I have been using LMNT for 9 months and love the stuff. I mix a sleeve with 32 oz. Prefer the orange, second the raspberry. They recently came out with a Hot mix, Loved the Chocolate Raspberry. Mixed the hot one in a large coffee mug, not diluted to 32 oz.
That soaking in fertilizer trick really works !!!!!!! I soaked store bought garlic in some seaweed fertilizer and every bulb grew roots over night!!!!!! Hopefully they bulb 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Last year I soaked my garlic with pretty good results. This year I planted some unsoaked garlic as a test to see if it makes much of a difference. I am a self sustainable gardener, do not purchase any fertilizers. Soaked my garlic in a worm casting/compost extract and a couple quarts of fermented comfrey tea, smelled lovely, lol. In each hole before planting the garlic, a handful of worm castings. What was interesting was my planting got interrupted for a few days, so I stored the soaked garlic cloves in a bucket of worm castings, when I went to plant the remaining cloves, roots were already sprouting. Happy holidays ! Seay Well !!!!
FWIW, I came across a video about planting garlic around fruit trees for a tastier yield and to deter pests. You don’t harvest the garlic but leave it there for its benefits to the tree. I’m trying it this year since all my apples all had bore holes from something eating them. And also planted some garlic in my strawberry patch as an experiment too.
yes, and thats why people mash some garlic and make it into somekind of paste and put some into the water, idk the formula. but the thing is, that garlic water liquid, can be organic instecticide. bugs don't want to eat plants because of that garlic aroma
Just like that hydrogen peroxide BS, it's a huge myth as well. You hear that planting garlic will help against peach leaf curl. It's totally untrue. Leaf curl is due to bad types of peach trees for your soil, or a soil that's too wet, too compact, as peach trees hate that (and in that case just don't grow peaches). But very often, a peach tree will show leaf curl the first few years and be fine after. So the myth probably came up like that : some people planted garlic the second year after seeing leaf curl the first year. And then the third year the tree just got better on its own, and gardeners thought it was the garlic... which it wasn't. I have heavy clay. Peach trees don't work and have leaf curls every year. Some people tried the classic myths in the garden : a ton of garlic all around for 2 years. It did absolutely NOTHING. Even the egg shells hanged up on the branches (yeah a real stupid myth but someone wanted to try...) and of course it did nothing either. What DOES help trees is... all kinds of plants. The more diversity you have, the better it is for plant health in general. But like I said if your soil is wrong, it's wrong, not much you can do.
Okay Epic guys, I’ve followed your instructions for 3 years and finally this summer I grew some nickel size cloves. They had the cutest cloves about the size of a chickeydee’s little claw. 😂 But I was so happy to finally see a head develop from a clove. So this year I rushed to your store and ordered whatever kind you have. I hope “Epic Eric” blessed the bulbs before mailing cause this is THE year. If I get useless heads I will move on. If I’m blessed with real garlic heads I’ll buy a birdie bed like yours (when on sale of course). Love. Your encouragement guys, you seem to know I failed. 😢
I do this soaking method and use an organic garlic fertilizer. Last year I added the Purple Cow foliar and drench in between fertilizer applications and had the biggest bulbs yet. If you can, start out with gargantuan sized bulbs.
The paper from the heads works, too. But after I dehydrate a good amount of harvest I add any duds to the areas that moles, groundhogs, voles try to visit. Works great. Same with onions.
Good advice on planting only big cloves. Over 12 years of growing garlic have proven that is 100% true for me. I use floating row cover to keep our squirrels from digging in my garlic and planting walnuts. I do doubt hydrogen peroxide will kill white rot, since its invades inside the clove. That's why its good to only grow certified seed garlic. I have replanted clean garlic from my own crop, as I have never gotten white rot here. But I am a home grower and I wouldn't plant anything but certified seed if I was growing it commercially. I also plant in clean potting soil that has never grown any onions, leeks, or garlic before.
Hey, I've been subscribed for a while, thanks for all of the tips they really help with my gardening! I also run into problems when i grow garlic! So thanks!
Wow you have an amazing system with a small space and big harvests of many different veggies! Thanks for sharing! My mother had a large garden canned everything and she had an organic garden! This was before UA-cam made it extremely popular. She would be amazed if she was living to see the many different garden styles and methods being used today. I think especially the no till would be very intriguing to my mother! Rototilling that she did was more of a problem than a benefit according to some garden UA-camrs! Thanks for sharing your garden on UA-cam
I purchased organic garlic at the farmers market in town this year, and planted it, following your instructions. I'm hoping I actually have something a little bigger than my puny harvest of previous years. This year, I planted in October - previously, I'd been planting in spring - derp! Finger's crossed!
