Harvesting Your Garlic - The Definitive Guide For Beginners
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2022
- It Is Finally Time To Harvest Your Garlic. After 9 months or more of building (and bulbing!) up, the wait is over at last and Garlic harvest time is upon us! As a low-maintenance crop, the journey hasn’t taken a lot of effort, but we have played our part.
At planting, we ensured the proper time of year, depth, spacing, as well as soil type and of course lots of mulch. As spring rolled in, we were on deck again with fertilizing, watering, weeding, and for hardneck varieties, scape removal.
In this video, I’ll recap all of that good stuff, but the main focus here is the harvest. We’ll go over when to harvest, what to look for, how to dig up the bulbs, as well as drying, curing, and storing the heads of Garlic for long term storage.
It’s a biggie and we cover a lot. But Garlic is an important crop for many of us, so its best to get it right. The video does focus mostly on hardneck Garlic harvesting, but the same rules apply for softneck varieties as well, other than the scape removal. Garlic is Garlic after all. Enjoy!
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I use geen leaves
@@tarunaoza6494 very tasty!
Thanks for the subtle hint to harvest one to check about halfway through lol.
It’s so cute/funny how gardeners smile & cock their heads to the side to show off their harvests in a proud way like it’s a newborn baby.
I love it !❤ 🙂.
🙄!
Possibly the clearest most informative without over verbage, and helpful tutorial I have seen. I will save this one. We all need these in these times especially on a fixed income.
Thanks so much bonnie, appreciate that! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms new subscriber here!
the sfx during the review at the end >>>>>>
Growing food should be something we all do on regular basis. My first garlic experiment is now on its way, thank you for the effort of making this great video!
The thought of multiplying your own food gives me such a kick lol I can't wait to see my cloves sprout!
I grew garlic for the first time this year. Just harvested yesterday. I was so very happy with large bulbs. I am curing them now in the basement. Thank you for all the great info.
I really enjoyed this video. You are a great communicator and teacher. Thank you for what you do! May God continue to bless you and keep your harvests bountiful!
You're the only Channel I've watched that explained step by step and made it so easy. Thank you! I'm going to plant my garlic this fall
Thanks for that sonia! Best of luck planting, can't wait to hear about your harvest next summer! :-)
I've just harvested 30 garlic plants, FANTASTIC VIDEO
30 bulbs? Right on Mike!! At current organic prices, that a nice sum you got there!
I have learned a lot about growing garlic. Thank you. I didn't know about leaving them in the ground through winter. I thought they would be dead. So glad for your advice.
So next up... A video on how to eat those scapes!
Definitely! 🙂
Maybe is there anything you can’t do with scapes? Lol. Just one of many ways
www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk
Yes, please add a video of your favorite dish with garlic shapes! 🙏💞
I agree, I would hate to harvest those and leave them to waste.
We harvest them, then into the food processor, and into ice cube trays....ready when desired
I learned I need to be more aware of maturity dates. Thx for the common sense advice.
No problem, best of luck with your garlic!!
I'm glad I found your site. I planted my first round of garlic last fall and can't wait to see what I get.
So exciting Barb! You'll have to let us know how it goes!
I thought I would come to UA-cam to see if it was time to harvest my garlic since a tornado hit our town this weekend and pretty much wiped out my crop, bending all of them over. Since you said that some people bend the stocks over, I’m hoping that just leaving them where they are, and letting the dirt dry out for a few days that I will be able to successfully get some bulbs out of the crop. I tried propping up the plants with more soil, but they just keep lying over because they were probably whipped around like a blender.
I am just about to harvest my first, ever, crop of garlic. Good, tips. Thanks
Right on! I hope it's bountiful!!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you. It is looking good. I even tried shallots.
@@udonocmee3225 beauty! Don't forget to save some for planting for next year!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms But of course. Lol
well done! I appreciate the details on a good harvest.
now, to find some recipes for scapes.
thank you, love this
Cheers warren, thanks for watching!
