How to Grow Garlic in a Container Once you have your planting medium and container, fill the receptacle halfway full of the soil mix. Add a slow-release granular balanced plant food, such as a 10-10-10, and mix into the soil. Insert the bulbs with the pointed side up and then backfill with more soil, pressing around each clove.

Use plastic pots for garlic because they hold moisture better than clay containers and are much lighter, making it easy to move around. Next, fill your container about halfway with potting mix and then mix in a measured amount of organic fertilizer such as Espoma Garden-tone. Mix the fertilizer evenly into the soil.

Fill the container with a standard potting mix so the surface is about 2 inches below the rim. Plant the cloves pointy-side-up in the container, embedding them halfway into the potting mix. Leave at least 6 inches between cloves if growing bulbs. You can plant the cloves close together for garlic greens but don't allow them to touch.

To Grow garlic in pots you need a container that is at least 8 to 10 inches deep deep and has excellent drainage Plant the garlic bulbs in the fall, between September and November Separate the cloves from the garlic bulb, and plant garlic 2 inches deep and 6 inches apart into the soil, pointy sound down