There’s no need to wait until the shortest day (mid June in the southern hemisphere) to plant your garlic bulbs. Get them in the ground now to get them off to a good start. Although tradition says to plant garlic on the shortest day and harvest it on the longest, you can plant them as early as April and harvest around the new year. The earlier you plant, the quicker they’ll establish roots before the ground cools down. Then come spring, plants can focus their energy on leaf growth and bigger and better bulbs. Buy seed garlic from garden centres or use organically grown bulbs from fruit and vegetable shops. Avoid imported garlic, which is fumigated to stop sprouting. Break off the individual cloves and use only the fattest ones (you can eat the rest or plant the smaller cloves in another part of the garden and harvest the leaves as you would spring onions).
Plant about 5cm deep, with pointy end up, in a sunny spot in fertile, well-drained soil that has plenty of compost dug in.
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