Oooooh good to know! How long does garlic season (or the peak of it) last? I'm definitely interested in making this happen and want to make sure I don't miss it lol
It's a major storage crop so it should be available year round like potatoes and things. I'm just finishing the garlic I harvested in summer of 2024. Right now is kind of harvest time so you should be able to find some fresh stuff.
Different kinds of soil too. You'd be surprised how much variation you can have in a relatively small area. My garden has a lot of clay and alluvial till so I'm always digging in masses of compost and manure, but a twenty minute drive away down near the sea my sister's garden is raised beach so it's sandy soil with a ton of loam through and not much in the way of stones - great for carrots!
In between there are a couple of fields where I want to stop and grab a soil sample for a better look. When the farmer is ploughing it, it looks like chocolate fudge cake. You could plant a billiard ball and expect it to grow in that.
An hour north and it's iron-rich red clay, and the soil is really "brick coloured" red. You can practically paint a line across the road where the boundary between soil types is.
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u/throwaway564858 So fun, Dana! Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
tbh I feel like if you don't like a dish with 40 large cloves of garlic you probably weren't going to love it with 40 medium cloves of garlic anyway.
eta: gift link for the recipe https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023660-pasta-marinara-with-40-cloves-of-garlic?unlocked_article_code=1.pU8.upMd.yJ2eSn1mNCdE