Related: How to save and store seeds for next year’s garden You can also eat the fresh bulbils if you don’t plant them. Treat them like miniature garlic cloves: you can use them whole (cooked or raw), mash them with the side of a knife, or run them through a garlic press. How...
Avoid planting onions where onions or garlic have grown the year before. Remove and dispose of diseased plants immediately. Be sure to select varieties that are suited to the day length in your area. Warm the soil with clear plastic before planting, this will help prevent smut which appears ...
More important than when to plant garlic is choosing the best seed garlic. Look for bulbs that have a tight papery wrapper that’s completely intact. Cloves that are splitting or not holding together won’t store well, and if you plant those, the garlic you harvest will share those characte...
Garlic–which is sometimes classified as an herb–is grown from cloves selected from medium to large bulbs, called heads, harvested the season before. You can plant cloves from garlic heads purchased at a grocery store or farm market as long as they have not been treated to prevent sprouting...