Don't Harvest Garlic Until These 2 Things Happen!
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- After nearly 9 months our garlic babies are just about all set to be harvested! Green, lush, and girthy, they have had an amazing growing season! BUT, if they're harvested too soon the results can be quite underwhelming as the majority. of the garlic head development happens in the final weeks. So how do you know when to harvest your garlic? Well, fortunately there are 2 very distinct signs to keep your eyes peeled for in the final 6 weeks of growth and I show you exactly what they are in today's video!
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Garlic has literally changed my life! I eat aged cloves stored in honey daily and I no longer need statin or high blood pressure meds!
That's nuts I hope you have enough space to grow the garlic you need for your heart health. Reusing old tubs and containers for growing indoors can help.
Thank u. I will share this information with my Dad. Very helpful ❤
If I'm being real, very very very few people actually need blood pressure meds. My last doctor trip my resting heart rate was 150 something, and with just a few minor lifestyle changes, my heart rate after biking for 5 hours wouldn't even be that high, and if I'm extremely active that week my resting heart rate will be 60 or below.
How is this done?
How is this done to avoid botulism?
FYI, there was a study conducted by the University of Guelph, ON, Canada, which showed removing garlic scapes as soon as they appear will significantly improve the size of your garlic bulbs. Depending on the type of garlic you're growing, the bulb size can increase as much as 35%.
cool! amd that makes sense
But then you don’t get any pickled garlic scapes! Or garlic scape pesto or all of the other yummy bonus treats from the scapes.
@@Greengirljmt True but I don't use scapes.
I found they regrew when cut too soon. I had to cut again. The scapes are like asparagus so why not use that second crop.
@@6648rome Like I said: I don't use scapes. I prefer larger bulbs. I haven't experienced them regrowing when I cut them too soon but if they did, I'd just cut them again. No problem.
When harvesting crops like garlic, onions, carrots; first push down, then pull up. Works every time.
Great tip..Thank you!!👍🏻
Do you harvest without a tool? I use a shovel for my garlic and it ends up destroying mounds I plant the garlic in. I'd like to plant into the mounds again so I'll be experimenting with less disturbing harvest methods
Yes on the recipes with garlic scapes
WOW! What a timely tip...I'll need to harvest my garlic nearly 6 weeks early, and will try this. Thank you!
Gardening is interesting and important, but the last thing is calming. The first time a wood rat eats all your crop, the deer get over a fence, the gophers eat your plants, Wild Turkeys take mud bath and rest in the middle of your planting, hose burst, plumbing failure of many varieties, hot temperatures, cold temperatures, tree grows blocking the sun, tree fails ending protection, hail... it is endless, you realize its a battle.
When we moved into our place in the country, I planted a garden. Corn, carrots, zucchini and a few others. There was a sense of satisfaction watching them emerge, and seeing the ears develop day by day. Until I went out and found every ear of young corn gone, and deer tracks everywhere in the garden. Ditto for the other crops I’d planted. Literally, the only thing that I grew in that garden that made it to our table, was venison.
Don't forget the Never ending grasshopper, earwig, and flea beetles getting everything the deer left.
Companion planting help with bug :)
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING when he said that. This spring has been a nightmare with slugs and deer. So discouraged but not quitting. It's a good work, but it's certainly not calming. Maybe short bursts of calm while looking at a flower but not generally calming.
If you plant items like garlic, the critters and pests leave it alone. All the benefits, without the headaches. Also, perennial veggies, like asparagus are usually left alone and it’s pretty low-maintenance. Add compost and a good layer of mulch and you won’t even have to weed.
my 3 beds of garlic are just starting to scape....this is my signal to begin more broccoli, cabbage, and Yod Fah seedlings, which will be planted in the beds now occupied by garlic after they're pulled. Last year it was a bit later....every year is different. So nice that the garlic tells me when to start to prepare the next occupants of their beds!
I’ve been growing garlic for 30 years and when I started I got a book for information. No UA-cam then. It recommended cutting the roots off also before storing because they will absorb moisture and could cause problems with mold or spoilage. Any thoughts?
I agree, I do the same..
Yes but not all of you want to plant them.
What you pulled out is commonly used in some Asian food, it's "green garlic" which is usually milder but very delicious.