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I see what you did there!
I loveee the unexpected jokes
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🙂 Thanks for the support Lauren!
All I can say is “WOW” I feel confident with all these hints and detailed points! Thank you very much!! Happy harvesting!😅
Some great advice for beginners, that digging method you show is likely to end up damaging some bulbs, garlic bruises just like most veggies and fruits, hugely reducing the storage time. Often my soil is soft enough that mine pull out easily, otherwise it’s easy to insert a garden fork deep under the roots and just lift them a bit, usually by prying them upward. Happy growing everyone
Very true....gotta be careful or you ruin the storage! Totally agree.
Just found your channel. Thank you so much. The easiest and clearest to follow and understand. My daughter and I have developed serious untreatable medical conditions but eating home grown fruit and veges is one of the best things we can do for ourselves. I know we’ll be able to grow our food without drama and successfully. Good luck with your harvest and health. ❣️🙏🌾
I just harvested my garlic today, over 100 heads. They're all hanging in bunches from the rafters in my shop, and OMG it REALLY smells garlicky out there, lol.
Yay! So excited for when the garlic is ready. That leaf tip is a good one for not harvesting too late or too early
Feels like ages ago when we planted...and STILL 4-5 months to go!
Im in New Zealand so just harvested 50 bulbs of Creole hard neck. First time I've grown a hard neck variety. Its been a very wet first month of summer so the bulbs were a little wet when harvested but had to get them up. The commercial grower I bought the seed cloves from said to bundle in tens and dry for a month upside down. However I hung them individually bulb side down on my clothes drying rack. As they were a little damp, this maximised air flow around each bulb. I have 50 more bulbs of Keeper and 50 bulbs of Fire soft necks yet to harvest. All of these were planted in May. Its now getting less wet so I can reduce watering of the soft necks and I will plait them in tens to dry once harvested.
Definitely smart to hang them separate if they are a little wet
Wonderful video. Thank you!
Cheers Lisa, thanks so much for watching!
Excellent video, so detailed, step by step with recap. Awesome, thank you for doing this!
Best garlic How To video I've seen uet! Great job!!!
Favorite harvest of the entire season... #BulbsDown. Great all-in-one video. Thanks as always, Sir!
Me too Rob, all the best thus summer man! :-)
Thanks mate, awesome video.
Cheers, thanks so much for watching!
I'm getting ready to plant my 1st crop of garlic!! It's so exciting and you've made it seem easy and straight forward!
Right on, best of luck Carla! 🙂
Man, your videos really have encouraged me to try to start gardening. I plan to start looking into plants i can start asap so i can get out there and start building it up! Im excited about it honestly. Never thought id be into gardening this much, but its interesting stuff!
That's so awesome to hear! Start small, build upon that, create a knowledge base and you're off to the races! :-)
I wish I could send you a picture of our garlic. Thank you
Also lady you could send him pics , if you sent them to him over his Twitter or Facebook if you have those, he has his social media under his about tab if you go to his UA-cam channel page
Is the first video explain the whole process even curing I been asking for this thanks you so much you did a perfect video🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hey, glad you liked! Thanks for watching!
I agree! Best video explains it well
Excellent, clear and concise video. I can see all your steps. Appreciate all your efforts. 😊
I am growing my first garlic sprouts and I am soooo excited!
Best of luck Moriah!! :-)
Great video. I'll tell you what I told my friend, Corporals Corner, you guys remind me of each other. Just went and mulched my garlic plants with jointer shavings from my shop. He has a great channel.
I enjoy your garden l, thank you for explaining things in steps. My garden thanks you too. When starting a garden of any kind there are so many do's and dont's, but you keep it simple so everyone can understand! BIG FAN
Hey, thanks for that! Feels good to know it's helping!