I'm in KC zone 6 and finally had a chance to plant some garlic today...hope it's not to late....I should have done it a month ago but how life goes....wish me luck❤
Middle Tennessee, zone 7B - we planted our garlic out in waves this year, b/c our first frost date is still not here. Weeks late. But we planted the last garlic out last weekend. Fingers crossed for us all!
It’s not too late! Im in GC I planted them this time last year and am planning on doing it this upcoming week! The trick is making sure you protect them when they start sprouting in the spring since we get a late freeze typically
I'm in KC too - planted some two weeks ago but didn't have the number I needed, so I just planted the rest today. It's been so warm for so long I'm not super worried. Last year I planted them in late October and they actually started to grow, and then kind of died back when winter actually came, but then grew again in spring and I got beautiful garlic bulbs! And all from grocery store garlic too!.
@@camerica7400 I planted some early in the season and it's grown sprouts, I wish I planted it deeper so that it would have had more time to grow a bit underground vs comming up so quickly and before spring, i'm sure it will be fine though
I just planted elephant garlic last week and now I’m just waiting for a sign of life😂 I bought them from a local co-op and the cloves looked really pathetic as I caught the last few but we’ll see what happens!💚
I've gotten garlic from them for four years. Their garlic is always fresh, and if you have questions, they always contact you back. I know the problems I've had were user issues, not the garlic itself.
I actually put a cover crop of mustard, peas and oats over the garlic bed right after planting last year. Everything grew happily together, including the garlic. The cover died here mid January, after which we covered with leaves and let it be. We had amazing garlic this year, so I'm definitely repeating with a cover this year. But I ran out if peas and oats, so I just threw a bunch of seeds for various winter greens in. Edible cover crop ftw!
❤ I love your videos. I've been watching you both since I started gardening which was March this year. I tried to growing garlic in the summer time that didn't work. However, I tried again and my garlic is looking good. I'm keeping it inside because I am in a kind of a warm climate in North Carolina. Keep doing what you doing guys I love it
Hi from Virginia, My climate might not be quite as warm as yours, but it's pretty similar. November is the perfect time to plant garlic outside, in a grow bag, raised bed, or other garden soil. The cloves will have the winter time to root and fill out a bit and they will take off in the spring. By May or so, the upper leaves will start to turn brown which is when you can harvest. Hope this helps.
I used these techniques today to plant a 4×4 raised bed. Three different varieties of soft neck that have been in the fridge for over 6 weeks. I put the best and largest 64 cloves into the bed and had a couple dozen small ones left that I planted in a couple other places I had a little space. I've never been successful with garlic, but never really had a clue what the problem was. Mainly the varieties and no vernalization.
Magic mix I found was garlic planted near brassicas, not crowding but close enough to provide the smell to deter cabbage moth that destroy my brassicas every year. This year I put in garlic seed in a bed poorly performs for nearly everything else due to weird sunlight. We'll see if it come up with my Ramps (North American Wild Leak).
FYI, that's is not chicken wire. That is welded HARDWARE CLOTH that rodents cannot chew through, but is a lot more expensive. Chicken wire has that hexagon shape and is cheaper metal that rusts eventually, even if it's coated. Hardware cloth comes in various sizes and densities.
Very good to know! Thank you for sharing! And now I understand why you would want to inoculate your bulbs and how to do it. Would you recommend doing the same process with flower bulbs?
I just planted a ton of garlic this morning and insulated it well since our nights are cold at the moment. How do y'all keep back pain at bay when gardening all day?
My garlic has already been under snow for a few weeks, first year with a yard so first year growing garlic for me. Fingers crossed I did it right, my area usually has great garlic!
Good luck! This is my second year. My first, it was the first thing I planted (got the house end of June) and we had a huge chipmunk problem...I knew they got some of them, but it turns out they took every last one. This year, the chipmunk population has been reduced but I put them under bird netting. Before I did...yep, groundhog got in there and took some. Not sure how many of the 18 cloves I planted he got. Then my neighbor gave me some sprouting garlic he decided he didn't have room for, so now I have three varieties (Trader Joe's organic whatever that is, "European garlic" people have been growing in my neighborhood for about a decade, and something random he couldn't remember the name of. I planted crimson clover as a cover crop for it and will put some marigolds in there come spring.
I got some elephant garlic from the grocery store a few years ago and saved some for reseeding. That's the only kind I grow now. I'm in zone 8b so I don't know how well they will do in colder climates. It's also popping up in strange places, so I think it's spreading.
I just put like 200 cloves in the ground. They're all different, but they always sprout.🤷 Please never put H Peroxide or alcohol onto a bed full or worms and micro organisms. I did that once and it killed all my red wrigglers.
Zone 5B here. Planted 300+ bulbs for my first year on November 1st. =P. Already remulched the bed because I have a ton of growth. What did you use for your fertilizers? both pre-soak and at the time planting?
