The Biggest Garlic We've Ever Grown! -- *ELEPHANT GARLIC*
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Our elephant garlic has been in the ground for almost seven months and it's time for it to go! We'll harvest both rows so it can dry before placing in storage under the barn. We'll also show you how we turn over a plot so it's ready to plant something new -- in this case popcorn, summer squash, and more cucumbers.
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I had a family of squirrels that harvested and ate mine, they haven’t complained yet and they are real healthy. Besides the red Creole try the Chesnock red as well. It grows the best here in the NM desert.
Great video as usual have a blessed evening
Thanks Sheena!
Living the dream .. great 👍🏻
Nice music by the way
Thanks Andrew!
Gardening with kids is one of the best things you can do. My mother did this with me and now I'm at university studying horticulture science.
Great to hear Laura! Enjoy your college experience!
Very hard work
I finally found seed for elephant garlic and grew it for the first time. It all turned out great but a few of the cloves only made bulbs instead of a head of cloves. And with all the rain I had to put it in the barn instead of letting it sit in the sun to dry and I lost a couple heads to rot. But all in all it was a success and very easy. As hard as it was to find seed from a reputable source I think I'll just replant all of it this fall so I can build up some seed stock. I also thought about replanting all of the corms but don't have a place to dedicate 2 years to that project yet.
I'd just replant the cloves and they should do well for you.
Nice elephant garlic
Thanks Sheila!
Love your helpers.
Us too!
Hey, Travis... You can trick your regular garlic into thinking it has been through a winter. Store it in the refrigerator for several (12+) weeks. Bring it out and plant at normal time for your area. Kate
Wonder if I'll be able to get garlic seed 12 weeks prior to November?
We love poke. Boil the tender leaves like you would other greens except drain the water off & boil again (boil 3 times). Multiple boilings takes the tannins (or whatever is in it) out & they are great eating.
Must be a strong tannin concentration if they need to be boiled three times. Lol
Good looking elephant garlic. I am here on the edge of 7b and 8a in Alabama and trying to grow soft neck, hard neck, and elephant this year. I planted them all in November this year. I am just harvesting my hard neck scapes. However, my elephant looks like it will take a lot larger. The local guy I bought my seed garlic from says elephant won't be ready until June or July here.
Probably about right. Let it grow!
Nice-nice
Thanks
Poke weed is great if you're starving AND there's nothing else to eat AND you know how to prepare it in such a way that it doesn't kill you and your family!
I’m trying some popcorn too. If mine doesn’t make and you have some to give away I’d love some.
Noted.
Your channel is growing fast. Keep up the great content
Thanks Jonathan. We've indeed been blessed with the growth of the new channel.
Costata Romanesco zucchini great zucchini or summer squash. Baker Creek sells the seed also
We've got some that just planted. Can't wait to try them.
@@LazyDogFarm ditto I first saw this on James Prigioni’s channel The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni he says the have green and white stripes they looked cool!
Another great video Travis. Thanks for taking the time to educate all of us.
Rob
Glad you enjoyed it Rob!
I had good luck with three Creole garlic varieties this year in Gainesville, FL -- a slightly warmer climate than yours. I purchased Red Creole, Cuban Purple and Ajo Rojo from Filaree Farms in Washington state last fall, vernalized them in the refrigerator for 6 weeks, and planted them on December 22nd. I just harvested them last week with good results. The creole garlics produce smaller heads than most other varieties, but they store for a long time and have a great flavor that puts grocery store garlic to shame. This fall I plan to get them in the ground sooner -- around the first of November. I did not receive them from Filaree Farms soon enough last fall to plant them any earlier than late December, but I now have my own home-grown seed stock. Hopefully an extra six or seven weeks in the ground will given me somewhat larger heads come next spring.
Thanks for the tip Charles. Might have to purchase some from them as well.
Poke is DELICIOUS!
That's what we hear, although it seems like it takes a few boilings to make it the right way.
@@LazyDogFarm my Nana cooked it for us. I personally haven't cooked it...but, I sure loved it as a kid. I liked it better than spinach, which is one of my favorite greens.
