Our family likes garlic...and some of the best I've found has been local, homegrown from our local "Amish Walmart". The bulbs are huge, and the cloves aren't all dried up like some of the garlic you buy at the grocery store. And the taste? Mmmmm...
So...this year I decided to grow my own. I have a couple of old pallets at the edge of the garden where I grow lettuce, red beets, and other things that are a nuisance to weed. I plant between the slats, and have found that it works well.
I bought just one large bulb of garlic at a local seed supply store, and followed the simple directions that came with it...carefully break apart the bulb and separate it into cloves...plant them about 2" deep, point side up...cover with 6" of mulch, and wait...
That was about six weeks ago, and look what I have! Green...when everything else is either dying or going dormant for the winter. Maybe it's nothing huge to get excited about, but I can hardly wait until next summer when I can harvest my very own garlic!