I soaked mine in Neptune's Harvest tomato and veg, which is my go to for regular veggie use throughout the year. And at time of planting I used blood meal, compost, and worm castings. I planned to get some more Milorganite and amend the beds with that, but didn't get around to it. So likely that will be one of the first things I do this Spring when I see growth again. They love that nitrogen. I'm also Zone 5b and I think I planted right around the same time as you. End of October is usually when it's done, but the weather has been a bit weird the past few years. I buy my garlic from Keene Garlic and they recommend the same tips as this video.
You mixed the garlic skin coverings that you removed into the soil. ... without sanitizing them.... and ... with all the effort to sanitize the cloves... these coverings can be contaminated, right?
This is so funny to see the diffrences between gardening in France and gardening in the US. Here we will never use chemical products to clean our garlic before planting them. we would juste let it go and let nature do its magic. Such a different approach. 😅
If you're concerned with disease, would it not make sense to peel and separate the garlic bulbs away from the planting bed? You disinfect the bulbs but have all the debris laying on top of your bed...😮
Life is conspiring against me getting my garlic in the ground. It’s my first time so I’m following your instructions - except I didn’t have my bed built ahead of time and the only time I’ve been able to get it is in the last half hour before sunset (it was easy enough to do, just…life not giving me much time right now). I’m hoping to get the garlic in the ground tomorrow as soon as I can, but it will have been soaking in the fertilizer mix (it wasn’t full strength fertilizer? But diluted in a 5 gallon bucket, and not as much as was recommended on the bottle - so I’m really hoping I didn’t just ruin all the garlic 😂) for about 2 days at that point. Crossing my fingers hard that I didn’t screw it up too badly
I have a squirrel problem here in the pacific northwest so I covered my garlic with 2x6 boards. is that ok as long as I take them off before they start to sprout? Last year it seemed to do ok.
Great workshop!! I have a question though. I had to give up growing garlic here in Aotearoa/New Zealand because of the rust. It was so intense that it prevented the bulb from fully forming, or sometimes the plant was so depleted by the rust that no bulb formed at all. I wonder if the two dips you do before planting will help. Do you have any suggestions?
Spray copper if you can get copper fungicide, Im lucky enough to have commercial ag licenses so i bought some Azoxystrobin and sent that stuff packing.
@@anniecochrane3359 Spray prior to any bad rain so if your garlic is growing and you have rain forecasted spray prior to that, its best to be proactive instead of reactive.
Depending where you are you can still plant garlic but after the snowstorm. I'm still planting garlic over here in zone 7. I will continue planting it until the end of December.
Where do you guys source your compost? I’m in Murrieta so I’m pretty close to North San Diego County and I’m willing to travel a bit for a really good compost.
Great video. 🧄 I planted hardneck garlic and hope I get a great harvest in 2025. Didn't know about soaking them in fertlizer. For 2026 hopefully I'll try an experiment one half soaked garlic and another without.
Older as well. You can buy the really tall beds that take a TON of filling OR you could buy a regular type bed up on legs. Both cost more, but can be a huge lifesaver if you have back issues.
Epic Gardening sells Birdies brand beds in a tall version. We added them little by little and it has made a difference as compared to our lower, wooden beds.
@@retroqueenbeeart I'm fairly certain Epic Hardening has videos on how to fill a new tall raised bed cheaply. The short version is that the bottom of the bed can be filled with split logs or branches or the like plus chopped-up brush and/or autumn leaves; the "good stuff" into which you'll be planting - raised bed mix, or soil plus compost, or something of the like with suitable amendments - occupies the top. During and after each growing season the soil level will settle as the stuff underneath begins to decompose, and during each planting season the bed can be topped up with more good stuff to get it back up to level before planting.
The weather where I live is extremely unpredictable. We normally get a hard freeze by Halloween but we didn't this year my garlic is growing leaves. Is that an issue and how do I fix it?
That's an interesting question. I thought a little green above each clove was supposed to be normal. We don't usually get a hard freeze until around Christmas. During October and November my garlic puts up small leaves, usually around 6", and then it quits growing throughout the colder months of mid December to February and into late March, when it resumes growing. I thought the young green leaves would produce chlorophyll which would encourage root growth during the freeze/thaw cycles in winter. That's an interesting thought though. I struggle a bit with small bulb size at harvest. I tried extra fertilizer this year; I'm waiting to see how it comes out.
I left some bulbs in the ground forgetting to harvest them. They’ve now sprouted roots a little and I’m going to plant them anyway instead of the garlic I harvested when I should have and dried. Wish me luck. :) I’ve done well planting this late the last 2 years. Western Oregon winters aren’t overly harsh, but it’s a lot of cold and wet for a while.
