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Spring Garlic
Sow in fall to harvest the following spring as green leaves
not seed grade: miniature heads
Allium sativum
If you love garlic, chives and eating fresh greens as the snows melt, meet spring garlic! Too small to be planted for full-size bulbs, these miniature cloves on miniature bulbs can be planted in a 1/2 to 1-inch grid in fall so their greens emerge as a carpet first thing in spring as a delicious green treat. We harvest their leaves individually or as whole stalks, savoring them in all the ways we savor garlic! A carpet of spring garlic can be sown in a bed or at the base of a young fruit tree or even in a container and since they’re not growing bulbs, spring garlic doesn’t need as much fertility as bulb garlic to thrive.
Friends, thanks for resisting growing these tiny bulbs as full-bulb garlic, think of them as a sumptuous spring garlic carpet.
Garlic ships in mid-September!
How to Grow Spring Garlic
Prepare: Choose well-drained soil that has plenty of sun. We reap what we sow — and also what we sow into — and garlic is hungry! Even though Spring Garlic is growing greens rather than bulbs, more light and more fertility will surround you with more abundance, Nourish your soil with abundant compost as well as our organic garlic & shallot fertilizer, nourishing root development in fall and growing large, nutrient dense leaves all spring. Spring Garlic thrives in garden beds as well as around the base of fruit trees.
Plant: Here in Zone 5 we plant between late September to early November. Completely different than growing garlic for bulbs, plant individual cloves of Spring Garlic 2-3 inches deep and 1/2 to 1 inch grid so they’ll grow as a carpet of succulent garlic leaves. Late planting? As long as you can get into the garden and the ground is not frozen the garlic will do just fine.
Plant Care: If you have mulch available it will aid in reducing frost-heaving. Keep garlic well-watered and well-weeded! Foliar feed your garlic in spring with compost tea or organic fish emulsion for an invaluable boost in nutrients, as well.
Harvest: As greens emerge as a luscious garlic carpet in spring, harvest and savor either individual leaves or the entire stalk. Harvesting leaves will allow the plant to continue to grow. We harvest these greens snowmelt through June! Since these are small bulbs and cloves planted at such tight spacing, think of them more like garlic chives rather than garlic that will produce a bulb.
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