question about garlic

Garlic should grow well in most areas but I find there is not much advantage in growing your own. I love garlic and have often pulled a root from the garden and eaten it raw. I now buy Chinese garlic which comes in large round bulbs that do not have individual cloves. It is much easier to peel and cut and tastes just as good. You could plant garlic cloves which you can cut as required all summer and it will come again next year. If you cannot find plants sow some seed in a pot and transfer to the garden when about 3 inches high. Good for adding to stews or eating fresh with a salad.

In most places, garlic should be planted in the fall, then mulched over winter. Yours will probably grow, but they may be rather mild. You'll know when they're ready when the tops start to die, like onions. If you plant in the fall, they get a good running start for the hot weather, which they don't like very well.

I would say to pull it when the top began to die back, just as I remember with onions, but I cannot say definitively.I know I get it all the time growing wild all over my yard. Probably if I tried to grow it I would have no luck though.

Where I live, Garlic is very easy to grow. I just put on earth the "grown" cloves. Sometimes, when they are too little to pull out and I need some gralic, I just clip off a little of the tops. I pull them out when the leaves bigin to dry.