Reaction ranges from strongly acid to moderately acid. The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 4 to 6. It is fine sand or sand, but has a few thin strata of loamy fine sand. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to moderately acid. There are no competing series.
Garlic soils are on dissected moraines and till-floored lake plains.
Slope gradients range from 1 to 70 percent. They formed in glaciofluvial sediments. Elevations range from 800 to 1,600 feet. F. The frost free period ranges from 100 to 130 days. Garlic soils are associated with Alcona , Voelker , and Kalkaska soils on similar landscape positions and Borgstrom soils on lower landscape positions and in drainageways.