7 Vegetables You Can Still Plant in October in the UK | Autumn Growing Guide

But if you missed that episode, when you're obviously planting your garlic you do need to make sure that you separate them into individual cloves rather than plant the complete bulb itself.

Like I did in my first year of gardening.

That is one little tip that I always advise.

And when you're planting a garlic stock make sure that it's a suitable variety for the autumn period as well.

obviously in the garden centers now they've got all the correct varieties in there so have a look and see which variety you want to grow obviously there's also elephant garlic as well which is part of the leek family it's not actually a garlic but it can be used in the same way when growing and when cooking as well so they are a lot bigger and obviously that's why it's called elephant garlic they're absolutely huge But it's great fun to give them a try and see how well you get on with them.

Planting garlic now is perfect because it needs the cold weather to help split it and to create the bulb.

So it's ideal time.

So you need to be getting them in now ready for the cold weather coming.

So that's one of the main things that actually loves the cold weather garlic.

so get them in the ground as fast as possible make sure that you net them as well to stop any of the birds or any of the pests pulling them all up and eating all the tops of them so yeah make sure you net them as well and when you space them out space them between 15 centimetres to 20 centimetres apart and then between the rows leave about 30 centimetres garlic don't like competing against the weeds for food and nutrition so make sure that you keep them hold on a regular basis and the tip needs to be about 2.5 centimeters below the surface so yeah get your garlic planted get them in and get them growing Next up are autumn onion sets.