Stop buying garlic. Here’s how to grow an endless supply of garlic right at home written by Emma Smizer on September 19th, 2016

Garlic is arguably one of the world’s most versatile and healthiest foods.While you can use garlic to add some serious flavor to any dish, garlic also has quite the long list of health benefits as well. That’s why we’re here to break down how you can benefit from these major remedies and how you can grow your own supply of this amazing super-food in your very own backyard! Share Source: davidwolfe.com Up Your Nutritional Game Like we mentioned, garlic has some potent medicinal properties, such as being packed with vitamins while also being very low in calories. Garlic is rich in manganese, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and substantial amount of selenium, calcium, potassium, just to name a few – all while only having 42 calories per serving! Strengthen Your Immune System Garlic is also known to boost the immune system and can help combat sickness like the common cold. Research has also shown that incorporating garlic into your daily diet can reduce your risk of getting sick by up to 63%! This can be especially useful if you’re someone prone to getting colds. Keeping Your Heart Healthy Add cardiovascular health to this list while you’re at it. If ingested regularly, garlic can also help reduce your risk for heart disease and help your body process cholesterol more efficiently. Also, garlic can be really beneficial if you’re someone who struggles with high blood pressure! Share Source: harvesttotable.com In additional to being a super-food, garlic is also super easy to grow. All you need to do is follow these simply 5 steps: Break up the garlic bulb into cloves and bury them a couple inches deep in loose, damp soil. Make sure you keep the pointed side of the clove facing upwards. When your garlic sprouts, make sure to give them water when the topsoil feels dry but be sure to not overwater – garlic tends to not need too much water. Cut off any flowers that bloom to preserve the flavor of your garlic. Once your garlic plant has 5 or 6 leaves, it’s ready to be pulled up! Please SHARE this with your friends and family. Sort byBest Log In Choose File Post as Orange Hammer Send Mark Sinden22 Sep Cardboard sheets used to sell loose eggs work well - easy to remove/replace individual bulbs. You WILL need a pretty good sized area put aside for garlic though. The "Health benefits" point for Garlic is, apparently, about 17 cloves of garlic per day - you may find this is because at that doseage, nobody can get close enough to infect you with anything :) You'll need a good-sized greenhouse shelf per person per year just to eat enough. Maybe concentrate on other "superplants" with better return-per-pound...See more Reply Share 77 Likes Bob White061 Mark Sinden23 Sep Theres always someone who wants to poo-poo something good. Reply Share 108 Likes Susan Hardman Wallander Mark Sinden25 Sep jer48 Reply Share 1 Like Brian R. Danko Mark Sinden26 Sep Bob White He's just telling it like it is FYI.... better to have the full story, right???! Reply Share 48 Likes Show 9 new Felicia R Hurley1 Oct I had my first garden this year. Apparently I did the garlic to close to my aloe(was here already) .. I now have garlic aloe vera. (lol) Reply Share 15 Likes Green Paw Felicia R Hurley8 Oct Dwl Reply Share Alan Kobrin25 Sep How about explaining the picture you show of bulbs in a tray? Reply Share 10 Likes Trudy Douglas Alan Kobrin26 Sep That was my question, the picture is very misleading. I was hoping there was a way to grow garlic indoors in quantity.......and that was the reason for the picture. Reply Share 5 Likes Alan Kobrin Alan Kobrin26 Sep Trudy Douglas that is one of the problems with "consumerized" social media pages (even 'better' ones). They are designed, like TV, to attract "eyeballs" ($$), so will show ANY image whether appropriate, or not. Reply Share 4 Likes Mindy Helfant Alan Kobrin30 Sep Trudy Douglas you can grow it in pots, just make sure the pot is 10" deep. Remove the flowers when they appear, and you'll get really nice garlic. You can also trim the scapes, long greens, but don't trim too much as it will make your garlic smaller. Reply Share 4 Likes Jack Guske23 Sep I was led to understand that it had to go through a freeze cycle first, just like a tulip or daffodil bulb. maybe not? Reply Share 7 Likes Christine Julien Jack Guske23 Sep We have done both, through winter and summer, they grow either way Reply Share 13 Likes Heather Jones625 Jack Guske24 Sep We plant ours in the late summer/early fall and grow it through the winter into summer. It gets nice and big. Reply Share 11 Likes Tanya Mc Callam Jack Guske25 Sep You can simulate that cycle by putting it in the freezer. Put the bulbs in a pot of soil, freeze for a week, then pull them out. You can get tulips to bloom for Christmas this way too. Reply Share 25 Likes Show 7 new Cathey Thomas28 Sep "42 calories per serving"? Are you kidding? What is considered a "serving" of garlic for that particular metric? A whole bulb? Because a teaspoon of chopped raw garlic, which is about one clove, contains only 4 calories. Who is going to eat more than ten TIMES that much at once? (Other than paranoiacs