Thank you for the heads up 🍁73+ new garlic grower Hunter Yorkshire expat
Green garlic was a very exciting discovery for our household. It's some of the reason we grow two 4x8 beds of just garlic this year. I love to use them just like green onions in fried rice and stir fries.
Yeah green garlic is delicious and is a legitimate crop in its own right, can be quite expensive to grow large amounts of it unless you're also growing garlic bulbs to maturity though.
I only grow garlic for the ready available greens
I intentionally plant my garlic too densely with the intention of pulling out green garlic from between the plants I am planning to allow to ripen to full bulb garlic. That way I double up on a harvest in the same plot. It does mean I must ensure that my soil is super rich with compost in the spring. Great channel, glad I found you!! Cheers and happy gardening
I just made garlic butter and garlic hummus with my garlic scapes. Both so good.
@margaretwhite, question how do you make humus
My father would plant garlic in the fall (in Western New York). It was the first thing up in the spring, and produced large, tender, sweet bulbs with no sharpness. He would harvest as needed throughout the year. He would leave them in place and as the season progressed, the bulbs would become stronger and sharper until he stopped their growth by harvesting the remainder and drying as mentioned. We had sweet garlic in the spring and large bulbs as big as my fist at the end. IMHO, try planting a little more than you think you'll need and harvest weekly. (Keep notes! LOL) You'll not only have FRESH garlic all season, but you'll be able to choose the level of flavor and sharpness that's right for you.
Great advice! Thanks.
Thanks. That is helpful.
So you can let them go until all the leaves go brown and wither? Seems better to pull up as you need them 👍
@@Gos1234567 For myself, I wouldn't wait that long. As I mentioned above, the early garlic is tender and sweet. As the season progresses, the bulbs become stronger and sharper. You'll need to experiment on when to harvest to choose the level of flavor and sharpness that's right for you. By the time the leaves brown and whither, the plant has stopped growing and it will be plenty strong and sharp.
Fascinating, I have always found that as the leaf wrappers all die die the garlic cloves will break through and be exposed.This is fine in the short term but if you want the garlic to store until at least New Years you need a live leaf or two...
A couple of things: 1) I think you're up in Canada. In Northern California I'm about a week from pulling my soft neck garlic. About 1/3 of the vegetation has already "browned". Pulled a couple as a test and they're looking good; 2) Us soft neck growers don't get "scapes" (think only hard neck and elephant garlic growers get them). So, if you're growing soft-neck garlic, you may want to monitor the browning of the plant vs. looking for scapes.......and, depending on your location, consider late May as a potential harvest time (I left a few until July last year and they seemed to rot a bit).
Yes that's good info that should've been included in his video. Yes seems like he's growing the hard-neck types that more northern areas can grow well. Soft-necks in SC are ready in May- early June
I’m near Pittsburgh growing hardneck. It’s Memorial Day weekend and I just cut all the scapes-so garlic heads are probably no more than a couple weeks off!
Thanks! I'm also growing softneck garlic in Northern CA and it looks almost ready to harvest in late May. Some of the leaves are already browning, maybe a few weeks to go at the most. 🤞
@@nbarbettini Just pulled 105 the day before yesterday (May 25). Looks pretty good. Have it tied in bundles of four and curing in a shaded area in the backyard.
You can replant that "pulled too early" green garlic. I've done it, and they did get bigger.
You've answered my question 😊. Thank you!
Green garlic is good to eat. Some growers plant a little dense and pull every other one as green garlic.
@@Tree-thingz You're welcome. 😊
@@zone4garlicfarm It is tasty, isn't it? I didn't know aout growing it densely, and harvesting the others like that, but it sounds like a wonderful idea. Thanks for the tip!
As a first-time garlic grower this well-illustrated video has been incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!!!!!!
Hey Jordan, Glad I found your channel. I bought a way too big bag of garlic from Costco that started sprouting. I separated the cloves and planted them into an empty planter on my condo balcony. Your video tips are going to save me disappointment on my maiden voyage. Keep doing what you're doing.
All our Costco garlic is from China 😒
It doesn’t grow well when planted either…
@@spoolsandbobbins you have to use organic garlic to start with. All other veggies are treated with stuff to keep them from sprouting too soon, lasting longer.
