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02 Apr 12, David (Australia - temperate climate)

it is possible that you bought mexican or some other countrys garlic which is 6 monthes different to ours hence the garlic coming up now

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16 Mar 12, Pranav (Australia - temperate climate)

Jennifer,Buy cloves, glriac is a bulb plant not a seed plant, although the cloves are used as the seed' (confused yet?). :-)In this case the term seed' has a general meaning in so far as anything that can be sown i.e. seed potatoes, seeds of corn or sunflower seeds . In the case of sunflower and corn seeds , what is sown is the seed enclosed in a shell or hull, and the potato is a tuber and one can propogate them by planting small pieces of a spud that has grown an eye'.For best results, plant in the fall for next summers crop and because it is a bulb, think drainage.Hope that helps

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01 Jan 12, Vanessa (Australia - temperate climate)

I live on the Murray River at a town called Tooleybuc. 2011 I planted heaps of cloves. They all sprouted!! I planted my garlic in March/early April. I left them until November and dug some up, only to find rather small bulbs. Left the rest for another month and the bulbs had not really grown much larger. The cloves were fresh Australian grown garlic. Did I overwater them? Is it possible to overwater. The guy I obtained my bulbs from, planted his crop in Feb and harvested in Nov. HELP!! What am I doing wrong?? Please. Any advice would be appreciated. Vanessa

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12 Mar 12, Matthew (Australia - temperate climate)

I would say nutrition is the key! Garlic need a reasonable amount of fertiliser to form well. You should be able to google a fertiliser program, but a broad spectrum NPK+trace applied at planting and then more nitrogen over time will help.

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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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