I am also interested in Fall garlic planting
I have German hard neck and Italian soft neck garlic I want to plant. I’m in Connecticut and I want to get it in this weekend.
At the Organic gardening web site, they’re telling me I need to soak the cloves over night in a seaweed fertilizer mixture. I can’t find any seaweed fertilizer in my area. Am I doomed to failure if I skip this step?
Not from my perspective. Here in Missouri I have never soaked the garlic in anything. I just stick it in the ground and more or less forget about it till frost, at which time I cover it up with row covers, so that the sun and rain can penetrate.
Eventually I have to throw some straw on the row cover and I also line the back of the area with some Milk Jugs of water. They absorb heat during the day and give it off at night. Also the process of freezing the water releases heat.
I use those cheap white wire fences from Walmart for the front and part of the sides so that when I toss on the straw it remains off the plants. It works for Mo. weather.