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Originally Posted by bower
I'm curious about this question. A friend of ours grows great garlic, and last year his daughter told me, his secret method was to side dress with compost during the summer, as much as he could get! I'm not sure exactly how he does that, but it seems like there is a precedent for adding some good soil around the plants. Four inches sounds like a lot though. 
I believe I read somewhere that if you plant garlic too deep you will get smaller cloves. But I think that would be because it takes longer to reach the surface? and that's not the same as adding stuff when it's already above the ground.
With any luck, Henry will happen along and enlighten us.  |
Expect I will not be of much help this time as I have never added soil to growing garlic.
In a very sandy loam garlic can be planted 6 inches deep in heavy soils 2 to 3 inches over the clove when planting is normal.