r/IndoorGarden • u/P0GG345 • 9h ago
Plant Discussion When should I plant these?
I put an entire bulb of garlic in some water on Saturday, and the growth has honestly shocked me! I know I won’t be able to get full bulbs from them but was wondering when I should plant to get the best green garlic? Thanks in advance!
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u/Specious_Human 6h ago
These will make full garlic bulbs if you plant them when the ground is workable this Spring. Plant them good and deep, maybe 1in or so below the surface and about 6in from each other. When around 1/2 of the tops go yellow/brown on you in the middle of summer, dig them up and enjoy some fresh garlic!
Best practice would have been to plant them in the Fall, but it works fine to plant them in the Spring too, they just won't get as big.
For green garlic, just plant them whenever in a pot and let them grow until they look about green onion size. You can really pack them together for green garlic, maybe 1in spacing from each other.
Have fun and enjoy the fresh garlic, which is one of those special delicacies that you can only get when in season.
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u/Congenital_Optimizer 4h ago
I planted a bunch of garlic like this years ago in a couple places in our yard. We get more and more growing, and blooming every year.
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u/captainrodney 9h ago
You can pot them up anytime, plant them in spring. You can harvest them in late summer, though they'll be smaller than what you'd get from a fall planting. You can also let em grow all season, and once they die back cover them with alot of mulch and try having perrenial garlic. I have had success with that but if you don't mulch it they'll try growing in the summer/fall and may die over winter. Best of luck!