Planting Garlic

The instructions call for the cloves to be placed 4 to 5" deep and 6 to 8" apart.

Is there a simple implement to use with the tractor which will reduce the digging?

Here's a dibbler that I built. It's pretty simple, yet took many hours to construct. I also made a hinged hitch on the back of a 3 point rototiller to eliminate a pass.

Basically it is a steel lawn roller with cubes made of 1/8" steel welded to the roller. I don't know if you can justify the time to make such a thing, but it saves alot of time and creates the perfect spacing every time.

Chuck

I plan to plant a couple of thousand walnuts this fall -- a bigger project -- and wonder if something similar grafted to an old steel field-roller would make and mark the 20' grid we need.

Thanks for the picture. It explains a lot.

The well-drained seed bed for garlic is about 70' long and the ground was quite soft when I planted the oats two months ago. I've thought of making the holes with a long auger in a cordless drill, but that may be overkill.

I see you use rows about 16" wide.

I'm planting the garlic next to a well-established row of asparagus.

With the oats planted and dying over the winter as a mulch crop, would there be any advantage to spacing the garlic rows so as to allow cultivation with my 28" rear-tine tiller? Or would a rectangular patch of garlic planted in several 12" rows be better?

Thanks,

Rod

If you have any other questions, let me know.

Chuck