Growing Garlic & Shallots in Texas

This is our first year to grow both the shallots and garlic. Fall is the time to plant garlic! Found to it takes a while for them to grow, so we created a new bed that will not be disturbed through the seasons.  Just like there are many types of apples, there is also many types of garlic with a varying taste profile of each. I think we have probably planted over 180 cloves of garlic and shallots in the new garden bed.

The key to any successful garden in the soil, especially here with our thick clay gumbo. I would say I have added well over 7 inches of composts & amendments to the native soil, and then tilled it all into the soil very well. I have added the following soil amendments to our clay soil...

• Cow Manure Compost
• Mushroom Compost
• Organic Soil Conditioner 
• Sphagnum Peat Moss
• Cotton Burr Compost
• Expanded Shale
• Azomite (rock dust)  - Why...because your plants need more than N-P-K
• Organic Fertilizer
• Cedar Mulch  (on top for weed barrier, moister control, and freeze protection)

In this video we have planted...

• Inchelium Red Garlic
• German Red Garlic
• Turkish Giant Garlic
• Elephant Garlic (not really garlic)
• Gray Shallots
• Santé Shallots