Growing Garlic in South Texas! 🧄 Tips for Thriving Bulbs and Bountiful Harvests
Channel: Escaping The Daily Grind
Date: 2023-11-23

Garlic is very easy to grow and is super cold tolerant.  It also gives an added benefit of keeping pests off your garden.  The majority of bugs do not like any of the alliums which include garlic, onion, leek, and more.  

Garlic comes in two major forms, hard neck and soft neck.  Hardneck verieties need a specific amount of chill hours which being in Texas I will not meet those requirements by planting in the ground during the fall.  Softneck however does not require this and will flourish in my area of south Texas.  Both varieties however do enjoy cooler weather.  Hardneck characteristics are that they are spicier and have more flavor, and also usually have larger cloves but less of them per bulb.  Softnecks characteristics are that they have more but smaller cloves per bulb, are less spicy and more mild in flavor, and tend to store longer.   

Now I am new to growing garlic, however what Ive read is you should plant in fall, and let them die back during winter, which will start off their roots and bulb growth and allow them to store that energy for early spring when the ground thaws out, and this will allow you to grow bigger bulbs.  You can also plant in early spring as soon as the soil is workable.  However this will apparently result in smaller bulb growth.  I could be wrong about this, but I would imagine a fall planting of garlic in some very cold winter climates would kill off the bulb, especially if you get deep frosts that freeze the soil deep.  But I do not know for sure.  However I am in Texas, and this is something I should never have to worry about since it is rare for it to even get below freezing during the day in the winter.  We do however get a few freeze nights throughout winter, so this should slow down the growth of the greens and maybe kill them back, allowing the energy to be stored in the bulbs under the ground, resulting in big growth early spring.  

I will bring you back in a few weeks to see how the garlic is growing, and to see if I get sprouts in every single garlic clove I planted.  I also will bring you all back next year when I harvest these, so stay tuned.

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