I just had my first successful garlic harvest yesterday. It pales in comparison to yours. My wife and I were thrilled. It was glorious. Thanks for the inspo!
Oh I harvested mine yesterday and it was a great crop! I also planted carrots between the garlic and did not thin. When I pulled the garlic a few carrots came out. It was pretty satisfying !
As soon as I saw this, I went and harvested mine because it looked just like yours, mine too is the best crop I’ve ever had! Crazy awesome growing season.
😂 I share your joy and smiles! I harvested my garlic this week and it is like Christmas for gardeners!! 🎉 I love growing it and watching you be so happy! Congrats!!😊
I must concur with many of the commentators, your joy is addicting!!! You and James Prigioni are so super stoked to be in the garden it is such a happy thing to watch. And your gardening is wow too. I left some garlic and onions in the garden from last year because you told me that onions are biennials. When you pulled that ginormous brown skin onion out of the ground you said you would save it for next year. I was like what??? And then I found out that you would re plant it next year for seeds to make more big onions. I thank you for your channel on You Tube.
This has been an exciting week! Garlic harvest was Sunday, and ours looked a lot like yours! I planted hardneck and softneck all together last October after digging up our sweet potatoes. They went in double rows at 4" spacing, with 18" between each double row. Put a cover crop of peas, oats and mustard over top with another inch of compost over. It all grew nicely until January, when the freeze killed the cover crop. Put some shredded leaves over top and waited for early spring. Then it was only a few shots of compost tea while it was growing, and we got our best harvest yet! I was as shocked as you were when I started pulling up these monsters! Now sweet potato slips are back in the bed and looking forward to October again. 😊
@@amy_soucy Our garlic has not started turning brown either. We are located across Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. We have had a lot of rain! We use a garden pitch fork to gently lift the garlic out of the soil. Wait a few days for your soil to dry so you don’t have muddy bulbs. Luke your garlic is huge. Great job. Happiness abounds!!🧄
My garlic is suddenly looking ready too and I was worried because it's so early! (Growing in Eastern Mass.) So happy to see so many other's finding the same thing this year!
Friends, I lived on an organic farm that sold seed garlic, and my husband supervised garlic harvesting and processing. PLEASE do not pull your garlic up like this. Use a trowel to gently lift the bulb - pulling like this can damage the skin and cause bulbs to rot.
I love your excitement when gardening. Your garlic looks great. Mine is ready here in Ohio too but I am going to try to wait a couple of days for it to dry out a bit before harvesting. We have been getting so much rain the last couple of days. I know mine always keeps longer if I harvest it when it is dry.
I just pulled my garlic and had the same experience. All the garlic were big and healthy. I pulled 75 garlic heads these past few weeks in total. So fun! And great for all my cooking dishes.
Love your enthusiasm! I’m so jealous of your haul. Last October I planted a huge bed of garlic I bought from Amazon. Guess what? Not one single bulb came up. So disappointing. Bought lots of onions seeds from Migardner so that bed is now filled up with onions that look fantastic. Waiting for the restock of garlic in your shop to buy to plant this year.
I tried that with Okinawan sweet potatoes trying to get slips to start. Each one rotted before putting out a single slip. The problem is that often some of this stuff is shipped overseas, which means they typically irradiate or otherwise treat it, which knocks out its viability. Thank goodness I found someone on the Facebook marketplace living at least in the same state as me who was very generous with her slips. I am very wary about ordering growables on Amazon. Sometimes they never grow, or it's something different from what you ordered. Like one banana plant my wife bought me for my birthday. Advertised as the Blue Java ice cream banana plant, but turns out it was most likely an entirely different (albeit still delicious from what I hear) variety.
I LOVE your enthusiasm! I tried garlic for the very first time this year. It was a flip. The only garlic that seemed to do well was the elephant garlic. I need to take a look at your garden bed prep
Harvested half of mine. Waiting for the other half to be ready. Still watering some, waiting for others to have more brown leaves before pulling. Love hearing your excitement.
