Onions and garlic are fairly easy to grow, but you have to beware of the gophers because they actually love onions and garlic. Last year I planted over 150 onions and we only got about 10 of them. The gophers got the rest. I have put an end to that with gopher wire and I finished planting my onions on Christmas Eve. I planted 222 (11 rows of 22) in my raised beds and a couple of weeks before that I planted 94 garlic cloves from last year’s harvest. Even though the gophers got some of my garlic, I managed to harvest quite a bit and still have some in storage.