This is such helpful information, I was doing it all wrong and I had no idea when to harvest or anyting. Thank you for these videos
Cheers Casper....once you get the timeline down for hardneck garlic, the crop itself becomes MUCH easier. Best of luck!
I was looking for a video to start garlic planting this year but i was’t sure about a few things in the process but I found your channel and I had all the questions answered with out actually do it. Thank you so much for your easy way to explain it. God bless you 🙏
Hey, that's awesome Oscar, happy to help!
Thank you for this video. I learned a lot. I planted my first garlic bulbs in fall so I'm looking forward to my first harvest this coming summer.
Enjoying these garlic videos..
Despite my Italian upbringing and amazing memories my grandfathers urban vegetable garden I’ve only just started to have a go at growing edible plants.. herbs, garlic and chillies
I’m in Perth, west Australia so got my garlic started off a little late at the end of autumn rather than the start but they’re growing (only planted 5) and I’ll be happy to at least harvest something I’m guessing around January (mid summer) it gets pretty hot here in summer so we will see.. but you can’t learn anything if you don’t have a go..
Looking forward to building some proper raised beds in the backyard when the weather starts to warm up for next years gardening endeavours
Right on, garlic can be a challenge in warmer climates....still though that's great! Let us know how it goes!
I like the idea of mixing organic fertilizer with water in the can. I’ve seen so many others do the side dressing method which requires more effort. I will use my organic Miracle Gro. Thank you for always keeping it simple and doable.
I’m really impressed with your comment, if you don’t mind friendship where are you from?
Great video, clear, concise and easy to follow! Thank you
Thanks! Appreciate it!
Thank you this helped me
Cheers heidi, best of luck with the harvest!
Thank you for this video!
We learnt so much this year about growing garlic with tomatoes. I will also plant later than Nov as in London we haven't had snow, like we have been having mild winters for years now. I might also freeze the bulbs for 6 weeks or so before planting.
Thank you so much I have planted 150 and learned so much from you!
Another excellent informative video. You answered all the questions I had without me asking them
Cheers Randy, thanks for watching! 🙂
I'm a new subscriber. Love your videos! Easy to understand and very helpful! I live in Minnesota and going to try growing garlic for the first time. 😊
Hey Lisa, thanks so much for the support! Glad to have you aboard!
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks for checking it out James, much appreciated. :-)
I'm happy to see you grew garlic in fabric buckets. I'm no longer able to work the ground I have to plant a thousand and more cloves, but I've been hesitant to try planting in buckets when our mid-Maryland (zone 6) winters can see temperatures well below 10 F.
I can get fat, purple tinged garlic bulbs for a dollar each from a supermarket (the gods know where the store gets them). So, I think I'll plant 4 buckets of supermarket garlic this fall and see how the winter shakes out.
Thanks for the inspiration. I've missed homegrown garlic these last 7 years.
They grow AMAZING in the fabric bags. They really do. They love the drainage, the aeration, and they are plenty big enough! Best of luck!
Can't wait to try em out!
Best of luck JO! :-)
Very informative. Thank you!
Cheers katherine, thanks for watching!
Thank you for teaching
Hey Nikan, thanks for watching!
My DUDE!
So happy to have found your channel. First crop of garlic this year, just single season but will do the fall planting next.
Keep rocking the Roughies colours!!!
Sooo great full for this video!!!!!! 👏
Hey thanks, appreciate it!
Well done, sir! Really appreciate your videos!
Cheers Ryan, thanks so much for checking them out!
Thanks!
Thanks so much man!
THANK YOU, Jeff!!!🤗💓
No problem! 🙂
I love Garlic, and grow yearly.😀
Nice info thanks
Thank you i learned a lot from this video
Your videos are excellent.
Hey, thanks so much Isaiah! :-)
Great video, I've been debating about harvesting or not harvesting lol. I think another week or so...
Nice! I've got at least a month to go
Interesting 💗
Garlic IS interesting.... I agree!