This is my first year growing anything through winter and my garlic bed is just ready for harvesting..what a feeling. Almost like when I gave birth..🥹 just not painful 🙃 great video arriving just when I needed it 👍🏼🍀💚
Last season, I had some garlic that had started to split (it was technically overripe) and some that were a bit small that probably were pulled a bit too early. I just "pruned" my scapes last week and the tops are starting to die off a bit, so I knew it was getting close to harvest time, but I still wasn't certain. The tip of the "4 leaves" was ABSOLUTELY what I needed! :) (I also learned last season that just trying to pull them up out of the ground by hand is a BAD idea!) Thanks for sharing! :D ---Gwendy from zone 6a mid-Missouri
Oh man thanks so much for sharing this with me Gwendy!! So happy to hear that these were useful for you! Can't wait to hear how your harvest goes! How many heads do you have planted?
@@MindandSoil I had 19 that survived the winter, but there were 2 that were too small and died early. I've already harvested those. So, I'm left with 17 at the moment. I'm super excited because some of the stalks are almost as big as leeks! :D I'll keep you posted. ;)
@@gwendyrose8905 Yesssss, love to hear this Gwendy!! Keep me posted on how the harvest goes!!
@@MindandSoil UPDATE: Just harvested my garlic this morning. We got over an inch of rain this morning, so I knew it would be a good time to get things done before the heat hit (we've been in the high 90s consistently and had 3 or 4 days in triple digits last week). I ended up harvesting 14 bulbs! (There are 3 that are missing.....I'm not certain what happened.) The largest of the bulbs was just starting to split and 2 others had necks that were limp, so I got to them just in time! Your tip let me know that things were where they needed to be and I wasn't disappointed as I harvested. I only had 2 "small" bulbs (supermarket sized at least) and the rest were between golf ball and baseball sized. :) I also dehydrated my garlic scape harvest, ran them through the grinder and got about 2oz of garlic scape powder! SUPER excited about that!! :D
Now, I have to make certain they cure and are stored properly so I can plant more again in the fall. I don't think I'll ever NOT grow garlic again! ;) Thanks again for the tips. :)
@@gwendyrose8905 The way you "preserved" the scapes is interesting, we never seem to be able to use them all. How did you dehydrate them? I/m assuming you used a dehydrator, but maybe dried them naturally?
Yesterday, I harvested a few garlic stalks from one of my beds that appeared nearly ready, and believed I had mistakenly planted onions instead! From a viewer comment, I learned I actually have delicious green garlic! Your succinct information and pleasant delivery was very much appreciated and your video came at the perfect time. You have a new subscriber!
Love your set up
Thanks for sharing Jordon.🙏
Perfect timing! Just started getting the scapes and wasnt sure of my next step….. very detailed info. Thanks for sharing…. Cant wait for garlic breath!!!😂
I find my gardens both peaceful and fun and a total crazy place! How do you know you have become a crazy plant lady??? Your greenhouse needs to double in size! Mine is in the plans!
Another way to know when it's time to harvest garlic is to leave the scape on a few plants. When the scape uncurls and stands straight up it's harvest time.
This is very helpful
Best video I've seen on this topic - thank you!
I love the short concise vids. You're other how to grow giant garlic was great too!
1st time watcher. Thank you for sacrificing one of your plants for the growing stage demonstration. I very much like being able to see the process of development of the plant. Now, I am a 1st time subscriber! 🙏
I've always treated them like onions and wait for the tops to fall over. I need to be pay more attention to removing the garlic scapes. If the weather is dry, you don't need to rush the harvest.
Helpful video. Thank you
Short and to the point, great video.
Recipes indeed! Love your channel!
Great video!
Great video! Thx!
Brilliant and informative , thank you.
The scapes don't make seeds, they make little bulbs: bubules.
Here in the Netherlands, we commonly wait until the plants start to fall over and the leaves died. Then we wait 2 weeks and stop watering before we harvest. Which is usually anyware from june until mid July.
Sounds like you grow soft neck. Do you get scapes? Gouge avend!
Goude
Instant subscribe. Really informative, chill and watchable
cool tips man .
Nice job Jordan! New viewer here; an easy subscribe, like, notifications on and a comment for the masses. I'm not all the way through your video yet - but I like your style - and your message.
Continued success - and congratulations on 75K subscribers!
Wow that’s a lot of garlic ! Great informative video
Thank you.
This popped up on my feed. So helpful, thank you
Grate clear info thank you!
Cool video thank you
Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you so much!! Best helpful and informative video I’ve found!