Another great video! My garden is kicking my corpulent buttocks this year, and I have to keep reminding myself that this Fall will be easier, and next Spring even more so. My garden has a lot of grass tilled up in it because I didn't have time to tarp it this year. I'm slowly raking it out. Lord have mercy, though. Raking is not friendly to an old lady! I've done exactly like you've taught me - drip irrigation on 3' row spacing makes crop rotation easy!
First year in a new garden spot is always tough. But you're on the right track!
I knew a old man when I was a kid that would grow what he called creole garlic, this was in south west Louisiana and he told me that it was well suited for this area, man I wish I could find some , I've been looking and asking around, apparently they are pretty rare.
Seems like I've heard of that as well. Would love to get some seed stock.
I grew Music hardneck that I planted in late October here in NC. I harvested it two days ago. It was a great crop with large heads. It helped make up for all of my onions and shallots bolting early. The garlic is curing now on my screened porch.
Good to hear about the garlic. 'Twas a tough year for onions bolting.
Would love the recipe for the cabbage and ground beef.
It's really simple. Just brown some hamburger meat, sautée some cabbage, combine them and add some of this: amzn.to/3qb2ahO
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you very much.
Great video, Travis. The flowers are beautiful. The garlic is amazing. You are definitely having a good growing season. Cannot wait to see the popcorn growing!
Thanks Mary-Catherine! It has been a good season so far. We'll see what happens when we get in the high 90s next week.
What great family fun! Lots of memories made!🙂
Beautiful Elephant Garlic!🙂
Thanks Valorie!
Great information..The flowers are beautiful..Ya'lls supper looks delicious.
It was! Thanks for watching Candace.
Another great video.
Nice to see a glimpse of that corn looking all tall and green. I look forward to hearing from Andrew.
I need to up my flower game, yours is on point!
Hopefully we can get him on the vlog soon.
I make garlic paste with the scapes! Sooo good! I make a bouquet for a few days with them & then make the paste. I use it everyday with my cooking. Mild but wonderful...I peel the flower & make in blender. There is scape recipes online or Pinterest! Enjoy!
I pickled my garlic scapes. So yummy with dill
Sounds great!
Enjoyed the video tonight. Your boys sure like to help in the garden. Went out this morning to check the garden which has a 7 foot fence around it to keep the deer out. I planted some sun flowers on one side outside the fence. Guess who found my sun flowers last. I have a electric ⚡️ fence to keep the dog out but it was off. Live an learn. So far I have done to harvest on my squash 63 on a 15’ row.
THE DEER NOT THE DOG
Glad I don't have to deal with deer in the garden around here. Sounds like a tough problem to solve.
We have had as many as 21 deer come through our yard at one time. Before we put up a 7 foot deer fence I had snap beans planted in one plot. They were just putting on beans. I looked and there was a doe in them. I stepped out on the back porch she looked up and I asked her want she was doing. The look she gave was I am eating these snap beans dummy. The hoped over the the old fence which was replaced with a 7 ft one. On more deer in the garden.
Polk salad is good cook like greens some scramble a egg with it then eat love these beautiful babies so rather to learn
Thanks for the tip
Those are the biggest cloves I've ever seen!! WOW!! I'll pull mine this weekend. After seeing yours I might be disappointed. 😂😂
All of ours weren't that big, but we did have a few monsters.
I’m in NY Zone 7B I bought my elephant garlic 🧄 from you last year and planted the same time, hope mine comes out like that there nice and big enjoy.
I hope so too!
I just got some more field corn and seminole pumpkin planted with some peas and purple hull peas and jade green beans interplanted throughout. Seems like hotter weather is finally on the way. Just could use more rain. Still got more rows to plant though for the corn and pumpkins. Expanded the garden bigger this year for the harder times likely on the way
Yeah our forecast for the next week is dry and super hot.
I ordered the Costata Romanesco Zucchini from them as well and going to try some of the Dakota black popcorn.
Cool. Let us know how you like the black popcorn.
Your flower game is so strong, very pretty
Thanks! We really enjoy having them in the garden.
We grew softneck garlic and harvested it a couple of days ago.
Hope y'all had a great harvest Harry!
Hi
Hello!
Try kabocha squash.
Got some growing right now. The plants are huge. We'll be sure to show them on the vlog soon!
This is silly but I have been watching you since you were on the other channel and I’m so tickled that you are trying out mine (and others) suggestion on the Costata Romanesco! Good luck growing them, they are definitely prickly little suckers but are super delicious and beautiful. They are also known for eating the the flowers too (frying or stuffing).
