Pacific Northwest Gardening: Growing Garlic, 0 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
Here is my planting arrangement. The bed is about 4 feet wide. I alternate rows of 5 cloves and rows of 4 cloves. They are laid out in a triangle pattern. Each clove is about 7 inches apart in all directions. Books I've read say plant 6 to 8 inches apart, and it just happens that my handspread from pinkie tip to thumb tip is 7 inches so I use that measure.

This arrangement is really easy to weed and cultivate because you can easily reach in between the plant rows in 3 directions, straight across and diagonally both ways.

Usually I plant in one day, but this year I'm doing it a little bit at a time. So, I have laid out little stones to indicate where the next row will go when I get out the next day. This way I will keep my triangulated arrangement even though I can't see where the cloves are that i pushed into the ground the day before.