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Missed your chance to plant garlic last fall? Has your winter storage garlic sprouted? Try planting spring garlic. You may not get large cloves, but you can still enjoy the mild flavor of green garlic.
Garlic is normally planted in the fall for larger bulbs. Once planted, the garlic begins growing roots, and then goes dormant when winter arrives.
Garlic needs a period of cold winter temperatures to stress the seed and stimulate it to divide into separate cloves that form a head of garlic. This process is called, vernalization.
Once spring arrives, fall planted garlic will begin growing right where it left off. Garlic is triggered to bulb when the day length increases to about 14 hours. The more time garlic has to grow foliage before forming bulbs, the larger the heads will be come harvest time.
If garlic doesn’t get a cold period of at least 40˚F for about 4-8 weeks, it may not divide into cloves that form the bulb. If you have time, you can try tricking the garlic by placing it in the refrigerator before spring planting.
Why you should consider planting spring garlic:
Even if you don’t have time to cold treat your garlic, there are many reasons why you should plant spring garlic anyway.
Green Garlic Shoots: The green shoots that appear shortly after planting have a mild garlic flavor. Snip some to use the same way that you would use garlic chives.
Green Garlic Bulbs: Immature garlic bulbs have a mellower flavor than regular garlic. Green garlic and the foliage can be used raw or cooked like scallions.
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