Speed up your garlic germination with this simple gardening technique! 🧄 This method shows you how to easily prepare garlic roots for planting within a week. Follow these easy instructions and you'll be growing garlic in no time with these great garden tips. | Epic Natural Health

Some garlic provides more than a bulb! Hardneck garlic will "scape", or produce a young flower shoot that most gardeners prune off to encourage bigger, better bulbs. Do it when the scape curls over once! BUT, you can also eat scapes! We brought in Paul who - despite helping out in the garden every day - doesn't like veggies and cooked up some of the scapes to taste-test them. | Epic Gardening

PLANTING GARLIC - It's not too late to squeeze some cloves in the ground for next season! In warmer climates like ours, we've had to adapt our garlic planting strategy quite a bit. Why? Garlic likes to be exposed to a period of cold, especially hardneck garlic. In our warm San Diego climate, it DOESN'T get that cold! So, we store it in the fridge, vernalizing it for 2-3 months, THEN we plant. After removing from the fridge, we pop the cloves off of the bulb gently, taking care to leave as much o