Planting Garlic

Garlic is quite easy to grow and well worth the time and effort.  Fresh garlic (sometimes referred to as wet garlic) has a wonderful creamy texture and a slightly milder flavour than the garlic you buy in the supermarket.  It’s also pretty tolerant of our weather, a big bonus.

Planting a square takes about 2 minutes.  Classic kits plant 9 to the square, Compact kits plant 5 to the square.

1. Mark out 9 or 5 spots as required.
2. Break the garlic bulb into individual cloves.  Be careful not to damage the cloves.  Discard any damaged cloves.
3. At each spot that you’ve marked, push a garlic clove into the compost so that the clove is almost completely buried in the compost
4. If your compost is quite dry, water the garlic in
5. Check you garlic daily for the next two weeks to make sure that birds have not uprooted the cloves.  If a clove has been uprooted simply re-plant in the compost.