08-20-2022, 06:13 PM
(05-05-2022, 02:51 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Just planted my garden. In addition to the usual corn, beans, peppers, and tomatoes, this year I am also growing garlic and onions.
I have never grown garlic before, but a while back I was at the grocery store and they had a package of garlic buds in the "reduced for quick sale" bin in the produce section. Since many of them were already starting to sprout I decided to use them as seed.
I discovered that it is best to plant garlic in the fall in order to get it to sprout as early as possible in the spring.
I eat a lot of garlic in pretty much everything. I love cheese pizza with nothing but a bunch of roasted garlic on it.
I'll keep you all informed on how this works out.
Any of you ever tried to grow it?
I have grown garlic all my adult life, so for over 20 years. Like you say, plant the cloves in the fall in fresh tilled earth. But
remember to put straw down which helps contain the weeds a bit. Garlic is extremely hardy but there are other weeds like
Garlic purge I think it is called (that is what we called it) that look like garlic but take over. Have to study these weeds up.
Also, to get your biggest garlic you want to give your roots plenty of room and before they seed out cut off the seed stems.
This allows all the water to go to the bulbs. Also, early in the spring is when you should water the most to get the stalks
strong, usually the bigger the stalk at the base, the bigger the garlic and we grew Georgia Porcelain Zemo garlic that
almost looked as big as elephant garlic that really isn't garlic.
