onion family

Garlic

Allium sativum · Easy

A low-maintenance overwintering crop planted as named, disease-free cloves.

Sow

Not normally grown from seed.

Plant cloves mainly in autumn, or in late winter where needed.

Late spring to early autumn, according to planting time and type.

Practical growing notes

Uses winter space efficiently and stores for months after curing.

Requires drainage and usually a cold period; avoid supermarket bulbs for planting.

Keep the bed moving

A succession-friendly salad crop, especially useful as loose-leaf or cut-and-come-again types.

Fast summer beans available as compact dwarf or space-efficient climbing varieties.

A robust cut-and-come-again leaf crop that can bridge summer, autumn and the following spring.

A dependable root crop whose young leaves are edible too, well suited to repeated small sowings.