Garlic

Ozark · April 24, 2016

Last spring or early summer, friends of our daughter gave her a bundle of garlic starts. These folks live on a farm and they said this good strain of garlic has been raised by their family there for over 100 years. They also said it spreads in the garden and into flower beds, so they have to pull it back sometimes - hence the young plants to give away.

I planted the starts in a corner of my vegetable garden but they didn't do well last year. I'm pretty sure garlic should be transplanted in the fall, not spring - so these pretty much just went away over the course of last summer and I thought I'd lost them. Much to my surprise, they've come up real nice in that corner this spring (picture). When I saw what was going on, I gave them some liquid fertilizer and they're doing well.

Tell me about growing garlic, please - I've never grown it before. My wife uses a lot of garlic in her cooking and I'd like to keep this patch going permanently and get some good use out of it. I have no idea what kind of garlic this is (hard neck, soft neck, etc.) or how to handle it from here. Thanks for any info!

April 24, 2016	#1
Ozark Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ozark, Mo. Posts: 201	Garlic Last spring or early summer, friends of our daughter gave her a bundle of garlic starts. These folks live on a farm and they said this good strain of garlic has been raised by their family there for over 100 years. They also said it spreads in the garden and into flower beds, so they have to pull it back sometimes - hence the young plants to give away. I planted the starts in a corner of my vegetable garden but they didn't do well last year. I'm pretty sure garlic should be transplanted in the fall, not spring - so these pretty much just went away over the course of last summer and I thought I'd lost them. Much to my surprise, they've come up real nice in that corner this spring (picture). When I saw what was going on, I gave them some liquid fertilizer and they're doing well. Tell me about growing garlic, please - I've never grown it before. My wife uses a lot of garlic in her cooking and I'd like to keep this patch going permanently and get some good use out of it. I have no idea what kind of garlic this is (hard neck, soft neck, etc.) or how to handle it from here. Thanks for any info!