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Garlic is an easy to grow crop best suited to in-ground growing or raised beds. Read on for everything you need to know for growing great garlic this year. Timing Plant cloves from September to the end of November. There is a brief window at the beginning of March when you can plant for a fall harvest, but in this climate garlic performs better if overwintered. Soil Garlic likes to grow in rich, well-drained, loose and weed-free soil. Sandy-loamy soil is ideal as it allows the bulbs to push out easier as they grow, preventing an excessively wet growing environment,...

Shop our BC-grown certified organic seed garlic collection here! BC Eco Seed Co-op is delighted to offer seed garlic from Shirlene Coté and Michael Nyberg of Earth Apple Organic Farm. Shirlene and Mike are proud of the quality of their garlic and consider quality assurance at every step. Growing good seed garlic starts with picking out the very best of their own seed to plant in the fall. All of their garlic has been grown out from bulbils, which they do every 5 years for disease control purposes. They then take extreme care in the field to manage pests, weeds and...