Planting Fall Garlic for Summer Harvest | Best Time to Plant Garlic
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Garlic is one of my favorite things to grow! planting Garlic in the fall will increase the chances of a great garden harvest in the following summer! Choose the largest cloves to ensure the largest heads of garlic!
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18 years ago, I got garlic from my father and he got it 7 years before me from my uncle that had been growing it about 20 years before us. I don’t know what kind of garlic it is, but it’s a hard neck. over the years we have been noticing the flavor of the garlic has improved it has gotten stronger. Last year was our best year ever for garlic, the heads were so big, but the coolest thing about this garlic is, it has been in the family over 35 years. I can’t wait to see your garlic next year. Love your videos 😊
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What a beautiful story! Thanks for sharing!
This is AMAZING!!! I'd like to experience something like this. Being I'm the first to garden on this scale in my family this is a great idea.
It's all in the family. Great story.
Just a tip. The smaller heads of garlic you can store either in your pantry or in the freezer and next time you make broth just throw it into your pot without peeling and then strain it out.
Yummm! Garlic overload 🙂
That is what I do! Turns out great every time👍🏻 or (rarely) I will just cut them in half and roast them with anything I'm cooking in the oven. Then squeeze out the centers and use that for compound butter, or freeze.
Exactly what I was going to to suggest. 🙂
That's what I use the tiny ones for as well. 🙂
These are such good suggestions!
I have a life hack for you Becky, when you’re moving leaves around, rake them onto a tarp and then grab two corners and haul to your destination. It makes for far fewer trips!
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@Berlyn Wall I use this method a lot too. I live in a very wooded area and this tarp method works perfectly for transporting LARGE quantities .
Becky, you are absolutely amazing!! I really appreciate your fast pace. I don't have time to wait for people to hem-haw around, just tell me, show me, I want to have time to try it too. You are doing a fabulous job with everything you do. Even when there's a "setback" you use it wisely by learning from it, not giving up. I'm proud of you! All you have accomplished this past year or two has been a joy to follow along and do with you. Thanks for bringing me along to the garden, your little orchard, to your kitchen or wherever you think "hay they might like this". There's a lot of hard work in all that your doing and on top of that your doing this channel. It's greatly appreciated.
I really enjoy Becky's videos, and I couldn't put my finger on what was the thing that really set her apart from other channels I have watched, but you are 100% on the money about her pacing! Sometimes if feels like creators try to stretch a 5 minute video to 20 minutes or more with a lot of filler, but a 20 minute Becky video is 20 solid minutes with little to no filler. I'm invested for the entire time rather than opening other tabs and tuning out because I lost interest.
@@catr8604 YES! The filler is a killer for me, or the long intros! Even a short intro I'm out. I'm sorry but you're not a TV show, I'm on YT because I don't want to waste my time anymore. Some just try so hard that it's too much.
Dramatic camera work, I don't really need to see ya walk out to your garden or barn in silence or drama music, cause I got stuff to do. I spend half the time skipping to the "meat of the subject" or hitting 1.75 fast mode just to get to it!! You are 100% Right it's about SOLID minutes! I just pray she doesn't change and listen to those who say oh to have a better channel do this or that, cause she could teach them a thing or two about "a better channel"!!!
I could not agree more with everything you said!!!
Yes! I enjoy learning with her❤️
My hubby just said to cut off the tops of those small heads, put olive oil in it and roast them. They’ll be easier to pop out then. Love your vids!
Just what thought too.
I was coming on here to suggest the same 😉
For all those tiny heads of garlic, I would remove the loose skins, just slice the tops off, throw them on a foil lined baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, cover the pan with another sheet of foil and bake at 400F for about 40 minutes. You can squeeze out the garlic then freeze them whole or mashed. Great to just thaw and throw in with mashed potatoes or for garlic bread or pizza!
I thought the same thing. I know Becky would make some very delicious dishes with roasted garlic.
Yum!
I love roasted garlic!
You took the words out of my mouth! 🙂
That’s what we do every year, it is so convenient to have roasted garlic
The hens are so happy to help you garden! Lol!!
