Orlando Garlic Company
Season
Plant in the cool months. Buy garlic any day.
Home garlic is a late-fall planting and a late-spring pull, timed to those bent leaves. Grocery garlic is year-round and usually not a Florida field. Both facts can sit on the same counter.
Garden calendar
Late fall through early winter in. Harvest when foliage tells you. There is no Florida garlic festival date on the IFAS page, and this brand does not invent one.
| Place | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Central Florida bed | Cool-season crop. Softneck / Creole. Harvest on the leaf cue |
| Grocery | Year-round bulbs, often California or imported |
After harvest
Gardening Solutions: put bulbs in a well-ventilated spot with bright, indirect light for a few days. Softnecks braid after that dry. Hardnecks usually get trimmed. Store cool and dark.
Questions
Is Florida grocery garlic local?
Usually not. The gardening page is about home planting, not a commercial Florida garlic region.
Can I plant in March?
The page says late fall through early winter. March is outside that window.
How to read a month
UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions gives Florida garlic one planting window: late fall through early winter. Softneck varieties are what work in this heat. Hardneck wants a colder winter than Orange County usually delivers. Plant cloves in that fall window. Harvest when tops fall, late spring into early summer on a healthy planting, not on a California packing calendar.
The bulb in the grocery store is usually from California or imported. Florida is not a garlic state. A July supermarket head is not a local harvest. A braid in January might be last spring's pull if you grew it, or it might be someone else's field.
Do not plant grocery cloves and call it a Florida crop until they actually make a bulb. Some grocery garlic is treated so it will not sprout. The grow page is the window and the softneck note. This page is the split: fall plant here versus a year-round shipped bulb.