Rain, sunshine, repeat! I’ll probably be harvesting garlic next week. I planted 160 bulbs. This will be enough for us, our folks, and the Spanish nuns down the road. Hey, I have to keep those ladies happy! I’ll keep plent to plant this fall as well.
Sounds great! I like stuff that I can plant in the fall, and harvest by around May or June of the next year, and garlic is one of those.
Garlic (and onions) is a complete mystery to me. I know some of our FRiends here tried to educate me on garlic and onion propagation recently, but I’m finding that I am still not following the process.
I am most unclear about how to start it, then how and when to harvest. There are seeds, there are cloves, there are previously grown bulbs, and there are the things that are on the top of the plant, and I’m hazily thinking that any of these can be a source of propagation, but just not sure of the process, as I said.
I just did a search and found this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_317_grow-garlic.html
I seem to follow it pretty well, but would love it if anyone has anything to add!