By the way! If your soil is not frozen solid then it is NOT too late to plant garlic where you live! Ideally you would want to plant about a month before your ground freezes or within 2 weeks of your first frost. Garlic can technically be planted under frozen soil if you are stubborn and want to try it, just don't forget the mulch! For anyone who doesn't get a ground freeze then also have no fear you can pretty much plant garlic whenever but for best results plant sooner rather than later. If you don't have garlic or missed your window have no fear! You can always plant garlic in the spring and it will do just fine, it just might be a tad smaller than fall sown garlic!
I live in northern NV and we get hard frost/snow. Sometimes snow for months straight lol. I plant my garlic (hard neck only) in November and just go a little deeper. Thin layer of mulch at planting and covered in early spring. Had a bumper crop this year with some huge heads.
I got about 500 cloves planted last weekend (about the same in flower bulbs this weekend). I got severely teased by all my co-workers, but in my defense, I REALLY love garlic fresh, I dehydrate a ton of it and make an allium powder that is DELISH, and then I use a lot in sauces I freeze. For some reason, I plant the same number of flower bulbs each year, but with garlic, it felt like an accomplishment. But I have a few more cloves from the pantry (and some cheeky ginger), so I am here for it. As much as I love to baby my tomatoes, peppers and dahlias, I love the long and mostly chill process of growing garlic.
Wow that's amazing! So many flower bulbs! I haven't delved into flower bulbs yet but I imagine the physical work is the same as garlic. It's a relaxing process for sure but also quite a tedious one!
Thank you for explaining the wrapper thing! Last year I damaged the wrappers on all my big music cloves and only planted the small ones. These obviously produced tiny little heads. I will try growing music again next year with this in mind. I chose Italian red hard neck for this year. My silver skin and inchelium red soft necks are planted and ready to grow. Some are sprouting already since I planted 2 weeks ago. Last year I shoved around 20 cloves in a 15 gallon epic grow bag. lol. I lost track of where I had planted them so I double planted. They still grew and it was an amazing experience. I had 44 heads of garlic from 2 grow bags. I think they did well because of the crazy rain we had last year in Southern California.
I’m growing mine in grow bags this year. Thanks for your comment. I was beginning to second guess whether I can just keep them successfully growing in my 30 gallon bag or opt for the in-ground method.
Jaques, you should contact the seller regarding the evidence of mite damage and the varieties that where affected, so they know to quality check next time or contact their grower.😊
I have personally never had perfect garlic across every variety in my orders over the past 4 years. If the damage is bad, like over 10% then I would be upset but with a bulb like this I am ok with accepting some loss. The mite damage in this case was a guess on my part and almost certainly was something that got onto to the garlic in storage rather than while it was growing. Last year an entire pound of my garlic was bad and I contacted the seller( a different one than I used this year) and they didn't even respond!
Wow that’s a bummer you lost all of your garlic. Glad you went with a different grower this time around. I wish you’d share the name of companies who do you dirty like that so we can kindly reach out to them. :) I mean what if someone else from your subscribers had bought from them as well?
Would be interesting to do some test beds with not soaking the cloves. I have never soaked mine in alcohol or fertilizer and I always have a great crop. If I was sure it made a big difference perhaps I would try!
I will have to try the soaks next year! About a month ago, I bought some Italian and Greek garlic varieties at our local farmers market and planted half of them. They're growing nicely. Can't wait to harvest them next summer!
Just got off work and what do you know…the perfect garlic video pops up! Thanks for the great info! I’m going to try hard neck this year here in Southern California so this was perfect timing!
The 1st year we planted Garlic, we followed the presenter's planting instructions to a tee. Awesome size and harvest, huge umbrella shaped roots. His were soaked. Reason for doing it was to keep the cloves from rotting in damp soil waiting for the ground to freeze. His was a simple mix of 1tbls baking soda, 1tbls of liquid Seafood, to each quart of water soaked for 2hrs. Does it work? I dunno. Would they grow as well, if I didn't soak them? I dunno. They've always grown very well every year since, but not as good as that 1st year. Differences, virgin soil/bed. All new. Never had anything else grown in it. And seed supplied from seed supplier, not our own seed set aside cloves. I have read that year after year, using your own seed will cause bulbs to decrease in size. This year, we'll find out. We bought 1lb of new and planted those in our 1st rows, same bed as our saved cloves. Nice video Jacques
Hey Jacques! This is a great help. This is really my first year planting garlic and I went all out, last year I bought some crap bulbs and I was way too late in planting so it was a fail. This year I’m going to do better, but wondered what your thoughts are on planting garlic in 25 gallon grow bags with potatoes? I’m in Florida 10b, so I have another week or so to plant up, and I’m waiting until after my vacation. Just getting my elephant garlic in today, but love to hear your thoughts no companion planting with potatoes. I’d be curious of your thoughts on potatoes and onions together also. Thanks!