"No dodgy ingredients" minus the maltodextrin that they don't list. The controversy has been crazy over it, lots of people whining. 😂 Don't know what people expected from a "no sugar" yet sweetened beverage. 😅 I still use them 🤷♀️
Disinfecting the garlic is a smart idea. But breaking down the 'dirty' garlic over the bed you are going to plant in seems like a great way to reintroduce the same pests and illnesses. Especially because it seems they left al good chunk of papers on the street side of the bed. I would be interested to see if that side of the bed suffers from more issues later in the growing season.
I call that cover, hardware cloth.. big overkill for chickens. My garlic of choice for where I am is elephant garlic.. and I like it better than other garlic.
Eat, dehydrate, preserve in oil or honey. I did not like the preserving in honey. They ferment, and about halfway through the smell is horrible. I guess that resolves itself i hear but I couldn't handle it.
The papers that you peeled off of your garlic were not soaked in the peroxide. Anything you were trying to get off of your garlic you just buried in the soil lol
I purchased garlic from 3 sources this year, none of them from this channel. Two of them were fine. The last one - a reputable supplier - sent dry, hollow garlic. I'm guessing they use the same source.
@@stephaniegee227 Interesting cause I also ordered seed garlic from my usual supplier and 1/2 of it was molded out inside. I had it in my fridge for a few months but never had an issue doing this method. Just upsetting this year
Garlic starts pre-order and shipping most places in Sept/Oct, since most places it needs to be planted already. So yeah you're likely out of luck unless you can find some still at a hardware store or something. However I checked Keene Organics and they have some Vietnamese Red small/culinary garlic still available. Maybe some others if you call/email them? I know they also offer "seconds" and cloves that are already broken up from storage and they sell that in batches at the end of the season. Not sure if they have any of those left either.
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At least hes not pushing that ag1 scam haha
That soaking in fertilizer trick really works !!!!!!! I soaked store bought garlic in some seaweed fertilizer and every bulb grew roots over night!!!!!! Hopefully they bulb 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Last year I soaked my garlic with pretty good results. This year I planted some unsoaked garlic as a test to see if it makes much of a difference. I am a self sustainable gardener, do not purchase any fertilizers. Soaked my garlic in a worm casting/compost extract and a couple quarts of fermented comfrey tea, smelled lovely, lol. In each hole before planting the garlic, a handful of worm castings. What was interesting was my planting got interrupted for a few days, so I stored the soaked garlic cloves in a bucket of worm castings, when I went to plant the remaining cloves, roots were already sprouting.
Happy holidays ! Seay Well !!!!
FWIW, I came across a video about planting garlic around fruit trees for a tastier yield and to deter pests. You don’t harvest the garlic but leave it there for its benefits to the tree. I’m trying it this year since all my apples all had bore holes from something eating them. And also planted some garlic in my strawberry patch as an experiment too.
yes, and thats why people mash some garlic and make it into somekind of paste and put some into the water, idk the formula. but the thing is, that garlic water liquid, can be organic instecticide. bugs don't want to eat plants because of that garlic aroma
I’ll try that around our apple 🍎 trees! Thx!😊❤
Just like that hydrogen peroxide BS, it's a huge myth as well. You hear that planting garlic will help against peach leaf curl. It's totally untrue. Leaf curl is due to bad types of peach trees for your soil, or a soil that's too wet, too compact, as peach trees hate that (and in that case just don't grow peaches). But very often, a peach tree will show leaf curl the first few years and be fine after. So the myth probably came up like that : some people planted garlic the second year after seeing leaf curl the first year. And then the third year the tree just got better on its own, and gardeners thought it was the garlic... which it wasn't. I have heavy clay. Peach trees don't work and have leaf curls every year. Some people tried the classic myths in the garden : a ton of garlic all around for 2 years. It did absolutely NOTHING. Even the egg shells hanged up on the branches (yeah a real stupid myth but someone wanted to try...) and of course it did nothing either. What DOES help trees is... all kinds of plants. The more diversity you have, the better it is for plant health in general. But like I said if your soil is wrong, it's wrong, not much you can do.
Okay Epic guys, I’ve followed your instructions for 3 years and finally this summer I grew some nickel size cloves. They had the cutest cloves about the size of a chickeydee’s little claw. 😂 But I was so happy to finally see a head develop from a clove. So this year I rushed to your store and ordered whatever kind you have. I hope “Epic Eric” blessed the bulbs before mailing cause this is THE year. If I get useless heads I will move on. If I’m blessed with real garlic heads I’ll buy a birdie bed like yours (when on sale of course). Love. Your encouragement guys, you seem to know I failed. 😢
If you like the taste of leeks you might like to try growing elephant garlic. It still tastes like garlic but mild and cloves are mostly huge.
Do you add sulfur?