Thank you!
God bless.!
Cheers Cecilia, thanks for watching! 🙂
Great video FYI Eli at her channel (In the Garden with Eli and Kate) mentioned you she was talking about pruning peppers 🫑. Nice it’s cooled down a bit but over here we are battling mosquitoes 🦟 invading the area 🤬. Have a great week stay safe
Very cool Ali, I'll have to check it out! :-)
First year successfully growing garlic! Fish fertilizer ok for spring fertilizing now? Love all your videos!
Very informative. I am always impressed by how straightforward to make it sound. Years of practice will help I am sure. I have just grown garlic for the first time (soft-neck) and recently harvested around 90 bulbs. 20 or so I hung in my poly-tunnel and these have dried well. The rest I hung in an outside shed. They are taking longer to dry and I have notice that a few of then are now growing stems like your hard-neck scapes and one has flowered. I am thinking it is perhaps not warm/airy enough and should move then to my poly-tunnel. Any advice would be appreciated and will these flowering bulbs still be ok to eat?
Well done video!
Hey thanks! Appreciate it
Thank you sir, this is a great video. I am going to give them a try this early Fall.
great video!
Thanks Les, appreciate that! 🙂
Nicely done with the time travel! A man with a plan #tipofthehat
Living in New Jersey looks like im already too late to start. Great video! I really like how the growing process til harvest is laid out. I'll look for your other videos for the same setup process. Thank you! And Subscribed.
Thanks valenzsa! Yes, garlic is a fall-planted crop. Its nice though because its planted after the craziness of the summer season is over! :-)
I actually refrigerated mine for 4 weeks than plant in the spring
Not forgetting to mention, it will also keep vampires away too
Always!
That's a alsome video thank you
Thanks Timothy, appreciate that!
Just started doing bit growing my own little bits started with strawberry in a pot and herbs in pots, going to try garlic as eat loads. Thank you for your knowledge.
Great to hear Esme! Every little bit counts!
Great 🎉video
Thanks! :-)
Perfect video! I just harvested my scapes yesterday, and the bulbs will be another week or two. I shake my head when I see people buying the junk Chinese crap in the stores. 85% of the water in China is so polluted that’s it’s not fit to use for anything!
So agree Tom! Its creeping into other vegetables as well. I saw Peas and Beans imported as well! If you can believe it!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Yuck. I wonder what they douse them in to survive their journey here and not be all wilted and disgusting looking?
@@tombryant4518 or what the bleach them with to get them so stark white sometimes (for the garlic)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Ya, I know that the baby carrots get a bleach bath to keep them nice looking. It’s ridiculous what big ag does to food to keep it attractive!
I love to grow it too
One of my favourite crops!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms me too
Well I've come to the conclusion I should've just planted the garlic cloves I noticed were sprouting on the counter around October, where I'm at in Colorado we do have mild winters in the banana belt but I'm still thinking I missed the boat on planting them. We get hard freezes for a few days only up to a month on end or more, and often times when we have short freezes the weather will be in the mid 60s for weeks following teetering around 32 most nights.
Moving from Florida to a different climate zone was one thing, but man wrapping your head around the super variable mountain weather on top of it is a whole new ball game lol. We've gotten snow as late as the end of May and as early as September.
Pulled most of mine today because the first leaves were drying.
Uncleaved bulbs.
Every one 🤦🏽♀️
The plants remaining in-ground are the ones with the thicker stems.
Might leave them in until after Christmas 👍
Odd time to pull them out... What part of the world do you live in?
(From Zone 5)....Thank you for your thorough instructions on everything. Some videos leave me with too many questions. I find after watching you they leave out quite a bit of steps...so now I know to come to you for complete instructions.
