I never comment on you tube videos but I felt led to let you know that your videos are the best explained, best advised and easiest to understand videos I have seen yet on youtube! Thank you for explaining the reasoning behind the things you do. I was an instant fan from the first video. Thank you!
A good tip I was given some years back. Keep some of your garlic back for next seasons planting. Garlic 'adjusts' to the local soil and climate and over a couple of seasons the size and flavour improves.
I've got a garlic that's been in my family for 5 generations!! I brought it from Michigan to Oregon where it's growing incredibly well. Saved from a handful of bulbs into about 10 square feet of plants with 3 generations planted!
Great video Ben Thank you! I plant 250 - 300 cloves every fall (hopefully next week!) We love our garlic...all hard neck. Music and Rocambole are the varieties....we get nice big heads and this year was a banner year! My favorite garlic recipe (and the one that I reeled in my lovely wife of 32 years with) is 40 garlic clove roast chicken! Yep...you guessed it, stuff 40 nice big fat garlic cloves into the chicken and under the skin along with butter, fresh sage, salt and pepper and then roast at 375 for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours (depending on the size of the volunteer bird) I do mine now on our outdoor grill on a rotisserie! I cooked that meal for my wife 35 years ago as a first date at my place and she has fessed up that she was looking for a man who could cook (young lads take note here!) and the meal so impressed her that she made her mind up that evening that we would spend the rest of our lives together! Been cooking for her since we married 32 years ago! Well it worked! 😁 Have a great day and Thank you for the video! Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Wow Mike - that's a great story. And clearly your wife-to-be wasn't bothered about your garlic breath! How wonderful. She picked the right bloke clearly!
Love your comment! My Uncle plants about 300 cloves yearly. This fall he planted Organic Music from Veseys Bulbs, from York, PEI. I'm planting the same. We live in Kamloops, BC. We have had to start with new stock, and new beds, as our area was hit with white rot, a garlic fungus. Where abouts in Canada do you guys live? Oh, and that chicken recipe is to die for!! I've made something similar to the 40 cloves roast chicken....50 cloves roast chicken...lol cheers...🇨🇦
@@cindynott1 Hi Cindy We are in Southern Ontario right on Lake Erie. I bought my initial garlic stock from Vesseys a few years ago. Music is my primary garlic and super happy with it! I get enough to replant and just enough to get through to scape season! Have a great day! Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Garlic is our favorite!! We make a dipping sauce (for fresh baked french bread) made out of olive oil, splash of apple cider vinegar, salt, and pepper to taste. Mince as much garlic as you like and add to the mixture. Stir well. We often eat it by the spoonful if you feel a sore throat coming on as well. It's delicious!!!
"Inchelium Red" is an heirloom variety from the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State, and has been grown since before the arrival of the first Anglo settlers in the area (more than 300 years). It is also on the Slow Food "Ark of Taste" list of outstanding--but also endangered!--varieties at risk of being lost completely. Growing this variety not only helps preserve this important genetic resource, it also ensures you some GREAT garlic!
I’ve been growing garlic for over 15 years - one year I planted on a friend’s farm and had about 1,000 plants! In my region (Western New York State) I plant in the middle of November and harvest is reliably the 2nd-3rd week of July. I grow Red Russian exclusively, from a strain I bought from Ted Maczka, “The Garlic Man of Fish Lake, Ontario.” Ted knew more about garlic than just about anyone ever - he was a garlic hero and is much missed.
One of my favorite garlicky recipes is Mediterranean Pasta. Cook bowtie pasta until not quite aldente, reserve some pasta water. Meanwhile, saute 6-10 cloves of minced (or pressed) garlic in the oil from sundried tomatoes. Add the chopped sundried tomatoes and halved or sliced kalamata olives. Then add the pasta and some chicken broth (if bullion/concentrate, add the pasta water). Bring to simmer, add a ton of spinach and some feta. Cook until pasta is tender and sauce is saucy. Amazing immediately or as leftovers.
Thank you for the straight forward and to the point information without unnecessary padding and wasting our time! Much appreciated! Greetings from Australia 🦘
I like to harvest all my garlic, then peel and chop it all at once in the food processor with a bit of olive oil. Then I use a cookie scoop to scoop onto a parchment lined tray and freeze solid. Once frozen, I transfer my "garlic balls" to a zip top bag and VOILA, I don't have to peel & chop garlic for every meal! I also do the same with fresh ginger, although up to now, it's been with store bought ginger. Next year, I hope to have my own harvest of ginger too!
We really like your video's. they bring us joy. we usually watch it while drinking coffee in the morning. we hope to have a garden like you in the future. also.. we call you worm-guy instead of growveg, because the first video we watched was you talking about worms and we loved it. greetings from sweden.
Ah brilliant! We loved making the worm video - something a bit different. So pleased you enjoy the videos and I'm honoured to be joining you for your morning brew. Keep watching guys, it's appreciated. :-)
I grow about 500 plants every year here on my homestead in Southern Vermont. Hardneck variety, a mix of German Hardy, Spanish Roja and others. I save about 15% of my harvest for seed and plant in mid-late October in soil amended with blood and bone meal and a little garden lime. I cover the cloves with a foot-thick blanket of straw and that way they endure the long winter snow cover. In spring I have to move the straw mulch back to let the young plants get up into the air. Once they are well established, I move the mulch back among the plants to reduce the weeds. I use alfalfa meal as a side dressing and fish emulsion as a foliar spray. Aside from what I use as seed, I use almost all the harvest during the year and only have a few bulbs left by the following July, when the new crop is ready. When a recipe calls for three cloves I use three bulbs. I am an allium addict. I tried shallots this year and they were a great success too. Always look forward to your videos and always learn a lot.
@@GrowVeg I did not mention my drying system. Once out of the ground, the garlic are spread on tarps on my garage floor for two to four weeks. Then I gather the garlic plants and tie groups of five plants together with twine near the top of their leaves. With a small wire "s" shaped hook, I hang the bunched garlic stalks from wires stretched across the garage. I have two fans playing on the suspended garlic for over a month, so no matter how humid it gets in late summer here, the garlic will dry and not mildew. By September I can trim off the now very dried leaves and the whiskers, gently brush off any remaining dry dirt from the bulb and hang the finished garlic in net bags in my basement.
