I pulled my true garlic yesterday, a french variety, HUGE, pleasent surprise since some of the onions had got leaf miner early, hit them with compost tea and liquid IMO which seemed to stop the miner in it's tracks, good show, cheers Tel
@@bewoodford2807 Liquid Indiginous Microrganisms, collect some leaf duff from the oldest woodland nearby, just scrape off the dry stuff and collect a few handfuls of the top 2" of decaying leaf matter underneath (you can also use good thermophillic compost, I use both) get a barrel/large bin and fill with water, suspend the leaf duff/compost in an old sock/tights/mesh bag with 2 x crushed boiled potatoes in the top of the container, massage the bag to break up the potato, add 1g per liter rock salt, (or natural sea salt if you're not in the UK where they fill yellow roadside bins with rocksalt, or use seawater diluted 25:1 for the size of container) give it a stir and leave it until you see foam forming on the top, ideally you will use it when maximum foam is forming, it will start off with a few bubbles, rise to max, and then foam will peter out, it's temp dependant so anywhere from ~3 days to ~7days, colder = longer, dilute 10:1 and apply as a soil soak from a watering can, the microrganisms will feed on the carbohydrates from the potato and absorb minerals from the sea salt, it's a cheap way to remineralize soil and add soil biology, avoid using chemicals.
Hello Terry... HAPPY HAPPY THUMB THUMB 141 Here... Guru M from Eden Farms... AKA Tony. Those Garlic look good and I reckon your fairly lose compost mix and deep seeding has done the trick pal... As always, I lean from the King, but calling Willy Coleman a gentleman is a bit of stretch brother LOL... ATB and keep growin wit yed down mucker... Peace, Love and Namaste to you and yours T
@BobMelsimpleliving. he does pop by my channel a couple of times a year Bob, so he is still about as you know channels come and go and me you and Babette are still uploading after all those years. Ryan is very busy with his market garden, so he is too busy to upload content.
My garlic I planted in the fall got decimated by wet and cold (mushy). The ones I planted in the ploy in tubs froze 🤦♀️. The ones outside I think I pulled a bit too early they are small and didn’t split but usable 👍. The 8 hardneck have curling scapes so I’ll harvest soon. Have a fab day and happy gardening 🧑🌾, hello to Mrs K hope she had a good day, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
Beautiful harvests chief! 😃 I grew mine alongside/inbetween strawberries in the polytunnel this year and was delighted with the harvest. Giving away the smaller bulbs snd keeping the bigger ones for planting in October. Hope you and Mrs K had a lovely weekend mate. Sending love 💚🙏🧄✨
My December planted garlic in tunnels are best I have had. I pull off dirty bits once dried in greenhouse off ground. Cut roots off and store in crates in dark room with stable temperature. Just using up last year's now. Like your you tube, learnt a lot. Grow for quality rather than quanitity is now my aim.all best
They look fantastic. Where I planted mine was flooded a few times I thought they'd rot off so was surprised when they popped up and grew. They got hit by rust quite bad though the stems looked a decent size but the bulbs were quite small. they all split and are useable but just a disappointing size. I normally keep the largest for planting but considering replacing them this year with new in case the rust spores stick around with the plants and also the smaller cloves may give smaller harvests anyway next year.
@philhopkinson6557 I don't normally suffer with rust on my garlic, but this season it does look like everyone suffered in some form or another and white rot was a major problem, if yours grew at all then they will be used to these conditions so personally I would still save some and buy some new ones to plant later on in the year.
Lovely garlic harvest, Terry. I only grow hardneck but leave them intact and not washed to dry for 3 weeks. The cloves will show during drying. You may know I take my garlic very seriously so I won't rave on 😅😂. I planted 200 again this year and they're looking good. I'm down to only 25 left stored.
All your garlic looks great to me ❤ I'm from East Midlands, over 90% of my garlic in allotment got rotten 😢 Because it's too wet out there. The rest 10% got rust🙈 Pulled couple of my elephant garlic from greenhouse but they are far too small than the bulbs I bought last year 😢 May wait for another week and see.