QUESTION: What size bulbs should I set aside for seed garlic? The normal size or the big ones? Does anyone braid for storage? (My harvest was fantastic and also early in KC this year, too). Thanks, Luke, for sharing your knowledge AND your joy! 🤩
I had my most successful garlic harvest this year. More than 30 balls. 8 nearly tennis ball size. Definitely saving the largest cloves for fall planting. Got my “seed” from natural grocer. Don’t know exact origin but all soft neck.
Luke, your enthusiasm is so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your fanastic gardening tips, advise and knowhow. My veggie gardening has been taken to a whole new level thanks to you!
I harvested mine this morning. First year for me so I am just hoping I did things correctly. Aside from the elephant garlic, I got the others from you. German is the one that did the best followed by Ivan. Music did poorly, very small bulb but it still looks pretty. Hopefully I can keep a couple of the German and Ivan and replant them this Fall.
I bought your garlic last year from the website and I also got massive garlics. I've never seen garlic so large, there's a couple that are larger than the palm of my hand.
Nice growth for not being in a Mediterranean climate. It practically grows wild here in Seattle especially elephant garlic. They also produce corms which end up being left in the soil. They soon germinate and grow into a single bulb elephant garlic. Since our winters around here are mild these single bulb elephant garlic survive and are ready to harvest by the next summer
I live in zone 5b in Illinois not sure what variety of hardneck I have grown but for 20 yrs it has regrown every year and spread more in area it is growing in all on it's own figured it was due to missed scapes but also think it is due to unharvested bulbs..even with our harshest winters and hottest dry summers it just keeps right on going..this year I got a lot of big bulbs ( 2-3" across the bottom) without thinning them outline I usually have too..I used no fertilizer no watering during really hot and dry periods even though we had a lot of record heat index days in June and July and very little rain during those times , in fact we were in a drought condition..
@@cct9194 in a slow cooker on warm rap heads in clingwrap then aluminum foil it takes about 3 weeks then dehydrat some and grind in coffee bean grinder
Hm... Maybe I should experiment this upcoming year. Grow garlic around the perimeter of the raised garden bed, and interplant it with fast growing plants like radishes or perennial herbs like basil. Then, try to mend/compost the soil at the center of the garden bed during spring (our spring is too cold for a lot of plants/seedlings). Once it finally warms up (end of May usually), is when I can harden my spring/summer seedling plants. I planted garlic last autumn, but only one out of the bunch have survived (first time trying as a newbie gardener). Too much rain in the autumn season, and winter has been pretty warm/dry for the Northeast.
I planted for the first time this year. Mine have another bulb like area growing an inch or two above the In ground bulbs. What causes this? These did not produce scapes so they were soft neck. I can’t wait to get garlic from your store this year.
This past fall was my first time planting garlic. I planted 21 bulbs. I have 9 left bc my chickens ruined it. Anyways, i wasnt sure when to pull it. Mistake #1 Imade from watching this was that ivelet it flower. Thanks for your videos and teaching me what to do with my things. Round 2 will be this coming fall. Hopefully my chickens will stay out. I have a better set up now to keep them out of it.
I've harvested half my garlic and came up with a number of solo/mono garlic that was one single giant clove/bulb. Any idea what would happen if I saved these and planted them for next season?
I have a QUESTION: How can I dry/keep/use CUBAN Oregano? I have an overabundance of it, and don't have a large family, and I want to make good use of it ALL! 😊 Any assistance/advice you can provide, I would be most grateful!!!
Been a good year for garlic. I had a few Persian Star that were fat and globe shaped. The individual cloves became more apparent a week or so into curing.
I harvest all my elephant garlic 4 days ago it’s start splitting on neck area,we have so much rain ,so I dig them out. Now I still have another kind still there ,I look today on it’s still green more ,so I think I wait till next week. I already plant there today carrots and basilica.Cabbage in containers waiting .
So I normally let my garlic die back a little more than this and let the top half of the plant die completely back, but after seeing these results, I might be going out and harvesting my crop this afternoon. I agree it was a great year for garlic. Once it warmed up, it stayed warm and wet and some of my stems are the thickest I have ever seen.
