Heirloom German purple garlic.

[Hawg]

Been growing this same garlic for 30+ years. The guy I got it from grew it for 20 years before I got it so its at least 50 years old.
It's just popping up now so it must be spring.

[MoreAmmoOK]

I tried growing garlic last year. Didn't have very good luck. I tried hardneck and softneck. I planted them in October after the first frost but it warmed up and lots of them sprouted by December. Then we had snow and a very hard freeze for a few weeks. Oklahoma weather is very unpredictable! None of my cloves got very big.

[Hawg]

This is hardneck.
We plant mid to late October 3 to 4 inches deep. But since we are colder than a well diggers ass up here they stay dormant except for some root growth before the hard freeze of winter.

[Hawg]

I tried growing garlic last year. Didn't have very good luck. I tried hardneck and softneck. I planted them in October after the first frost but it warmed up and lots of them sprouted by December. Then we had snow and a very hard freeze for a few weeks. Oklahoma weather is very unpredictable! None of my cloves got very big.

Do you cut the scapes off as soon as they appear? The bulbs will get much bigger if the scapes get cut off.

[MoreAmmoOK]

I cut the scapes off when they were an inch or two long.

[Hawg]

That's how I do it.

[Mad Trapper]

Been growing this same garlic for 30+ years. The guy I got it from grew it for 20 years before I got it so its at least 50 years old.
It's just popping up now so it must be spring.

I thought it was cold where you are!

[Hawg]

I thought it was cold where you are!

It is cold in mid Meatchicken but we had a week of 50's so the garlic woke up a week or 2 early.