I do this soaking method and use an organic garlic fertilizer. Last year I added the Purple Cow foliar and drench in between fertilizer applications and had the biggest bulbs yet. If you can, start out with gargantuan sized bulbs.
I still use the little cloves as pest deterrent.
The paper from the heads works, too. But after I dehydrate a good amount of harvest I add any duds to the areas that moles, groundhogs, voles try to visit. Works great. Same with onions.
Good advice on planting only big cloves. Over 12 years of growing garlic have proven that is 100% true for me. I use floating row cover to keep our squirrels from digging in my garlic and planting walnuts. I do doubt hydrogen peroxide will kill white rot, since its invades inside the clove. That's why its good to only grow certified seed garlic. I have replanted clean garlic from my own crop, as I have never gotten white rot here. But I am a home grower and I wouldn't plant anything but certified seed if I was growing it commercially. I also plant in clean potting soil that has never grown any onions, leeks, or garlic before.
I add about 3 to 4 inches of new soil and compost before I plant.
Hey, I've been subscribed for a while, thanks for all of the tips they really help with my gardening! I also run into problems when i grow garlic! So thanks!
Wow you have an amazing system with a small space and big harvests of many different veggies! Thanks for sharing! My mother had a large garden canned everything and she had an organic garden! This was before UA-cam made it extremely popular. She would be amazed if she was living to see the many different garden styles and methods being used today. I think especially the no till would be very intriguing to my mother! Rototilling that she did was more of a problem than a benefit according to some garden UA-camrs!
Thanks for sharing your garden on UA-cam
I purchased organic garlic at the farmers market in town this year, and planted it, following your instructions. I'm hoping I actually have something a little bigger than my puny harvest of previous years. This year, I planted in October - previously, I'd been planting in spring - derp! Finger's crossed!
Grrr, I believed the no paper myth for years! Grrrr, thanks for setting me straight! 👍👍
Me, too!
I'm in KC zone 6 and finally had a chance to plant some garlic today...hope it's not to late....I should have done it a month ago but how life goes....wish me luck❤
Middle Tennessee, zone 7B - we planted our garlic out in waves this year, b/c our first frost date is still not here. Weeks late. But we planted the last garlic out last weekend. Fingers crossed for us all!
It’s not too late! Im in GC I planted them this time last year and am planning on doing it this upcoming week!
The trick is making sure you protect them when they start sprouting in the spring since we get a late freeze typically
I'm in KC too - planted some two weeks ago but didn't have the number I needed, so I just planted the rest today. It's been so warm for so long I'm not super worried. Last year I planted them in late October and they actually started to grow, and then kind of died back when winter actually came, but then grew again in spring and I got beautiful garlic bulbs! And all from grocery store garlic too!.
Not too late. I'm in kc area too and literally planted last year on the last two days of the year
Same! KC 6. Such a weird year. But I'm really just behind this year. Can't blame it on the weather.
I add bone meal to the planting holes of my Garlic when I set them in late Autumn/early Winter
in Ontario, Canada, just starting to plant my garlic now. Fingers crossed
I haven’t planted yet because i was worried that the 20-36°f weather was too cold
@@camerica7400 I planted some early in the season and it's grown sprouts, I wish I planted it deeper so that it would have had more time to grow a bit underground vs comming up so quickly and before spring, i'm sure it will be fine though
I just planted elephant garlic last week and now I’m just waiting for a sign of life😂 I bought them from a local co-op and the cloves looked really pathetic as I caught the last few but we’ll see what happens!💚
Cultivating the like, comment and subscribe buttons really work. I got a lot of cucumbers this year like multiplier style
I bought garlic from Keene and they recommended the same peroxide and fertilizer dunks. Hoping for a great garlic season!
I've gotten garlic from them for four years. Their garlic is always fresh, and if you have questions, they always contact you back. I know the problems I've had were user issues, not the garlic itself.
You guys are always fun to watch. Thanks for all the great info!
I actually put a cover crop of mustard, peas and oats over the garlic bed right after planting last year. Everything grew happily together, including the garlic. The cover died here mid January, after which we covered with leaves and let it be. We had amazing garlic this year, so I'm definitely repeating with a cover this year. But I ran out if peas and oats, so I just threw a bunch of seeds for various winter greens in. Edible cover crop ftw!
❤ I love your videos. I've been watching you both since I started gardening which was March this year. I tried to growing garlic in the summer time that didn't work. However, I tried again and my garlic is looking good. I'm keeping it inside because I am in a kind of a warm climate in North Carolina. Keep doing what you doing guys I love it
Hi from Virginia, My climate might not be quite as warm as yours, but it's pretty similar. November is the perfect time to plant garlic outside, in a grow bag, raised bed, or other garden soil. The cloves will have the winter time to root and fill out a bit and they will take off in the spring. By May or so, the upper leaves will start to turn brown which is when you can harvest. Hope this helps.
