Grow your garlic in full sun - garlic wants to grow quickly in order to create good sized bulbs. Pick a site that is not flat to water-logging, this will ensure the bulbs do not rot over winter. Garlic can be planted in raised beds and they will produce very well. Click here to go to our page on raise beds.
Know Plant Garlic before knowing how to grow garlic
The secret to growing garlic is to put down it in mid October - spring planting is possible in warmer areas, but even then, better sized bulbs will result from an autumn sowing. Dig the soil well to a spade's depth before planting, incorporating as much organic matter as possible to help with drainage - garlic will rot in water-logged circumstances. If you can purchase and dig in some sand (from your garden centre) at this stage, the drainage will be better even further. A couple of handfuls of bonemeal be supposed to also be incorporated every square metre (yard).
garlic picture, the garlic bulb and a cloveGarlic bulbs for plant in Spring need not be bought from a nursery - simply decide the largest ones possible from your greengrocer or supermarket. If plant in mid October, choose a hardier variety such as 'White Pearl', these need to buy from your local garden centre. Each bulb will consist of up to 20 individual cloves, and it is these cloves which are to be independently planted. Gently remove the outer skin from the bulb (not the cloves) and divide into individual cloves - see the picture on the left. On the correct is a garlic clove and on the left is the bulb. decide on the principal eight or so of the cloves which will be on the outside of the bulb.
Steps for how to grow garlic
Buy fresh garlic from the store or even improved a farm stand. Alternately, if you have some garlic at home that has sprout, use this.
Break the head at a distance into cloves
Push the cloves into the ground pointed in the air about 2 inches deep in the fall.
Fertilize the cloves
Mulch the cloves with hay, dry foliage or grass clippings.
Fertilize again in the mechanism but not after May.
Pull off scapes and gobble if you so desire.
Pull out and dry in a well ventilate space
