Garlic is quite easy to grow and yummy to enjoy. Fall is the time to plant garlic.
Here’s how to plant garlic!
Garlic is a counter-intuitive crop. Plant in the fall, harvest scapes in early summer, and bulbs in late summer.
- Start by selecting the largest and cleanest cloves from your seed garlic or last year’s crop
- Avoid planting small or damaged cloves, as you ‘reap what you sow’
- Dig a hole 1-2” deep, and add a mixture of soil and compost. Garlic is a “heavy feeder” crop that thrives on compost
- Plant in 4-6” rows, 2” apart
- Plant cloves “pointy side up” or ‘roots down’
- Fill hole
- Add 6” of mulch
- Straw, leaves and bark mulch are all effective materials for mulch
- Harvest garlic scapes in early summer
- Harvest your garlic bulbs in late summer and fall
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As an author and editor, Linda directs her lifelong love of nature and plants to concerns about our environment and how we can do better. In addition to decades of gardening experience, and training as a master gardener, Linda focuses on learning from leading science-based educators and writers, and in the process finds that she uncovers many gardening myths.
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