I grow about 100 bulbs a year and with all the will in the world it won't last 12 months, So I peel loads of them,and wizz them to a paste with a splash of cooking oil and salt Then freeze them in ice cube trays; enough to add to most meals and will last a long time.
Braise a large head of broccoli (or several small ones) and a full bulb of garlic (pressed or minced) in a ¼ cup of butter in a stove top skillet; add some leftover wine, cover and steam until desired tenderness…delicious! Thank you for the helpful tips.
I purchased a subscription to the Garden Planner a few months back and between it, the Journal, and the Guru - you! - I'm blown away by the value of the package. All you need is to have a built in Mittleider method on the Planner options and it would be perfect! All that to say, keep up the excellent work.
You can use garlic in: Butter chicken( commonly known in Asia) using 2 breast chicken pieces can use 1-2 garlic bulbs. Depending on how garlicky you like it.
My Dad's growing some garlic in trays after he had a disastrous time with tomatoes, where, after being told to cut off a certain part to boost growing, and accidently cutting off the flowers of the tomatoes, he took a three year gap from gardening after that. This video is super informative and I'll make sure to forward this to him! (He's also growing a dwarf medlar tree)
I enjoy your enthusiasm😊 I love cucumber season. I use a quality wooden slicer to slice them card stock thin…add lots of garlic, olive oil, sea salt, fresh ground pepper and fresh squeezed lemon juice. Once the cucumber juices are flowing I use a very clean hand to squeeze and mix the sliced cucumbers together. It’s a real taste sensation and I’m always sad when the season is over. Store bought cukes just don’t measure up. But it’s the garlic that makes the dish!!😋
so watched a video where the guy puts the cloves into sitting above water and the roots grew rapidly! then when they sprouted about 4-6 inches high he planted. i loved it - they have been prolific for me this year and it was so much faster
I saw a homestead video where they peel the garlic then put in a jar and cover with raw honey. Make sure garlic is covered. Mix daily. In 2 weeks and longer she says it’s an awesome remedy for flu colds and who knows what else. I’ve already tried it a few times and kicked whatever was trying to get me. She’s had some jars for years and it’s still good. Even better with age I think she said
For those in the southern hemisphere, plant by ANZAC Day and pull up around Remembrance Day, or At least when the leaves have browned. Great tips as usual.
Grow garlic annually here in our Midwestern, zone 6b climate. This season have five different varieties in the ground. Some hard neck, some soft. I pickled a jar full of cloves in a bit of salt and apple cider vinegar after this year's harvest and it has been extremely convenient to grab the jar and fish out a few cloves when cooking. Side bennie is that the garlic-infused vinegar is great in salads and other applications. Enjoy your videos, Ben, thanks.
Love my Garlic! I have 2 unknown varieties I purchased at a farmers market and regrow them every year. Made garlic powder for the first time this year and it was the best I ever had. Highly Recommend!
Last summer I had some grocery store garlic that sprouted and so I planted them in the ground without any research, just to see what would happen. Well the weather dried up, and so did the garlic, and I just assumed that was the end of that, experiment concluded. Well now it's winter and I took a little walk around the garden and what a lovely surprise it was to see some healthy looking shoots popping out of the ground! The experiment resumes :D As a bonus, I also just found a beautiful little sprout happily growing in my compost bin with some healthy looking roots that I transplanted in the ground with a bit of what I found it growing in, along with another that hadn't gotten light but had sprouted. Fingers crossed they turn into something delicious in a few months!
Again, my best and favorite way to preserve garlic. Fermentation! Clean your garlic, nip the root and tip. If you have any bad spots,(please look, you should know what looks like rotten) and fill a jar 3 quarters full with trimmed clean garlic. Then submerge the garlic in raw honey. And wait.
My garlic harvest this year was a huge success. Planted entirely from supermarket (UK supermarket that has orange bags) bought cloves of some hardneck variety from Spain. I have selected the best cloves from the harvest to plant now for next years crop so hopefully they will do just as well.
I'm in San Diego and did the same thing - planted cloves from grocery store and had great success with every clove - now have a boatload of beautiful garlic. Have just planted my next crop for next spring - cloves from this current harvest. 🤞
I have grown garlic for the last four years and it’s one of my most reliable and best crop. I plant 16-20 cloves in late September, cover with straw and then harvest in mid/ late July. I just need more room to plant more so we actually have enough for the year and to plant for the following year!
I planted my garlic the last week in October. Last month I saw where some of it had been dug up. My delinquent squirrel had used the bed for storing his winter stash. Thankfully I still have about a dozen left, so I covered the area with tulle to keep the squirrel out. Looking forward to being able to harvest the rest next month.
i came over and watched this video. thank you!! i think i will be successful this year with garlic. something ive been wanting to grow in my garden for a while!! my family loves garlic and we eat it almost every night with our dinner, RAW! we have become accustomed to the spiciness and we love it. even my 3 year old eats the tiny tiny ones. it really keeps us from getting sick!
@@GrowVeg very powerful! too powerful sometimes lol but we like to get 100% of the benefits from it and once you cook it theyre just not there anymore. flavor is though. garlic is great all around 🙂
Almost as enthusiastic about garlic as I am! 🤣 Steak marinade: Equal parts olive oil and soy sauce(depends on the number of steaks), then at least 4 cloves of garlic, crush and bruise first then chop small and add to soy/oil mix. A good ... really good pinch of pepper. No need for salt, it's all in the soy. Marinade streaks at room temp (this is important for flavours to impart) for at least 2-3 hours before cooking. Enjoy! Thanks for a great channel 👍
LOVE LOVE LOVE garlic! I cook a lot, so I use a lot of garlic. For years I've grown whatever soft neck variety I bought at the grocery store a long time ago, and it's always grown just fine. This year (actually 3 weeks ago) I planted several varieties of hard neck. The cool thing about growing garlic is that you get garlic to eat and more garlic to plant for the next year. As long as you keep the cycle going you'll never have to buy garlic for the rest of your life.
