Planting Garlic in the Fall
by
Nancy On The Home Front
(IC: blogger)
It’s such a busy time of year. Children heading back to school, vegetables to be harvested from the garden and it’s also time to plant the garlic. Here in Vermont we plant garlic in the fall and harvest it in late July.
I love growing garlic here in Vermont. It is one of the more satisfying plants to grow. Once the garlic bulbs are planted there is really not much more you have to do until it’s time to cut the scapes! Plus I always seem to have a wonderful and abundant crop of garlic that lasts until the following season.
Break the garlic bulbs into individual cloves.
I plant hard necked garlic which does extremely well for me.
Cover lightly with soil. They should be far enough into the soil so the frost doesn’t push them up. Once the garlic is planted mulch the garden bed with straw.
Nothing else to do but wait until next summer when it’s time to harvest! In the meantime I’ll be enjoying the garlic I harvested this year!
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Published September 23rd, 2015 9:41 AM
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Martin E. Larsen on Oct 11, 2015I live in an apartment so can't do a bed of it. But I did just last week plant 5 cloves in a 5 gallon bucket full of planting mix I made up my self. I really do use a LOT of it but also really MIS the chance to do any more gardening then a couple of buckets sitting in turkey pans.
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