It isn't hard, for goodness sake, and I have had a brief wonder as to why it has taken me this long to take the time to discover how to do the garter stitch when knitting back and forth - I've been knitting stockingette for ages and ages. But there you are. Another one of those things in life that has to do with 'timing' (another fascinating topic for conjecture).
I'm working on a narrow part for around the neck on a scarf here and wanted garter; that was the motivation. You knit as usual from right to left and then, without changing needles, knit from left to right by simply bringing the wool to front of work, sticking point of left hand-needle from back to front of the stitch on the right hand needle, take yarn from right to left around the poking-through left hand needle (which is where I am at in the picture) and then lift the new stitch through onto the left hand needle, dropping the old one. I could have knit six stitches in the time it took to describe it! Another opportunity to pay attention, knit slowly, open to energy flow in the piece.
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