Thanks guys! I enjoy watching and learning from you both! I also love buying my seeds from you, they are great!
I used these techniques today to plant a 4×4 raised bed. Three different varieties of soft neck that have been in the fridge for over 6 weeks. I put the best and largest 64 cloves into the bed and had a couple dozen small ones left that I planted in a couple other places I had a little space. I've never been successful with garlic, but never really had a clue what the problem was. Mainly the varieties and no vernalization.
🫣🫣🤫🤫 That's hardware cloth, not chicken wire...😁😁😁. But it does work best for chicken protection 👍👍
Magic mix I found was garlic planted near brassicas, not crowding but close enough to provide the smell to deter cabbage moth that destroy my brassicas every year. This year I put in garlic seed in a bed poorly performs for nearly everything else due to weird sunlight. We'll see if it come up with my Ramps (North American Wild Leak).
Hi Kevin, I always enjoy and learn from your farm
FYI, that's is not chicken wire. That is welded HARDWARE CLOTH that rodents cannot chew through, but is a lot more expensive. Chicken wire has that hexagon shape and is cheaper metal that rusts eventually, even if it's coated. Hardware cloth comes in various sizes and densities.
Very good to know! Thank you for sharing! And now I understand why you would want to inoculate your bulbs and how to do it. Would you recommend doing the same process with flower bulbs?
I just planted a ton of garlic this morning and insulated it well since our nights are cold at the moment. How do y'all keep back pain at bay when gardening all day?
Oh please some ideas for the back pain with garlic planting!
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The last couple years I’ve purchased hardneck garlic from a local farm in VT, and I plant that in my garden in Mass! I don’t bother with seed garlic.
My garlic has already been under snow for a few weeks, first year with a yard so first year growing garlic for me. Fingers crossed I did it right, my area usually has great garlic!
Good luck! This is my second year. My first, it was the first thing I planted (got the house end of June) and we had a huge chipmunk problem...I knew they got some of them, but it turns out they took every last one. This year, the chipmunk population has been reduced but I put them under bird netting. Before I did...yep, groundhog got in there and took some. Not sure how many of the 18 cloves I planted he got. Then my neighbor gave me some sprouting garlic he decided he didn't have room for, so now I have three varieties (Trader Joe's organic whatever that is, "European garlic" people have been growing in my neighborhood for about a decade, and something random he couldn't remember the name of. I planted crimson clover as a cover crop for it and will put some marigolds in there come spring.
I think you did!! Good Luck!!!
Slugs ruined my garden this year. I didn't catch them in the act until it was too late and we finally had rain after 10 weeks of dryness
I got some elephant garlic from the grocery store a few years ago and saved some for reseeding. That's the only kind I grow now. I'm in zone 8b so I don't know how well they will do in colder climates. It's also popping up in strange places, so I think it's spreading.
I love the synergy between you and your husband! I wish my significant other would take interest in my hobbies like this 😢
They are not married lol...just good friends😂
Great info . Thank you
Always remember that big bulbs are and a hardneck are crucial for succession planting.
I just got one of your books i love your info thanks for what you do!
Thanks Eric
I like big bulbs and I cannot lie…😂❤
Inspirational! Thank you!!
Darn it, this was super late for us up north. Will try the method next year. I just replanted what I grew last season
Yup, about a month. Freezing temps will be consistent starting in a few days!
Hey didn’t Jacques say something about he’d have a good suggestion for something to do with the small cloves too? Is that in another vid?
Just pop them all in a pot like an inch apart and use the tops like green onions but they taste like garlic.
@jennbasil is right!! Small ones are great for greens! Or for use In your cooking tooooo!
I just put like 200 cloves in the ground. They're all different, but they always sprout.🤷 Please never put H Peroxide or alcohol onto a bed full or worms and micro organisms. I did that once and it killed all my red wrigglers.
Why tf did you do that?
Good to know it doesn't need the wrappers, a dern squirrel dug one of mine up and ate the wrapper. I replanted.
I'm from Indonesia, thanks for the info and video.
Squirrels in abundance here, so a protective barrier is a must.
Didn't know about soaking in liquid fertilizer, I'm going to try that next year.
I buy three large bags from Costco plant them they grow every year beautiful Harvest wonderful no problems.
Zone 5B here. Planted 300+ bulbs for my first year on November 1st. =P. Already remulched the bed because I have a ton of growth. What did you use for your fertilizers? both pre-soak and at the time planting?
