3 Spring Garlic Tips - Garden Quickie Episode 186
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2024
- Time To Tend To Our Garlic! Spring is almost here and that means the few things we actually have to do for our garlic are all happening right now. Its not much, they are a low maintenance crop, but the few things we have to do are kind of non-negotiable!
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Feeding, weeding, mulching.
....say that 3 times fast!
Awesome quicky Jeffe! 👏I was just out in the garden watering and my soft neck garlic is so tall since I planted in fall! Time for some nutrients and the weeds around were pretty sparse and the mulch continues to be sturdy, love your hard neck, beautiful! Crossing fingers for success on my first harvest, which I'll have to refer back to your previous garlic video on when that is😂😅🧄🤦♀️🤷♀️ such a newb, but it's so much fun! Thanks again for the much needed tips..💪😎😘💓10A central coast Cali!
Oh wow, jealous of the softneck!! You have to keep us updated on the harvest. Do you remember the specific variety?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms store bought variety, which is "who knows" haha 😅🤷♀️😂💋
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms i've been documenting my progress and I really hope I'm successful. I have to go back and watch your other video, I have it saved! 🤞🤞🧄💓✨
@@mamabearthrives7815 awesome! When do you calculate the harvest month to be?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms OK I had to go look back on my video🤦♀️, i planted them October 28 my son came by Sat and said it looked ready, I think I'll pull one today for data 🧐 remember, I'm a total newb, learning as I go, documenting everything! Thank you for your helpful tips!
Thanks! First time growing garlic and was wondering what I needed to do
You got this! Biggest thing was timing for the planting....if you got the spacing and timing right, that's half the battle. 🙂
Squirrels dug up every single garlic bulb this winter. I hate Squirrels!
If you soak them in buttermilk it takes out the gamey taste and makes the meat more tender. You can make buttermilk by getting milk preferably whole milk, and adding either lemon juice or vinegar. Soak them for a couple of hours at least. The good part about it is even a BB gun will drop them... And before you say that's disgusting, I made some chicken alfredo with squirrel meat and about 13 people ate it and came back for seconds... They thought it was chicken...
Oh, grrrrrrrr. I feel your pain. I had the same problem until I planted hoops over my beds and covered my crops with a fine white netting.
I did the same as the comment above. Used a fine mesh garden netting to keep the squirrels out. Kept it on once planted and through winter. Took the netting off once spring came and the squirrels haven’t touched them.
Ooh! 💚 Thanks for the quick videos, but I really like the complete thorough explanation ones! Everything you say is so nicely explained and it’s entertaining the way to edit your videos. Keep up these amazing videos! May I share them in my gardening group? I have about 8,000 members and still growing!
-In Oregon 😊
Thanks!
Thank you Jeff! In Michigan we are having a beautiful 68 degree day so I went and tended to my 9 little garlic sprouts 😂. They’re not quite as high as yours but they just got fertilized and mulched. ❤
Right on! What month did you plant them in? October?
Been growing garlic in MI for years. Started with a few Music, Elephant and some random stuff from the grocery store. Now I have hundreds and have to give them away every year. Never bothered to specifically apply fertilizer to them as they've never shown any signs of needing it. I do put some compost in all of my garden which I'm sure helps.
I have my garlic bed thickly covered with dried leaves I gathered in the fall. Nothing poking through that layer yet. I will take your advice and feed those babies in a week or two (today's weather: mild this morning then -10C expected this afternoon with a flash freeze overnight)🇨🇦
Hi Jeff, great video on garlic! I must feed mine too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
There is a famous garlic farm here in the UK called The Garlic Farm and around Feb-march, then every 6 weeks after, they apply sulphate of potash to their garlic 👍
Yup, intensive large farms that deplete the soil year over year have to do that. Nature of the business. :-)
Yeah...spring. It hit -24 here in zone 3 and we've got 18" of fresh snow on the ground there Mr BC showoff. ROFL !!!! Jealous ?? DAMNED STRAIGHT I'm jealous. ;)
OMG.....I'll see you in....June? LOL! ;-)
I like having a quicky in the garden but my neighbours complained hehehe
:-)
Thanks! You're the best! ❤️
Hello from Idaho 👋
Oops. I think I've been feeding my garlic too much. Mine is softneck if that matters; it's been growing since October and is huge.