I looked at my garlic tops and they don't look quite ready yet. I'll wait another week or so before digging it up. ...can hardly wait! We're nearly out of garlic in our kitchen.
Loved watching how excited you got. I hope I'm the same way when it's time here to harvest. I just harvested my scapes a few days ago so it's getting close.
I love growing garlic. I am on my 4th year. I plant in spring and fall. This year I did hard and soft neck. I noticed the soft neck were a bit small this year. Any tips?
I love your joy! But I have garlic envy!😂 I pulled mine up this morning, and they were all much smaller than what they were last year. But I will try again!
I planted in the fall, it greened up, I left it to overwinter, and nothing. 😢. Maybe I put it in too early? I was told it would be fine but nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Not one green sprout. Do I dig it up and start over this fall or wait it out? I’m in Iowa. It was so pretty 😭. And it was MI Gardener starts!
I think purchasing garlic online rather than just planting local farmer's market garlic was a mistake: much of it just didn't mature before the tops died off. I'm near Gilroy CA, the "garlic capitol of the US" and I think buying local is what I'll do from now on...😢
Purchasing "online" is rather vague. If you purchase online from a reputable company there shouldn't be issues. Amazon (for instance) is not. MI Gardener has a big variety and many have had great success with their products.
Buying local seed garlic and then saving my own seed from year to year means I am growing garlic that does well in my area. Yes, it’s fun to try a new variety that someone on the internet raves about, so I am not going to knock people who do that. However, I’ve found it takes a few years for a variety grown elsewhere to acclimate itself to my growing conditions. I don’t want to wait for small garlic to start producing large heads. Since you’re near Gilroy it should be easy to find varieties for next year that will do well.
Its possible to craft a garlic digger. Basically a flat horizontal blade attached to a pto that goes under the heads to loosen them up and make it easy to pull. If youre doing acres of garlic it is worth it. That a d a garlic planter
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Psalm 126:5-6 KJV
Did you prune the elephant garlic scape the same time as the rest that looked amazing I’m waiting for my first harvest in Colorado. Leaves haven’t started dying back yet.
We harvested our garlic yesterday, got 95 heads. Some didn't separate into cloves so I'm thinking I have some that grew from corms (just looked and planted 78 cloves so yes, some is from corms). We replant from our own garlic each Oct, and only grow elephant garlic.
@@joeoleary5346 Soft neck garlic doesn't have them, but I think hard neck garlic does and definitely elephant garlic does. When you pull a garlic head out of the ground, you'll see small bulblets that grow on the outside of the garlic bulbs. They're hard and look like miniature cloves, with a pointy tip and a blunt side. Basically, they're just a big seed that will grow more garlic (but only rounds that first year).
Hi Luke, you said to harvest when 50 -75% of the leaves are dead. The first several i watched you pull only had maybe one yellow " dead looking" leaf. Am I wrong or missing something?
I’ve had that issue, squirrel love garlic and onions. I found placing a nylon netting over the what I plant- let the cloves or sets get a deep start. After a few months, they seem to no longer be interested in my crop. I then remove the netting, save for use next year.
This video brought me so much joy. When you see someone so giddy over doing something they love, and it is so wholesome, it makes me happy!
me, too!
I just had my first successful garlic harvest yesterday. It pales in comparison to yours. My wife and I were thrilled. It was glorious. Thanks for the inspo!
Any day you’re looking down at a plant instead of up at the roots it’s a good day!
Oh I harvested mine yesterday and it was a great crop! I also planted carrots between the garlic and did not thin. When I pulled the garlic a few carrots came out. It was pretty satisfying !
I live in Rochester NY and I noticed my garlic looks ready now. I normally harvest after 4th of July but I'm doing it tomorrow. You the man Luke!
As soon as I saw this, I went and harvested mine because it looked just like yours, mine too is the best crop I’ve ever had! Crazy awesome growing season.
