temperate climate)

eh Greg, I had the same deal. the russians are comming through now after six weeks. Seems a week of frosts spurred them on.

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02 Jun 11, James (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hi Greg, dont worry about the russian garlic, it will shoot up. Some take a little longer, some come up straight away. Youll find that they really like full sun - if they have shade during the day they will take a little longer to come up. If you have planted the bulbins (little nut like seed) they will probably not show until early spring, cheers

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17 May 11, arthur (Australia - temperate climate)

If you want to grow imported garlic purchased from a super market pick out a nice bulb feel around the cloves near the to top, if there is a slight swelling thats the one you want to buy.Get a small con.that will hold water 5mil deep quarter teaspoon thrive or seasol.leave for about three days.plant out 50mil deep.after 2 weeks my plants are now 80 ml high.

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24 May 11, Phe (Australia - temperate climate)

Thanks, I'm going to try this.

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