Can I plant onions and garlic together?

by Kevin
(Canal Fulton,Ohio)

Can I grow Onions and Garlic together in my vegetable garden?

Doug says - I don't see why you *can't* but I doubt you'll want to. The thing you have to understand is that garlic is an overwintering crop. Plant in the fall.

On the other hand, most onions are spring crops that are planted in the spring. (there are some overwintered onion crops but these are mostly harvested as green onions).

So you *can* do it but your timing is going to be a problem.

As a sidenote - you can plant garlic very early in the spring and you'll get a small crop. The problem with planting onion sets at that early date is that the sets might very well rot. If you plant the garlic at the same time as the onions, you won't get a garlic crop.

Hope that helps.