I soaked mine in Neptune's Harvest tomato and veg, which is my go to for regular veggie use throughout the year. And at time of planting I used blood meal, compost, and worm castings. I planned to get some more Milorganite and amend the beds with that, but didn't get around to it. So likely that will be one of the first things I do this Spring when I see growth again. They love that nitrogen. I'm also Zone 5b and I think I planted right around the same time as you. End of October is usually when it's done, but the weather has been a bit weird the past few years. I buy my garlic from Keene Garlic and they recommend the same tips as this video.
You mixed the garlic skin coverings that you removed into the soil. ... without sanitizing them.... and ... with all the effort to sanitize the cloves... these coverings can be contaminated, right?
This is so funny to see the diffrences between gardening in France and gardening in the US. Here we will never use chemical products to clean our garlic before planting them. we would juste let it go and let nature do its magic. Such a different approach. 😅
Is it a good idea to do the hydrogen amd then fertilizer bath for onion bulbs as well?
I was expecting the laughing intro with the boys walk on
The GarLic BroTheRs
When do you start watering it though?
love it got to try it
Cool job ❤❤
LIKED. Only for the bless of cloves.🤣❤
If you're concerned with disease, would it not make sense to peel and separate the garlic bulbs away from the planting bed? You disinfect the bulbs but have all the debris laying on top of your bed...😮
Plus, they didn't clean their hands after they'd been sorting them....
Can you do the hydrogen peroxide bath to make cloves you plan to eat last longer or does it make them not safe to eat?
Can I plant garlic now in North Florida?
When do we plant it for central TX?
potassium permanganate is the old time disease remover in water. much better than non-discriminating oxydizer like peroxide etc.
I’m a horticulturalist, trained in Atlanta, but from Mobile, AL.
I’d love to come work with you, or at least in San Diego.
Life is conspiring against me getting my garlic in the ground. It’s my first time so I’m following your instructions - except I didn’t have my bed built ahead of time and the only time I’ve been able to get it is in the last half hour before sunset (it was easy enough to do, just…life not giving me much time right now). I’m hoping to get the garlic in the ground tomorrow as soon as I can, but it will have been soaking in the fertilizer mix (it wasn’t full strength fertilizer? But diluted in a 5 gallon bucket, and not as much as was recommended on the bottle - so I’m really hoping I didn’t just ruin all the garlic 😂) for about 2 days at that point. Crossing my fingers hard that I didn’t screw it up too badly
I have a squirrel problem here in the pacific northwest so I covered my garlic with 2x6 boards. is that ok as long as I take them off before they start to sprout? Last year it seemed to do ok.
Great workshop!! I have a question though. I had to give up growing garlic here in Aotearoa/New Zealand because of the rust. It was so intense that it prevented the bulb from fully forming, or sometimes the plant was so depleted by the rust that no bulb formed at all. I wonder if the two dips you do before planting will help. Do you have any suggestions?
Plant late April, dig a hole and plant deep, seems to work, grow inland Canterbury New Zealand. Have 4 different types growing well.
Spray copper if you can get copper fungicide, Im lucky enough to have commercial ag licenses so i bought some Azoxystrobin and sent that stuff packing.
Thanks, I have some copper - so will give it a go.
Thanks!! I"ll try that. Its warmer here in Raglan - but fingers crossed.
@@anniecochrane3359 Spray prior to any bad rain so if your garlic is growing and you have rain forecasted spray prior to that, its best to be proactive instead of reactive.
are these specific garlic or can i use garlic i get at the market?
That was funny when they both started talking at the same time and the dramatic music came in.
me : looks outside at the snowstorm
me : hmmm yeah it's too late for garlic I think
Depending where you are you can still plant garlic but after the snowstorm. I'm still planting garlic over here in zone 7. I will continue planting it until the end of December.
If I'm already subscribed, will my garden still get that bonus?
How much watering does a loofah take? I’m in the same San Diego area as you guys.
what about leek moth do you have solution for that or maybe its not present in your area?
Where do you guys source your compost? I’m in Murrieta so I’m pretty close to North San Diego County and I’m willing to travel a bit for a really good compost.
What can you do with the small garlic? You said you were going to say what you can do with it at the end of the video. 4:06
Great video. 🧄 I planted hardneck garlic and hope I get a great harvest in 2025. Didn't know about soaking them in fertlizer. For 2026 hopefully I'll try an experiment one half soaked garlic and another without.
does farmers crow garlic from the tubers or the seeds?
Seed garlic are just the separate cloves.
I am older. How do you get the beds elevated?
Older as well. You can buy the really tall beds that take a TON of filling OR you could buy a regular type bed up on legs. Both cost more, but can be a huge lifesaver if you have back issues.
Epic Gardening sells Birdies brand beds in a tall version. We added them little by little and it has made a difference as compared to our lower, wooden beds.