I've noticed your grow bags with garlic. I only tried these bags once, mulched with straw, and found that my rosemary, thyme +.... did not come back as they always do in the ground. I thought because of the material.. too much air and cold. Do you leave yours outside? Cover them?..... what did I do wrong? I was quite upset since my plants were about 4 years old and so nice. I discovered these bags and thought I could have more space in my garden plus be able to move them around. 😔
Thank now i know i plant garlic for our kitchen...
I just planted my garlic for the first time in the Kansas City area hope it goes good
Any Tips and Tricks on planting , harvesting and curing garlic in the tropics?? I live in south east asia :)
Gonna have to use softneck garlic. Trying planting on your coldest day of the year and use lots of mulch.
Thank you very much for an amazing channel and awesome uploads ❤️🔥
I just want to know, if we can cut off parts of the leaves, to nibble on or to cook, while its still growing...?
Thanks for the great video. Curious as to what varieties you chose to grow in zone 9b?
Thanks Janice! Mostly Music and Russian Red.
Thanks again and
Cheers Phyllis!
Thanks for a great vid!😊
I watched it last year but forgot all the details about cutting the scapes off so I think I've messed up, I cut them off too early, as soon as they appeared...
In my opinion that’s not going to be a problem, when they are very young, usually before they curl, you can pull the scape out of the plant, on the end you will find the most tender little portion, note….don’t pull real hard , you don’t want to damage the roots.
Good video. You covered everything well but just one comment. You say to hang the garlic upside down to cure but I believe you meant to say hang them bulb-side down as you show in the video. I understand the idea is to let the nutrients gravitate to the bulb.
my favourite part was not only how informative and helpful the video was but also appreciated seeing you put the camera into the garlics for some shots, i thought that was really neat. But I have only one question, was that a like ice scoop you were using at one point? I almost thought it was a popcorn scoop but think those are square. Anywho confirm or deny ice scoop digging utensil ?
Thanks!! The scoop is a restaurant scoop...often used in bulk bin stores. Stainless steel....much better than any gardening shovel I've ever used and I've used hundreds over the years, LOL!!
We get through " a bulb" a day here :)
Heh heh....I hear you on that one Joseph!
Hi Mr ripe tomatoes, thanks for the details in the video, how does growing in Florida works, should I still mulch and cover as thick?
Thanks Jassette! Yes, still mulch, although maybe just an inch or so. Use softneck varieties and plant in either the fall or the spring.
Hi Jeff if do you eat the garlicscape? Do you eat it mixed with other vegtables? Or do you eat pure garlicscape without anything else ? Is it possible to eat them raw like the greenies of springonions ? I go plant garlic in oktober for the furst time in my zone 8a what will be best softneck or hardneck variety ? In my area ... ? Thank you for what you doing greetings JP
Can u eat the leaves of garlic while its still growing
Can i plant garlic indoor? Thanks for the great video .
I'm treating tiny cloves as bulbils. Summer planting. Have good shoots. About 35-40cm so far (end February, end summer).
Theory is that the root growth and clove swelling during the warm months will make up for the initial small clove size.
Another 9 months until experimental results can be analysed.
Yes, I'm a frustrated fmr research scientist
Hi Jeff
QUESTION….
In my garage some sunlight gets in but have blinds …..
is this going to be an OK place to store the garlic?
Storing harvested garlic should be just fine Vicki!
I collect chicken and fish bones and egg shells in Wal-Mart bag in the freezer and grind them in wood chipper machine and pour them around plants. Wild animals try to eat them even when I mix them with dirt.
Raw? That'll happen if they aren't cooked...
Try boiling them first until the collagen breaks down and any excess meat flakes off easily, then baking them on a sheet for a while all prior to grinding, I think most people recommend about 300°F for making bone meal or hot and long enough you can kinda crack them by hand. Boiling and removing the meat should also help remove most of the scent attracting the animals, but they can still sniff out minerals especially if they're deficient in them or are suffering from osteophagy.
The heat also breaks down molecules which in turn makes it easier for your plants and soil microbiome further break them down and uptake as nutrients.