Planting
How to plant onion sets and garlic
Pushing onion sets, shallots and garlic cloves into the soil with the tip just showing or just under.
Push each set or clove into loose soil, pointed end up.
Onions and shallots: leave the tip just showing. Garlic: cover with 1 in of soil.
Space them as Bia shows, and re-firm any that birds pull up.
When to do it
It depends on the crop. Tap one for the dates where you live.
OnionBirds pull them up in the first weeksDates for your area
ShallotIn the first weeksDates for your area
Also part of growing
What it helps prevent
Before and after
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