When the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone, so is your good time to plant garlic for the winter. You have two weeks. Plant garlic now, or forever hold your peace until Spring.
Garlic is eeaaaaasy to grow. You want some reasonably decent soil and may want to loosen the top six inches of the soil. Garlic can take a wide range of pH (4.5 - 8.3). It likes full sun. If you are planting your garlic for the winter season, you don't need to water it. Just let the rain do its thing into the Spring, and yank the garlic around Spring when things start drying up.
To plant garlic, get your hands on some garlic cloves. You can get these at a nursery/garden store, or from your kitchen or supermarket. The bigger the clove and the bigger the head of garlic that close came from, the bigger your resulting head of garlic is likely to be. Don't be planting puny little cloves from punky little heads of garlic.
Take your garlic clove. Plant it two inches deep with the pointy side up (you can remember this because the flat side is where somebody chopped off the roots). Plant the garlic cloves about four to six inches apart. That's it. It's so easy. Just leave it be and harvest it in the summer.
Did you know that 77% of all the garlic in the world is produced in China?
To ward off vampires, farlic can be worn, hung in windows and doorways, or rubbed on chimneys and keyholes.
Happy garlic!
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