Growing Garlic

Allium sativum : Amaryllidaceae / the onion family

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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(Best months for growing Garlic in USA - Zone 5a regions)

P = Plant cloves

September: Garlic can overwinter. Cover with a good layer of mulch . In areas where frost persists into March/ April, expect to harvest your garlic in June/July.

October: Garlic can overwinter. Cover with a good layer of mulch . In areas where frost persists into March/ April, expect to harvest your garlic in June/July.

Easy to grow. Plant cloves. Best planted at soil temperatures between 50°F and 95°F. (Show °C/cm)
Space plants: 4 - 5 inches apart
Harvest in 17-25 weeks.
Compatible with (can grow beside): Beets, Carrots, Cucumbers, Dill, Tomatoes, Parsnips
Avoid growing close to: Asparagus, Beans, Brassicas, Peas, Potatoes

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18 Mar 14, Philip (Australia - tropical climate): Aphids also hate garlic, if you want something natural to keep them away use garlic with water, fresh garlic for best results, grate it up add it to the water and let it stand for a little while.
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26 Feb 12, peter (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I would love to buy some garlic seed as well although, we live in brisbane - your seed may not perform as well in out hotter climate. please email me at [email protected] if you want to sell us some. Thanks, Peter
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27 Feb 12, Garry (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi Peter,I live in Northern NSW..and have been growing my own Garlic for over 5yrs with great success.I have a large amount of bulbs from this seasons harvest..If you would like i could send you some bulbs.. E:mail:- [email protected] regards garry :)
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13 Feb 12, Wade (Australia - temperate climate): Hi all, just suggesting that planting times be shuffled back to start planting mid march thru to mid june, at the latest! Ive found that most garlic really like a bit of warmth and size before winter sets in...
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02 Feb 12, Prue (Australia - temperate climate): This year I let a couple of garlic go to seed and flower, so now I have thousands of tiny garlic cloves/seeds, should I plant them in the ground now as that is when they would of naturally fallen or wait till April? I'm in Melbourne if that helps answer my question
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22 Jun 12, Michael Ouellette (Australia - temperate climate): You can plant them as an experiment but you are better off planting the cloves from mature garlic. I also live in Melbourne and have been growing my own garlic for three years with success. I plant about 2- 300 cloves for our own usage yearly. PS: and loving it...
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31 Jan 12, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I have planted garlic bulbs last year and nothing happened. Thought it all died off, but in the last week or so.... it's been soooo hot here and I now have garlic growing in my pots. Must be from last year's bulbs that didnt work. Not sure why they are sprouting at this time of year, especially in this heat when I thought they were a winter vege. Any comments would be good.
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02 Apr 12, David (Australia - temperate climate): it is possible that you bought mexican or some other countrys garlic which is 6 monthes different to ours hence the garlic coming up now
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16 Mar 12, Pranav (Australia - temperate climate): Jennifer,Buy cloves, glriac is a bulb plant not a seed plant, although the cloves are used as the seed' (confused yet?). :-)In this case the term seed' has a general meaning in so far as anything that can be sown i.e. seed potatoes, seeds of corn or sunflower seeds . In the case of sunflower and corn seeds , what is sown is the seed enclosed in a shell or hull, and the potato is a tuber and one can propogate them by planting small pieces of a spud that has grown an eye'.For best results, plant in the fall for next summers crop and because it is a bulb, think drainage.Hope that helps
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01 Jan 12, Vanessa (Australia - temperate climate): I live on the Murray River at a town called Tooleybuc. 2011 I planted heaps of cloves. They all sprouted!! I planted my garlic in March/early April. I left them until November and dug some up, only to find rather small bulbs. Left the rest for another month and the bulbs had not really grown much larger. The cloves were fresh Australian grown garlic. Did I overwater them? Is it possible to overwater. The guy I obtained my bulbs from, planted his crop in Feb and harvested in Nov. HELP!! What am I doing wrong?? Please. Any advice would be appreciated. Vanessa
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Hi Newbie here to garlic I'm in 5a zone northern state in USA Garlic says best in our zone to plant in September and October but it says 17-24 weeks to harvest yet it says it needs a temperature of 50 to 90ﾟ That would put it into our Winter season shortly after planting them can someone explain maybe I misunderstanding What it is saying. Thank you (Gardenate reply : I have added the information that explains what to do if planting late in the year)

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