Growing Garlic in an Urban Garden

Growing garlic in an urban garden is easy, but be prepared to wait! I grew garlic for the first time with great success. I chose soft-neck garlic for my warmer climate and bought Early Italian and Italian Late garlic from Seeds of Change. Click photo to watch on YouTube.

Growing Garlic in an Urban Garden
Garlic bulbs harvested from the Late Bloomer garden

Knowing when to harvest is the big question the first time you grow garlic. I tried a couple of times to harvest too early. Check and see what happened!

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Unripe garlic head. Cloves have not formed.

This is the way it should look when the garlic cloves have formed and it’s time to harvest. Stop watering two weeks before to allow cloves to form.

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Fully formed garlic head

I planted 1/2 pound of each garlic and harvested five pounds, which seems pretty good. I had near 100% germination.

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Nearly 100% germination of garlic cloves planted

Growing garlic in an urban garden is so easy, I will definitely be planting garlic again this fall! Thanks for reading and PLEASE CLICK HERE to watch the episode on YouTube. And please subscribe and share.  Thank you! – Kaye

 

 

 

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