Gardening is very peaceful indeed
Great video! I’ll use your techniques on my two beds this year. 👍
Growing Nookta rose can’t wait to harvest ❤
Good topic.
My first garlic bed is looking great but I had no idea what to look for so I knew it would be ready to harvest. Thank you for the education!
THANK YOU!! JUST what I needed to know right now. Harvesting scapes today.
This is a really helpful video in that you not only provide tips on what not to as well as what to do, but also demonstrate what you get when you wait to actually do the right thing. Not an easy task with gardening projects, given all the time involved in the process.
Thank you, brother, thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. I’m growing my first crop of garlic this year so I’m really looking forward to harvest!
Good stuff ... I enjoy growing garlic and some helpful tips were given here ... Many thanks :)
Well done! I have some great looking garlic plants and was wondering today how I was going to know when to harvest. Now I know! Thank you
Thks.
So helpful! This is my first year trying to grow garlic from cloves.
In Florida. I planted my garlic back in November after keeping the cloves in the fridge for about 3 months. Invernalization? Now it’s May. The garlic grew great, but dead leaves showed up in January! I pulled one and got the same thing you did. Small, mostly roots end. And the scapes? There’s no loop de looping. It came out with flowers showing! I cleaned mine up and have been watching them. I will pull in July. We shall see!
I would look up “planting garlic in warmer climates”. The season might be different in the south than the north. If they are flowering, that means that they’re done with the bulbing process. Did you plant soft or hard neck varieties?
Thanks
Thank you for the information. I have my first garlic with nice, green leaves now and I wondered about exactly what you talked about 😂👍
Thank you so much. I wish to see how you grew it. Dorry if I have missed it.
Recipes should be great! Thanks !
Great video. Just subbed.
Just made my first garlic Basil pesto earlier today! My son noticed the "loop-de-do's" (haha!) and asked me to find a recipe. YUM!! :D
Yessss your son has a gardeners eye spotting those loop de doos! How was the pesto?!?
3:18 i did not know this, thank you, this is my first time growing garlic and i needed to watch one more video on the signs of harvest time, this i did not know! Thanks- Nina, Central coast of California zone 10A
I may have missed it…but I didn’t hear you say that garlic scapes are only found on hardneck garlic. Scapes do not form on softneck garlic. Also, the scapes can be used to make delicious garlic scape pesto. Recipes found online and elsewhere.
My good Wife makes it every year Delicious
Thanks so much for this. I have been growing garlic for three years now and always find it a mystery to know when to go for it and dig them up. This definitely adds clarity
Just saw this video and the 4 leaf tip was super helpful! I trimmed off my. Scapes a few days ago and it looks like I may have cut too much. I pulled 4 bulbs and they were beautiful tiny little garlic. I really wish I had kept them in the ground but once I saw the scapes I thought I had left them in ground too long.
So all together a great and timely video!! Thank you so much!!
Glad I found your channel. Garden therapy is real, and it’s my first years with garlics. Thank you.
Hello from Oregon. I am new to your channel. thanks for sharing
Thanks for this! I’ve been eyeing my garlic too, I’ll be patient!
Glad to hear it was helpful!!
It’s so funny coming across this video today. I planted my first crop of garlic ever last fall and I thought maybe it was ready to harvest . So today I went out to dig one plant up and nope! I had a green garlic just like what you pulled up. I wish I would have seen this video before I did that. Now I know to wait! I forgot about the scape trick! Thanks for the good info! “Not so sure about this” is pretty much what went through my head too before I dug up the first plant. Thanks for sacrificing one of your plants for the sake of learning for us!
I love the step by step simplicity, Jordan. I have heirloom garlic on my acreage, I'm told it came from Ireland hundreds of years ago. True or not, I'm sticking with the story. 😉 Now I know what to do to use and keep it! Thank you!
thank you!! I am growing garlic for the first time this year... some hard neck by request of a friend and some elephant garlic as well...now you have me ready for the next step this summer....!!!