Thanks Ben I live in central east Saskatchewan in the Yorkton area and plant in October. I am slowly building up my crop size. I'm up to 60 plants this year from my previous crop of 30 last year. Next year I hope to get up over 100 plants and I think then I will be self sustainable and not have to buy anymore garlic as we have been doing lots of pickling of cucumbers and beans as well as cooking with lots of garlic. Thanks for all the great tips.
I also live in Saskatchewan and have been growing hard neck garlic for several years. I find it keeps quite well until April, and then I have used it all up. I harvested 50 bulbs this year and planted 90 for next year, including about 30 grocery store bulbs. It’s easily my favourite crop and love the scapes grilled in a bit of oil on the barbecue. Great video as always, Ben!
I make garlic and ginger paste with my ginger and garlic. Equal quantities of ginger and garlic (i use about180g of each) put it in a liquidiser with a little water and whizz it up. That amount will usually fill a 15 cube silicon tray. Freeze it and after a day or so pop the cubes out and put into a zip lock back and put it back in the freezer. Each cube is about a tablespoon of ginger/garlic paste, great for Indian and Asian cooking. Having said that I use it in many other dishes that call for ginger and/or garlic.
Hi Ben. Just want to say this video is very informative. I grew garlic in a planter and was successful. I used multipurpose compost and vegetable compost mixed together. The following year I tried growing it in the ground but it didn’t do too well. I was wondering why. But this video explained it. We did have a harsh winter in December and I planted them in October. I have planted them in a planter again. Let’s see what happens. So far we are having a lot of rain this winter. I am from Scotland
1 egg, tablespoon oats, tablespoon mllk,1 clove crushed garlic, salt and pepper.beat together in bowl.let stand over night. next morning put butter in small frying pan and add the mixture,when solid turnit over. put on plate for grand light breakfast.
Another great video, thank you. I have been growing the same garlic for about 30 years. The original was from a market stall in southern France, a gift from my mother, and I save the best/bigest bulbs to plant each year in October in a raised bed (I'm in Cumbria and it's wet!). I have found that a top mulch of FRESH manure when planting makes for bigger cloves and, in the right hanging conditions - airy and sheltered - my garlic strings very nearly last through till the next harvest, about 200 bulbs/year. Best ever recipe has to be Ottolenghi's garlic and saffron soup, it's AMAZING but I add a potato to give a bit of thickness.
Very simply, I like to throw in a few unpeeled cloves of garlic when roasting veg, then squeeze their gooey insides out once cool enough (so satisfying!) ....adds a gorgeous sweet garlicy flavour to the dish
Hi, Ben! Thanks for positive flow in each of your video's! Now what more to make with garlic? smoked chees abt. 200-250g, garlic 2-3p., 4-5 royal spoons mayonaise. Make all fine or use a kitchen machine and mix with mayo. You can put green's for more color and taste.This salade can be used as a spread of adjustment by your meal. Enjoy! .
Elephant garlic is fantastic to make a yoghurt sauce for baked potatoes, as it's got the flavor without being too overpowering… just blend a few cloves with yoghurt (greek is my favorite), some olive oil, salt and pepper to taste and some chives, spring onions or scapes for color. Other than that I use garlic scapes in spring salads and stir-fries (they're often ready at the same time as mangetout peas, sprouting broccoli and with any luck some shoots from the decorative bamboo).
I’m about to plant mine!! It’s like UA-cam knew this and sent me the refresher class :) I’m doing elephant garlic for the first time this year!! Had no idea it wasn’t truly garlic, neat :)
So excited, picked up some garlic from the farm stand and burned some wood to add ash to the soil yesterday and planted today. It will be my first time trying garlic.
Very happy to have stumbled upon your videos. You have a beautiful garden. My grandfather was a master gardener and I regret to say that I didn't learn enough from his wealth of knowledge. I often find myself watching UA-cam to refresh my memory of basic techniques. Again, thank you! You are a blessing to many people!! 🙏
What perfect timing! I'm pulling up a small bed today that held my bean tower so I can plant my Purple Glazer garlic. Great tips, interesting that you didn't cover the bed with a couple of inches of mulch as I thought that was a definite need. Always love your videos with my morning coffee, I always learn something new and appreciate your energy!
So pleased you enjoyed the video. The ground has been well prepped but I may well add a mulch of shredded leaves in a few weeks - just as soon as the leaves start falling properly - it's been a very slow start to autumn!
I use garlic in everything and have it growing yearly in my flower beds etc! This year I got some named garlic but forgot to put the names on them. Just love it in every thing and eat it raw daily! Can’t wait to see what I have planted. I chose some Russian and Ukrainian types due to my mother being from Russia. She would have been excited and I know she is anticipating their grown in the spring. S he is always with me in my gardening endeavors,
thank you for your enthusiasm and wonderful spirit, it is uplifting in these troubled times. I learn a lot and just enjoy your teachings and your puppy. I have grown garlic for many years with an interim of failure...now my crop is amazing since three years. I asked our local organic seed grower her tips on growing garlic. Her garlic was huge and healthy. So as I am in British Columbia, Canada. (zone 7-8) I do the following. Sunny spot, Most important I only use HUGE cloves, sprinkle them with sulphur, (as I have had the black fungus that destroys the crop), plant them in a very rich soil amended wit lots of compost, but to make sure that the garlic does not sit in too much moisture I surround the sides of tthe bulb with sand for drainage. This year I put six inches of a dry material for protection after I had planted them. I made sure there was plenty of moisture but not excess, when I thought that it was too rainy I covered the plot with plastic. I was very later in planting my garlic, late December, just two days before the snow...result the best crop I have ever had, with huge cloves.. I always use my own garlic to replant. The original garlic I bought from an organic gardener at our local market. thank you so much
Garlic candy is great. Chop the garlic, not fine, put in a non stick ceramic fry pan with organic virgin first cold pressed olive oil. Fry until brown and crispy. Sweet like candy.
