Growing Garlic … with the help of God ???

Wednesday, 8 December 2004

Father Rick McCann from the Oaks Church in the Southern Highlands shares his knowledge on how to grow good garlic.

He has been growing garlic for more than twenty years. His last giant clove weighed in at a staggering 1.54kg.

Father Rick grows about 110kg to 140kg of garlic each year in a plot that is only about five metres by three metres.

– John Gabriele

How does he do it ?

You have to prepare the ground and then watch for the weather; you plant any time from mid-February to mid-March. I keep an eye out for good rain coming then I plant.

You need garlic which has started to go green at the top and then you plant each clove just under the ground. I pump my water out of a well. I never use tap water on the garlic.

To know when to harvest you wait until it gets a big mauve flower, when that starts to go off you wait until the ground has dried out and then move in with the backhoe

– Father Rick McCann