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igenlodeI embarked on a grand re-potting, or Mad Hatter's Potting Party, in which some plants are sacrificed (I pulled up the last of the going-to-seed rocket and used it to make magic mackerel -- using a £3 kipper rather than mackerel, elderly cauliflower rather than broccoli, and almonds rather than hazelnuts, but every bit as overwhelmingly fishy!) and all the other plants are moved up into their abandoned pots, each getting a new home one size larger. (Or, in the case of the Demon Red chillies, getting split up, with one plant going back solo into their original joint pot.)
And in the bottom of one pot I found... the garlic that died off early this summer :-)
It hasn't (as I suspected) cloved up properly, but it has successfully developed a lot of little subsidiary bulbils from the single original clove, all of which presumably have the potential to grow into a full-size plant. Given that the garlic *hasn't* 'rotted in the ground', which is supposedly the consequence of failing to 'lift' your garlic as soon as the foliage withers, given that it hasn't fully matured and has lively roots, and given that you are supposed to plant garlic out in September to grow in the spring, I think I shall simply put the bulb(s) back into a pot rather than lifting and drying them out...
And in the bottom of one pot I found... the garlic that died off early this summer :-)
It hasn't (as I suspected) cloved up properly, but it has successfully developed a lot of little subsidiary bulbils from the single original clove, all of which presumably have the potential to grow into a full-size plant. Given that the garlic *hasn't* 'rotted in the ground', which is supposedly the consequence of failing to 'lift' your garlic as soon as the foliage withers, given that it hasn't fully matured and has lively roots, and given that you are supposed to plant garlic out in September to grow in the spring, I think I shall simply put the bulb(s) back into a pot rather than lifting and drying them out...