Love your videos. I grow a LOT of garlic, I'm up to 14 varieties, and I planted 377 cloves this year. My favorite is the Kettle River Giant it's a spectacular specimen in size and flavor.
Yes of course. You can plant at the same time as you would outdoors, but instead plant into plug trays (big ones) or pots filled with potting mix, pushing the clove down to the same depth, so they're covered. They keep the potting mix lightly moist. They'll root and sprout and can then be planted out in spring, as shown in the clip. The advantage of this is that it avoid problems with very wet winter soils, or very very cold soils in harsher climates.
I am loving fermented garlic. While it requires some patience, it is delicious and can enhance all kinds of foods, from Asian cuisine to sauces. It develops a sticky, almost tarry consistency and a delicious sweet flavor. Can't get enough of it!!
Your face at the very start just made me want to like n sub 🤗 You answered all the questions I didn’t even know I had 😅. Thank you. (The smell of wild garlic in the summer has to be my favourite smell ever😍)
Thank you for all the work you put in to these videos! They have really inspired me to start my own vegetable garden. I haven't been very successful at it yet, something always seen to happen to my veggies, but I do still enjoy the feeling of hope and optimism gardening gives me :P there's always next time
Second time planting garlic and this year they finally grew taller and I'm excited! I love garlic mashed potatoes. Just boil peeled chopped potatoes and add salt, pepper and garlic. Wait until really soft. Save some of the water for later in case if it's too dry. Start mashing potatoes and add cream cheese. Done! Enjoy! 😊❤️🙏
I never comment on you tube videos but I felt led to let you know that your videos are the best explained, best advised and easiest to understand videos I have seen yet on youtube! Thank you for explaining the reasoning behind the things you do. I was an instant fan from the first video. Thank you!
Really appreciate the feedback Karen, thanks so much. :)
😂 So am I, from S A.
you should reply to videos you like because it helps the channel get more views.
I agree, I really enjoy your channel, it's given me great pointers to growing on a budget.
A good tip I was given some years back. Keep some of your garlic back for next seasons planting. Garlic 'adjusts' to the local soil and climate and over a couple of seasons the size and flavour improves.
Great advice, thanks Kevin.
Garlic ~ one of my favourite raw snack foods
I've got a garlic that's been in my family for 5 generations!! I brought it from Michigan to Oregon where it's growing incredibly well. Saved from a handful of bulbs into about 10 square feet of plants with 3 generations planted!
That's fantastic - I bet it tastes incredible.
That’s fantastic. I love to hear of plants going through generations. I thought I was doing well with my 30 year old rhubarb.
Great video Ben Thank you!
I plant 250 - 300 cloves every fall (hopefully next week!) We love our garlic...all hard neck. Music and Rocambole are the varieties....we get nice big heads and this year was a banner year!
My favorite garlic recipe (and the one that I reeled in my lovely wife of 32 years with) is 40 garlic clove roast chicken! Yep...you guessed it, stuff 40 nice big fat garlic cloves into the chicken and under the skin along with butter, fresh sage, salt and pepper and then roast at 375 for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours (depending on the size of the volunteer bird) I do mine now on our outdoor grill on a rotisserie!
I cooked that meal for my wife 35 years ago as a first date at my place and she has fessed up that she was looking for a man who could cook (young lads take note here!) and the meal so impressed her that she made her mind up that evening that we would spend the rest of our lives together!
Been cooking for her since we married 32 years ago!
Well it worked! 😁
Have a great day and Thank you for the video!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Do the chickens actually "volunteer" to be included? If so, it must be some amazing recipe!
@@leslie-lynnesinkey1225 Hahaha...probably not...very good point!
Volunteer was probably a wrong choice of words!
Have a good evening!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Wow Mike - that's a great story. And clearly your wife-to-be wasn't bothered about your garlic breath! How wonderful. She picked the right bloke clearly!
Love your comment! My Uncle plants about 300 cloves yearly. This fall he planted Organic Music from Veseys Bulbs, from York, PEI. I'm planting the same. We live in Kamloops, BC. We have had to start with new stock, and new beds, as our area was hit with white rot, a garlic fungus. Where abouts in Canada do you guys live? Oh, and that chicken recipe is to die for!! I've made something similar to the 40 cloves roast chicken....50 cloves roast chicken...lol cheers...🇨🇦
@@cindynott1 Hi Cindy
We are in Southern Ontario right on Lake Erie. I bought my initial garlic stock from Vesseys a few years ago. Music is my primary garlic and super happy with it!
I get enough to replant and just enough to get through to scape season!
Have a great day!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Garlic is our favorite!! We make a dipping sauce (for fresh baked french bread) made out of olive oil, splash of apple cider vinegar, salt, and pepper to taste. Mince as much garlic as you like and add to the mixture. Stir well. We often eat it by the spoonful if you feel a sore throat coming on as well. It's delicious!!!
That does sound delicious!
that stick trick for the rows is a keeper!
Very simple but very effective Jeff.
Clear, concise instructions. Have always been put off growing garlic for fear of failure. But not now. Thank you very much.
"Inchelium Red" is an heirloom variety from the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State, and has been grown since before the arrival of the first Anglo settlers in the area (more than 300 years). It is also on the Slow Food "Ark of Taste" list of outstanding--but also endangered!--varieties at risk of being lost completely. Growing this variety not only helps preserve this important genetic resource, it also ensures you some GREAT garlic!
It's great when you can do your bit to preserve a rare variety AND have great tasting food.
Wow thanks for sharing
Where can you get the bulbs? Thanks!
Where would you get the bulbs to help keep the variety going ?
Where could I acquire this variety.?
I’ve been growing garlic for over 15 years - one year I planted on a friend’s farm and had about 1,000 plants! In my region (Western New York State) I plant in the middle of November and harvest is reliably the 2nd-3rd week of July. I grow Red Russian exclusively, from a strain I bought from Ted Maczka, “The Garlic Man of Fish Lake, Ontario.” Ted knew more about garlic than just about anyone ever - he was a garlic hero and is much missed.