"I really don't know what I'm doing but let's experiment". LOVE A HEART THAT IS WILLING TO BE CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING!!! YES, WE NEED TO PLANT SOME HOPE AND WAIT TO SEE WHAT WILL COME TO US! BLESS ALL OF YOUR HARVESTS!!
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That cool knife you're using that looks like something Indiana Jones would carry is called a hori hori knife! Just wait till spring. It'll be your go-to gardening tool! Love mine. I call it my garden sword!
Hello Heather
FYI, the pampered chef garlic press can smash those small heads with the skin still on. I do that when I want fresh garlic, but feel lazy;) Goodwill has them a lot, I try not to pay full price;)
Great idea! I will look!!
That's what I do, too! I love my garlic press!
I just give the garlic a quick smash with the flat side of my knife and then the peel pops right off. Makes chopping the garlic easier too and it doesn’t always even smash the garlic just pops the peel off.
Isn’t it so satisfying when you get the garlic in the ground? It’s good that you planted some hard neck because you will be so glad for the scapes. I planted four pounds of hard neck. They do really well in the cold weather, but they are smallish. I don’t mind the small heads because it’s just me here, so I don’t use a ton. Music is my favourite. So juicy and flavourful. 💚
Hello Mary
Now I can't wait for spring (or whenever you harvest garlic lol) so I can say "I remember the video when she planted it". I truly love your channel Becky. There are 3 podcasts I look forward to - yours is number 1. I'm in Spokane.
Wow Catherine! Thank you so much for the support!
I didn’t realize you had a podcast! What’s the name of it?
Growing garlic is my most favourite thing to grow! Don’t despair about the little cloves, sometimes I plant them deliberately in a spare area just because I like the small single bulb clove that forms (called “ a round”). Also, small heads of garlic are useful roasted as whole bulbs (once cooked, the cloves squeeze/slide out easily), or for throwing into bone broth.
The reason why “seed” or organic garlic is used to plant with, is because ordinary store bought garlic is usually sprayed with a growth inhibitor chemical, to stop it sprouting in the supermarket. If you plant these, you will likely get retarded growth patterns, or a situation called “brooming”, because they were kept in cold storage for so long.
Home grown, certified organic or seed garlic is best 👍
Good luck with your crop, can’t wait to see your harvest! Love your videos ❤️
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Love watching you garden, cook. Your personality plus and full of energy. Thank you for all these fun snips of information of our earth and how to plant using your tips. Love it
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I love that your chickens are so nice and follow what you are doing.
I often roast the individual cloves with their skins left in tact - just coating lightly in oil and then at the end I squeeze out the innards and this is a nice mellow tasting way to eat garlic. It goes well mashed into potato or any dish.
Bless your heart that's a lot of garlic. Glad you were able to get out and get it planted.
I just love how your chickens always hang out with you! They are so Cute!
Tips for the smaller garlic. I sit down and peel all the small ones and throw them in a baking dish and cover with oil. Wrap tightly in foil and then bake until golden. Drain off the oil, smash up the garlic and then press into mini ice cube trays and freeze. Once there frozen transfer to a Ziploc bag and keep freezing until you're out of garlic. then the oil can be saved as flavored garlic oil
I just love how you say "we" did it
Aw thank you! I need all the help I can get!
Thanks for the video. I planted 100 cloves this fall (all from my 2021 garlic grown in my garden) and everyone I told said I was crazy, that it was too much. It is only when I see other gardeners like you that I realize I am not nuts and instead I am just mentally in a different place than most of my family and friends. You have given me a new goal for next fall... 500 cloves. :)
Little tip
Get some straw bails and cover or mix with leaves..
Nice balance for incredible soil and will protect ground.
You can always pull some back once seasons change and ground thawed, then reuse..or turn under before planting again.
I'd KILL for an 1/8 of your energy... OMGOODNESS Gracious I get tired watching you... LOL 🤣 GREAT job Becky 🙏🙏 Kendra
I’ve never grown garlic, but I might try too. You’re so inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
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The leaf you showed us is an Oak leaf. They are the best for protecting your beds and are what squirrels use to line their nests because they don't decompose over one winter.
I’m so happy I could help you get your garlic planted just by watching you!! I don’t feel guilty, I don’t feel stressed..just relaxed. Oak leaves, Becky. So glad I could be of help today!!
