Grow garlic in a pot

YOU WILL NEED:

–- A pot or container with drainage holes in the bottom –- One garlic bulb (NZ grown) –- Planting mix –- Liquid fertiliser 1 Separate your garlic bulb into cloves. Leave the papery skin on. Set aside the biggest cloves for planting (save the little ones to make garlic bread!). 2 Fill your container with planting mix up to 5-10cm from the top and make it level. 3 Sit your garlic gloves in the planting mix with their pointy ends facing upwards, and with about 10cm between each one. Then cover them over with 3-5cm of planting mix. 4 Place your pot in a warm sunny spot and don’t forget to water. 5 Watch for the shoots to appear in spring and feed your plants as they grow. 6 Your garlic is ready to harvest when the leaves start to turn yellow in summer.

After harvest, leave your garlic in the sun to dry then rub off the dirt and store them in a dark dry place. You can also plait the leaves into a braid for hanging. Save some of your biggest fattest cloves to replant next winter.