Continuing to grow Red Russian would be a wonderful tribute to Ted I'm sure.
Do you sell your Red Russian garlic?
I loved seeing him driving around in his little car with the big garlic on the roof !! He used to come down to the Belleville Ont area quite a bit. ;)
I love your upbeat personality and you explain things so well and make it so easy to garden. Thank you !
That’s very kind of you to say.
One of my favorite garlicky recipes is Mediterranean Pasta. Cook bowtie pasta until not quite aldente, reserve some pasta water. Meanwhile, saute 6-10 cloves of minced (or pressed) garlic in the oil from sundried tomatoes. Add the chopped sundried tomatoes and halved or sliced kalamata olives. Then add the pasta and some chicken broth (if bullion/concentrate, add the pasta water). Bring to simmer, add a ton of spinach and some feta. Cook until pasta is tender and sauce is saucy. Amazing immediately or as leftovers.
Sounds totally delicious Marie! Thanks for sharing this recipe. :-)
Thank you for the straight forward and to the point information without unnecessary padding and wasting our time!
Much appreciated!
Greetings from Australia 🦘
The first time I grew garlic was in 2014. It was a huge success for a beginner! I grow my own garlics since then.
I like to harvest all my garlic, then peel and chop it all at once in the food processor with a bit of olive oil. Then I use a cookie scoop to scoop onto a parchment lined tray and freeze solid. Once frozen, I transfer my "garlic balls" to a zip top bag and VOILA, I don't have to peel & chop garlic for every meal! I also do the same with fresh ginger, although up to now, it's been with store bought ginger. Next year, I hope to have my own harvest of ginger too!
That is a really good idea!
We really like your video's. they bring us joy. we usually watch it while drinking coffee in the morning. we hope to have a garden like you in the future. also.. we call you worm-guy instead of growveg, because the first video we watched was you talking about worms and we loved it. greetings from sweden.
Ah brilliant! We loved making the worm video - something a bit different. So pleased you enjoy the videos and I'm honoured to be joining you for your morning brew. Keep watching guys, it's appreciated. :-)
I grow about 500 plants every year here on my homestead in Southern Vermont. Hardneck variety, a mix of German Hardy, Spanish Roja and others. I save about 15% of my harvest for seed and plant in mid-late October in soil amended with blood and bone meal and a little garden lime. I cover the cloves with a foot-thick blanket of straw and that way they endure the long winter snow cover. In spring I have to move the straw mulch back to let the young plants get up into the air. Once they are well established, I move the mulch back among the plants to reduce the weeds. I use alfalfa meal as a side dressing and fish emulsion as a foliar spray. Aside from what I use as seed, I use almost all the harvest during the year and only have a few bulbs left by the following July, when the new crop is ready. When a recipe calls for three cloves I use three bulbs. I am an allium addict. I tried shallots this year and they were a great success too. Always look forward to your videos and always learn a lot.
What a great system you have there William. And I don't blame you for 'misreading' cloves for bulbs!
@@GrowVeg I did not mention my drying system. Once out of the ground, the garlic are spread on tarps on my garage floor for two to four weeks. Then I gather the garlic plants and tie groups of five plants together with twine near the top of their leaves. With a small wire "s" shaped hook, I hang the bunched garlic stalks from wires stretched across the garage. I have two fans playing on the suspended garlic for over a month, so no matter how humid it gets in late summer here, the garlic will dry and not mildew. By September I can trim off the now very dried leaves and the whiskers, gently brush off any remaining dry dirt from the bulb and hang the finished garlic in net bags in my basement.
Where are the recipes!?
Bet you don't need any blood thinners in your life!
@@williamcollins4270 with this method - how long do they keep? (I am in NY just over the border from Pawlet)
Your accent is the best Ben ! Been watching for 2yrs now ! Thanks for all the growing tips !
Thanks for your support - great to have you on board. Happy gardening. :-)
Besides the excellent explanations you (always) give, you radiate ... openness gentleness and ... love. Keep going! ❤
Oh wow - thank you! :-)
I grow about 100 bulbs a year and with all the will in the world it won't last 12 months, So I peel loads of them,and wizz them to a paste with a splash of cooking oil and salt Then freeze them in ice cube trays; enough to add to most meals and will last a long time.
What an ingenious way to store them. :-)
Prob one of the best growing channels on YT. Very informative
Thanks so much! :-)
Braise a large head of broccoli (or several small ones) and a full bulb of garlic (pressed or minced) in a ¼ cup of butter in a stove top skillet; add some leftover wine, cover and steam until desired tenderness…delicious! Thank you for the helpful tips.
Sounds totally sublime Marilyn!
I purchased a subscription to the Garden Planner a few months back and between it, the Journal, and the Guru - you! - I'm blown away by the value of the package.
All you need is to have a built in Mittleider method on the Planner options and it would be perfect!
All that to say, keep up the excellent work.
Thanks so much for the kind words - so pleased you're enjoying the Garden Planner. :-)
Garlic and chilli prawns with coriander and a slice of lime.....delicious and super quick and easy.
Yum!
I loved the bad breath friend comment. I also love garlic and have grown it for about 10 years.
Music is one of our favorites! It does well in the SF Bay Area.
A great variety for sure.
You can use garlic in:
Butter chicken( commonly known in Asia)
using 2 breast chicken pieces can use 1-2 garlic bulbs.
Depending on how garlicky you like it.
Yum!
My Dad's growing some garlic in trays after he had a disastrous time with tomatoes, where, after being told to cut off a certain part to boost growing, and accidently cutting off the flowers of the tomatoes, he took a three year gap from gardening after that. This video is super informative and I'll make sure to forward this to him! (He's also growing a dwarf medlar tree)
That must have been painful for him! I'm sure he'll have a triumph with his garlic. :-)
I feel like I'm in school learning so much from your videos. I appreciate your work.
I’d watch this guy on TV, entertaining and informative, great vids 👍
Thanks so much! :-)
I now feel confident to plant some beautiful hardneck garlic cloves I just received in the mail. First time, so wish me luck! Thanks for all the tips.