Excited to try them!
Quick question, Travis. I am doing the vegetable bag market garden for the first time this year. It is also the first year I have grown shallots and elephant garlic here in Zone 6b in central Kentucky. In your vegetable bags in the past, what quantity of each would you include?
I'd usually just include one large head of garlic or two small heads. As far as the shallots, a bunch of 4-5 bulbs was usually sufficient.
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks for your gardening help both on this channel and the other one.
Hello, Travis. I planted my garlic in October and I believe I can not harvest before June. I have elephant and hardneck. I am growing a variety of squash including Korean. I never grew before.
Let us know how you like the new squash you're trying.
Just thought that if my grandmother had the internet and YT, she might not have gotten any of her chores done.
Hah!
Pulled my elephant garlic last week. Most were baseball sized, but a few were normal garlic sized. First time growing it, and like you I was ready to free up some real estate! I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the new fertilizer at the end of the season... I too am a Harmony user.
It will be interesting to see how it compares to Harmony. We'll keep you updated.
That elephant garlic is really big. My garlic harvest should be around July 4th. (outside Chicago) Hard to believe I got my popcorn planted before you. That went in this past weekend.
Yeah we could have certainly planted it sooner. Just dragging our feet to get the plot ready.
Do you cut the blooms off the garlic before it blooms?
Yeah we cut the blooms before they opened.
You talk about your irrigation tape, is it an actual tap or tubing? Is also underground irrigation better than above drip and how often do your water?
It's a tubing that lays flat when not in use. Burying it provides a much more efficient delivery of water to the plant roots and less water loss through surface evaporation.
Where would I buy something like this
Lots of places online sell it. Just search “drip tape” and you’ll find lots of options for gardens of all sizes.
Garlic is one thing that I have just been afraid to grow. It seems like such a long commitment to wait and watch for your harvest, like onions. Jeepers, I barely have the patience for tomatoes 😂.
They do require a great deal of patience.
Any tips on dealing with the rain. I know we can't control the rain, but other than cultivating between the row after it dries what else needs to happen? Here in the Houston area we have been pelted with high winds and alot of rain.
If you consistently have issues with drainage, you may consider planting on an elevated row or "hill." Other than that and some light cultivation to help things dry, not a whole lot you can do.
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks. Been raining for 5 days.
That cabbage and hamburger makes excellent burritos. I call em runzaritos :) little cheese, little hot sauce, maybe some peppers or diced tomatoes...watch your fingers :)
Sounds great!
Very impressive. I think my soft-neck garlic is going to be bigger than my onions this year.
That's either a good thing for the garlic, or a not-so-good thing for the onions -- or maybe both.
Growing california white and pulled about 20 last weekend. What can you plant after garlic. Not corn no room and no luck growing.
Sweet potatoes or okra would be good options. Both of those love the heat.
Best video yet! Your videos and my daughter finally convinced me to install drip irrigation. What water pressure regulater do you use? And thanks for telling about Johnnies with the Costata Romanesca hybrid zucchini. Oh...one more thing, I think the garlic you’re looking for is Red Creole Garlic. It’s been growing in the Caribbean since Spanish arrived. It can be hard to find.
Thanks for the tip on the garlic. The regulator I use is a Senninger 12 PSI regulator with 3/4" threads. The model number is PRL123F3F.
I assume you are on a well as I am. My 7 rows of tape makes my pump come on every 10 minutes which is not good for the pump. How do you deal with your well pump cycling on and off too frequently?
I'm usually watering from more than one spigot at a time, so mine doesn't have to cycle as much. I don't really know how to prevent it, but it is something I try to minimize.
Tell your wife, if she adds ginger,garlic, shredded carrots peppers to that meat and a bit of soya sauce and siracha and few drops of sesame oil!!!
That will give you a chinese style meal for something different!!
That sounds amazing! Thanks for the tip!
What you call corms, the garlic growers call bulbils.
I luckily live where I can grow soft&hard neck garlic. I try to plant on Halloween and pick around Memorial Day (some varieties would go into June).
Lucky you!
Hi Travis have you heard the song poke salad Annie if not Tony Joe White sings it watch him then watch Elvis sing it. Enjoy the video has always.God bless you and your family
Have not heard the song, but will check it out!
