How to Prep Soil for Growing Garlic

Series Summary

Garlic is a culinary favorite and has been such for hundreds if not thousands of years, and is an amazing compliment to any vegetable garden. Growing garlic in your vegetable garden is an effective way to ensure you have premium garlic to cook with when you need it. How do you grow garlic anyway? If you would like to learn how to grow garlic you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free gardening video series, learn how to grow garlic from farmer and garlic growing expert Tom Ashley. Tom will teach you all about growing garlic with cultivating tips such as what tools you need, and how to prepare the soil with buckwheat. He will demonstrate and how to till under the buckwheat, how to prepare the soil with compost, how to break garlic cloves, how to plant garlic, how to mulch garlic plants, how to fertilize garlic in spring, and how to harvest garlic.

Video Transcript

"The first step for any crop is preparing the soil. This actually starts a year ahead of time for garlic. We are going to try and condense a whole year's worth of time in to one short little demo for you, so bare with us. We rotated this with a rototiller and we are going to dig nice earth worms, nice soil. The first thing we are going to do here is plant a cover crop. This would be done in the Spring of the year that you are going to plant it in the Fall. Garlic gets planted in the Fall and harvested the next Summer. So the Spring before the Fall that you plant, we are going to put down our cover crop and it adds organic matter to the soil. There's a cover. I'll show you what that is now."