Very best of luck, though I'm sure you will be absolutely fine and should enjoy a superb crop!
I enjoy your enthusiasm😊
I love cucumber season. I use a quality wooden slicer to slice them card stock thin…add lots of garlic, olive oil, sea salt, fresh ground pepper and fresh squeezed lemon juice. Once the cucumber juices are flowing I use a very clean hand to squeeze and mix the sliced cucumbers together. It’s a real taste sensation and I’m always sad when the season is over. Store bought cukes just don’t measure up. But it’s the garlic that makes the dish!!😋
That sounds like a superb way to serve the up.
Thanks, I'm getting ready to plant garlic for the first time. Prayers please 😊
You'll do just fine! :-)
so watched a video where the guy puts the cloves into sitting above water and the roots grew rapidly! then when they sprouted about 4-6 inches high he planted. i loved it - they have been prolific for me this year and it was so much faster
Interesting. I've heard a few people recommend this method, so might try it next year to compare.
I saw a homestead video where they peel the garlic then put in a jar and cover with raw honey. Make sure garlic is covered. Mix daily. In 2 weeks and longer she says it’s an awesome remedy for flu colds and who knows what else. I’ve already tried it a few times and kicked whatever was trying to get me. She’s had some jars for years and it’s still good. Even better with age I think she said
Wow - that's a great idea!
For those in the southern hemisphere, plant by ANZAC Day and pull up around Remembrance Day, or At least when the leaves have browned. Great tips as usual.
Cheers for that Jasen.
Grow garlic annually here in our Midwestern, zone 6b climate. This season have five different varieties in the ground. Some hard neck, some soft. I pickled a jar full of cloves in a bit of salt and apple cider vinegar after this year's harvest and it has been extremely convenient to grab the jar and fish out a few cloves when cooking. Side bennie is that the garlic-infused vinegar is great in salads and other applications. Enjoy your videos, Ben, thanks.
That's a super way of doing it, as you'll have a naturally flavoured dressing - nothing wasted. :-)
Love my Garlic! I have 2 unknown varieties I purchased at a farmers market and regrow them every year. Made garlic powder for the first time this year and it was the best I ever had. Highly Recommend!
I bet it taste supreme Karl.
I adore the smell of garlic and ginger
Me too! :-)
Last summer I had some grocery store garlic that sprouted and so I planted them in the ground without any research, just to see what would happen. Well the weather dried up, and so did the garlic, and I just assumed that was the end of that, experiment concluded. Well now it's winter and I took a little walk around the garden and what a lovely surprise it was to see some healthy looking shoots popping out of the ground! The experiment resumes :D
As a bonus, I also just found a beautiful little sprout happily growing in my compost bin with some healthy looking roots that I transplanted in the ground with a bit of what I found it growing in, along with another that hadn't gotten light but had sprouted. Fingers crossed they turn into something delicious in a few months!
Good luck with your experiment Sayada. I hope it does yield something tasty! :-)
@@GrowVeg Thanks Ben! Always a delight to watch your videos! ^_^
Again, my best and favorite way to preserve garlic. Fermentation! Clean your garlic, nip the root and tip. If you have any bad spots,(please look, you should know what looks like rotten) and fill a jar 3 quarters full with trimmed clean garlic. Then submerge the garlic in raw honey. And wait.
I just received my garlic they are early Italian here in MICHIGAN USA zone 6. I needed this video thanks
My garlic harvest this year was a huge success. Planted entirely from supermarket (UK supermarket that has orange bags) bought cloves of some hardneck variety from Spain. I have selected the best cloves from the harvest to plant now for next years crop so hopefully they will do just as well.
I'm in San Diego and did the same thing - planted cloves from grocery store and had great success with every clove - now have a boatload of beautiful garlic. Have just planted my next crop for next spring - cloves from this current harvest. 🤞
Nice work guys. I also grew a crop from supermarket garlic this season and was pleasantly surprised I have to say.
I'm trying planting garlic for the first time and I'm using supermarket brought ones, fingers crossed I'm pleasantly surprised too
Got my garlic bulbs at our farmer’s market late last summer. It’s a Russian red, I think. Just started using. It’s great.
Pleased to hear that Frances.
I have grown garlic for the last four years and it’s one of my most reliable and best crop. I plant 16-20 cloves in late September, cover with straw and then harvest in mid/ late July. I just need more room to plant more so we actually have enough for the year and to plant for the following year!
I planted my garlic the last week in October. Last month I saw where some of it had been dug up. My delinquent squirrel had used the bed for storing his winter stash. Thankfully I still have about a dozen left, so I covered the area with tulle to keep the squirrel out. Looking forward to being able to harvest the rest next month.
Well done on rescuing the rest of the garlic. :-)
i came over and watched this video. thank you!! i think i will be successful this year with garlic. something ive been wanting to grow in my garden for a while!! my family loves garlic and we eat it almost every night with our dinner, RAW! we have become accustomed to the spiciness and we love it. even my 3 year old eats the tiny tiny ones. it really keeps us from getting sick!
Garlic is awesome like that - I'm with you on eating it raw from time to time - powerful stuff!
@@GrowVeg very powerful! too powerful sometimes lol but we like to get 100% of the benefits from it and once you cook it theyre just not there anymore. flavor is though. garlic is great all around 🙂
My Garlic was terrible this year, just so tiny. Your vids are always inspiring me to try harder .
Planted my garlic today about 80 bulbs. I’m in middle north Tennessee. Love your videos. Have a great day
Great stuff Lisa - you're in line for a bumper crop. Good job!
I’m sick this morning and hearing him use the term “a shed load” of vitamins made me feel immensely better 😂
Where were you two season's ago. But it's okay. You're here now and I'm loving it!😊
Almost as enthusiastic about garlic as I am! 🤣
Steak marinade:
Equal parts olive oil and soy sauce(depends on the number of steaks), then at least 4 cloves of garlic, crush and bruise first then chop small and add to soy/oil mix. A good ... really good pinch of pepper. No need for salt, it's all in the soy.