concerned about vampires?) Reply Share 7 Likes Tami Morey24 Sep Could this be grown in much smaller quantities indoors in containers?? Reply Share 4 Likes Thao Jones Tami Morey25 Sep http://www.dietoflife.com/here-is-how-to-grow-an-e... I have the same question...maybe this will help? Reply Share 2 Likes Julie Emerald27 Sep I do not think this will work with Cheep CHinese garlic in Auz becuz any viable food/seed is gamma radaited on arrival. SO buy the expensive large bulbed Aussie one or hope you can find some non-chinese at your local farmers market. Reply Share 4 Likes Red Tree Julie Emerald12 Oct Will I turn into the Hulk if I eat gamma radiated garlic? Reply Share 4 Likes Red Lamp Red Tree13 Oct Yes, you will turn into the Hulk. Reply Share 3 Likes Olive Bone Julie Emerald3d I have grown cheap 'grocery store garlic' (probably from China; I didn't know about that until this week!) from at least 4 different sources: starting last fall, I used leftover sprouting garlic that I had bought at Kroger, then a friend gave me some more (2 kinds, one large one small). They all grew. I planted store garlic again this year, from grocer Meijer, back in September. It's coming right along. I also have some plants from organic, certified disease free 'seed' cloves, from my cousin...See more Reply Share 1 Like Show 1 new Olive Bullhorn3d Did you mention that takes approximately 9 months to harvest garlic! Reply Share 3 Likes Janis Goodmurphy22 Sep I will give this a try! Reply Share 3 Likes Rajakumari Karunakaran23 Sep Very useful information. Reply Share 2 Likes Rita Maier2 Oct Garlic is cheap. Why go through the trouble? Reply Share 4 Likes Green Hat Rita Maier9 Oct In some countries yes, in the Philippines it is very expensive. Reply Share 2 Likes Tim Smith Green Hat21 Oct Garlic is going up in price here, now non-Chinese garlic is running at over $1.00 per bulb. Reply Share 2 Likes Cyan Processor Rita Maier4d Most of the garlic in stores comes from China and I don't want to eat anything that comes from China Reply Share 8 Likes Show 2 new Louis Hoolaeff29 Sep Garlic scapes, the curly garlic leaf tips, should be broken off for larger heads. The scapes are delicious in salads and/or pickled. Yum...!!! Reply Share 2 Likes Branka Drabek Milekić25 Sep ma nesmijem otvoriti fb da se ne upecam na nešto poticajno, a ovo s lukom... baš zove Reply Share 2 Likes Olive Paw7 Oct This is a strategy to produce garlic greens, but the entire process of re-producing full 'heads' of takes about a year. I don't believe the article was clear on this point. Either way, garlic greens are very useful. Reply Share 1 Like Olive Planet1d Really crappy story, you can't pull the garlic up as soon as it gets five leaves, the bulb wont have time to form into separate cloves. In the north also you have to over-winter garlic to get a decent crop, planting it in fall and mulching through the winter. It sounds as though the writer has never grown garlic. Reply Share 1 Like Vickie Green Hawkins24 Sep how long between planting and harvest? weeks? months? Reply Share 1 Like Mike Pop Beatty Sr. Vickie Green Hawkins24 Sep I plant late October and harvest late June/early July Reply Share 11 Likes Mike Pop Beatty Sr. Vickie Green Hawkins24 Sep I plant late October and harvest late June/early July Reply Share 2 Likes Jodie Turnbull Vickie Green Hawkins24 Sep I always plant in april they be camber that I done for years Reply Share Show 7 new Louis Hoolaeff29 Sep Planting time. Most people plant in the fall. I planted mine in late spring last year and the heads were very small. Reply Share 1 Like Laurie Gardner Carr25 Sep When you say 5 leaves and it's ready to be pulled up, is that harvest? Or replanted? Reply Share 1 Like Andrée Reed Haj Abed Laurie Gardner Carr25 Sep When planting in the fall, put 1 tsp bone meal and 1 tsp Epsom salt in the hole then the garlic section. Mulch well. They grow throughout the winter then come up in the spring. When a couple bottom leaves die/dry up then it can be harvested. Replant in late fall! An Amish farmer told me how to grow garlic! Reply Share 10 Likes Ted Bull Laurie Gardner Carr29 Sep The optimum time to harvest is when the leaves turn brown, that way you end up with large heads. Reply Share 1 Like Laurie Gardner Carr Laurie Gardner Carr29 Sep Ted Bull soooo 5 leaves then ready to be PLANTED? Reply Share Show 4 new Purple Paw6 Oct I attempted this in a very small scale this year to see if I would be successful and I works!!! I have a lovely clove of garlic, next year I am doing it in a much larger scale! Reply Share Purple Cherries4d Thank you so much for sharing this idea. I'm definitely going to give it a go. I'll let you know how its going. Reply Share Chola Viray2d yes i will do it. Reply Share Purple Flower13h But WAIT!! You have to BUY garlic before you can even start trying to do this! Reply Share Blue Cloud5 Oct Garlic will also perfume your breath. Reply Share Green Raindrop22m Brianna Cornish ... For our info .... 5 or 6 leaves indicates harvest time - can trim leaves but that inhibits garlic size. About 9 months to harvest apparently. Only water when earth is dry. All good! Bring on sunshine. Reply Share Purple Controller13 Oct What month doo you start this process? Reply Share