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Here’s how YOU can start growing your own garlic too...

 

October to November: 

• Buy porcelain or rocambole garlic bulbs from a local farmers market (both kinds grow well in this area)

• Break apart bulbs into separate cloves

• Plant each clove pointy side up 2 inches deep and 8” apart in all directions in a VERY SUNNY spot

• Optional: Fertilize your bed with alfalfa or soybean meal (1.5 oz per 4’x8' bed)

• Highly recommended: Mulch your garlic bed with 4-8 inches of straw, chopped leaves/grass clippings

March to May:​​

• Cut off the scapes while still tender (and can be snapped off with your fingers)

• Keep that garlic bed free of weeds!

Late-June to mid-July:

• Keep weeding until harvest

• When a few of the leaves are yellow, dig up your bulbs carefully

• Knock off dirt gently but don’t wash to avoid spreading disease

• Trim off roots and top growth

• Dry in breezy space sheltered from rain and direct sun

For more information:

• Garlic Seed Foundation: www.garlicseedfoundation.info

• Facebook group:  “Friends of Garlic”

• Cornell Cooperative Extension Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program

• (garlic page): https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/crop.php?id=14