I’ve been growing garlic for the past four years in zone 5a in Maine. I’ve found over time most of my garlic heads only produce two very large cloves per head. All of our garlic originally came from Johnny’s or another reputable, certified local grower. Do you know what might be causing this to happen?
That is interesting, usually what I understood that to mean is that either it didn't grow long enough, wasn't provided what it need during the season (ie not enough light) and then formed the big bulb but didn't split. Usually garlic will form a big ball and then divide into cloves. I have had this happen to me when I planted hard neck garlic without a cold period first in San Diego. Since hard neck needs cold to form properly it only formed the one mega clove and that is it. I have however heard that that mega clove makes for a great seed garlic that can be planted and divided again to become more adaptable to your region. Upon researching a little it seems like this is your problem: "If the temperature increases before the garlic has time to divide, then the result is a large undivided round." Try increasing the amount of mulch and planting earlier if you can!
Thanks for the response. I usually plant between the second week in September and the second week in October with the first of October being our average first frost date. I’ll cover them with pine needle mulch to about 6 inches and won’t harvest until mid July. We typically have snow on the ground until mid April, I think this should be plenty of time for the vernalization process to take place. I have seen the single round bulb of garlic you mentioned when they haven’t had enough chill hours but the ones I have are definitely divided but they are just two massive cloves. It certainly makes peeling the garlic easier. I was reading a paper that indicated the number of cloves per head might be controlled by axillary meristem differentiation but I got a bit lost in the information honestly. Thank you for all your knowledge, love your videos!
Oh shoot! I planted my garlic just under the surface. It’s been 2 weeks! Eek! I guess I gotta get out there and see if I can get it deeper without destroying it
I planted my garlic about 2 weeks ago. Most have sprouted but a couple haven’t come up. Should I be worried? So tempted to dig down and check or replant but maybe I should just give it more time?
You can sit down and check if you want but garlic can be very variable in sprouting. Some varieties are especially slow and will be weeks behind others!
Should I continue to fertilize my garlic that I planted (apparently a little too early) that’s already sprouting? Until winter really hits here? I’m in North TX, zone 8. Thank you!!
I wouldn't bother fertilizing again until spring. Too much early on in colder climates will cause your garlic to get too tall and poke out in the cold weather. If it does you will want to add some extra mulch to keep them warm!
What fertilizer did you use for the fertilizer soak? You may have said and I just missed it. The red incilium garlic I grew last season tasted like nothing I can get at the grocery, and my husband (the cook) was overwhelmingly happy. He learned to cook during the 26 years we lived in New Orleans.
Oh that's amazing! Whenever we run out of our homegrown garlic we get very sad and have to deal with lackluster flat tasting garlic. The fertilizer I used in their case was agrothrive organic liquid fertilizer. Any liquid organic fertilizer should do just fine though!
@@jacquesinthegardenthank you for all that you do. You have taught me so much over the last few years. Gardening is San Diego is fantastic. I planted my garlic a few weeks ago. Some are 6” tall, some haven’t sprouted. Onions are still in their cells. Potatoes are going in soon (new to them). I used to grow 20 varieties of peppers every spring. This year I am dedicating my entire crop to Calabrian peppers. Crushed red pepper does not compare. Thanks to you, I know I will have enough powder to last me a full year for my Bronx pizza and Raos sauce. 😊 QOL boost.
Hi, its my first time planting garlic this year in south florida and idk what i was thinking, but i took all the wrapper of my garlic bulb. 😢 im still gonna plant them but has anyone had success with naked bulbs :(
I missed my garlic planting time here in Michigan, it is now too cold and rainy. It is a real shame because I had purchased all of the garlic to plant but the compost I bought had so many about .5-1inch rocks and I was worried it would affect the growth of my garlic and other root vegetables. Any advice for what I can do?
