This is our second year growing garlic. We used cloves from the first year's harvest. We are having fun, but don't exactly know what we are doing! We plant the cloves, cover with dead leaves/cardboard for the winter, uncover in the spring, and wait to harvest scapes and bulbs. That's it.
What are your garlic growing tips/strategies? Do you feed your bulbs at any particular time?
I agree with most of this, but I would say compost should play a bigger role. It loosened up and improved the soil over the winter and gave my bulbs a chance to expand in a dense clay soil that otherwise would have really restricted growth. Some of my bulbs really reached deeper into the soil than I expected, given severe drought and the original clay soil, and I noticed the soil structure around them got more friable below the deepest part of the root plate.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll have to amend my notes then. Do you have any references I can draw from?