Why is my garlic small?

kastle

I'm not sure if anyone here grows garlic, but I thought I might give posting a shot.

This is my first year growing it so I'm sure I did something wrong and would like to correct that for next year.

First off, I'm confident I waited too long to pull it.  For most of mine, all of the leaves are brown.  I will use this garlic first & not store/cure. 

However, even though it had maximium time in the the ground, the heads are still really small...some the size of a nickel...others maybe more like a quarter.  This is both hardneck & softneck and the bulbs I planted from (in the fall) were all large, so it's not the variety.  Oh, and for the hardneck I cut off all the scapes.

any thoughts?  My guesses are:

-Very wet winter (tons of snow)
-Less sunlight in fall/spring
-Planted too late in the fall (I think it was like Nov or so when I got around to it)
-Dry spring

Any advice is appreciated!

hoping4septimus

same thing for me.... although they taste good each bulb only has about 8 to 10 cloves

Hey Jellisy

No advice, but last year all of the garlic we got from the CSA was small as well.  Tasty but not nearly as large as the supermarket variety. 

pakarufus

I have had years where the garlic is huge and years where it is small.  I don't know what causes the variations.  All my garlic is from the same stock.  I got some cloves years ago and just keep replanting the nicest cloves each fall.