Marinade streaks at room temp (this is important for flavours to impart) for at least 2-3 hours before cooking. Enjoy!
Thanks for a great channel 👍
Sounds totally yum - thanks for the suggestion. :-)
LOVE LOVE LOVE garlic! I cook a lot, so I use a lot of garlic. For years I've grown whatever soft neck variety I bought at the grocery store a long time ago, and it's always grown just fine. This year (actually 3 weeks ago) I planted several varieties of hard neck. The cool thing about growing garlic is that you get garlic to eat and more garlic to plant for the next year. As long as you keep the cycle going you'll never have to buy garlic for the rest of your life.
It's true - it's a great crop for keeping going and going, so long as you save some of the bulbs for re-planting.
Thanks Ben I live in central east Saskatchewan in the Yorkton area and plant in October. I am slowly building up my crop size. I'm up to 60 plants this year from my previous crop of 30 last year. Next year I hope to get up over 100 plants and I think then I will be self sustainable and not have to buy anymore garlic as we have been doing lots of pickling of cucumbers and beans as well as cooking with lots of garlic. Thanks for all the great tips.
You're doing a grand job there Darren - it's great to be self-sufficient in certain crops.
I also live in Saskatchewan and have been growing hard neck garlic for several years. I find it keeps quite well until April, and then I have used it all up. I harvested 50 bulbs this year and planted 90 for next year, including about 30 grocery store bulbs. It’s easily my favourite crop and love the scapes grilled in a bit of oil on the barbecue. Great video as always, Ben!
I make garlic and ginger paste with my ginger and garlic. Equal quantities of ginger and garlic (i use about180g of each) put it in a liquidiser with a little water and whizz it up. That amount will usually fill a 15 cube silicon tray. Freeze it and after a day or so pop the cubes out and put into a zip lock back and put it back in the freezer. Each cube is about a tablespoon of ginger/garlic paste, great for Indian and Asian cooking. Having said that I use it in many other dishes that call for ginger and/or garlic.
What a fab idea! 😀
Hi Ben. Just want to say this video
is very informative. I grew garlic in a planter and was successful. I used multipurpose compost and vegetable compost mixed together. The following year I tried growing it in the ground but it didn’t do too well. I was wondering why. But this video explained it. We did have a harsh winter in December and I planted them in October. I have planted them in a planter again. Let’s see what happens. So far we are having a lot of rain this winter. I am from Scotland
Hope you get a good crop this time round. The winter has been insanely mild so far!
1 egg, tablespoon oats, tablespoon mllk,1 clove crushed garlic, salt and pepper.beat together in bowl.let stand over night. next morning put butter in small frying pan and add the mixture,when solid turnit over. put on plate for grand light breakfast.
Interesting, will have to give this a try Philip. Thanks for sharing.
Another great video, thank you. I have been growing the same garlic for about 30 years. The original was from a market stall in southern France, a gift from my mother, and I save the best/bigest bulbs to plant each year in October in a raised bed (I'm in Cumbria and it's wet!). I have found that a top mulch of FRESH manure when planting makes for bigger cloves and, in the right hanging conditions - airy and sheltered - my garlic strings very nearly last through till the next harvest, about 200 bulbs/year. Best ever recipe has to be Ottolenghi's garlic and saffron soup, it's AMAZING but I add a potato to give a bit of thickness.
Wow, you're doing well with all that garlic. Thanks so much for the recipe recommendation - that does sound rather delicious!
You're the best, Ben! I've learned so much from your gardening know-how and wisdom. Many thanks!
And thanks for watching Bonnie - so pleased you find these videos useful. :-)
@@GrowVeg Doing us Bens proud!
Very simply, I like to throw in a few unpeeled cloves of garlic when roasting veg, then squeeze their gooey insides out once cool enough (so satisfying!) ....adds a gorgeous sweet garlicy flavour to the dish
The best way to enjoy them Rebecca.
We are in Southern California and my son and I want to grow garlic in a terra cotta pot! I’m glad you touched on the pot method
First time veg grower this year and have just planted mine👍
Nice one Michael - it'll be your tastiest garlic yet I'm sure!
First year growing garlic so fingers crossed!
You'll ace it Ally!
Here in Nova Scotia, garlic is the only thing that grows consistently in my garden.
Hi, Ben! Thanks for positive flow in each of your video's! Now what more to make with garlic? smoked chees abt. 200-250g, garlic 2-3p., 4-5 royal spoons mayonaise. Make all fine or use a kitchen machine and mix with mayo. You can put green's for more color and taste.This salade can be used as a spread of adjustment by your meal. Enjoy! .
Sounds totally delicious Victoria!
Elephant garlic is fantastic to make a yoghurt sauce for baked potatoes, as it's got the flavor without being too overpowering… just blend a few cloves with yoghurt (greek is my favorite), some olive oil, salt and pepper to taste and some chives, spring onions or scapes for color.
Other than that I use garlic scapes in spring salads and stir-fries (they're often ready at the same time as mangetout peas, sprouting broccoli and with any luck some shoots from the decorative bamboo).
Loving the sound of your yoghurt sauce. I bet that's totally delicious!
Thanks for the video. First year doing garlic. Just put 155 cloves in the ground.
You are in for a real treat! :-)
Thank you for the most informative, concise garlic growing video I've watched. Love your channel.
Thanks so much! :-)
Your enthusiasm is fantastic
I’m about to plant mine!! It’s like UA-cam knew this and sent me the refresher class :) I’m doing elephant garlic for the first time this year!! Had no idea it wasn’t truly garlic, neat :)
Elephant garlic is fab - you'll really enjoy it I'm sure. :-)
Am going to try growing garlic for the first time - will be planting some later in the month 🙂
Smart move!
So excited, picked up some garlic from the farm stand and burned some wood to add ash to the soil yesterday and planted today. It will be my first time trying garlic.
Good luck with it - it's such a rewarding crop to grow.
@@GrowVeg thank you!
Ben thank you for all the hard work! You are my favorite garden channel, clear, concise and cheerful advice. Much love from the States!
