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Can anyone recommend a good variety for northern MN? Keep in mind, heavy soils(clay loam), and less growing degree days. Also:

What is your favorite variety to eat?

Where do you like to buy your garlic seed?

What kind of fertility system do you use?

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You can buy garlic in the grocery store.Break the head up into individual cloves and plant them.Using seed isn't necessary.Plant them in Oct and harvest next summer.
have you tried this from store bought garlic????? reason I ask is#1 this will be my first go round with growing my own, and #2 I was told not to but the stuff in the stores because it has some sort of growth inhibitor sprayed on it???
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I work in produce at a large grocery store.Most of the garlic we sell comes from China.If in the store for to long it sprouts and must be thrown away.So it will grow.
The only part about this that's correct is that Ken works in a grocery store and his garlic likely comes from China. The rest of his advice is wrong.

Grocery store garlic, unless specifically marketed otherwise, is softneck garlic either grown in California or China. Their climates are much different than MN. Yes the grocery store garlic sprouts on its own. If you want to try growing garlic on your countertop...then go for it. If you're going to plant it in MN soil, then you are going to be disappointed. It either won't survive or will struggle.

Garlic should be planted in MN around the first frost in the fall and should be a hardneck variety. You can find those at farmers markets, online, or you could have gotten it at the MN Garlic Festival. Hardy garlics that can grow in MN also need the winter in order to grow to its fullest potential. They sprout early in the spring and are ready to harvest by late July/early August.

If you want to learn the basics about growing garlic in MN, go to your favorite search engine and type in "Growing Garlic In Minnesota" and your first hit or so should be from the UofM Extension Office. It's a great starting point for learning about how to grow here.

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SkunkedAgain,

I was going to say the same.

Just because it sprouts, doesn't mean it will yield.

I'm an agronomist, so am not unfamiliar with plant world to say the least. I've never grown garlic so figured I would get some opinions on where to buy and what kind... I got the answers I was looking for on another platform. Thanks

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Can anyone recommend a good variety for northern MN? Keep in mind, heavy soils(clay loam), and less growing degree days.

We have had good luck with German Extra Hardy garlic. It's productive for us and fantastic to cook with. We aren't UP NORTH, but we are north of the cities a couple hours drive. We have sandy soil, not heavy clay.

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It took a while, but I finally planted about 20 or 25 cloves on Friday. I covered with leaves and will see what the late planting means.

I intentionally avoided eating the bulbs with the biggest looking cloves. Man, some of those were monsters! I'm hoping for a bumper crop next year

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