Planting garlic

can I plant the clove upside down?

Thank you!

It depends on when you planted it. You can actually harvest when ever you want, the garlic is good to eat at any time. But if you want big fat cloves you want to give it plenty of time to mature. In northern NM, where I live, I usually harvest the garlic that I plant in the fall of the year before in mid to late june. The garlic I plant in early spring gets harvested at the end of summer, beginning of fall.
Hope that helps. Happy gardening!

Crazy-I had some garlic cloves just sitting on my stove, and after a few weeks I looked at them, and they sprouted! Its neat. No water. Then I planted them.