I purchased all of my drip irrigation from the company you used to work at. If I am needing additional drip irrigation supplies, where can I find those that will match up (measurement, etc wise)with what I already have and that is more cost efficient than what HT.
Lots of places -- might even find them locally. Just make sure you get 5/8" tape fittings with a 1/4" (0.250) barb.
Nice garlic!!!🧄🧄 Excited to see the popcorn harvest.👍
Us too!
Texas Rose Garlic grow good In Louisiana
Might need to try those.
Where did you get the popcorn?
www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/corn/dry-corn/robust-997-f1-corn-seed-93.html#q=popcorn&lang=en_US&start=1
Hey Travis, what does it mean, when the tops of onions start to get a bulb?
It means they're going to seed, and are usually done growing. Go ahead and pull them and eat them. The ones that bolt usually don't store very well.
@@LazyDogFarm, thank you!
What zone are you in?
9a
I haven't tried Elephant garlic yet, but I've been working on multiplying some heirloom Garlic i got from Baker Creek seeds. I started with 5 bulbs i bought 2 years ago, I have around a hundred this year. They have just started growing the scapes. No i cant remember the name & Baker creek hasn't got them listed...
If you do remember the name, please share!
@@LazyDogFarm its Chesnok red.. Its a Hardneck verity...Had to internet search...
@@TheSwaffordHomestead thanks for sharing!
Planted my Hoss Elephant Garlic around November as well, snapped off the scapes as soon as I could this year, and they through out a second flush of growth! 😲
Anyone have any experience like this? Leave it there?
Interesting. Have never seen that happen.
Travis, I grow pokeweed on purpose in one of my raised beds so I can have some poke sallet every spring. Planted elephant garlic the first time this year. Hoping for a decent harvest.
Must be some good stuff!
Travis, I feel certain someone has already mentioned it, but Poke is poisonous and the berries look like they would be edible, but are very poisonous. I’ve never heard of anyone dying from eating it, but it might be one you want to make sure your boys know to avoid. I played with the berries as a kid and never got sick, but some have issues even handling it. Poke “Salet” is a Southern tradition born of necessity but it has to be boiled and the water poured off a couple of times to eat it.
I've used the berries to make ink too but yup poisonous. I'm not quite that hungry yet.
I've never seen it make berries. Guess we usually always pull it before that happens.
@@LazyDogFarm good its insidious in how it springs up and it makes huge perennial roots too. Its trying to take over my wooded area.
And the berries look enough like blueberries that several people in our area got pretty sick eating them as they didn't know they were not blueberries.
Happy gardening
Polk Salad Annie
Never knew that was a song until now.
Heard someone say poke was poisonous to even touch although I touched plenty of it
I think maybe it's poisonous if you eat it raw or don't cook it properly.
Wife makes cabbage and ground beef like that with an asian twist, calls it egg roll in a bowl.
Yeah Brooklyn has been using some amino acid substitute for soy sauce and it gives it an asian twist. Really good!
i need its seed
You can usually find elephant garlic seed online in the fall.
Always enjoy your videos 👍. Are you not associated with Hoss tools anymore?
He quit!
@JC Forbis I resigned back in early April to start my own digital marketing agency and this channel here.
@@LazyDogFarm congratulations! I know you will do well. Alright Alright Alright!!
Travis I’m in 8b here in Texas and I grow both hard and soft neck garlic. Trick is I order early and store in refrigerator until mid November. I plant it and it makes nice size cloves.
Good to know Mary Ann!
That’s poke salad alright. Don’t let your kids eat it green, it might make them sick. Poke weed has a element of toxicity and it has to be cooked just right. I grew up eating it here in SC . Mom would send us out to forage for it . It’s best small and needs to be boiled 3 times and water discarded each time. Then fry it down with some bacon or fat back . It was okay but not great . We had to eat what we had and it wax plentiful!
Yay for zephyr, I have my first bloom today , a little female.
Wow! That's quite the intensive process to cook a weed. Lol.
Poke salad will give you the runs if you don’t cook it right. Lol! To me it’s kinda like spinach.
pokes good but ya have to boil it twice. I give it a good blanching drain the water and then cook her down. dont eat it raw!!! Dock weed or pig weed makes better greens without having to double cook.
