The Garlic Reference Guide

A fact-checked 11-page guide to garlic as a garden plant: hardneck and softneck, elephant garlic, the year from clove to store, and folklore kept as history, with credited photographs and labelled diagrams. It does not make health, nutrition or diet claims.

What’s inside:

- What garlic is

- Where it comes from

- Two types of true garlic

- Elephant garlic is not true garlic

- The garlic year

- Planting

- Care, scapes and problems

- Lift, cure and store

- Folklore, and what this guide will not claim

- Sources and credits

Pages: 11 (A4) / 11 (US Letter). Formats: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Most inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; the cover is dark, so print that in colour or skip it to save ink.

Every fact is written in our own words and checked on 15 November 2026 against the Royal Horticultural Society pages “How to grow garlic” and the Allium sativum profile, Kew’s garlic profile, and Encyclopaedia Britannica’s garlic article; the sources are listed on the credits page.

Photographs are free-licensed from Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0 or CC BY only), resized with no other changes. CC BY-SA photographs used on the website are not included in this pack. Where labelled diagrams appear, they are simplified teaching diagrams and are not to scale.

This pack is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, or Encyclopaedia Britannica.

This pack does not make health, nutrition or diet claims. Traditional and folk uses are included as history, not as advice.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

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Price: $5.99 USD.