Resources for Growing Your Own Garlic
Thank you for your purchase! See below for resources to help make the most of your seed garlic. 🙂
Growing Tips
How to Care for Garlic Plants
Wondering how to care for garlic plants in the garden? Here’s the basics you need to know about growing your own garlic.
Recipes Using Garlic
Sautéed Greens Recipe
Shannon’s famous sautéed greens recipe is an excellent way to use up kale, beet greens, chard, and other leafy greens!
Green Bean and Pepper Salad Recipe
Use fresh garlic, parsley, green beans, and sweet peppers to make this flavorful green bean and pepper salad recipe!
Kropfs’ Best Salsa Recipe
Kropfs’ Best Salsa Recipe is taken from “The Homestead Canning Cookbook” and is a family favorite!
Hot Pickled Peppers Recipe
Find a Pickled Peppers Recipe for preserving banana peppers, jalapeño peppers, or other hot peppers. Try it!
Pickled Asparagus Recipe
Once asparagus is established, it will produce abundantly! Use this Pickled Asparagus Recipe as another way to preserve it.
Kosher Dill Pickles Recipe
If you have cucumbers coming out of your ears, you should make them into homemade dill pickles! Here’s Shannon’s Kosher Dill Pickles Recipe.
Dilly Beans Recipe
We LOVE making homemade pickled beans (dilly beans) with Dragon Tongue Bush Beans, which are just the perfect size to fit in the jars! Tasty too.
Garlic Planting Instructions
Soil & Water Requirements: Prefers sandy, loose loam & requires moderate water.
Planting: In the fall, at least 2 weeks before your first fall frost, gently separate cloves from the bulb. Do NOT remove their paper skins. Plant garlic cloves with the pointed end facing up. Plant them 1-2″ in mild climates or 2-4″ deep in colder climates. Mulch to protect garlic over the winter. Provide occasional water as needed (but do not overwater, which will cause rotting).
Harvesting: For hard neck and elephant garlic, remove scapes (flower stalks) as they grow. In the spring, let the garlic grow until the bottom few leaves turn yellow and brown, dying away. At this time, the garlic is ready to harvest! Gently dig/pull garlic and brush off the dirt. Allow to cure in a dark place for about a month* or so, until garlic is firm to the touch and dry.
Soft Neck & Hard Neck Garlic – Plant cloves 6″ apart, in rows 12″ apart.
Elephant Garlic – Plant cloves 12″ apart, in rows 24″ apart. *Elephant garlic must cure for a minimum of 30 days after harvest.