Fall garlic planting workshop · Santa Cruz
Grow Your Own Garlic.
A hands-on morning at Trescony Gardens. Learn to choose, plant and care for garlic in our coastal climate, with locally grown seed garlic in your hands.
Trescony Gardens, Santa Cruz · 15 spaces · Donations optional
We reply by email to confirm your place.
When
Sunday, November 15, 2026
11 AM
Where
Trescony Community Garden
End of Trescony St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Cost
Free, donations optional
No donation is required to attend.
Spaces
15 total
Confirmed by reply, first come first served.
Save your spot
Join us in the garden.
Tell us how many spaces you need and we'll reply by email to confirm your place. Your RSVP is for this workshop only. It does not add you to the newsletter.
In coordination with Santa Cruz Garlic and the City of Santa Cruz Parks & Recreation Department.
What to bring
- Gloves, water, layers and a hat. Wear whatever you're comfortable digging in.
- We supply the seed garlic. Any extra goes home with attendees.
Prefer email? Send your RSVP to adrienne@ambitiousharvest.com
What we'll cover
Learn it here. Plant it at home.
New to garlic? You're welcome here. We work through the planting steps together and connect them to your own bed or container.
Choose and prepare your cloves
Compare hardneck and softneck garlic, separate a bulb, and learn which cloves to plant.
Practice planting
Spacing, depth and mulch, with tips for a raised bed or a container at home.
Follow it through the season
What to watch for as your garlic sprouts, grows and approaches harvest, then the basics of curing and storage.
Five varieties, grown three miles from the ocean
Santa Cruz Garlic grows seed garlic in Santa Cruz and trials varieties for mild, ocean-influenced gardens like ours. You'll handle these at the workshop.
- Red SulmonaHardneck
- Lorz ItalianSoftneck
- Inchelium RedSoftneck
- Chinese PinkHardneck
- German RedHardneck
Meet Santa Cruz Garlic · City of Santa Cruz Parks & Recreation
Coming soon · take-home guide
The Garlic Planting Guide for the Santa Cruz Coast
Everything from the workshop, written down so you can follow it in your own garden through the year. Workshop attendees get it first.
- When to plant on the coast, and what to do if you miss the window
- Hardneck and softneck, and which suits a foggy garden
- Bed prep, spacing, depth and mulch, step by step
- A season calendar: feed, water, taper off, harvest, cure, store
- A planting record and bed map to fill in
Can't make it on the 15th?
Send us a note and we'll email you when the guide is ready. One email about the guide, nothing else.
Tell me when it's readyOpens your email app. The guide is still in preparation; no download is available yet.