Growing Garlic

Allium sativum : Amaryllidaceae / the onion family

Jan F M A M J J A S O N Dec
    P P P P            

(Best months for growing Garlic in Australia - sub-tropical regions)

  • P = Plant cloves
  • Easy to grow. Plant cloves. Best planted at soil temperatures between 10°C and 35°C. (Show °F/in)
  • Space plants: 10 - 12 cm apart
  • Harvest in 17-25 weeks.
  • Compatible with (can grow beside): Beets, Carrots, Cucumbers, Dill, Tomatoes, Parsnips
  • Avoid growing close to: Asparagus, Beans, Brassicas, Peas, Potatoes

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22 Nov 11, Chandra Akhil (Australia - temperate climate)
Hello Barb Burnet ! When you are ready to sell your Golden Australian Garlic seeds please let me know I will be interested to buy some. My email contact is [email protected] Looking forward to hear from you. Regards Chandra Akhil.
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22 Nov 11, Chandra Akhil (Australia - temperate climate)
I just want to make a comment on Brianna Dall's comment dated 22 Aug. 11. where she said that "the import stuff has been treated to not germinate". With all due respect to Brianna that is not so. I have used the "import stuff" on numerous ocassion in my garden and it has germinated well.
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11 Apr 14, Kare McPhee (Australia - temperate climate)
Where did you buy your Chinese Garlic? Would like to purchase some that actually grows.
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13 Feb 12, Sammy (Australia - temperate climate)
Me too they work extremely well this is my second year I have been using supermarket bought Chinese garlic
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16 Nov 11, Barb Burnet (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
This year my beautiful aussie golden garlic." the pearls of life' has grown better than ever. And it has been very wet down here. planted iin March and pulled all in Oct. ! sadly I will have to move so will have to sell most of my garlic seed. over the years of growing same seed in different states,.. healthy soil, lime ,& blood and bone. and love.
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17 Jan 12, Cynthia (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi Barb, I would love to buy some garlic seed from you. please email me [email protected] Thanks!
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28 Oct 11, Bruce (Australia - temperate climate)
Yes plant them! They should grow. Normally they shoot in autumm and are starting to dry off now ready for harvest next month.
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18 Oct 11, angela (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Greg,I bought a heap of garlic from a shop and havent used it,it is now October can I plant the shooting bulbs or do I just throw them away?Seems a waste.Thank you
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22 Aug 11, Brianna Dall (Australia - temperate climate)
Janis you can buy Garlic 'seed' gloves at any good garden nursery. Or if your local green grocery sells local Australian garlic you can just break off the gloves and plant those. It need to be Australian garlic, the import stuff has been treated to not germinate.
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27 Jul 11, Ross Turner (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
It would appear that I am too late to get russian bulbs for planting this year from commercial supplier. If there is anyone near Ipswich in Queensland who is able to spare a couple of cloves, I would be very grateful.
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One other company for great Garlic is garlicworld.com. They are based in Port Campbell in Victoria, Simon and his wife.I got some lovely Californis purple from them. Not sure if they'd have any left now. A couple of years ago, I got some Purple garlic which came from Chile. I really don't like to buy out of area stuff, but I figured it would be a one off, and haven't bought much since, except for the garlicworld stuff. Melanie, the garlic is ready when the top wilts and leans over, as Jen has said. Sometimes, the plant goes into flowering mode, but usually not, usually it just falls over. The stem that falls is the bit you use to tie it up with, so if you let it die too much, you won't get the protective outer skin, or something to plait it with. I tend to wait until it looks a bit ratty, but hasn't died completely, about a week or so after it keels over. Then I dig it up, don't pull it from the stem, I learned that lesson the first year.!! Hope this helps.

- Adam

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