It's a wierd year. Berries, Onions & garlic, broad beans better than previous years everything else slow. As our late Queen quoted once It's been an ''Annus horiblis'' for me this year. Cheers Terry👍👍
I dry mine well in the garage with a fan circulating air. Then I cut the stems and roots and brush as much dirt off as possible. I store mine as whole bulbs after picking out the largest to save as seed of course. I've harvested all but my Armenians which will come out this week. I planted 117 cloves. Hope all is going as best as it can for you and Mrs. K.
planted two elephant garlic. one the green rotted but the bulb, was just one whole bulb. the other has been the best elephant garlic I have grown in 4 years trying. I will let it dry out till end of July or August then split and put in the freezer till ready to plant in October/November. I plant in pots as white rot in beds! You have some impressive garlic Terry. Mel
Some nice looking garlic mate I made garlic butter with my skapes it wil be my first time trying the eliphant garlic this year I've saved everything to plant since you sent me those three cloves
Great Video and the garlic looks great!, well done. I was really worried about mine till I pulled one yesterday and was very happily surprised to find a little garlic bulb at the bottom, first time growing and it was very satisfying and used for dinner that evening. Im going to leave the rest just now as I don't think they are quite ready, but great video, exactly what I needed to see just now 😀🧄❤👍🏻🧄🧄
All of my Elephant Garlic this year had very small bulbs. No bigger that a normal garlic. Ah well. I hope all is well with you and your good lady 👍 ...jim
My hard neck garlic still have plenty of green on them so I will wait until the end of the week to harvest them. Yours look great! So cloves I store separated in the freezer, some I mash into garlic butter and slice up for the freezer and the rest I hang up when I have a shed!
@terrykingsallotmentgardening I did plant some of the smaller bulbs real deep hoping the frost didn't split them so I can grow them on this winter..😊 Send my love to Mrs k and stay strong my friend's...😍🐄🐄🐄
i always clean the dirty skin from garlic and onions before i store them. i wouldn't like to think i stored them dirty with insects trapped behind the skins................brian
Can harvest Terry. How far down do you plant them? And what are the bulblettes? I'm going to try elephant garlic when I find some 😂 I'm sure I learnt from you last year, store and dry for 5/6 weeks and I didn't split them. Just used the last clove the other week and as you know leaf miner killed me! I have some new onions in see how they go but will give buying sets for a few year. Might do some seeds come autumn but leave in buckets and keep netted! 🫶🏽👏🏽
@ericandrachallotmenteers I plant mine in my in my soft soil about 150mm 6 inches and the bulblets are the babies if you have patients to grow them before they reach maturity. No doubt the postman will bring you a variety of things for you to try.......😉.
Will unsplit (ordinary) garlic keep well enough to sow again in Autumn. And seeing as you would be starting with what is in effect a very large single clove, does that mean you are likely to get a larger bulb when it comes to harvesting the following year?
@nitelite78 I personally haven't planted roundles that have grew that big before and yes they will keep and no you probably won't get a massive bulb to harvest next season, but I feel an experiment coming on just to see if it does or not.
@susanelwood5794 the elephant garlic is planted 6 inches and the red Russian is 4 inches, but this is in good quality soil so you can plant less deeper in the ground and yes I have seen some good crops from container grown Garlic.
Hi Terry, it's my first year growing elephant garlic, and they all put scapes out. I removed the scapes to let the bulbs develop. Was this the right thing to do, or should I have left them to continue growing?
@funnysods the scapes SHOULD do a loop then you know the bulbs are ready, the scapes can be eaten. Depending on your weather you can harvest now before they rot or if you still have good green growth ends leave them another week. Saves some cloves to plant again in October.
