How to Plant Garlic in Georgia

Garlic, a hardy perennial in the same family as onions, is an easy crop to grow in your Georgia garden. However, unlike the onion, garlic produces bulbs containing cloves, with each clove covered with its own skin. It is these cloves that, when separated and planted, produce new bulbs of garlic. Long used in the kitchen for flavoring soups, stews and pickles, garlic is considered indispensable by many cooks.

Garlic
Complete fertilizer
Ammonium nitrate
Spade

Instructions

- 1
  Prepare a sunny area of the planting bed for the garlic by digging in 3 to 4 lbs. of fertilizer per 100 feet of row.
- 2
  Separate the cloves from the bulb of garlic with your fingers, using the larger outer cloves for the seed cloves.
- 3
  Plant the rows of cloves, in October and November, each clove approximately 6 inches apart and each row approximately 12 to 14 inches apart. Set the cloves with the scarred side down (pointed end up), approximately 1 to 1 1/2 inches deep. In areas of Georgia where winters tend to be cold, plant deeper, up to 3 inches deep.
- 4
  Side-dress the rows of garlic with fertilizer, in February or March, with about 1 lb. of ammonium nitrate per 100 feet.

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