Garlic Growing: Planting, Growing, Harvesting and Storing Hardneck and Softneck Garlic in Beds and Containers

You push a single clove into cold autumn soil, pointed end up, and walk away. By summer it has become a whole bulb wrapped in papery skins. Few crops ask so little of you for so long, but garlic has a long memory: decisions made in October show up in July, and a handful of small choices decide whether you lift fat, tight, long-keeping bulbs or a tray of heads that split in the ground and sprout by Christmas.

This book follows the garlic year from start to finish. It explains how the plant ...