Yes Recipes, please
You are amazing. Thank you
Thanks sharron!! :D
This was very helpful it's my first year growing garlic planted last fall here in Ohio so exciting to see them growing definitely planting more next year. Anna In Ohio
Thankyou
Just found you! the Algorithm sent you to me. Love this video!!! just started growing garlic for the first time and got the bulb from the store, had meant to eat, but it was already sprouting from each clove!!! So now I have them all in soil, and just keep trimming back the leaves coming in to keep it short and always pushing to grow fatter and taller. i would definitely love more garlic scape recipes - i got it for the first time at a local asian store and really had no idea how to prepare them. I accidentally included the woodier/tougher bits in with the jambalaya I tossed it into. Probably gonna try making it like asparagus with bacon wrapped around it or roasted in the oven, because it did not work well in the jambalaya.
I am growing my first crop of garlic in Southern Ontario, thanks for the tips. I cut the scapes last week except one. The lady in the next plot to me who gave me the seed cloves said to leave one and when it stands up straight, you are nearly ready to harvest. I like the 4 leaf trick though.
Subscribed 3 min in because it looks like you know what you're doing! So I plant hard neck every fall, amd harvest about when you said, never counted dead leaves tho, what about soft neck garlic? Planted my first soft neck garlic this spring for first time !
what a good man
Thank you for watching :)
Thank you thank you thank you😊
Great vid. Good explanations. Thanks. I live in an apartment. I've got a little garden in front of my patio window. Just gets a few hours of morning, easter exposure sunshine. Doing tomatoes, parsley, bell peppers and I just stuck a clove of garlic that had sprouted, into some dirt. We'll see. I'm in DSM, btw. This is the best I can do. Quite an experiment.
Wish I’d planted some garlic when I had the chance. I’ll get some in this fall. Thanks for video. Happy gardening, Jordan!
Ah not to worry! It goes back into the ground in the Fall (Late October) so you're only a few months away from being able to plant your first crop!! 🥳🥳
Very nice
Thanks a lot Neil! Where abouts are you gardening?!
Well done! A+ Love your channel!
i might make a horizontal cut across my bulbs and make garlic/oil paste with the tops then grow new shoots from the bottom part
Thoroughly enjoyable video. I've never tried growing garlic, but I will now.
Woo hoo! Love to hear it :) Thanks for watching 🧄
Hi Jordan any recipes for the garlic flower?
It's early March and I'm looking at a dozen buckets of garlic I planted last autumn and I will be so happy to get them harvested, considering how little space I'm working with overall. Same with onions.
My first scape of the season is about 10” long today!!! 129 more to come. I can’t wait. So delicious cooked in a pan with butter and spices.
Oh yum!! What kind of spices do you go with!?
@@MindandSoil Salt, pepper, garlic salt, and a bit of orange juice! Sometimes replace the butter with olive oil I infuse with garlic. Yum.
@@GottabKD777 Yummmm! That sounds delicious!
Great video. What about cutting off the roots I've heard they can absorb moisture as it's drying?
I grow garlic and agree with what you said, I do wonder why you palnted them so deep. I never plant garlic very deep and always have a nice crop that can be pulled up with little effort. Garlic is an easy plan to grow,
Thank you! New to your channel. How did you get that great soil? Do you have any videos on that topic?
I’m in the south and plant softneck garlic in December and harvest right about end of May early June and they bend over at the top letting me know I can’t wait any longer or they’ll rot. I’ve had a pretty decent harvest last year and this year so far. Next year I may plant them in grow bags instead of my native soil for extra nutrients for them and to keep them from getting overwatered by heavy rain in April and May here in Texas.
Subbed! Love your positive chill vibe. I am growing my first raised container garden of saffron, elephant garlic and rosemary. Saffron is doing well but elephant garlic just sprouted after 2 months planting time in fall and rosemary seeds never germinated! I am using good soil and mulch in raised planters but something is digging up and eating my garlic! How do I keep critters out?
What a find! Glad I stumbled into this particular video and your channel. Specific to the garlic, I have a patch of 30 plants coming on here in western (mountainous) North Carolina, planted late 10/2022, sourced from a supplier in Georgia whom I've used before, Music variety. No scapes yet (knew to look for those) and of course, no dying leaves. My question...previously in WA State, a friend advised that we needed to stop watering once the scapes showed up, which was easy because it hardly rained after mid-May. Here, we get a pretty consistent 4 to 5 inches a month. Is that a concern or did my WWA friend provide misleading information?
Thanks for what you appear to be doing. I've checked out your small bulb - large bulb experiment (wow!) and look forward to more.
I experimented with growing garlic in an inside text over the winter and I'm excited to see how they turn out
Thanks for sharing! Excited for you!