it aint much, but it's honest work
First time growing garlic so bear with me. Planted 4 rows in November, with 4 varieties (one fancy variety from a breeder, and 3 I bought at the grocery stores).
One of them flopped early (6 months total) so I pulled it up and that's what you see in the pics. This variety I bought from the local EarthFare organic supermarket. It germinated quickly and seems to have gone through its lifecycle much faster than the other 3 rows. Some of the bulbs didn't differentiate. I didnt use any fertilizer or do anything special at all. I didnt mulch or hay either. 😳
The garlic was green and growing through most of the winter, even in the snow we got. I think the weird winter probably cause this variety to end its lifecycle early.
My soil is very much clay so I've been working a small patch to make it good for planting.
Even with all the mistakes and challenges, I got about 2.5 lbs of garlic from about 1lb planted. Not great but not terrible and learned a lot. Also expecting a lot more from the varieties still growing which are huge in comparison to what I just pulled.