You can very likely hold onto your garlic until spring and plant it then. You could still plant some if your ground isn't frozen but it wouldn't be fun that's for sure. As to the rocks it's probably fine, with carrots it would be unfortunate but other roots should be able to deal with it
@@jacquesinthegarden Thank you for the reply Jacque, the next week is going to have 33°F-26°F night with possible rain. Also would you have any recommendations on clearing these size rocks?
I planted my garlic 2 weeks ago (7b). Wish I’d known about the soaking bc I grew some from the farmer’s market vs. from a grower. Will try in the future. I haven’t had disease issues in the past (I just knocked on wood).
@@LizThompson-ds1fl I have not tried growing garlic. I just love all stinky vegetables 😋 or whatever they technically are I'm going to eat it. One day I will have a backyard garden!
Honestly this is one I should actually side by side test. In the end if it has an impact it will be marginal at best. As for the sanitize soak I don't think it is BS. There is always the chance for mites or fly larva to be hiding in garlic and the soak kills them before they can be a problem. Of course there is a chance you have nothing to kill and your garlic is fine to plant so while not BS I can't say it will benefit everyone. The fertilizer soak is a harder sell to me but at the very least the organic based fertilizers should transfer some good microbiology to the garlic which should help it in the long run.
By the way! If your soil is not frozen solid then it is NOT too late to plant garlic where you live! Ideally you would want to plant about a month before your ground freezes or within 2 weeks of your first frost. Garlic can technically be planted under frozen soil if you are stubborn and want to try it, just don't forget the mulch! For anyone who doesn't get a ground freeze then also have no fear you can pretty much plant garlic whenever but for best results plant sooner rather than later.
If you don't have garlic or missed your window have no fear! You can always plant garlic in the spring and it will do just fine, it just might be a tad smaller than fall sown garlic!
I live in northern NV and we get hard frost/snow. Sometimes snow for months straight lol. I plant my garlic (hard neck only) in November and just go a little deeper. Thin layer of mulch at planting and covered in early spring. Had a bumper crop this year with some huge heads.
I got about 500 cloves planted last weekend (about the same in flower bulbs this weekend). I got severely teased by all my co-workers, but in my defense, I REALLY love garlic fresh, I dehydrate a ton of it and make an allium powder that is DELISH, and then I use a lot in sauces I freeze. For some reason, I plant the same number of flower bulbs each year, but with garlic, it felt like an accomplishment. But I have a few more cloves from the pantry (and some cheeky ginger), so I am here for it. As much as I love to baby my tomatoes, peppers and dahlias, I love the long and mostly chill process of growing garlic.
Wow that's amazing! So many flower bulbs! I haven't delved into flower bulbs yet but I imagine the physical work is the same as garlic. It's a relaxing process for sure but also quite a tedious one!
Thank you for explaining the wrapper thing! Last year I damaged the wrappers on all my big music cloves and only planted the small ones. These obviously produced tiny little heads. I will try growing music again next year with this in mind. I chose Italian red hard neck for this year. My silver skin and inchelium red soft necks are planted and ready to grow. Some are sprouting already since I planted 2 weeks ago. Last year I shoved around 20 cloves in a 15 gallon epic grow bag. lol. I lost track of where I had planted them so I double planted. They still grew and it was an amazing experience. I had 44 heads of garlic from 2 grow bags. I think they did well because of the crazy rain we had last year in Southern California.
I’m growing mine in grow bags this year. Thanks for your comment. I was beginning to second guess whether I can just keep them successfully growing in my 30 gallon bag or opt for the in-ground method.
Jaques, you should contact the seller regarding the evidence of mite damage and the varieties that where affected, so they know to quality check next time or contact their grower.😊
I have personally never had perfect garlic across every variety in my orders over the past 4 years. If the damage is bad, like over 10% then I would be upset but with a bulb like this I am ok with accepting some loss. The mite damage in this case was a guess on my part and almost certainly was something that got onto to the garlic in storage rather than while it was growing.
Last year an entire pound of my garlic was bad and I contacted the seller( a different one than I used this year) and they didn't even respond!
Wow that’s a bummer you lost all of your garlic. Glad you went with a different grower this time around. I wish you’d share the name of companies who do you dirty like that so we can kindly reach out to them. :) I mean what if someone else from your subscribers had bought from them as well?
Would be interesting to do some test beds with not soaking the cloves. I have never soaked mine in alcohol or fertilizer and I always have a great crop. If I was sure it made a big difference perhaps I would try!
