Grow Great Garlic: Tips from Years of Growing

By Sarah Joplin
Updated on July 14, 2021
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Sarah Joplin
2021 Garlic Harvest

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Any time you have even relative success in the garden, it is cause for celebration. I’ll admit that garlic is pretty easy to grow, but like anything, the added qualifier is: if you know how. We’ve grown garlic for a number of years and learned along the way. In turn, our yield has improved. Last year, my fiancé decided to get serious about growing plump, abundant garlic with the prospect of selling this niche crop commercially.

Bob is from California and grew up not far from the “garlic capital of the world”, the city of Gilroy, where for 42 years, the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival has boasted tasty and unusual uses for the pungent allium including ice cream and jelly. As proponents of local food and things made in America, we aim to at least grow our own garlic if not offer some commercially. A disproportionate amount of the garlic we buy is not grown on American soil and garlic just seems like something we shouldn’t need to import.

Digging In

Establish raised rows by digging and mounding dirt.

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