😂 I share your joy and smiles! I harvested my garlic this week and it is like Christmas for gardeners!! 🎉 I love growing it and watching you be so happy! Congrats!!😊
I must concur with many of the commentators, your joy is addicting!!! You and James Prigioni are so super stoked to be in the garden it is such a happy thing to watch. And your gardening is wow too. I left some garlic and onions in the garden from last year because you told me that onions are biennials. When you pulled that ginormous brown skin onion out of the ground you said you would save it for next year. I was like what??? And then I found out that you would re plant it next year for seeds to make more big onions. I thank you for your channel on You Tube.
I planted migardener garlic last year and just pulled mine as well. Awesome harvest!
Where's your garden fork dude? lol Harvested half of mine and this weekend the rest is coming out. Thanks for being awesome Luke.
I love your joy, Luke! Garlic makes me happy too.
It's better to use a garden fork to gently lift up the entire plant than to just pull on it. Use the fork, Luke!
I usually dig my hand underneath and gently push up but I don't have a lot to harvest, maybe 2 or 3 rows
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lol. Some of us get it !
I’m planting 1,000 this fall. Most is sold already! Fun crop!
This has been an exciting week! Garlic harvest was Sunday, and ours looked a lot like yours! I planted hardneck and softneck all together last October after digging up our sweet potatoes. They went in double rows at 4" spacing, with 18" between each double row. Put a cover crop of peas, oats and mustard over top with another inch of compost over. It all grew nicely until January, when the freeze killed the cover crop. Put some shredded leaves over top and waited for early spring. Then it was only a few shots of compost tea while it was growing, and we got our best harvest yet! I was as shocked as you were when I started pulling up these monsters! Now sweet potato slips are back in the bed and looking forward to October again. 😊
I spent $150 at the local MI Gardener’s store on garlic cloves, time to dig them up!
Are you in the same climate? Mine are not ready yet.
@@amy_soucy Our garlic has not started turning brown either. We are located across Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. We have had a lot of rain! We use a garden pitch fork to gently lift the garlic out of the soil. Wait a few days for your soil to dry so you don’t have muddy bulbs.
Luke your garlic is huge. Great job. Happiness abounds!!🧄
I bought 3 heads 7 years ago and never had to buy them again. I plant about 200 every year now and able to have garlic the whole year 😊
Great harvest Luke! Will pick mine in a week or two.👍🏻
I’d never use that much garlic lol
We planted 1100 cloves and we just harvested and holy cow did the garlic do great this year!! So excited to put it away for the year!!
My garlic is suddenly looking ready too and I was worried because it's so early! (Growing in Eastern Mass.) So happy to see so many other's finding the same thing this year!
I used your bulb protect and feed as well and had an epic harvest! Epic!! Will definitely use it again 😊
Friends, I lived on an organic farm that sold seed garlic, and my husband supervised garlic harvesting and processing. PLEASE do not pull your garlic up like this. Use a trowel to gently lift the bulb - pulling like this can damage the skin and cause bulbs to rot.
Doesn’t it depend on how soft your soil is?
right? I use a digging fork
Do you wash them after or wait til the soil on the bulb is dry and dry wipe it?
Do you have a website that I can go visit? Would like to check out your seed garlic 🧄 ❤
@@Gen2GenHomesteadWait till they're dry. It also helps if you harvest after a few dry days. Any way you can avoid moisture is good.
Love the infectious excitement. Can't wait to see if my garlic harvest is just as tremendous!
My garlic leaves are so tall, up to my waist right now!! I'm hoping for a really good harvest soon! Scapes are just starting to form
Same here, have never seen garlic grow like this before, I'm 6ft and it's up to my chest
Your excitement is so contagious! I was smiling and even giggling? Right along with you! Well done!
I suggest you use a garden fork to loosen the garlic before you pull. You’ll have much better results.
I love your excitement when gardening. Your garlic looks great. Mine is ready here in Ohio too but I am going to try to wait a couple of days for it to dry out a bit before harvesting. We have been getting so much rain the last couple of days. I know mine always keeps longer if I harvest it when it is dry.
