Growing Garlic
Botanical name: Allium sativumGrowing Garlic Organic Gardening Fact Sheet Seed | | | 
| | Planting time: | SP, FA | | Seeds per ounce: | 12 cloves | | Ounces per square foot: | 3.2 | | Minimum legal germination rate: | - | | Germination type: | Long Germination | | Notes
Garlic is not difficult to grow. Garlic prefers full sun and well drained soil. It's very tolerant to soil types, but it prefers soils with high organic content. | Planting | | | | In garden spacing (inches): | 4 | | | | In flat spacing (inches): | - | | | Planting depth (inches): | 2 | | Maxiumum number of plants per square foot: | 13.4 | | Nutrient relationship:: | Light Feeder | | | | Harvest | | | Days to maturity: | 70-77 | | Harvesting period (days): | 91 | | Minimum yields in pounds /square foot: | .6 | | | | | | | | Cultural | | Diseases: | Bacterial Soft Rots, Basal Rot, Black Mold, Blue Mold Rot, Botrytis Leafspot, Botrytis Neck and Bulb Rot, Downy Mildew, Garlic Mosaic, Iris Yellow Spot, Onion Yellow Dwarf, Pink Root, Purple Blotch and Stemphylium Leaf Blight, Rust, Sour Skin, White Rot. | | Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder) | Onion Maggot, Pea Leafminer, Thrips, Wheat Curl Mite | | | | Varieties | | Purple Stripe, Artichoke, Silverskin, Creole, Porcelain, Rocambole | Organic Gardening Seed and Plant Sources
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