Nicole Johnsey BurkeFounder of Gardenary

If you haven’t grown your own garlic at home yet, you’re missing out🧄#garden #garlic #gardentips

15 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube gardening video by Nicole Johnsey Burke giving a concise, practical step-by-step guide to growing organic garlic at home. Key actionable instructions: prep soil and add light organic compost, make straight rows and use a dibber to make planting holes about 4 inches deep (shallower in hot areas, deeper in cold), space cloves to target roughly nine bulbs per square foot, separate bulbs but keep clove skins on, choose the largest cloves, plant each clove flat end down with the tip up, then gently cover with soil.

Questions this video answers

About 4 inches deep (shallower in hot areas, deeper in cold).

About nine bulbs of garlic per square foot.

No — keep the skin on each clove.

The flat end should face down and the tip should face up.

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Here's a step by step to grow your own organic garlic at home. First up, prep the soil. Remove any spent plants from last season and feel free to add a little bit of organic compost. Not much is needed though. Then make some nice straight lines. Use a dibber to make perfectly shaped holes about 4 inches down, shallower in hot areas and deeper in cold. I aim to grow about nine bulbs of garlic per square foot with this spacing. Now it's time to prep your garlic. Take an organic bulb of garlic and gently break it into individual cloves. Keep the skin on each clove. Now choose the biggest, biggest cloves. These are the ones you're going to plant and begin to place one in each hole. Be sure the flat end goes down and the tip stays up. Once all your cloves are in, turn your rake upside down and gently cover up all those cloves. And that's exactly how you grow your own garlic at home.

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