Mid- September is the time to get your garlic in if you want lots of your own certifed organic garlic for early summer.

It's real easy. You can plant garlic along the border of your house (should get sunlight), or do as I do and mingle it into your flower beds. It's great next to rose bushes and lilies, helps keep bugs away from those plants/bulbs. You need a temperate climate, a cold winter season, to grow garlic (far as I know).

Just take a full head of garlic, separate the cloves but leave the skin on the separate cloves (don't peel them). Plant them with the pointy end facing up, about 2-2 1/2 inches deep. That means the flat bottom of the clove should be about 2 inches deep or so with about an inch - inch and a half of soil above the pointy end. Water and walk away. They'll come up in the spring and look sort of like onions but with flat long leaves/stalks. When they start turning brown, about June-mid June or so, it's time to dig the bulbs up and eat or store away. If you forget to harvest them, no problem, they'll come up again next year even bigger. Just use composted green waste from your kitchen or grass cuttings if you feel the need to fertilze or add extra nitrogen ro the soil.