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If you're a traditional gardener who believes that all plants should be in rows, leave this thread now!! At the very least, find a bottle of smelling salts and sit down.
My method is almost no-dig, involves minimal effort and is very simple. The only tools you need are a trowel and a cup. You too can have two jobs completed in minutes using the VC method.
Also works for onion sets, daffodil bulbs and anything chunky.
Find the spot where you want to grow garlic - mine was in the rhubarb patch, which is full of tufts of grass. Now I could have dug this out, raked it smooth, hoed a row and measured equidistant spaces along it to plant the garlic.
However, you know me better than to think I would do all that! Instead I pulled up a tuft of grass and bunged a garlic clove in its place. Wherever a tuft came out, it was replaced with garlic. It should make an interesting pattern when it all grows.
I'm not too worried about the grass that was left as Elephant garlic is such a strong plant it will push its way through anything. Some of it will be left in situ over next winter to bulk up. By next winter, all the grass will have returned anyway but am I worried? What do you think???
Conventional growers - how's your heart?
My method is almost no-dig, involves minimal effort and is very simple. The only tools you need are a trowel and a cup. You too can have two jobs completed in minutes using the VC method.
Also works for onion sets, daffodil bulbs and anything chunky.
Find the spot where you want to grow garlic - mine was in the rhubarb patch, which is full of tufts of grass. Now I could have dug this out, raked it smooth, hoed a row and measured equidistant spaces along it to plant the garlic.
However, you know me better than to think I would do all that! Instead I pulled up a tuft of grass and bunged a garlic clove in its place. Wherever a tuft came out, it was replaced with garlic. It should make an interesting pattern when it all grows.
I'm not too worried about the grass that was left as Elephant garlic is such a strong plant it will push its way through anything. Some of it will be left in situ over next winter to bulk up. By next winter, all the grass will have returned anyway but am I worried? What do you think???
Conventional growers - how's your heart?
............and its for the coffee 
I intended to replant them this year but have forgot where I put them.
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