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So if garlic is the antifungicide of the century, you really should learn how to grow it. And the great thing is that it’s fairly easy to grow anywhere.

Soil preparation
Garlic prefers a fairly light weight soil that drains. If your soil doesn’t match this description you can add things to it.
For example you can add some organic matter, such as well decomposed compost, leaf clippings from last autumn etc to your soil and dig it through. In some cases you may even want to add a little sand.
If you have very heavy clay soil you may want to consider raising the bed, either by planting the garlic into raised rows that you have hoed up, or by building a completely raised bed. To do this you will need to get soil from somewhere and to edge your bed with something – wooden planking edging works well.

Why all this fuss about damp soil? Garlic grows from a bulb that is in the soil for a long time. It will rot rather than grow if the soil is too damp.

Garlic also likes to be well fed. Well rotted manure, compost, blood and bone, a complete fertiliser such as a 10 10 10 are all really good to dig into the bed when preparing.

It is good to dig up and losen the soil to about the depth of one spade, prior to planting, and to add some fertiliser at the same time. Garlic likes to send down deep roots, so don’t skim on the digging!

Garlic can also be grown in pots. If you’re doing this then don’t just get soil from the garden, you will want to use a commercial quality potting mix.

More on Garlic growing soon.