Garlic is quite easy to grow and yummy to enjoy. The time to plant garlic is fall. Here’s how!
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, add a mixture of soil and compost. Garlic is a “heavy feeder” crop which 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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About The Author: Armstrong
As a blogger, author, and editor, Linda directs her life-long love of nature and plants towards concerns about our environment and how we can do better. After much training and gardening experience, Linda continues to focus on learning and dispelling myths. Active volunteer roles currently include London Fanshawe Horticultural Society, London Middlesex Master Gardeners, Habitat for Humanity, and PAWS.
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