BDN interviews Fuller about late garlic planting
The Bangor Daily News interviewed David Fuller, an agriculture and nontimber forest products professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article on how to grow garlic in the spring if you forgot to plant it in the fall. “Garlic is a long-season crop. If you plant it in the spring, that clove is only going to form a large single bulb with no cloves in it called a round. The bulb will be smaller than if you planted it in the fall,” Fuller said. Garlic can be planted in April and harvested at the end of July or August, but Fuller said the method is “inferior” and recommends harvesting it as spring garlic about eight weeks after planting. The spring garlic will look almost like scallions, the article states. “Take little cloves and plant them really closely. The plant doesn’t have as long in the ground, so it can’t get as big as fall-planted garlic. The thing about planting these little cloves, after a while the stalks are going to start developing and they’re going to be quite tough. The harvest window is very narrow for that,” said Fuller, who recommends harvesting spring garlic while it is still tender and sauteing it with scrambled eggs.