How necessary is it to top dress garlic cloves when planting? plan to add bone meal when planting (music variety), but don't have any compost available right now. How necessary is it to add compost? Does it make a huge difference? less

Just finished planting my 330 garlic for the season. 210 of them are music, 63 red Russian and the rest are a variety that local growers gave me. Zone 5b here, just south/wast of Ottawa

I have bulbs that have been in the fridge for about 4 weeks now. Hardneck and softneck.

Do I plant them at the same time? What month should I plant them? November? Or December? Or now? Will they be ready to harvest at the same time?

Thank youuuu!!

Dropped in three types of garlic, Elephant, Music, and Nootka Rose. I covered everything with straw. I separated each of the garlic varieties with four rows of spinach.

Really, just an experiment this year, I will propagate what does well.

Took some obligatory shots of my basil that will not die, carrots I want to over winter, and the pepper jungle!

Kind of just ranting, maybe looking for suggestions. Last year I planted a second harvest of garlic for winter in my raised bed and got so many small bulbs. I think it was the rust, plus maybe growing garlic two winters in a row? The first year of garlic was amazing.

And then I didn’t store them well so a lot got waxy and I’m just disappointed in the whole thing. So much work and part of it is my fault, it’s also a learning experience.

It has about 5-8 cloves per bulb, hardneck, mostly gold brown inner paper, some purple streaking.

I bought these at a farmers market and intend to plant them. The seller didn’t know what variety they are. Location is Southwest Michigan. Anybody have a good guess?

Hi! Any advice on best soil amendment for fall? I'll plant my garlic in one to two weeks. I've added composted manure, and am wondering if there is anything else I should work in before planting?

Thanks!

A couple questions before I attempt my second year of garlic growing. 1) More cloves then I expected were soft and discolored (pic 1). I’m tossing them, but I wonder what may cause that during storage. They hung and had air circulation for a good 3-4 weeks. After that they hung in my closet. 2) I was frustrated by skins coming off some of my prettiest cloves. How likely would those be to rot or be eaten this season in the ground with no skin? I’ll eat most like this but I did put a few in the ground just to see what happens. Thanks!

I planted 150 music garlic. I ised the same spot as last year. Used the same fertilizing, i burnt all the grass that grew over the summer, than i tilled in chicken poop with some wood ash for calcium, i also covered with leaves and and straw. I never took any photos, i have room for two more rows, i think i might plant the last two of purple garlic. Location is 5b.

I ordered 3 bulbs for $3.99 each from MI Gardener. From Johnny's I bought 1lb for $33.15.

MI Gardener: largest bulb was 3.3oz, smallest 2.6oz, average 2.9oz.

Johnny's: largest bulb 2.4oz, smallest 1oz, average 1.7oz. I got 12 bulbs for a total weight of 1lb 3.8oz.

Outcome: Both look great, no rotting and they're all firm. If your goal is largest bulbs and large cloves buy from MI Gardener. If your goal is to grow a large amount of bulbs regardless of size buy from Johnny's.

I paid 44.60$ a kg from my local co-op i found that to be real pricey

hi! I peeled a clove today and noticed these spots. The garlic is a bit old, maybe a few weeks by now but it’s been sitting in a dark cabinet so I thought it would be fine. I’m planning to cook it to use for roasted potatoes, would it be safe or should I throw it away?

I'm dropping 3 more varieties into my fall planting schedule. Planting elephant garlic, hard neck garlic, and soft neck Nootka rose.

This is in addition to the 50 from last year's harvest (that I originally planted from an organic grocery store).

Okay but seriously I have an issue. Show your Garliciky foods!

There was more garlic I ate them off the pepperonis lol

Been eating garlic all my 27 years of life. Me and garlic were locked in, literally would put it on everything I possibly could. However I randomly developed an allergy to it and now I’ve realized majority of foods and meals have garlic in them. Which leads me to my question; any garlic substitute out there that could give me a similar taste and not trigger an allergic reaction? Thanks in advance.

We plant in a 10"x10" grid on a 30" bed top on 56" OC beds. Mulched with wood chips. Lots of nice bulbs this year.

So last fall I found that I had extra space in my Elephant garlic bed. I think it happened because I have so much trouble putting those beautiful big cloves back in the ground. Anyway, I cobbled together a bunch of very undersized cloves I wouldn’t bother eating and planted them as an experiment.
This is the result.
My question now is whether I should plant the rounds super early since I don’t know how long the rounds take to develop. Do they take longer to sprout than regular cloves?
Hopefully someone has experience with these and would be so kind as to share their knowledge. Thank you.

Was it a different drying spot, better airflow, or a variety that kept longer? Any mistakes you wouldn’t repeat?

I'm quite confused on planting garlic!

Everything I saw was saying to plant Music garlic (the variety that I'm growing) 4-6 inches apart with each row being 12-18 inches apart. I figured fine, I'll put tomatoes in between each row.

Then I found square foot gardening, and that seemed to say that you could just plant garlic 4-6 inches apart within the square, then have a bunch like that?

Which is right?? Do they need to be in rows 12-18 inches apart? Can they be placed however I please, as long as they're 4-6 inches apart from each other?

Put 48 cloves in the ground today. Picked the largest cloves from this year’s harvest. Protected from the squirrels. Zone 8 b Vancouver

I bought some Georgia Fire for seed today, never had it but wanted to add something new. Just curious if anyone has any experience with it. I'm on Vancouver Island, zone 8b-ish.

Ik heb vandaag look geplant. Een deel is van vorig jaar zaadjes en ander gedeelte zijn teentjes uit zaden van jaar daarvoor. Hopelijk doe ik het goed?