Articles
Written for people who grow garlic
Reference material and honest arithmetic, not press releases. Every piece here has real numbers in it, and says plainly where our equipment isn’t the answer.
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When to plant garlic in Ontario: a fall timeline Roughly two to four weeks before the ground freezes — mid-October to early November across most of the province. Here is the whole season, week by week. Read it → -
Planting onion sets with a garlic planter Sets and cloves are the same problem: a small bulb, root plate down, at a spacing. We make a dedicated onion wheel. Seed and transplants are a different machine entirely. Read it → - Planting tulips, hops and ginseng with a garlic planter A garlic planter is really a bulb, rhizome and large-seed planter. Six confirmed crops beyond garlic — plus the honest note that garlic is what it is optimised for. Read it →
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How to harvest garlic without breaking the necks Snapped necks are a soil problem, not a technique problem. Undercutting loosens the root mass so bulbs lift clean — and in light sand you may not need it at all. Read it → -
What happens if you plant garlic upside down? Upside-down garlic doesn't die — it grows into a bulb you can't sell. Here is what actually happens underground, and why it decides how a planter should be built. Read it → - How Many Garlic Cloves Per Acre? Between 98,000 and 261,000 depending on spacing — 174,240 at the common 6" × 6". The full chart, the formula, and what it means for October. Read it →
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What size tractor do you need for a garlic planter? For planting, any tractor that can lift the machine on a Category 1 hitch will do. The 40 HP number belongs to harvest, and that is the requirement people miss. Read it → - Garlic Planter vs. Hand Planting: The Real Numbers We build planters, so treat this with suspicion — then check the arithmetic, which is all shown. It includes the point where our machine stops being worth buying. Read it →
- Scaling up garlic: what breaks first Planting is the wall most growers hit first. Curing space is the one nobody plans for until there are twelve thousand pounds of garlic and nowhere to hang it. Read it →
- How to cure and store garlic Curing is a drying job with one variable that matters more than the rest: airflow. Here is what it does, how long it takes, and how to store what comes out. Read it →
- When to harvest garlic: read the leaves, not the calendar Garlic tells you when it is ready and the calendar does not. Count senesced leaves, dig a test bulb, and understand what a split wrapper costs you. Read it →
- Choosing seed garlic: size, sourcing and how much you need Plant your biggest cloves, not your leftovers. How to grade seed stock, when to buy in, and how to work out exactly how much seed an acre takes. Read it →
- Hardneck vs softneck garlic The differences that matter: scapes, clove size and count, storage life, winter-hardiness. Hardneck suits the north, but softneck is not the lesser crop. Read it →
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