I have some garlic left so maybe I'll just. Go ahead and run this experiment
I will have to try the soaks next year! About a month ago, I bought some Italian and Greek garlic varieties at our local farmers market and planted half of them. They're growing nicely. Can't wait to harvest them next summer!
Just got off work and what do you know…the perfect garlic video pops up! Thanks for the great info! I’m going to try hard neck this year here in Southern California so this was perfect timing!
Awesome! Wish you the best of luck with your garlic this year!
The 1st year we planted Garlic, we followed the presenter's planting instructions
to a tee. Awesome size and harvest, huge umbrella shaped roots. His were soaked.
Reason for doing it was to keep the cloves from rotting in damp soil waiting for the
ground to freeze. His was a simple mix of 1tbls baking soda, 1tbls of liquid Seafood,
to each quart of water soaked for 2hrs. Does it work? I dunno. Would they grow as
well, if I didn't soak them? I dunno. They've always grown very well every year since,
but not as good as that 1st year.
Differences, virgin soil/bed. All new. Never had anything else grown in it.
And seed supplied from seed supplier, not our own seed set aside cloves.
I have read that year after year, using your own seed will cause bulbs to decrease in
size. This year, we'll find out. We bought 1lb of new and planted those in our 1st rows,
same bed as our saved cloves.
Nice video Jacques
Jaques strap, way to make planting garlic a chore. 👍😅
Thank you sir! Needed this info...am in Houston TX and was pondering Garlic planting
Glad to have been of help!
Hey Jacques! This is a great help. This is really my first year planting garlic and I went all out, last year I bought some crap bulbs and I was way too late in planting so it was a fail. This year I’m going to do better, but wondered what your thoughts are on planting garlic in 25 gallon grow bags with potatoes? I’m in Florida 10b, so I have another week or so to plant up, and I’m waiting until after my vacation. Just getting my elephant garlic in today, but love to hear your thoughts no companion planting with potatoes. I’d be curious of your thoughts on potatoes and onions together also. Thanks!
Great stuff as always Jacques.
I've had great success with the hard neck variety "Music" WOW!! 600 garlic plants is massive! No kisses for you!!🤣
Music is for sure my favorite! I am happy to report I've planted around 500 to 600 cloves now!
This was so informative, Jacques! Thank you!
Glad you found it helpful!
I’ve been growing garlic for the past four years in zone 5a in Maine. I’ve found over time most of my garlic heads only produce two very large cloves per head. All of our garlic originally came from Johnny’s or another reputable, certified local grower. Do you know what might be causing this to happen?
That is interesting, usually what I understood that to mean is that either it didn't grow long enough, wasn't provided what it need during the season (ie not enough light) and then formed the big bulb but didn't split. Usually garlic will form a big ball and then divide into cloves. I have had this happen to me when I planted hard neck garlic without a cold period first in San Diego. Since hard neck needs cold to form properly it only formed the one mega clove and that is it. I have however heard that that mega clove makes for a great seed garlic that can be planted and divided again to become more adaptable to your region. Upon researching a little it seems like this is your problem:
"If the temperature increases before the garlic has time to divide, then the result is a large undivided round."
Try increasing the amount of mulch and planting earlier if you can!
Thanks for the response. I usually plant between the second week in September and the second week in October with the first of October being our average first frost date. I’ll cover them with pine needle mulch to about 6 inches and won’t harvest until mid July. We typically have snow on the ground until mid April, I think this should be plenty of time for the vernalization process to take place. I have seen the single round bulb of garlic you mentioned when they haven’t had enough chill hours but the ones I have are definitely divided but they are just two massive cloves. It certainly makes peeling the garlic easier. I was reading a paper that indicated the number of cloves per head might be controlled by axillary meristem differentiation but I got a bit lost in the information honestly. Thank you for all your knowledge, love your videos!
We live in the northeast, we dont plant it that deep, inch or so on top + 3-4" of straw.
Oh shoot! I planted my garlic just under the surface. It’s been 2 weeks! Eek! I guess I gotta get out there and see if I can get it deeper without destroying it
I was watching another video and saw a new video from Jacques pop up.......I'm watching Jacques. I've never done the soak and have had success. Hmm...
In the end garlic will grow regardless that is for sure! Any soak is optional in the end!
