Planting Garlic
Fall is garlic planting season. Our favorite variety, German Extra Hardy, is an easy to grow variety that produces large bulbs with cloves that are easy to peel and offer a pungent heat. Our planting method is as follows:
Mid to late October, lay out your garlic bed. Break your bulbs of garlic apart into cloves and then lay them out 6″ apart either in rows or in a diamond pattern.
Poke each clove into the soil until the tip about 2″ below the soil level. Throw about a teaspoon of bonemeal in with the clove and then cover with soil. This will help with the establishment of a healthy root system.
Mulch for winter with thick straw or leaf mulch.