garlic

Plant me 1/18/2020, 9:12 am

I am planning on planting Garlic. I am thinking either 12 or 16? Just don't want to over-crowd the bed? Thank you.

OhioGardener 1/18/2020, 10:49 am

Welcome aboard, Plant Me! I just plant 9 per square - the bulbs get too big to plant any closer.

There are a lot of threads on this site on garlic if you do a search. Here are a couple of them that you might want to browse through:

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t22242-garlic-sfg?highlight=Garlic

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t11766-mary-mary-quite-contrary-how-does-your-garlic-grow?highlight=garlic

OhioGardener 1/19/2020, 11:00 am

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**sanderson** 1/20/2020, 6:26 pm

Hi, Plant Me, Welcome to the Forum! $glad you\'re here$

Plant 9 per square. Appropriate spacing for planting in SFG beds can be found in the book.

Dan in Ct 1/21/2020, 11:26 am

I came across this website and thought I would share as it answered the question if I missed the plant out date for my garlic cloves in Oct./Nov and wanted to plant out in the spring what would I have to do for my German White hard neck variety to thrive. I plant at 4 per square, starting 3" in from all sides, I have a 6" spacing for my when finished 3"+ bulbs. I have grown soft necks and could probably push to 9 per square, the finished bulbs are much smaller. Here is the link to the information on garlic.

https://www.growingformarket.com/articles/how-and-when-to-plant-garlic

**Scorpio Rising** 1/21/2020, 5:34 pm

There are tons of articles here in the archives on many subjects, garlic not to be the exception!

https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/search?search_keywords=Garlic&typerecherche=interne&show_results=topics

There is nothing like home grown organic garlic! And the easy button!

**sanderson** 1/21/2020, 6:11 pm

175 threads on garlic. Thank you, Scorpio Rising thanks

**trolleydriver** 1/21/2020, 9:17 pm

Four per square seems to work best for my Music hardneck garlic.

OhioGardener 1/22/2020, 12:41 pm

We never seem to have enough garlic! We have already used up our supply of fermented garlic, and it will be quite a while before the next crop is ready for harvest.

**Scorpio Rising** 1/22/2020, 6:03 pm

sanderson wrote:175 threads on garlic. Thank you, Scorpio Rising

You bet! What a wealth of knowledge on this site!

I plant 5/SF if large, and 9/SF if normal...doesn’t seem to matter much really? This year I am planting Georgian Fire (first time—spicy supposedly) and German Hardneck. I love love love the scapes from hardneck varieties! YUMMO!

plantoid 1/25/2020, 1:04 pm

Plant me wrote:I am planning on planting Garlic. I am thinking either 12 or 16? Just don't want to over-crowd the bed? Thank you.

If you are pushed for getting the new stock from a seed merchant use big shop purchased bulbs & split them down into individual cloves .

Plant one clove at roughly 9 to 12 per square foot even spaced apart and fill the whole four foot square bed with it you'll not be sorry at the outcome .

Gently dress the soil with some dried fish blood & bone meal trickled out your hand close to the ground & lightly work it in the top 1/2" of soil when the garlic is about a foot high ..don't get any in the crooks of the leaves .

Last year ar I did two such beds and am able to put some of the bigger bulbs aside for this years plants , all 80 or so of them. Smile

**sanderson** 1/26/2020, 2:27 am

Plantoid, do you plant hard neck varieties that get the scapes? You are in the far northern latitude and it seems that it's too far north for soft neck varieties that I am forced to grow.

**sanderson** 1/26/2020, 2:30 am

I planted the garlic cloves around October 1 and they are over a foot tall and some of the leaves are already turning yellow. I'm thinking I will try planting some of the California soft necks mid February as a test.

Anyone else plant garlic in the spring instead of late fall?

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