One of the new crops we will be growing this year is green garlic. It is also known as spring garlic or baby garlic. It is simply immature garlic, picked before it has a chance to divide into the multiple cloves that mature garlic forms.
Growing green garlic, or just garlic in general, is incredibly easy and something anyone can do at home, either in the garden, or in containers. We plant garlic with a number of our garden veggies, as well as have dedicated space to grow as much as we can! It is relatively pest free, and when planted as a companion it assists in repelling garden pests such as aphids and accumulates sulfur which is a naturally occurring fungicide that helps protect your plants from diseases.
You use green garlic just as as you would scallions, leeks, or regular garlic. It is stronger in flavor than a scallion, but not as strong as mature garlic. The tender parts of the plant can be chopped or sliced, and the remaining tougher leaves can be saved for making vegetable stock.
We plant garlic in the fall for a mature garlic crop in mid-summer. We will plant garlic in the spring, in staggered plantings for green garlic harvests from May until late summer.
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| Last garlic harvest--They were HUGE! |
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| Garlic in the garden |
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