Planting Garlic in Minnesota

Planting garlic is so easy and the results are delicious. Garlic is planted in the fall, usually in October (2 weeks earlier in Northern Minnesota) and then harvested the following July. Garlic is a bulb. It is related to onions. There are 2 main types of garlic.

Softneck– this is the white garlic you find in the grocery store. Usually there are 10-40 cloves in each head of garlic. These are not the varieties that are normally plant here. But you can plant it if desired.

Hardneck– this is the garlic we can plant in Minnesota in the fall. It is the garlic that you find at the farmers’ markets in summer and fall. These heads of garlic usually have 4-12 cloves in them, and in the middle of each head is the hard stem or ‘neck’ of the garlic. This ‘neck’ was once the flowering stalk or the ‘scape’.

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