@ Thank you
@@retroqueenbeeart I'm fairly certain Epic Hardening has videos on how to fill a new tall raised bed cheaply. The short version is that the bottom of the bed can be filled with split logs or branches or the like plus chopped-up brush and/or autumn leaves; the "good stuff" into which you'll be planting - raised bed mix, or soil plus compost, or something of the like with suitable amendments - occupies the top. During and after each growing season the soil level will settle as the stuff underneath begins to decompose, and during each planting season the bed can be topped up with more good stuff to get it back up to level before planting.
The weather where I live is extremely unpredictable. We normally get a hard freeze by Halloween but we didn't this year my garlic is growing leaves. Is that an issue and how do I fix it?
Nope it will be fine. I live in 5a. They will be awesome I promise.
Mulch those tenders against the cold, they should be okay if there's a layer against the cold wind.
That's an interesting question. I thought a little green above each clove was supposed to be normal. We don't usually get a hard freeze until around Christmas. During October and November my garlic puts up small leaves, usually around 6", and then it quits growing throughout the colder months of mid December to February and into late March, when it resumes growing. I thought the young green leaves would produce chlorophyll which would encourage root growth during the freeze/thaw cycles in winter. That's an interesting thought though. I struggle a bit with small bulb size at harvest. I tried extra fertilizer this year; I'm waiting to see how it comes out.
@asteria4279 they already have 4 inches of mulch and the greens are sticking out several inches pas that
@goatkidmom I've got several inches of leaf over the mulch
I wrote to Kean Garlic about the paper skin on / off thing. they said it makes no difference.
I left some bulbs in the ground forgetting to harvest them. They’ve now sprouted roots a little and I’m going to plant them anyway instead of the garlic I harvested when I should have and dried. Wish me luck. :) I’ve done well planting this late the last 2 years. Western Oregon winters aren’t overly harsh, but it’s a lot of cold and wet for a while.
"No dodgy ingredients" minus the maltodextrin that they don't list. The controversy has been crazy over it, lots of people whining. 😂 Don't know what people expected from a "no sugar" yet sweetened beverage. 😅 I still use them 🤷♀️
Look at those young knees😂
Disinfecting the garlic is a smart idea. But breaking down the 'dirty' garlic over the bed you are going to plant in seems like a great way to reintroduce the same pests and illnesses. Especially because it seems they left al good chunk of papers on the street side of the bed. I would be interested to see if that side of the bed suffers from more issues later in the growing season.
I call that cover, hardware cloth.. big overkill for chickens.
My garlic of choice for where I am is elephant garlic.. and I like it better than other garlic.
I could be wrong but the peroxide you used looked like regular drugstore peroxide, you should absolutely use food grade hydrogen peroxide only.
What do we do with the extra garlic we don’t have room for? You said you had a tip at the end of the video- no tip. Please help. 😄
Eat, dehydrate, preserve in oil or honey. I did not like the preserving in honey. They ferment, and about halfway through the smell is horrible. I guess that resolves itself i hear but I couldn't handle it.
LMNT is awesome. No sugar so its great for low carb or diabetics. I like the grapefruit. I have even given it to my miniature horses.
10:28🤣
Talk about the nachos
Why did you throw all those unsterilised garlic husks into your garlic bed?
The papers that you peeled off of your garlic were not soaked in the peroxide. Anything you were trying to get off of your garlic you just buried in the soil lol
I'm planting a garlic
Where's the chuckle in the intro???
I thought the chuckles usually only on the homestead channel
Your supplier is crap though. I ordered bulbs, and they're dry and hollow.
But i bet he pays well
I purchased garlic from 3 sources this year, none of them from this channel. Two of them were fine. The last one - a reputable supplier - sent dry, hollow garlic. I'm guessing they use the same source.
Same. Only 2 bulbs grew. I got more using grocery store bulbs
@@stephaniegee227 Interesting cause I also ordered seed garlic from my usual supplier and 1/2 of it was molded out inside. I had it in my fridge for a few months but never had an issue doing this method. Just upsetting this year
What supplier? If it's Keane, I've never had issues
So what was the "NEW WAY" to plant garlic in this video?
Thank you for the math. :).
8 times 4 whats? You forgot the units!
I don’t have very good luck growing garlic
I think I water it too much
Can I grow hard neck and soft neck garlic in central TEXAS
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Come on mate. You make enough money as it is, you don't need to flog energy drinks at us
Everyone is sold out of garlic bulbs. 😮💨
Garlic starts pre-order and shipping most places in Sept/Oct, since most places it needs to be planted already. So yeah you're likely out of luck unless you can find some still at a hardware store or something. However I checked Keene Organics and they have some Vietnamese Red small/culinary garlic still available. Maybe some others if you call/email them? I know they also offer "seconds" and cloves that are already broken up from storage and they sell that in batches at the end of the season. Not sure if they have any of those left either.