🌱 Sowing & planting
- Sowing depth: 4 cm on clay soil, 10 cm on sandy soil
- Sowing distance: n/a (plant cloves loosely)
- Germination: n/a
- Planting distance: 15 cm between plants, 25 cm between rows
- Planting out as: garlic cloves are planted directly into the ground, with the point facing upwards
- Growth cycle: approx. 135 days
📅 Growing times throughout the year
- Autumn planting: Plant outdoors in October-mid-November; harvest in late June-mid-August.
- Spring planting: plant outdoors in late February-March; harvest in August.
- Prepare the cloves: buy a bulb of garlic, break it open into individual cloves and plant with the point facing up.
Start cultivation (plants)
Harvesting
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Autumn plant (outside)
Spring plant (outside)
🏠 Inside
🪟 Greenhouse / conservatory
Outside
🌿 Popular breeds
- Flavor
📘 Basic information
- Crop group: Root crop
- Crop family: Onion family
- Height: 30-60 cm
- Growth cycle: approx. 135 days
- Frost resistant: yes
- Root system: 30-45 cm
- Preferred soil: pH 6.0-7.0
- Fertilization: incorporate compost before cultivation
🌞💧 Pitch & water
Location: 🌞 lots of sun
Watering: 💧💧 water moderately
🤝 Good & Bad Neighbors
Good neighbors
Bad neighbors
❗ Dangers & Concerns
- Sensitive to rust.
🧺 Harvesting & storing
When the foliage turns brown and flattens, the garlic is ready to harvest. Pull out the bulbs or use a pitchfork to gently loosen them.
Allow the harvested bulbs to dry thoroughly to preserve them. The exact drying or storage method is not specified in the information sheet.
🍽️ Nutritional value
Per 3 cloves of raw garlic (10 g):
- 13 kcal
- 0 g fat
- 3 g carbohydrates
- 1 g protein
- 0.2 g fiber
- 0.1 g sugar
- Vitamins: B6 and C
- Other: calcium, phosphorus , selenium and manganese
