From ABC Website....
"Australian Garlic Producers says garlic farming is not as easy as it seems.

"It's the unforgiving crop and if you don't do everything at the right
time when it's due it will come and bite you at the end," he said.

"I think it is one of the hardest crops you can grow in the world."

Mr Diamantopolous, whose company is backed by former Timbercorp chief
executive Robert Hance, says he first got into growing garlic in the
early 1990s, with mixed success. (J& T Gunns of Pulp mill fame)

He and other garlic growers say the main impediment to increasing the
amount of garlic grown in Australia is the lack of availability of
healthy, virus-free seed stock.

Mr Diamantopolous imported his motherstock seed from France.

Roger Schmitke grows garlic as a seed crop on his property in the South
Australian Riverland.

He speaks on behalf of the small, volunteer-based Australian Garlic
Industry Association.

"If you grow a pumpkin you put in one little seed and get many, many
kilos of pumpkin back," he said.

"But with garlic you've got to have one clove, and one clove if you are
a good grower will bring back 15 or 16 times what you put in."

He says garlic has been good to him. For 20 years, he and his family
have lived off less than two hectares of garlic crop."

Anyone agree that garlic is hard to grow?
I put mine in WELL before the middle of winter, and feel the middle of
winter isnt the time to put these in.