Thanks for the video !
I planted my garlic about 2 weeks ago. Most have sprouted but a couple haven’t come up. Should I be worried? So tempted to dig down and check or replant but maybe I should just give it more time?
You can sit down and check if you want but garlic can be very variable in sprouting. Some varieties are especially slow and will be weeks behind others!
Bring on the vampires...I'm ready! ❤❤❤❤
Should I continue to fertilize my garlic that I planted (apparently a little too early) that’s already sprouting? Until winter really hits here? I’m in North TX, zone 8. Thank you!!
I wouldn't bother fertilizing again until spring. Too much early on in colder climates will cause your garlic to get too tall and poke out in the cold weather. If it does you will want to add some extra mulch to keep them warm!
What fertilizer did you use for the fertilizer soak? You may have said and I just missed it. The red incilium garlic I grew last season tasted like nothing I can get at the grocery, and my husband (the cook) was overwhelmingly happy. He learned to cook during the 26 years we lived in New Orleans.
Oh that's amazing! Whenever we run out of our homegrown garlic we get very sad and have to deal with lackluster flat tasting garlic. The fertilizer I used in their case was agrothrive organic liquid fertilizer. Any liquid organic fertilizer should do just fine though!
@@jacquesinthegardenthank you for all that you do. You have taught me so much over the last few years. Gardening is San Diego is fantastic. I planted my garlic a few weeks ago. Some are 6” tall, some haven’t sprouted. Onions are still in their cells. Potatoes are going in soon (new to them). I used to grow 20 varieties of peppers every spring. This year I am dedicating my entire crop to Calabrian peppers. Crushed red pepper does not compare. Thanks to you, I know I will have enough powder to last me a full year for my Bronx pizza and Raos sauce. 😊 QOL boost.
Hi, its my first time planting garlic this year in south florida and idk what i was thinking, but i took all the wrapper of my garlic bulb. 😢 im still gonna plant them but has anyone had success with naked bulbs :(
Great video
I missed my garlic planting time here in Michigan, it is now too cold and rainy. It is a real shame because I had purchased all of the garlic to plant but the compost I bought had so many about .5-1inch rocks and I was worried it would affect the growth of my garlic and other root vegetables. Any advice for what I can do?
You can very likely hold onto your garlic until spring and plant it then. You could still plant some if your ground isn't frozen but it wouldn't be fun that's for sure. As to the rocks it's probably fine, with carrots it would be unfortunate but other roots should be able to deal with it
@@jacquesinthegarden Thank you for the reply Jacque, the next week is going to have 33°F-26°F night with possible rain. Also would you have any recommendations on clearing these size rocks?
Do you ever tried doing the elephant garlic? Is def big lol 😂 maybe that's what that last one is.. gopher it oh oh. This is very informative ty
I’ve been growing elephant garlic for years. Can’t recommend it enough! It’s actually in the leek family.
I planted my garlic 2 weeks ago (7b). Wish I’d known about the soaking bc I grew some from the farmer’s market vs. from a grower. Will try in the future. I haven’t had disease issues in the past (I just knocked on wood).
I actually don't like the taste of elephant garlic as much, it isn't as complex and spicy making it not very appealing for me.
@jacquesinthegarden very mild yep
@@LizThompson-ds1fl I have not tried growing garlic. I just love all stinky vegetables 😋 or whatever they technically are I'm going to eat it. One day I will have a backyard garden!
😅 hey it finally snowed in zone 4B Minnesota
In my head you guys were swimming in snow by now haha
@@jacquesinthegarden No my last veggie growing was a cauliflower first time growing it in muscle lay dormant underneath of the corn 🌽
I'll post some pictures lol just got to figure it out 🤣
Best would be using Korean farming techniques. Always yields the best quality with any plant and zero chemical bs. No bottles as you have tbere
It is one I still haven't dug into yet but a system I am for sure interested in.
Soaking is utter nonsense
Honestly this is one I should actually side by side test. In the end if it has an impact it will be marginal at best. As for the sanitize soak I don't think it is BS. There is always the chance for mites or fly larva to be hiding in garlic and the soak kills them before they can be a problem. Of course there is a chance you have nothing to kill and your garlic is fine to plant so while not BS I can't say it will benefit everyone. The fertilizer soak is a harder sell to me but at the very least the organic based fertilizers should transfer some good microbiology to the garlic which should help it in the long run.