I pulled my true garlic yesterday, a french variety, HUGE, pleasent surprise since some of the onions had got leaf miner early, hit them with compost tea and liquid IMO which seemed to stop the miner in it's tracks, good show, cheers Tel
@glassbackdiy3949 so pleased for you Pete.
what is liquid IMO please? Thank you 🙂
@@bewoodford2807 Liquid Indiginous Microrganisms, collect some leaf duff from the oldest woodland nearby, just scrape off the dry stuff and collect a few handfuls of the top 2" of decaying leaf matter underneath (you can also use good thermophillic compost, I use both) get a barrel/large bin and fill with water, suspend the leaf duff/compost in an old sock/tights/mesh bag with 2 x crushed boiled potatoes in the top of the container, massage the bag to break up the potato, add 1g per liter rock salt, (or natural sea salt if you're not in the UK where they fill yellow roadside bins with rocksalt, or use seawater diluted 25:1 for the size of container) give it a stir and leave it until you see foam forming on the top, ideally you will use it when maximum foam is forming, it will start off with a few bubbles, rise to max, and then foam will peter out, it's temp dependant so anywhere from ~3 days to ~7days, colder = longer, dilute 10:1 and apply as a soil soak from a watering can, the microrganisms will feed on the carbohydrates from the potato and absorb minerals from the sea salt, it's a cheap way to remineralize soil and add soil biology, avoid using chemicals.
Hello Terry... HAPPY HAPPY THUMB THUMB 141 Here... Guru M from Eden Farms... AKA Tony.
Those Garlic look good and I reckon your fairly lose compost mix and deep seeding has done the trick pal... As always, I lean from the King, but calling Willy Coleman a gentleman is a bit of stretch brother LOL...
ATB and keep growin wit yed down mucker...
Peace, Love and Namaste to you and yours
T
@thelittlefarmersfarm5706 cheers Tony, be good or William will stop by when he visits home country........🤣 thank you my friend.
Hi Terry a great harvest of garlic, I need to dig the rest of mine out. 💪👌🧄👍😁
@nickthegardener.1120 best of luck with the rest of yours Nick.
Lovely harvest there Terry, nice to have a success
@sowgroweat6987 always a worry when you see fellow gardener's struggling to get a crop..
When you mentioned Willian Coleman my ears really perked up. His channel has been silent for a couple of years. Your garlic crop looks great. 💖💖👍👍
@BobMelsimpleliving. he does pop by my channel a couple of times a year Bob, so he is still about as you know channels come and go and me you and Babette are still uploading after all those years. Ryan is very busy with his market garden, so he is too busy to upload content.
True we have seen plenty of channels come and go.
@@BobMelsimpleliving. 👍❤️👍
Lovely garlic harvest Mr K. Love to you Mrs K and to you all.❤
@DGreg-li2sp thank you my friend.
My garlic I planted in the fall got decimated by wet and cold (mushy). The ones I planted in the ploy in tubs froze 🤦♀️. The ones outside I think I pulled a bit too early they are small and didn’t split but usable 👍. The 8 hardneck have curling scapes so I’ll harvest soon. Have a fab day and happy gardening 🧑🌾, hello to Mrs K hope she had a good day, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
@myrustygarden been a funny old year for everyone Ali. 3rd chemo knocked her about, 4th one in a couple of weeks.
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening ❤️💕❤️
The roots fanning out like that in all directions shows the richness of your soil, Terry!
~ Sandra
@@NanasWorms it's well worth all the effort to create a good soil structure using worms and lots of free materials.
Beautiful harvests chief! 😃 I grew mine alongside/inbetween strawberries in the polytunnel this year and was delighted with the harvest. Giving away the smaller bulbs snd keeping the bigger ones for planting in October. Hope you and Mrs K had a lovely weekend mate. Sending love 💚🙏🧄✨
@growingwithfungi thank you Scott, she had me busy in the home garden, adding to the garden makeover........🤷♀️🤦🤣
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening music to my ears chief! It’s incredible btw 💚🙏✨
Love that red garlic.
@@thaliahelene it does well for me every season.
My December planted garlic in tunnels are best I have had. I pull off dirty bits once dried in greenhouse off ground. Cut roots off and store in crates in dark room with stable temperature. Just using up last year's now. Like your you tube, learnt a lot. Grow
for quality rather than quanitity is now my aim.all best
@Paul-ff8yv lovely comment my friend.