I just pulled my garlic and had the same experience. All the garlic were big and healthy. I pulled 75 garlic heads these past few weeks in total. So fun! And great for all my cooking dishes.
Love your enthusiasm! I’m so jealous of your haul. Last October I planted a huge bed of garlic I bought from Amazon. Guess what? Not one single bulb came up. So disappointing. Bought lots of onions seeds from Migardner so that bed is now filled up with onions that look fantastic. Waiting for the restock of garlic in your shop to buy to plant this year.
@judy
Amazon?. Go straight to companies you can actually talk to people
Same here. I got them off of Amazon and that was a big mistake.
I tried that with Okinawan sweet potatoes trying to get slips to start. Each one rotted before putting out a single slip. The problem is that often some of this stuff is shipped overseas, which means they typically irradiate or otherwise treat it, which knocks out its viability. Thank goodness I found someone on the Facebook marketplace living at least in the same state as me who was very generous with her slips. I am very wary about ordering growables on Amazon. Sometimes they never grow, or it's something different from what you ordered. Like one banana plant my wife bought me for my birthday. Advertised as the Blue Java ice cream banana plant, but turns out it was most likely an entirely different (albeit still delicious from what I hear) variety.
I LOVE your enthusiasm!
I tried garlic for the very first time this year. It was a flip. The only garlic that seemed to do well was the elephant garlic. I need to take a look at your garden bed prep
Your enthusiasm is awesome!
I literally felt the excitement in this video . Great year for garlic as well for me this year . 😊
Harvested half of mine. Waiting for the other half to be ready. Still watering some, waiting for others to have more brown leaves before pulling. Love hearing your excitement.
Great harvest. I find that by digging them out the bulbs don't break off.
Your excitement made me smile.
QUESTION: What size bulbs should I set aside for seed garlic? The normal size or the big ones? Does anyone braid for storage? (My harvest was fantastic and also early in KC this year, too). Thanks, Luke, for sharing your knowledge AND your joy! 🤩
Always replant the biggest cloves. Softneck garlic can be braided. Hardneck cannot.
I absolutely love his sheer joy
Pulled mine today and my German garlic all were as big as your biggest one you showed. All thanks to trifecta +
I had my most successful garlic harvest this year. More than 30 balls. 8 nearly tennis ball size. Definitely saving the largest cloves for fall planting. Got my “seed” from natural grocer. Don’t know exact origin but all soft neck.
Luke, your enthusiasm is so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your fanastic gardening tips, advise and knowhow. My veggie gardening has been taken to a whole new level thanks to you!
Incredible size! Awesome!
Love the enthusiasm
I love how excited some garlic made you 😊. I’d be SOOO excited too. I think I might give it a try this year!!
Great haul. Mine came out last month.
I harvested mine this morning. First year for me so I am just hoping I did things correctly. Aside from the elephant garlic, I got the others from you. German is the one that did the best followed by Ivan. Music did poorly, very small bulb but it still looks pretty. Hopefully I can keep a couple of the German and Ivan and replant them this Fall.
I bought your garlic last year from the website and I also got massive garlics. I've never seen garlic so large, there's a couple that are larger than the palm of my hand.
He's like a kid in a candy store! Love it.
Those look great Luke
That's a great harvest. I haven't had much luck with garlic. It's probably too hot here.
Nice growth for not being in a Mediterranean climate. It practically grows wild here in Seattle especially elephant garlic. They also produce corms which end up being left in the soil. They soon germinate and grow into a single bulb elephant garlic. Since our winters around here are mild these single bulb elephant garlic survive and are ready to harvest by the next summer
I live in zone 5b in Illinois not sure what variety of hardneck I have grown but for 20 yrs it has regrown every year and spread more in area it is growing in all on it's own figured it was due to missed scapes but also think it is due to unharvested bulbs..even with our harshest winters and hottest dry summers it just keeps right on going..this year I got a lot of big bulbs ( 2-3" across the bottom) without thinning them outline I usually have too..I used no fertilizer no watering during really hot and dry periods even though we had a lot of record heat index days in June and July and very little rain during those times , in fact we were in a drought condition..
