It's getting time for us to start thinking about planting garlic.

Garlic is best planted in the fall.

I recommend sometime around your average first frost date,

give or take a little bit.

But the biggest challenge with planting garlic

is not necessarily the planting,

but it's actually securing the garlic to plant in the first place. Today's Q&A comes from a

question I saw inside my Facebook group, the Beginners Garden Shortcut Facebook group, and I actually

see this question all the time. So I wanted to address it here on this Q&A episode. And that is,

can you plant garlic that you get from the grocery store?

Because when you're planting garlic, you're actually planting the cloves. So one would think that if you

buy garlic from the grocery store, you can just plant that. The technical answer is, yes, you could,

but I would not recommend it.

I know a lot of people have done this with success, and I will explain why it's possible,

but why you might not want to actually do it in your garden.

The first reason that you may not want to plant garlic that you got at the grocery store

is that it is not certified disease-free garlic. When you are buying seed garlic, as it is named,

from a reputable seed supplier, you are getting garlic that is certified disease-free,

as in it's not going to bring

in diseases to your soil. Are you going to guarantee you're going to get a disease if you

plant garlic that you got from the grocery store? No, not necessarily. In fact, a lot of people

that I have seen even commenting in my Facebook group have done it successfully with no problem at all.

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