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To grow your own garlic, buy organic garlic from a nursery usually in late fall. Depending on where you live you need to buy Hardneck or Softneck garlic. Hardneck is for people who are roughly zone 7 or less (higher north), Softneck is generally for people who are warmer than 7 (California makes a lot of softneck garlic like what most people buy at the stores). In either case, late in the fall you prepare of place to plant the garlic. Break the bulbs into separate cloves and plant them so the pointy tip of the clove points up, and is about 1.5 - 2cm below the ground. Pop garlic into any sunny, well-drained spot in the garden or in a pot. If you are a serious garlic eater, grow a crop by planting rows, spacing each clove about 15cm - 20cm (6-8in) apart.

Keep plants free from weed, water them regularly and fertilize through their growing season using a complete fertilizer. A layer of mulch around each plant keep weeds down and moisture in your soil.

Crops take many months to grow. The bulbs are harvested as the foliage dies down in late spring or early summer. Bulbs can be stored and used over many months. Don't worry if they don't start growing in the winter, in the spring they'll wake up and start growing. Planting in the winter is extremely important for garlic, because that's what causes the bulb to break into multiple cloves and allows it to grow to its full potential.

Once you pick the garlic (after the bottom 3 or 4 leaves turn brown and die) you need to let it dry out in a shady dry place (like a garage so long as it has some air flow). Let it dry for 6-8 weeks and your garlic is ready to store. I usually just cut off the roots with snips, and trim the tops (not too close or u might cut into a clove) so that the bulbs can be stored in a hanging basket in the kitchen.

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a garlic chive takes aproximatly 100 centurys to grow to its full. HOWEVER; if you have a spare bit of magical pixie dust, this could enhance growth speed by 16 centurys, ADD 4 INCHES IN 4 WEEKS. get ripped.

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Approximately 4-6 months. The climate and variety can affect the length of time from planting to harvest.

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It takes atleast three to four months for the full garlic bulb to grow.

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This depends on variety. On average it takes about 100 days. Some can be harvested sooner, while others can take 125+ days.

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A few months ago.

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