I’ve tried so many times over the summer to propagate plants and start a garden, but learning about the spotted lantern flies steered me away from it. I don’t want to throw this guy out, he has potential. He was growing under lemons and apples for crying out loud!! What’s your best advice for a person that has never gardened?
by ChibiAlpal
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Don’t plant store bought garlic
Nope! I just recently learned that you want to plant specifically “seed garlic”. Most supermarket garlic have a decent chance of spreading “white rot” that could spread in your garden and kill onions and garlic for years to come.
Maybe in a pot though??
Disclaimer: this info is all brand new to me so I may have messed some/all of it up.
No. It needs to form that shoot underground, in the spring. Garlic cloves are planted in the fall for summer harvest. And as others have said, you should use seed garlic.
If you’ve never gardened and want to, I suggest either planning to do a container garden next year and grow things like lettuce/greens, cherry tomatoes, herbs, peppers (whatever you like to eat) -or- if in-ground or in raised beds, pick about 10-12 things you want to grow and spend the next few months doing your research. Read a book, order some seeds or determine what will be bought locally as starts… get your planting area prepped in March/April (could start this fall), and give it a go!
Clean it and plant the store bought garlic in containers. Likely a hard neck variety. In June cut the scapes. In July harvest your 8 bulbs.
Separate the cloves leave the paper on plant them in holes 2-3 inches deep ~6 inches apart now is a good time to plant them. They’re easy to grow.
Seed garlic will produce a higher yield, but you can absolutely plant these. Just split it in cloves, plant the cloves with some distance from each other, and water & wait. I’ve done so with store bought garlic plenty a time and you’ll still get nice tasty garlic in 9 months (if you don’t wanna wait, putting the bulb in some water and snipping off the greens until it is exhausted is also neat)
Hahah “produced an antenna” is cute and made me laugh. I’m glad you asked this though because I have wondered the same thing.