Garlic

Garlic grows slowly all winter and takes off in the spring. Our guess is that it’s too early for it to show substantial growth in your area just yet, but soon it should start to shoot up. Here are the conditions garlic needs to do well, so if yours isn’t growing soon it might be that it’s lacking one of the following conditions:
1. Sun. Garlic grows best when it’s getting at least 6 hours of dead-on sun including the noon hour.
2. Deep watering less often. Water garlic deeply (not hand watering – use a sprinkler or soaker hose) once a week if there hasn’t been an inch of rain, measured by a rain gauge.
3. Fertile soil. Have you fertilized this area at all? An application of an organic fertilizer would be a good idea if you haven’t recently done so. Ask for a recommendation at your local garden center.
4. Soil pH – garlic likes a pH of between 6 and 7. If you haven’t had your pH measured recently it would be a good idea to do so since soil that’s more acid or alkaline would stunt the growth of your plants. When the pH is off plants can’t absorb the nutrients that are already there. Many home pH meters aren’t all that accurate so if you could have your soil tested by a university soil testing lab or cooperative extension that would be better.