‘Growing Great Garlic’ by Ron Engeland is a great book. Step by step through the season. BTW, you must plant garlic the preceding fall and it must winter to bulb properly. Some varieties need cold and more varieities are coming in from the former Soviet Union all the time.
I’ll plant out my largest bulbs this fall, probably in late September, and give them a little growth before freeze up. The most important thing, though, is that the soil is in prime condition. They . Well, you can read about it from Ron’s book and he did a right fine job - even if he is probably a barking moonbat hippie.
Still working on my leaks - need deeper soils. Gotta love the aliums - a fine, fine family. In honor of them, I give you this limerick:
‘The Old Man of Kilkenny’ by Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of Kilkenny,
Who never had more than a penny;
He spent all that money,
In onions and honey,
That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny.
Thanks, that gives me hope for this batch of garlic. As to the leeks - they have never fattened up, and we’ve had them in for maybe five years now. Hubby pulled a few two years ago and did a creamed leek soup ......... oh man! I didn’t know a creamed soup could be so delicate. I think he just got lucky...I bet he couldn’t do it again. Maybe I will dare him to try though. It really was an incredible soup, and it was his first try.