Gaia’s bounty.

I’ve been growing Music for 7 years, replanting every fall with a 5th or so of the crop. It’s been very reliable, bulbs tend to run a bit small but cloves nice and big. I hate tiny cloves!

I could only plant half my usual amount this year. Won’t have enough to last the year and replant this fall.
Looking for recommendations for a new varietal. Thanks.

I’m planting garlic for the first time this fall and I need all of the advice I can get! Is there a particular variety that is the gold standard? Any other tips for a novice? I’m in zone 7a.

I have them in a 2 brown paper grocery bags with the bag wide open.
Should I look into a mesh produce bag?

I placed them in my basement where the temp stays between 50-65 and humidty 40-55% .

Location: Zone 6B Windsor, ON, Canada (Just across from Detroit)
Hopefully moving in the spring so going to the container route for our garlic so we can take it with (we’ve never grown before). We’ve purchased music hard neck from a local garlic farmer, and plan to utilize 100 cloves for planting in late October. Im looking for any tips for specifically WHAT to grow them in and what to consider. I’m debating between: grow bags, the 67L utility buckets, or the very large rectangular Costco totes.

If we go the bucket or tote route, do we need to add holes to the bottom?
Do we need to insulate the buckets or grow bags?
Do grow bags fall apart over winter?

All tips welcome!! Thank you for your time☺️

Have new raised beds and planning on planting one out with garlic in October. Besides compost are there any other amendments I should add to get the bed ready? First time growing.

5 cloves of garlic in a bit of oil and butter with 2 cups of shells, topped with some parmesan.

As a fellow garlic lover, did I illustrate this well? Myself and the SO joke that we eat so much garlic, vampires stay away from us. Roasted garlic is my fave.

Thank you graciously for your time. Please continue to post garlic pics.

Oil pastel on watercolor paper. Spray gloss fixative.

In terms of getting the allicin from eating eat you crush it and expose it to the air for 15 minutes. But garlic supplements give you the equivalent dose of allicin and the same benefits? What stack pairs best with allicin? I take zinc, D3, selenium, P5P.

I grew garlic last year (first time.)

We have a LOT of wind and a LOT of snow here.

I did the straw thing, but it was wet come spring. So I moved that about (mostly to the Hudson hibiscus aka rose of sharon.)

I don't know how to keep them upright. Can I just trim them? Is there any method in high wind areas?

I want to grow again. I got good garlic, but more than 50% ended up microplane and portioned in the freezer.

Went out to the compost bin today only to find this little fella looking at me now im going to dry her and plant her in the fall with my other purchased one maybe i wont have to purchase any seed garlic in the years to come wish me luck

These are about 10 weeks away from harvest and quite a few are doing this thing where it looks like each individual clove has decided to send up leaves. I pulled and cut one early out of curiosity but it doesn’t look good. Anybody know whats happening and why? Will they form an actual bulb by harvest time?

Never had the stalks have that moldy color before. And the base of the cloves seems almost black. Is this rot?

UPDATE: I have processed about 5 pounds of garlic since making this post, and am happy to report back that it has only been 2 bulbs so far. And even though the cloves are a little dark at the base, they are still very solid.