Anne and Eric Nordell have been planting garlic directly into a cover crop of oats for over 25 years. Their no-till system provides consistent yields of large bulbs without irrigation.
The video covers their low-tech approach to planting green, cut-and-carry cover crop mulching, rapid bulb curing, and fallow year weed management. More details can be found in the Nordells’ article about “No-Till Garlic” posted at Cover Crops Incorporated.
https://covercropsincorporated.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/no-till-garlic/
Anne and Eric used their 2022 crop to illustrate five different metrics for estimating profitability. “The Economics of No-Till Garlic” can be downloaded for free from Growing For Market.
https://growingformarket.com/articles/the-economics-notill-garlic-beech-grove-farm-case-study