I'm growing softneck garlic from seed from your company. Third year now of growing those same variety. My garden in Takilma is plagued with gophers, which devastate garlic, so I made a planter box to keep them out. Logs and plywood only lasted a few years. Now, my planter is salvaged metal roofing tin, and it has sides and a complete metal bottom (with drain holes). 3 foot wide and 16" deep, 45 feet long, it sits on the ground. I welded "H shaped" metal brackets that go across inside the soil and hold the sides in with bolts. It is 10 years old now and still in good shape. Soil amendments added, I use the same planter box and soil every year. Gophers have never gotten inside the metal planter. Made a homemade tool for poking evenly spaced holes to plant a perfectly spaced 6"x6" square grid, 540 bulbs grown in my 1 planter every year. It has grown a bumper carrot crop during summer rotation also, but normally just use it for garlic. It is plenty for me and I share some with friends every year. Anyone wanting to make such a planter themselves? I am Kevin Welder in Takilma.
Thank you for thIs well put together video. Subscribing. We at Lunenburg Gardens (Ontario), so far, grow only harneck garlic. Might give a try to a softneck... Suggestion(s), Cheers Maurice
If you still do Ashland or Medford markets I’d love to buy all your leftover garlic if you ever have any some week if on your way back to Williams you could dropoff in Talent for additional fee!?
I grow Music and an unidentified Asiatic in Zone 5B and, once properly cured, both keep well into the next year's harvest. I'm also one of those compulsive experimenters who grow from bulbils so that I have tender and mild spring garlic (the whole plant is edible at this stage) to make moretum, a type of ancient Roman garlic pesto.
How large do you let your bulbils get before harvesting them? I bury my food scraps in trenches in the garden and I had tons of garlic pop up this year, saved the bulbils to replant as an experiment. I am also in 5b.
@@krusher181 The British Museum offers this recipe in a translation of a 2000 year old poem sometimes attributed to Virgil, MORETUM. ‘First, lightly digging into the ground with his fingers, he pulls up four heads of garlic with their thick leaves; then he picks slim celery-tops and sturdy rue and the thin stems of trembling coriander. . . He splashes a grass-grown bulb with water and puts it to the hollow mortar. He seasons with grains of salt, and, after the salt, hard cheese is added; then he mixes in the herbs. With the pestle, his right hand works at the fiery garlic, then he crushes all alike in a mixture. So he sprinkles in some drops of Athena’s olive oil, and adds a little sharp vinegar, and again works his mixture together. Then at length he runs two fingers round the mortar, gathering the whole mixture into a ball, so as to produce the form and name of a finished moretum.’ - Moretum 88-120 This is something I make only when the plants are fresh and tender. Rue may be hard to find but a substitute of fenugreek will deliver a similar herbal astringency. Good cold-pressed olive oil and red wine vinegar are worth their price. I use a small food processor instead of a mortar.
Last year I grew music and German white, both grew great for me, and my wife noticed no difference. This year I planted all German white. The average was bigger then music but I still had a few monster musics.
I enjoyed your presentation. Thank you. One correction I would like to make is your statement that elephant garlic is botanically related to a leak. All garlic are related to leeks and for that matter onions. There is no evidence that elephant garlic is closer related than any of the garlic varieties. It is a talking point that someone made somewhere and people repeat it without realizing it is not scientifically factual.
I'm growing softneck garlic from seed from your company. Third year now of growing those same variety. My garden in Takilma is plagued with gophers, which devastate garlic, so I made a planter box to keep them out. Logs and plywood only lasted a few years. Now, my planter is salvaged metal roofing tin, and it has sides and a complete metal bottom (with drain holes). 3 foot wide and 16" deep, 45 feet long, it sits on the ground. I welded "H shaped" metal brackets that go across inside the soil and hold the sides in with bolts. It is 10 years old now and still in good shape. Soil amendments added, I use the same planter box and soil every year. Gophers have never gotten inside the metal planter. Made a homemade tool for poking evenly spaced holes to plant a perfectly spaced 6"x6" square grid, 540 bulbs grown in my 1 planter every year. It has grown a bumper carrot crop during summer rotation also, but normally just use it for garlic. It is plenty for me and I share some with friends every year. Anyone wanting to make such a planter themselves? I am Kevin Welder in Takilma.
Very informative. Thank you!
That is the coolest shirt I've ever seen.
Good summary of garlic types as well 👍
Thank you for thIs well put together video. Subscribing. We at Lunenburg Gardens (Ontario), so far, grow only harneck garlic. Might give a try to a softneck... Suggestion(s), Cheers Maurice
Great info and thank you for sharing...
Outstanding. Thanks for sharing
Great info and variety youre growing thanks Don!
If you still do Ashland or Medford markets I’d love to buy all your leftover garlic if you ever have any some week if on your way back to Williams you could dropoff in Talent for additional fee!?
we are at the ashland and medford markets through Fall. @@123Homefree
Great video. I watched it till the end.
I grow Music and an unidentified Asiatic in Zone 5B and, once properly cured, both keep well into the next year's harvest. I'm also one of those compulsive experimenters who grow from bulbils so that I have tender and mild spring garlic (the whole plant is edible at this stage) to make moretum, a type of ancient Roman garlic pesto.
How large do you let your bulbils get before harvesting them? I bury my food scraps in trenches in the garden and I had tons of garlic pop up this year, saved the bulbils to replant as an experiment. I am also in 5b.
Where can I learn more about this garlic pesto? That sounds amazing
@@krusher181 The British Museum offers this recipe in a translation of a 2000 year old poem sometimes attributed to Virgil, MORETUM.
‘First, lightly digging into the ground with his fingers, he pulls up four heads of garlic with their thick leaves; then he picks slim celery-tops and sturdy rue and the thin stems of trembling coriander. . . He splashes a grass-grown bulb with water and puts it to the hollow mortar. He seasons with grains of salt, and, after the salt, hard cheese is added; then he mixes in the herbs. With the pestle, his right hand works at the fiery garlic, then he crushes all alike in a mixture. So he sprinkles in some drops of Athena’s olive oil, and adds a little sharp vinegar, and again works his mixture together. Then at length he runs two fingers round the mortar, gathering the whole mixture into a ball, so as to produce the form and name of a finished moretum.’ - Moretum 88-120
This is something I make only when the plants are fresh and tender. Rue may be hard to find but a substitute of fenugreek will deliver a similar herbal astringency. Good cold-pressed olive oil and red wine vinegar are worth their price. I use a small food processor instead of a mortar.
Nice video, thanks !
Great info! Thank yiu!
good stuff
Grew Music garlic this summer...it's great
Last year I grew music and German white, both grew great for me, and my wife noticed no difference. This year I planted all German white. The average was bigger then music but I still had a few monster musics.
Create videos! Thank you! What are the more medicinal types of garlic to grow?
Marijuana is my favorite medicinal garlic
they all have similar levels of the nutrients that make garlic medicinal.
I just got Walla Walla at a farmers market in Portland. Is it related to any of these? It’s red.
At what time of the year do you harvest the elephants?
early July
Can not find any info as to whether creole has allicin content comparable to stronger hard neck varieties. Does anybody here know?
My softnecks always grow scapes
I enjoyed your presentation. Thank you. One correction I would like to make is your statement that elephant garlic is botanically related to a leak. All garlic are related to leeks and for that matter onions. There is no evidence that elephant garlic is closer related than any of the garlic varieties. It is a talking point that someone made somewhere and people repeat it without realizing it is not scientifically factual.
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Chesnok is russian for garlic, so it's just garlic red. 😂