They look fantastic. Where I planted mine was flooded a few times I thought they'd rot off so was surprised when they popped up and grew. They got hit by rust quite bad though the stems looked a decent size but the bulbs were quite small. they all split and are useable but just a disappointing size. I normally keep the largest for planting but considering replacing them this year with new in case the rust spores stick around with the plants and also the smaller cloves may give smaller harvests anyway next year.
@philhopkinson6557 I don't normally suffer with rust on my garlic, but this season it does look like everyone suffered in some form or another and white rot was a major problem, if yours grew at all then they will be used to these conditions so personally I would still save some and buy some new ones to plant later on in the year.
I planted over 250 cloves of Garlic but only around a 100 survived the wet winter and only a half had decent sized bulbs.
@ibrstellar1080 l lost a few so that's why I planted my surplus in the other bed.
Lovely garlic harvest, Terry. I only grow hardneck but leave them intact and not washed to dry for 3 weeks. The cloves will show during drying. You may know I take my garlic very seriously so I won't rave on 😅😂. I planted 200 again this year and they're looking good. I'm down to only 25 left stored.
@gretasgarden I grow enough for our needs and I have learnt loads from you.......😁.
All your garlic looks great to me ❤ I'm from East Midlands, over 90% of my garlic in allotment got rotten 😢 Because it's too wet out there. The rest 10% got rust🙈
Pulled couple of my elephant garlic from greenhouse but they are far too small than the bulbs I bought last year 😢 May wait for another week and see.
@lem.7528 very happy with mine considering how many growers have gone rotten or have white rot, hope you get something.
It's a wierd year. Berries, Onions & garlic, broad beans better than previous years everything else slow. As our late Queen quoted once It's been an ''Annus horiblis'' for me this year. Cheers Terry👍👍
@anjkovo2138 we will certainly have to adapt our gardening to the changing seasons.
I dry mine well in the garage with a fan circulating air. Then I cut the stems and roots and brush as much dirt off as possible.
I store mine as whole bulbs after picking out the largest to save as seed of course.
I've harvested all but my Armenians which will come out this week. I planted 117 cloves.
Hope all is going as best as it can for you and Mrs. K.
@RobinGardens lovely comment my friend, thank you.
On one plot my elephant has suffered some were OK others rotten, I've yet to lift mine on my plot but they look OK, fingers crossed 🤞
@nidge2822 I am glad that I got mine out when I did, I think you know when the time is right for you.
planted two elephant garlic. one the green rotted but the bulb, was just one whole bulb. the other has been the best elephant garlic I have grown in 4 years trying. I will let it dry out till end of July or August then split and put in the freezer till ready to plant in October/November. I plant in pots as white rot in beds! You have some impressive garlic Terry. Mel
@@ameliabeeley4005 walking onions and oerprei reveal coming soon 😉.
Quality content as always. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@jmawdsley2 thank you John.
Some nice looking garlic mate I made garlic butter with my skapes it wil be my first time trying the eliphant garlic this year I've saved everything to plant since you sent me those three cloves
@CoastalGardensNW not as strong as some garlic, but good for you.
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening definatly mate
@@CoastalGardensNW 👍🧄😋🧄👍
My garlic was badly hit by rust. However it was the onion miner that nibbled it good and proper. So this autumn I am going to try it under cover
@@andrewhead6267 won't be long before we have to grow everything under cover.......🤦😟.
Great Video and the garlic looks great!, well done. I was really worried about mine till I pulled one yesterday and was very happily surprised to find a little garlic bulb at the bottom, first time growing and it was very satisfying and used for dinner that evening. Im going to leave the rest just now as I don't think they are quite ready, but great video, exactly what I needed to see just now 😀🧄❤👍🏻🧄🧄
@thecraftykelpie well done my friend, nothing like seeing what we have got when they have always been hidden in the ground for so long.
Hi Terry. Your garlics looks good! Last year I had nice sizes, this year, they are pathetic! So small! Enjoy the scapes. I did last week. Take care
@karenandriancontainergardening never the same from one season to the next, let's blame the weather.......😁.
