60: Should You Grow Garlic?
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Garlic isn't one of the most-talked-about crops for beginners to grow. Why is that? There are so many reasons for beginners particularly to include garlic in their garden plans, and in this episode you'll hear three of them. BUT, growing garlic isn't for everyone, and there is one reason it might not be the best fit in your garden.This episode will help you decide if planting garlic this year is right for you.
Show notes & blog post: https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2018/08/28/reasons-grow-garlic/
Free Garlic Planting Cheat Sheet: https://journeywithjill.net/garliccheatsheet
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Should you grow garlic? |
| 0:29.6 | If you're a beginner, you might be hearing buzz about growing garlic, or you're starting to see articles on Pinterest about it right now. But is it for you and your |
| 0:40.6 | garden? This is a fair question and the answer might not be as simple as you think. If you've listened to |
| 0:48.0 | this podcast long enough, you know I love growing garlic. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's right for you. So in this |
| 0:56.7 | episode, I'm going to discuss three reasons you might want to include garlic in your garden, |
| 1:03.2 | and one reason you might skip it this year. That one reason is a pretty big one, and it's one |
| 1:09.6 | I don't think I've actually heard anyone discuss. |
| 1:14.1 | If you're new to the Beginners Garden podcast, I just wanted to say welcome. |
| 1:18.8 | My name is Jill, and I am actually on my sixth season gardening. |
| 1:23.6 | So I am kind of new at this compared to a lot of people, but when I was first gardening, |
| 1:29.1 | I did not have a lot of gardening information and I had to do all the research on my own. |
| 1:34.5 | I spent hours and hours and hours doing all the research and I wished that somebody would |
| 1:40.1 | just give me the basics quickly. |
| 1:42.6 | So that's what I try to do in this podcast is go over the |
| 1:45.8 | basics that you need to get started. Garlic was one of those crops. I didn't start right away, |
| 1:52.6 | but I wish now that I would have because there are so many good reasons to plant and grow |
| 1:59.7 | garlic. And we're going to talk about that today in this |
| 2:01.9 | episode. But if you're new to gardening, as a lot of my listeners are, you may wonder why I'm |
| 2:08.9 | talking about this now. It's the end of August and many of us are saying a sad goodbye to our |
| 2:15.0 | summer crops and some of us are just beginning our fall ones. |
| 2:19.1 | But if you're a new gardener, you probably don't know, like I didn't, that garlic needs to be |
| 2:25.4 | planted in the fall for the best results. And you probably don't know, like I didn't, that finding |
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