How to Grow Sprouted Garlic

Pry apart the sprouting garlic bulb gently, separating and peeling each clove.

Fill as many planting containers as you want garlic plants with one part sand to three parts potting soil mixture. Otherwise, work a couple of handfuls of sand into the garden bed where you want to plant the garlic, using a garden spade.

Hold a sprouted garlic clove with the sprout upright and push it into the soil around 4 inches deep and cover over lightly. Repeat for each clove you want to plant. If planting in the garden, space the cloves around 15 inches apart.

Fertilize with a nitrogen fertilizer every two weeks during the growing season -- midspring through summer if planted in fall -- applying around 2 diluted tbsp. per plant. Water weekly during the growing season, but stop around two weeks before harvest.

Harvest the garlic once the lower leaves of the plant start to brown, but the majority are still green -- around middle to late summer if planted in fall. Use a garden spade to loosen the soil around the plant, and use your hands to pull the root up by the stalk.

Shake off all the dirt, then tie the garlic plants together in bunches, with a maximum of 15 per bunch, and hang in a dry room with good ventilation for three to four weeks to cure. Cut off the dried stalk about an inch from the bulb with clippers once cured.