All of my Elephant Garlic this year had very small bulbs. No bigger that a normal garlic. Ah well.
I hope all is well with you and your good lady 👍 ...jim
@jimstormcrow anything that we get is better than nothing Jim, 4th chemo in a couple of weeks.
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening great good luck with that mate.
It's was that cold, wet May that ruined my season i really believe
@anjkovo2138 the season as a whole has been poor so things ether didn't germinate or wasn't happy and went to seed.
My hard neck garlic still have plenty of green on them so I will wait until the end of the week to harvest them. Yours look great! So cloves I store separated in the freezer, some I mash into garlic butter and slice up for the freezer and the rest I hang up when I have a shed!
@izzywizzy2361 lovely comment my friend, hope you get a shed soon.
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening Thankyou, clear the new plot, then get a shed…. There’s incentive for you😉
@@izzywizzy2361 👍😁👍
Hey Terry, I remembered to hit the like button..
A lot of my garlic also came out as one bulb too!...🐄🐄🐄
@mandamoosgardeningadventur8305 👍thank you, it's about time.....😁❤️
@terrykingsallotmentgardening I did plant some of the smaller bulbs real deep hoping the frost didn't split them so I can grow them on this winter..😊
Send my love to Mrs k and stay strong my friend's...😍🐄🐄🐄
@@mandamoosgardeningadventur8305 👍❤️❤️😁❤️❤️👍
I can't grow Garlic. for the life of me. But I keep trying.
@babetteisinthegarden6920 you do really well Babette considering what you have to put up with.
My garlic was covered in it .
@kathysumner1443 it looks like everyone has had the same problem Kathy.
I store my garlic as they are but I do move them in and out of the shed to cure in the sun the first few weeks but I don't strip them.
@ibrstellar1080 thank you, we had unexpected rain last night so they have got wet now so will move them into the polytunnel to finish off.
i always clean the dirty skin from garlic and onions before i store them. i wouldn't like to think i stored them dirty with insects trapped behind the skins................brian
@briansgardenandpolytunnel8172 good advice Brian.
Can harvest Terry.
How far down do you plant them? And what are the bulblettes?
I'm going to try elephant garlic when I find some 😂
I'm sure I learnt from you last year, store and dry for 5/6 weeks and I didn't split them. Just used the last clove the other week and as you know leaf miner killed me!
I have some new onions in see how they go but will give buying sets for a few year. Might do some seeds come autumn but leave in buckets and keep netted!
🫶🏽👏🏽
@ericandrachallotmenteers I plant mine in my in my soft soil about 150mm 6 inches and the bulblets are the babies if you have patients to grow them before they reach maturity. No doubt the postman will bring you a variety of things for you to try.......😉.
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening I'll do that next time then, thanks Terry
Will unsplit (ordinary) garlic keep well enough to sow again in Autumn. And seeing as you would be starting with what is in effect a very large single clove, does that mean you are likely to get a larger bulb when it comes to harvesting the following year?
@nitelite78 I personally haven't planted roundles that have grew that big before and yes they will keep and no you probably won't get a massive bulb to harvest next season, but I feel an experiment coming on just to see if it does or not.
How deep do you plant garlic cloves? And can you grow it in troughs and containers?
I plant mine roughly 3 inches deep then put roughly 1 inch of fresh compost on top of the bed, hope this helps
@susanelwood5794 the elephant garlic is planted 6 inches and the red Russian is 4 inches, but this is in good quality soil so you can plant less deeper in the ground and yes I have seen some good crops from container grown Garlic.
Hi Terry, it's my first year growing elephant garlic, and they all put scapes out. I removed the scapes to let the bulbs develop. Was this the right thing to do, or should I have left them to continue growing?
@funnysods the scapes SHOULD do a loop then you know the bulbs are ready, the scapes can be eaten. Depending on your weather you can harvest now before they rot or if you still have good green growth ends leave them another week. Saves some cloves to plant again in October.