Planting Garlic......just to be clear please.....

[Gazinga]

ok, so i plant my garlic in the fall, lets say October. Then i will harvest it when? Spring? summer? when? will its leaves fall back and die during the winter in the snow and come back in the spring?

I planted garlic in May, its growing well. WHen can I harvest this garlic? in october-ish? maybe?

 

[rockytopsis]

Below ground crops according to the Farmers Almanac will be Oct 10 & 11.

That is when I will plant mine.

Mine were ready this year at the first of June. I took them out of the ground at that time and hung them in the barn to dry. The leaves started turning brown and progressed very quickly. Don't wait till they are all brown, take them when the brown starts.

During the winter months they were just starting to peek out of the soil and as the weather warmed they got maybe 3-4 inches taller before starting to really take off. Yes they did get nipped on the top if there was a heave frost, but it did not hurt the plants at all.

Watch them carefully in Georgia, you have been way hotter there than in Tennessee but I would think that you would follow the same directions. As soon as the blades start to turn brown dig one up and check it.

I plant mine in a huge farm tractor tire and they do great.

Hope this helps.
Nancy

 

[Ridgerunner]

I planted garlic in the spring a couple of years ago and it did not form cloves, just one solid lump. When the plant died, I dried the garlic them replanted it in the fall, late September or early October. Mine stayed green the entire winter but I did cover it when it got in the low 20's. The cloves developed nicely this time.

 

[HiDelight]

Hi there I live in zone 7b I plant mid October and pull the garlic by the mid July
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