32: How to Plant Garlic – 3 Most Frequently Asked Questions
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When should I plant my garlic?
Where can I buy garlic to plant?
(Can I use garlic at the grocery store? NO! And I explain why)
What type should I buy, hardneck or softneck?
I also go over the basics of planting garlic, and I'll help you decide whether to plant in raised beds, containers, or in the land.
FREE GARLIC PLANTING CHEAT SHEET: http://journeywithjill.net/garliccheatsheet
FULL EPISODE SHOW NOTES: http://journeywithjill.net/2017/10/how-to-plant-garlic-3-most-frequently-asked-questions-beginners-garden-podcast/
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, |
| 0:06.0 | and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hi guys. Thank you for joining me today. I know if you're a regular listener of the |
| 0:33.3 | Beginners Garden podcast, you may be wondering why my episode has shown up in your podcatcher today. |
| 0:40.0 | I mentioned in my last episode that it was going to be my final episode for 2017 and I was going to |
| 0:46.3 | join you again in January of 2018 because the garden was winding down and I'm getting ready to |
| 0:52.4 | plan something really exciting for 2018 and I just |
| 0:55.4 | needed a chance to be able to get my thoughts together on that. And I have been doing that and I'm so |
| 1:01.0 | excited to share that with you a little bit later. But there is one subject I've realized that I haven't |
| 1:05.9 | covered and now is the perfect time to go over it and that is planting garlic. If you're a regular listener, |
| 1:13.6 | you know that I had the best garlic season last year and I love growing garlic. It is so easy |
| 1:19.7 | and I know people say things are easy but you just really can't get a whole lot easier |
| 1:24.2 | than growing garlic. Not only is it easy, it's hands off. You really don't have |
| 1:28.8 | to do much with it, and then you harvest it, and it's just one of the most rewarding crops that I grow. |
| 1:35.0 | But the problem is, is if you wait until spring when you're most likely starting to play in your |
| 1:40.9 | garden, it's probably going to be too late because most people recommend that you need to be |
| 1:45.7 | planting your garlic in the fall. In fact, planting garlic is the very last thing that I do in the fall. |
| 1:52.6 | And what I wanted to go over with you today was address the three main questions that I get |
| 1:58.5 | over and over when it comes to growing garlic. Number one, when do you |
| 2:03.0 | plant it? Number two, where do you get it? Like, where do you buy the garlic seed? And number three, |
| 2:11.0 | when you go to buy the seed, what kind are you going to order? That in particular really |
| 2:16.2 | overwhelmed me at first. So I'm going to answer |
| 2:18.8 | these questions for you. And I do want to tell you, don't worry about writing down what I'm talking |
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