[Market-farming] planting garlic

Andy Fellenz fellenz at fltg.net
Sun Sep 14 13:01:24 EDT 2008


You could do the following:

 > Work up the bed.  For this quantity it may be easiest to use a 
walk-behind rototiller
 > Set a string line and cut a furrow using a Warren hoe or the side of 
a onion hoe (just use something to cut a relatively narrow but several 
inch deep furrow
 > Set bulbs into furrow
 > Use a rake or wide hoe to cover furrow
 > Mulch heavily with straw

I've been doing it this way for the last few years and last year planted 
~150lbs of garlic with this method. 

Andy

Richard Robinson wrote:
> Any recommendations for tools and techniques for planting large quantities of garlic? I hope to graduate from planting 50 cloves to more like 500, and wonder if there's a better way than hands and knees with a trowel. This will be a combination of softneck and stiffneck.
>
> thanks.
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