Gardening with Ben - Garden and Allotment Tips and Advice Podcast
Oct 23, 2026 · 18 min · 12 segments
Want to grow your own garlic but aren’t sure where to start? Join me, Gardening with Ben, as I talk through growing garlic in the UK, from choosing your planting stock to harvesting and storing your…
And soft neck generally stores a lot longer than the hard neck variety.
So the choice is down to you what variety you want to try.
You might try all three.
I tend to try all three and see how well we get on with them.
So yeah those are the varieties that you can choose.
Like I said I've got all three growing in my polytunnel.
Now I've planted mine in the polytunnel but I shouldn't have done that.
I should plant them outside because garlic needs the frost to help split the clove and to produce the garlic itself.
The reason why I planted mine in my polytunnel is because I'm doing up all outside of my plot next year and I need it as empty as possible so I can't be having garlic and onions planted outside as I'm going to be working everywhere and getting the whole plot cleared and starting from scratch again.
So yeah, that's the reason why I'm growing mine in my polytunnel.
So don't follow me, don't follow me on this one, don't plant it in the polytunnel, plant them outside as it needs the frost to help break them up.
And soft neck generally stores a lot longer than the hard neck variety.
So the choice is down to you what variety you want to try.
You might try all three.
I tend to try all three and see how well we get on with them.
So yeah those are the varieties that you can choose.
Like I said I've got all three growing in my polytunnel.
Now I've planted mine in the polytunnel but I shouldn't have done that.
I should plant them outside because garlic needs the frost to help split the clove and to produce the garlic itself.
The reason why I planted mine in my polytunnel is because I'm doing up all outside of my plot next year and I need it as empty as possible so I can't be having garlic and onions planted outside as I'm going to be working everywhere and getting the whole plot cleared and starting from scratch again.
So yeah, that's the reason why I'm growing mine in my polytunnel.
So don't follow me, don't follow me on this one, don't plant it in the polytunnel, plant them outside as it needs the frost to help break them up.
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