My Japanese Mother Has Never Bought Garlic — One Row Does It All Year

If the only garlic in your kitchen comes in a mesh sleeve: https://thesmallgardenbook.com The book is my mother's whole bed, the one tsubo that feeds her table from June to October, the second sowing that never lets it sit empty, and the Saturday arithmetic for doing the same on an American lot. 379 pages, 88 chapters, a Saturday box in every one. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund. I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan. Everyone assumes growing your own garlic takes a farm, or a kind of patience most of us don't have. It takes one row along a fence, planted in the right week, and one rule about which bulbs nobody in the house is allowed to eat. This video walks through six decisions, five of them this fall and one next July: which cloves, which kind, which week, how deep, which corner, and which bulbs. At the end, the rule my mother gave me at her kitchen door when I was nine, and why it explains all six. And if your whole garden is one raised bed that's tomatoes from May, buy the garlic. It holds its ground eight or nine months, and in that garden the store wins. If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me where your row is going. If anyone in your family ever kept their own seed, garlic or beans or anything else, tell me what they kept. Chapters 0:00 The garlic going green on your counter 0:50 The one bulb not to plant 1:43 What last January decides 2:35 Where the bin garlic comes from 3:24 The job I hated at seven 4:42 One clove, one bulb 6:07 The row that costs eight months 7:23 Which bulbs you eat first 8:31 What hung by her kitchen door 9:49 Your row this week Sources University of Minnesota Extension Oregon State University Extension Texas A&M AgriLife Extension (Travis and Bexar County offices) Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station UConn Extension USDA Economic Research Service, Vegetables and Pulses Outlook U.S. International Trade Commission, Fresh Garlic from China (2023) USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture #GrowingGarlic #FallGarden #SmallGarden #VegetableGarden #JapanVsAmerica