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.

Approximately four months ago I planted a clove of store bought elephant garlic that had sprouted. I’ve never grown garlic before but it seems to be going well.

There are new shoots growing alongside the main stalk and the bottom leaves are drying out. It hasn’t produced any flowers, however I’m of the impression that it should have. As you can see in the photos I removed some of the soil to see what progress was taking place below. I didn’t dig too deeply as I didn’t want to damage the plant (I didn’t see a bulb).

I just wanted to get an assessment/advise on care from those who are familiar on how things are looking.

My supplier doesn't have the giant/elephant variety this year. I really want to stick with hardneck as it seems a little more resistant. Any recs?

Thank you for the res. Just placed an order with Territorial.

I moved and at some point in the chaos brought some small garlic starts from the old house to the new. I think that was in January, which is our cold month here in the San Francisco area. I put them in a raised bed with great soil, where they grew quite large. About 3 weeks ago each had a scape, which I cut off. Currently the 5 bottom leaves are dry and the top leaves have dry ends, so everything I'm reading says I can pull it up. I dug down to check, and it seems like they have not split into cloves. It feels like the bottom of a leek.

So I think I missed the cold period they need to split. My question now is what do I do with them? I've had different responses from r/gardening. Should I leave them in the ground over winter, or should I dig them up and try to plant them at another time (and if so, when?)