Great info! Love your channel.
❤
My fall garlic looks to be a fail. Five different types and only two littles sprouts showing!
Oh no Jan, what zone are you in?
I'm growing garlic for the first time. Any tips I can get are much appreciated. - Lar
You got this Lar, did you already plant yours?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Yes, I planted German Porcelain hard neck last October. I watered them well and then covered them in about a foot of leaves.
Ah, my softnecks are now indoors behind the window. They all are hanging. A bit of water to try to get them going again. Hope I succeed.
Not too much though! Easy to rot these guys out from the roots upwards.
What fertilizer do you recommend for early spring feeding? I’m thinking fish emulsion which is high in nitrogen but I’m not sure if that’s correct or not.
Yes, the fish stuff that skews slightly higher in N is ideal. 🙂
How do you time your fertilizing in regards to rain? Won't the rain wash it away?
I'm over in Tacoma and our 10-day is nothing but rain. 😒
Yeah, heavy rains are tough. With the mulch and lots of organic content, the soil will be able to grab onto nutrients regardless. I'm just above you in Victoria, BC. Its harder for container garlic, but for beds, with a thick mulch layer, they nutrients don't get washed out too too fast.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms This is my first year trying garlic, don't wanna screw it up. 🤣
1st year planting garlic.Planted in November NJ 6b.I have thick layers of straw and shredded leaves on my garlic bed. Should I remove the thick layer of staw and leaves?
Greetings,
On another subject: Strawberries, when should you remove the mulch? I am in zone 6A.
Cheers
What kind of mulch did you use and where do you buy it from??
Its a product called "GardenStraw"....but there's many brands out there. Its basically fine, clean straw with NO hay in it.
Damn squirrels ripped up all my garlic.....unbelievable!!!
Ugghhhh.. Nooooo...... I had so many over winter messing with my stuff. It was infuriating!
I moved my grow bags & the crazy squirrels still managed to find them ! 😅 They even pulled out some of my tulip bulbs! 🤯
Jeff what kind of straw mulch do you have? I bought straw at the local farm store several times and they always end up growing straw or hay or something even though buying straw bales is not supposed to grow....also I heard bagged straw is treated with chemicals so Im not sure what kind of straw to get for mulch anymore
🤔🤔 I planted my garlic last October (Zone 6), but they are barely breaking ground. I want to put on a layer of compost to build up the bed but don’t want to lose my garlic. Advice?
That's totally normal. Garlic isn't really supposed to sprout until spring. Just give it until at least your last frost date and then apply. :-)
My question is my raised garlic bed is covered 6 inches of rotting leaves. Should I uncover them and throw it away?
Hi Kathy, often you can leave the mulch in place, right until harvest. 6 inches is quite thick though, might want to drop that in half once the garlic sprouts.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks so much. Oh yes they are sprouting. My first year. 90 of those little secrets under the ground.
Can you transplant garlic in the spring?
I planted my garlics a bit late this year. How can I tell if they’re going to bulb or if they’re just going to grow greens?
How late? What kind? Where?
I'm in zone 5a and my garlic did not sprout yet 😢😅 I hope things are oki with my garlic. Do I need to use urea to fertilize or should I just use fish emulsion?
Fish emulsion is perfect. How are your temperatures right now? Is the ground still frozen?
Well our temperatures are unpredictable this year. We're having a mix of temps in the low 30s and high 60s. The ground keeps freezing and thawing repeatedly!
I'm in the same zone. The temperatures are definitely crazy. Its freezes , then hits 40-50, then freezes again.....then rain...then snow. I planted in October. Just yesterday I finally noticed some green sprouts coming up. Hopefully yours will pop up soon too. 👍
I'll be honest. For all the effort it takes to grow garlic it's just not worth it for me. More power to you. But I buy three cloves of garlic from the grocery store maybe once a month and that's fine for me.
I find garlic to be one of crops with the LEAST amount of work attached to it.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms it just takes too long and harvest and you can only Havertown once a year plus it requires too much space so that's why it's not worth it for small garderners
You obviously don't love garlic as much as I do! I go through about 3 to 5 heads a WEEK! This year I planted 5 varieties! In a few months, I should be harvesting close to 80 heads! There are several ways to preserve it, and friends and relatives who enjoy sharing. I find it very easy to grow with litte effort.