I make some of mine into black garlic and dry some for black garlic powder so good
How do you process it into black garlic?
@@cct9194 in a slow cooker on warm rap heads in clingwrap then aluminum foil it takes about 3 weeks then dehydrat some and grind in coffee bean grinder
Hm... Maybe I should experiment this upcoming year. Grow garlic around the perimeter of the raised garden bed, and interplant it with fast growing plants like radishes or perennial herbs like basil. Then, try to mend/compost the soil at the center of the garden bed during spring (our spring is too cold for a lot of plants/seedlings). Once it finally warms up (end of May usually), is when I can harden my spring/summer seedling plants.
I planted garlic last autumn, but only one out of the bunch have survived (first time trying as a newbie gardener). Too much rain in the autumn season, and winter has been pretty warm/dry for the Northeast.
I planted for the first time this year. Mine have another bulb like area growing an inch or two above the In ground bulbs. What causes this? These did not produce scapes so they were soft neck. I can’t wait to get garlic from your store this year.
I'm in Michigan too and my garlic has been exceptionally excellent this year too. Could the warmer, wetter winter have helped out?
This past fall was my first time planting garlic. I planted 21 bulbs. I have 9 left bc my chickens ruined it. Anyways, i wasnt sure when to pull it. Mistake #1 Imade from watching this was that ivelet it flower. Thanks for your videos and teaching me what to do with my things. Round 2 will be this coming fall. Hopefully my chickens will stay out. I have a better set up now to keep them out of it.
I'm going to harvesting mine today, right before 4th July
I've harvested half my garlic and came up with a number of solo/mono garlic that was one single giant clove/bulb. Any idea what would happen if I saved these and planted them for next season?
I laugh like you do when I’m harvesting my garlic 🤣🤣💕
Pure joy came through.
I harvested a little early too. They weren't quite as big as yours, but not bad.
I have a QUESTION:
How can I dry/keep/use CUBAN Oregano?
I have an overabundance of it, and don't have a large family, and I want to make good use of it ALL! 😊
Any assistance/advice you can provide, I would be most grateful!!!
Been a good year for garlic. I had a few Persian Star that were fat and globe shaped. The individual cloves became more apparent a week or so into curing.
I harvest all my elephant garlic 4 days ago it’s start splitting on neck area,we have so much rain ,so I dig them out. Now I still have another kind still there ,I look today on it’s still green more ,so I think I wait till next week. I already plant there today carrots and basilica.Cabbage in containers waiting .
So I normally let my garlic die back a little more than this and let the top half of the plant die completely back, but after seeing these results, I might be going out and harvesting my crop this afternoon. I agree it was a great year for garlic. Once it warmed up, it stayed warm and wet and some of my stems are the thickest I have ever seen.
Replying to self: my garlic was ready! Some of it was past ready and was already separating at the neck. The average bulb was bigger than a golf ball!
I looked at my garlic tops and they don't look quite ready yet. I'll wait another week or so before digging it up. ...can hardly wait! We're nearly out of garlic in our kitchen.
I'm so jealous! Life goals for sure!
Loved watching how excited you got. I hope I'm the same way when it's time here to harvest. I just harvested my scapes a few days ago so it's getting close.
I'll be harvesting mine next month in July.
These are beautiful
I love growing garlic. I am on my 4th year. I plant in spring and fall. This year I did hard and soft neck. I noticed the soft neck were a bit small this year. Any tips?
Mine is almost ready! Maybe another week!
I love your joy! But I have garlic envy!😂 I pulled mine up this morning, and they were all much smaller than what they were last year. But I will try again!
we had else nino this year in SoCal and my garlic was huge as well some were softball sized! and no, not elephant garlic, we planted Russian red
Love your reaction to your garlic crop! I wasn't disappointed with mine but would of been more ecstatic if my garlic was bigger, like yours...lol
Great looking heads of hardneck Luke. I have another week or two before I pull mine up.
When do you expect to have bulbs in stock for sale this year ?
