Growing Garlic

How to become a Self-Sustainable Mountain Woman 

Growing Garlic

All you need, to get Started is about One Acre of Land, which is going to be, quite incidentally, exactly 43,560 square feet, and 1000 lbs of Organic Untreated Seed Garlic Bulbs, to be planted about One Clove per square foot in Early November.

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Cost: To plant One Acre in Garlic you should be prepared to set aside about $2,178. for 1,000 lbs of Garlic/acre at $2.17/lb. which you should be able to buy at that price, by the pickup truck load.

And at that price, your cost per bulb is about 30 Cents a Bulb, and if you pick the 6 biggest Cloves per bulb, you will be getting 6 big Cloves for about 30 cents, or about Five Cents a Clove. 

That half ton of Garlic is going to render about 43,560 big Cloves, for planting, and a lot of little tiny ones may be left over, and that you can give away to your friends, or the Soup Kitchen, but that magic number of big Cloves, is quite coincidentally, just about enough for One Clove per square foot.

What you get Eight Months later is about 6,000 lbs/acre, or more, but then you will want to set aside about 1,000 lbs of that for your next years crop, since now it makes brilliantly good sense to become your own provider of Seed Garlic, since you are now just as easily in the Seed Garlic business, as well as the Food Garlic business.

That leaves you with about 5,000 lbs. of Garlic which you can begin to sell right after harvest time is over, which is in August, and that 5,000 lbs of Garlic, can then be sold in ten pound sacks, which might go for at least $43.60 a sack, which is $4.36/lb or about 60 Cents a Bulb. 

And that is more like Ten Cents a Clove, which will bring you about $21,780. per acre, each and every year thereafter, on just one acre, which is just about 50 Cents a Square Foot, in net returns, over and above what you will need, to reseed next years crop, which pays for your land.  

If one Good Hard Working Mountain Woman can sell about 200 pounds a week, she will have it all sold, within 6 Months, and that could easily be done, out of the trunk of a car, at a farmers market, one day a week. - T 

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