Garlic

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Yesterday afternoon was cool and cloudy
a perfect day for planting
Garlic

Dadzoo made this nice little planter box for me a couple of weeks ago, and I filled it with a mix of peat moss and some home grown compost.

Last spring I planted chives in a pot and sat it on my back porch, so I decided to re-plant them in the box with my garlic, I am hoping to have enough chives to dry next spring.


I punched little holes in the soil about 2 inches apart

I then pulled my garlic bulbs apart.
Planting garlic is really cheap, I just bought them at the grocery store.

I plunked those cloves in the holes and covered them up

As I was walking back into the house after planting my garlic I noticed the sky.
I was really hoping that my laundry would dry before the storm rolled in.

(At about 9:30 that night I did bring the laundry in before it started to rain, when it is only 60 degrees outside and cloudy all day the laundry doesn’t dry as quickly…I am thankful for my good ‘ol electric dryer!)

12 thoughts on “Garlic”

  1. Garlic sounds like a great investment . . . one clove into a bulb. Much better than the stock market!

  3. Seriously, GARLIC!!! We use it constantly, and I never thought I could grow it right now? Would you expand on all that? I am so new to planting things for the FEAR of killing it!

  4. Jen, I am new to it too. I first tried in the spring, and they came up, but the bulbs never got big. come to find out that they are best planted in the fall (duh…bulbs..). So this is an experiment for me.

    It is really as simple as I showed you. Just pull apart the bulbs and plant the nice big cloves. They will come up in the spring really early.

    Now, I don’t for sure know when to harvest them. I need to research it more. But I am assuming that you would dig them up when the tops started to die back…

    Hope that helps!

  6. THANKS so much for expanding, I may go buy me a planter tomorrow. Do you keep them out of weather’s way?

  7. i have thought about growing my own garlic…my friend told me it might be too cold to do it..i live in michigan, would it be too cold? is it simply just buy the garlic at the grocery store and then plant it? that would be AWESOME!

  8. I love to grow garlic! It does great to repel those nasty little bugs that bore into squash vines. We get them here in the south alot. Grow garlic to eat in the winter/spring garlic to repel bugs in the summer.
    Erika

  10. Cool! I’ve never heard of someone planting garlic. This would be great for me as we love garlic!

  11. Look at you go planting garlic… My kids will grow up believing that garlic comes from a little glass jar.

  12. Kudos for you. I need to get some bulbs in the ground.

    I could almost smell your laundry.