Didn't know you could eat pigweed.
@@LazyDogFarm it's an amaranth, leaf and seed are both edible.
We want some garlic that's a bit spicier
Yeah the elephant garlic is not very spicy -- probably because it's actually a leek and not a true garlic.
I’m ashamed to say, but I’ve never grown garlic and didn’t do any research. I planted in early April. Will it do any good? I live near central Ok.
You might still make some small heads, but not sure it's going to get cold enough for it to stratify and make individual cloves. You'll have better luck planting this fall.
Lazy Dog Farm thank you so much. I’ll order from y’all then. We don’t have any bulbs around here at that time. Do I just order from Hoss Tools?
I’m no longer with the company, so I have no idea when they’ll be getting more garlic bulbs. But it’s usually late summer or early fall when companies start selling garlic.
Lazy Dog Farm sorry to hear that. Thank you for always replying and helping.
My onions and garlic do not appear to have grown, what went wrong?
On the onions, did you plant the correct day-length variety for your area? For the garlic, it will usually grow anywhere but will not stratify if your climate is not cold enough. Both are heavy feeders and like plenty of nitrogen and water.
@@LazyDogFarm in N Florida we did not get much cold weather, planted in fall along with you and neither did well. Can you suggest better variety?
I can get 200 KG seeds for experiment .
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I think poke salad is poisonous, until you cook it properly so make sure you boy knows that
Yeah I've heard that as well. We're not planning on eating any, just interesting to find a random one in the garden.
So, what do ya say, we spend a little time in the garden? Alright, alright, alright!
Yep. I think he should just say it!
Maybe one of these days when you least expect it.
@@tarabauerle1239, yes! We all want him to just, say it! 😊
I put on these videos when I sit down to eat lunch at work. I miss the "alright alright alright " as I dig into my food lol
@@jaredgrubb30 I call it my lunch date, I tell my husband I'm having a lunch date with Travis. He gets a good kick out of it. lol
Can't harvest my garlic until July.
Yours stays in the ground a very long time then!
@@LazyDogFarm yup they haven't even started bulbing up yet, still shooting fertilizer to them.
I have to try to grow that elephant garlic this Fall. Thanks for sharing🌱🌿
For sure give it a try. Not hard to grow, just takes some time.
I'm new and in 8b so I typically follow your schedule for guidance. My elephant garliclooks very similar and is dying back and now I know I can go pull it up...on this weeks agenda..thanks!!
Probably can go ahead and snag it.
I am in 8b N. FL, is your elephant garlic big? Had trouble myself but did not plant this variety. T said they needed cold temps. Need to look at planting a different variety.
@@vnickcolvin4971 harvest was about 50/50 with some really large and the rest small. Pleased overall for a first attempt. Its cured now and plenty for me and husband
I got 12 bags of each of the nature safe, 13 0 0 for my corn and 8 5 5 for my pumkins. We will see how it does
Good stuff. Let me know how it does for you so we can compare.
Enjoying your new channel... do you grow any acorn squash? I'm trying it for the first time this year.
Yes, we grow acorn squash on occasion. Don't have any planted this year. We do have cushaw, butternut and kabocha planted as far as winter squash go.
I love the music you choose in your videos... Does add something to the videos 🎧🎶👍
Glad you enjoy it!
I’ve heard the Texas Rose is a great garlic for the south gulf regions. But I haven’t tried yet.
Thanks for the tip!
Nice harvest. I’m going to order elephant garlic from you for this fall to plant. When is the best time to order them. Thanks
I don't know that we'll have any elephant garlic for sale or not, but if we do it would be around November or so when we plant. I usually plant what we want to plant and then I'll put any leftovers on our website.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you
Those 2 garlic are huge! 😜 I’ve never grown it but I will try now!
They're pretty easy to grow, just take a while.
Them's nice garlics. They're on to grow list for this fall. On an earlier video you commented that you wanted to grow some ginger. If you give me a PO box or address I will send you 20-30 pieces that are ready to plant. The root has a high water content so it should go on a drip line, 12" spacing would be fine. Feed it like other root veg.
Thanks Sue. Can you send me a message on our FB or IG page and I'll be glad to provide that?
@@LazyDogFarm done on FB