Much love back to you - thanks so much! :-)
Very happy to have stumbled upon your videos. You have a beautiful garden. My grandfather was a master gardener and I regret to say that I didn't learn enough from his wealth of knowledge. I often find myself watching UA-cam to refresh my memory of basic techniques. Again, thank you! You are a blessing to many people!! 🙏
Thank you for your kind words. Delighted you stumbled across the channel! :-)
I make garlic infused oil and use it for sautéed vegetables.
Sounds delicious!
I just followed your directions and planted some garlic for the 1st time. Thank you. 🤗💜
Brilliant! I'm sure it will taste all the better being home-grown. :-)
Love your videos! I study Permaculture and have planted garlic under my fruit trees as part of a guild 🌱
I cooked plenty of garlic with eggplant, olive oil, little soy sauce and fresh sage it was delicious 😋
Sounds yummy!
Great video! Thank you for the growing tips👍👍
This is the 1st year that I’ve planted garlic. I planted the hard neck since I live in Northern WV. Looking onward to harvest next year.
Nice one Bev - I hope you have a great harvest. :-)
I have learned so much about gardening from your UA-cam videos. They truly are the best. Thank you.
Thanks so much! Happy gardening! :-)
What perfect timing! I'm pulling up a small bed today that held my bean tower so I can plant my Purple Glazer garlic. Great tips, interesting that you didn't cover the bed with a couple of inches of mulch as I thought that was a definite need. Always love your videos with my morning coffee, I always learn something new and appreciate your energy!
So pleased you enjoyed the video. The ground has been well prepped but I may well add a mulch of shredded leaves in a few weeks - just as soon as the leaves start falling properly - it's been a very slow start to autumn!
I use garlic in everything and have it growing yearly in my flower beds etc! This year I got some named garlic but forgot to put the names on them. Just love it in every thing and eat it raw daily! Can’t wait to see what I have planted. I chose some Russian and Ukrainian types due to my mother being from Russia. She would have been excited and I know she is anticipating their grown in the spring. S he is always with me in my gardening endeavors,
Loving your enthusiasm for garlic - it is the best vegetable!
thank you for your enthusiasm and wonderful spirit, it is uplifting in these troubled times. I learn a lot and just enjoy your teachings and your puppy. I have grown garlic for many years with an interim of failure...now my crop is amazing since three years. I asked our local organic seed grower her tips on growing garlic. Her garlic was huge and healthy. So as I am in British Columbia, Canada. (zone 7-8) I do the following. Sunny spot, Most important I only use HUGE cloves, sprinkle them with sulphur, (as I have had the black fungus that destroys the crop), plant them in a very rich soil amended wit lots of compost, but to make sure that the garlic does not sit in too much moisture I surround the sides of tthe bulb with sand for drainage. This year I put six inches of a dry material for protection after I had planted them. I made sure there was plenty of moisture but not excess, when I thought that it was too rainy I covered the plot with plastic. I was very later in planting my garlic, late December, just two days before the snow...result the best crop I have ever had, with huge cloves.. I always use my own garlic to replant. The original garlic I bought from an organic gardener at our local market. thank you so much
Sounds like you've got a really fab system for growing garlic there. :-)
My very favorite way to keep garlic is in garlic confit. Many recipes on line.
Thanks Bonny, will look one up. :-)
I love a pesto made with scapes! Delicious!
Yum!
Garlic candy is great. Chop the garlic, not fine, put in a non stick ceramic fry pan with organic virgin first cold pressed olive oil. Fry until brown and crispy. Sweet like candy.
Absolutely delicious!
Thanks Ben, timely info!
Love your videos. I grow a LOT of garlic, I'm up to 14 varieties, and I planted 377 cloves this year. My favorite is the Kettle River Giant it's a spectacular specimen in size and flavor.
Wow - that's a lot of garlic!
I've just discovered your video and now I'm know what I'll be plating in autumn. What a fantastic channel this is.
Thank you and Happy Gardening!
I love your vibe so much. You're getting me excited for growing.
Yey! Happy gardening! :-)
so glad I found this channel.....fabulous info from a true expert!
Cheers Richard, appreciate that. :-)
Excellent video! You quickly mention starting garlic indoors? I would love to know more about that!
Yes of course. You can plant at the same time as you would outdoors, but instead plant into plug trays (big ones) or pots filled with potting mix, pushing the clove down to the same depth, so they're covered. They keep the potting mix lightly moist. They'll root and sprout and can then be planted out in spring, as shown in the clip. The advantage of this is that it avoid problems with very wet winter soils, or very very cold soils in harsher climates.
I am loving fermented garlic. While it requires some patience, it is delicious and can enhance all kinds of foods, from Asian cuisine to sauces. It develops a sticky, almost tarry consistency and a delicious sweet flavor. Can't get enough of it!!
Delicious Eileen!
Your face at the very start just made me want to like n sub 🤗 You answered all the questions I didn’t even know I had 😅. Thank you. (The smell of wild garlic in the summer has to be my favourite smell ever😍)
Thanks so much Wendy - and welcome to the channel! :-)
Planting out the last of my garlic this week 2nd time growing it
Thank you for all the work you put in to these videos! They have really inspired me to start my own vegetable garden. I haven't been very successful at it yet, something always seen to happen to my veggies, but I do still enjoy the feeling of hope and optimism gardening gives me :P there's always next time
Absolutely - and gardeners are always optimistic!
Very pleasant video to watch. Growing my first small crop of hard neck this year.
Hope you get a superb harvest. :-)
Its my first time growing garlic, i am going for elephant garlic so will see how it goes, great video
Elephant garlic is delicious Kirsten. :-)
Second time planting garlic and this year they finally grew taller and I'm excited! I love garlic mashed potatoes. Just boil peeled chopped potatoes and add salt, pepper and garlic. Wait until really soft. Save some of the water for later in case if it's too dry. Start mashing potatoes and add cream cheese. Done! Enjoy! 😊❤️🙏
Sounds divine - will give it a try. :-)
Oh I luv that too with a great gravy yum.