Pacific Northwest Gardening: Growing Garlic, 0 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
While out preparing a garden bed for planting garlic in, I remembered that I had promised a garlic growing thread some time ago. This seems like a good time to begin, and I'll do a play by play as we go through to harvest, drying and braiding in July.

I begin by clearing a bed of weeds and plant debris. I usually plant a bed (in Spring) with summer crops I know will be finished by the time I want to prepare for the garlic in the Fall. This bed had green beans, zucchini, delicatas and a tomato plant, all of which are over and done for the year. I sprinkled on lime and a mix of organic fertilizers including kelp meal and azomite (anything with trace minerals will do). Some years I add bone meal, greensand, or oyster shell too. I do not plan this scientifically by using soil tests, though that would probably be ideal. I just give my garden something every Fall and try to vary it.

The garlic needs to be planted by the end of October, so I'll be getting the cloves separated this week.