Supermarket garlic

From experience, one of two things will happen if you plant the supermarket garlic - they won't grow or the bulbs will be tiny... Apparently they spray their garlic with an inhibitor:( If its organic garlic though you should be OK.

I've just planted last years very tiny results in an effort to produce a sensible yield! (I couldn't find anywhere near me that sold garlic in a garden centre / nursery) I'm working on the hope that although the parent was sprayed, the offspring wasn't and will therefore grow properly

 

Liz, I hope you don't mind me saying it's not a good idea to grow garlic from the supermarket for the reasons Loofah gives, also you will have no idea what variety you are buying, so it might well be suitable for growing in the hot Spanish weather but will probably do very poorly in the UK.

Certified garlic bulbs aren't that expensive from the garden centres, it seems a shame to give space in your garden and spend a lot of effort planting, weeding and tending something that won't reward you in the long run. I might be wrong, I have heard of people that get good resulst from supermarket garlic, but I wouldn't chance it myself :thumb:

 

Great stuff!

Here's last year's crop of Elephant Garlic:

 

Liz; once you've bought some then next year you can keep a few back for planting again etc etc (just like Ziggy did!) - in the long run it won't cost too much :thumb: