I've been trying to find suppliers to buy bulk garlic. I never thought it would be so hard to order 600 pounds of garlic (125 pounds of 5 different varieties). So far, every supplier I've contacted already has their bulbs reserved. The sad part is I actually scaled down from 1 acre of planting to 1/2 acre in hopes of being able to procure enough to be able to sell some and keep enough to plant 1 acre next year.
My plan for the garlic crop is to plant 25 rows 220 feet long, which comes out to approximately 1/2 acre. Each row is actually a 12 inch wide raised bed that I will plant 2 rows of garlic in, spaced 8 inches apart. The garlic will be spaced 4 inches apart in each row. That will give me 1320 plants per bed, for a total of 33,000 heads of garlic. This would give me approximately 4,000 pounds of garlic for next year, allowing me to sell 3,000 pounds and keep 1,000 pounds to plant.
Now I just have to hope to find a supplier to make this a reality.
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