Your garlic bed is quiet. Too quiet. You planted those cloves with care, tucked them into the soil, waited patiently… and nothing happened. No green shoots. No signs of life. Just dirt staring back at you like it forgot the assignment. Before you assume total failure or start blaming the seed garlic supplier, take a breath.
Garlic is dramatic, stubborn, and oddly particular—and there’s a very specific, often-missed reason it sometimes refuses to sprout on schedule. Even better, there’s still time before February to step in and turn things around.