I planted in the fall, it greened up, I left it to overwinter, and nothing. 😢. Maybe I put it in too early? I was told it would be fine but nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Not one green sprout. Do I dig it up and start over this fall or wait it out? I’m in Iowa. It was so pretty 😭. And it was MI Gardener starts!
this is so fun! I feel like I'm pulling them out too
WOW! lucky you!!!
I have to wait for a dryer day 😊 i did music garlic this year
Love your enthusiasm! Will you sell small quantities for growing in the fall?
I think purchasing garlic online rather than just planting local farmer's market garlic was a mistake: much of it just didn't mature before the tops died off. I'm near Gilroy CA, the "garlic capitol of the US" and I think buying local is what I'll do from now on...😢
Purchasing "online" is rather vague. If you purchase online from a reputable company there shouldn't be issues. Amazon (for instance) is not. MI Gardener has a big variety and many have had great success with their products.
Buying local seed garlic and then saving my own seed from year to year means I am growing garlic that does well in my area. Yes, it’s fun to try a new variety that someone on the internet raves about, so I am not going to knock people who do that. However, I’ve found it takes a few years for a variety grown elsewhere to acclimate itself to my growing conditions. I don’t want to wait for small garlic to start producing large heads.
Since you’re near Gilroy it should be easy to find varieties for next year that will do well.
Its possible to craft a garlic digger. Basically a flat horizontal blade attached to a pto that goes under the heads to loosen them up and make it easy to pull. If youre doing acres of garlic it is worth it. That a d a garlic planter
Can you also eat the stalk of garlic? Saute? When should I order? If I order now will it be ok until the Fall? Live in northern MA
Awesome!
The beginning made me laugh 😂
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalm 126:5-6 KJV
🤩🤩🤩🤩nice one
Did you prune the elephant garlic scape the same time as the rest that looked amazing I’m waiting for my first harvest in Colorado. Leaves haven’t started dying back yet.
@@Crashbangable Elephant garlic is actually a form of leek. I don't think it produces scapes.
Nice Garlic Luke😁🇦🇺
We harvested our garlic yesterday, got 95 heads. Some didn't separate into cloves so I'm thinking I have some that grew from corms (just looked and planted 78 cloves so yes, some is from corms). We replant from our own garlic each Oct, and only grow elephant garlic.
What are corms?
@@joeoleary5346 Soft neck garlic doesn't have them, but I think hard neck garlic does and definitely elephant garlic does. When you pull a garlic head out of the ground, you'll see small bulblets that grow on the outside of the garlic bulbs. They're hard and look like miniature cloves, with a pointy tip and a blunt side. Basically, they're just a big seed that will grow more garlic (but only rounds that first year).
What to do with the garlic stem after you remove the head? Do you compost it?
Hi Luke, you said to harvest when 50 -75% of the leaves are dead. The first several i watched you pull only had maybe one yellow " dead looking" leaf. Am I wrong or missing something?
I harvested my garlic last week first group my elephant garlic all mono bulbed sad but my siberian was amazing
Luke do you still have your coffee tree? and is it still producing coffee beans?😊
Good job my boy ❤❤❤
Looking good brother!
I need to try bold plus this fall for pur garlic.
When do you use the Bulb Plus?
Fun harvest, huge heads!
Wow that's great. I planted some elephant garlic but none of it grew for me. Maybe the squirrels got it after I planted it...darn squirrels 🐿 😂
I’ve had that issue, squirrel love garlic and onions. I found placing a nylon netting over the what I plant- let the cloves or sets get a deep start. After a few months, they seem to no longer be interested in my crop. I then remove the netting, save for use next year.
@katiemoyer8679 good idea
I cut off the scapes as soon as they appeared (instead of waiting) and had about 20% bigger heads of garlic.
I got the biggest garlic this year ever. Yours looks like mine. I was surprised.
What time of year did you plant this garlic? If in fall, do you cover it during winter or just leave it be?
Hey Luke haven't gotten scapes, but my stems are falling over. Should I harvest my garlic?
Did you plant in the spring or fall? Soft neck or hard neck?