Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Garlic
Garlic is a cool-season crop grown mainly for its bulb, although the
flower stem is also edible and very tasty. Garlic is a fairly hardy
vegetable. It needs a sunny, well-drained area. Garlic is usually
planted in the fall, either in October or at the latest early November,
and is harvested the following June.
Garlic
Choose the biggest cloves to plant and mulch the beds after they
are planted. Garlic will grow slowly over the winter and will shoot up
quickly once the days start to get longer in January and February. In
the spring, keep the plants well weeded and give them more mulch
and regular watering if you do not get any rain. In early spring, the
garlic plants will produce flower stalks, which are called garlic
scapes. They can be eaten like garlic cloves. Removing the stem
before it fully flowers will allow the plant to put more energy into
producing a larger bulb.
Smoothie Garden Solution
Garlic has been renowned for its powerful medicinal qualities for
centuries. Hieroglyphs of garlic were engraved on the Great Pyr-