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If you divide the garlic and put it in a metal bowl and cover it with another metal bowl, so the openings of the bowls face one another, and shake really hard, it peels itself! It's AMAZING, how it works!!!
That was oak leaves you put on your new garlic bed. They break down very slow compared to other leaves. Great choice Becky!
Hi Lisa
Just an idea for the smaller heads of garlic... I roast them and when cool I squeeze out the delicious insides and store in the freezer in small containers. Amazing spread for sandwiches or baked potato.
Hi Becky, I know it’s going to be a good day when I see your video.
You are simply amazing.
We grew the silver rose variety last year, and we’ve been super happy with it! Besides Polish white (it got so much bigger), silver rose was our absolute favorite.
Sweet! Thank you!
I found your channel by watching one of your food prep videos a while back and I am now fully invested in you and your gardening ventures 🤣 I love watching your progress! I got inspired and saved some rose hips from a bush in my yard.. hoping to grow a matching one in the spring! Turns out though after research roses are notoriously hard to grow so fingers crossed something has rubbed off from your videos lol!
Thank you for inspiring me to plant garlic in containers. Wish I had your emergy.
Just planted around 900 cloves of garlic music n Cherokee . . And covered up with grass clippings and straw and lots of pot ash . GODBLESS sweetie
Thank you. I tried to grow garlic earlier in the spring with no luck. I’m trying again and it’s already started growing.
This is probably way more work than you want to do, but I've found that shredding leaves help them decompose SO much faster, if you want them for your beds!!
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I'm new to planting garlic and have never planted in the fall. I grow exclusively in grow bags and pots due to small space restrictions. Now I know to plant the biggest cloves. Great video 👍
I enjoy your enthusiasm and willingness to just try something new. I live in the Central Australian desert and still manage to grow a decent amount of food for us. Thanks for sharing your tips for garlic growing.
So a tip with the leaves is to mow the leaves with a bag mower and that chops them up and then put them on your beds the breakdown really well and you won’t have to remove them, also I use leaves instead of straw to suppress my weeds because I have lots of trees and then it coasts me nothing but time.
My father plants garlic and onions in pots and they grow fine 😊
Use your little heads of garlic for broth making. Simply slice them in half and drop them in. You could use them to flavor soup base and remove them before serving.
Good common sense Becky! I do know composting; I took a Master Gardener Composting Class, as an addition to the Master Gardener Class offered, in my area. As a rule, you never add weeds or diseased plant matter to ur Compost. So, I trash my spent 🍅 plants. Also, 🍅 horn 🐛s go dormant or their eggs will survive in the soil, til time to come awake next season. So that’s another reason to remove all worms (using a black light) and dispose of spent plants asap. Don’t leave the foliage up any longer than you hv to, next season, cuz the horn worms will enjoy the free meal and the lack of vigilance from keeping em at bay.
I live in Dallas, so our Winters aren’t right for bulb development, But I keep trying. Gonna Try some 🧄 Again soon. Thanks for your wonderful tutorial.
Becky drop your garlic cloves in water. Let soak for about 5 minutes. Your cloves will practically peal themselves.. learned this trip from a Chef I worked with years ago.
Use the small garlics to dehydrate and turn into powered garlic for when you need only power garlic in a recipe and you can give it out as a gift for the holidays or for a newly married couple as a housewarming present.
I only had 3 bulbs from last year’s harvest,they were tiny but I planted them all and they are all coming up It’s great to have some things growing. I’m saving all my leaves in compost bins when have broken down I put them on the beds for the next season. I use the spent compost to cover the beds until the leaves are ready. Can’t wait for your clean up video with your Dad
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Becky just want to say that I love your channel. You make everything seem so simple and you have so much knowledge! I am learning so much from you so thank you for sharing your life with us!
I haven't had much luck with this method but I suspect different varieties have looser skins which would help a lot. I usually just smack a few of the smaller ones together on the cutting board a few times, pick out the big pieces of garlic meat and toss the rest. I admit it, I'm lazy.
I am so excited for you and can't wait to find out how this bed progresses. Thanks for taking us along.
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If you use your lawnmower and chop up the leaves, they will stay in place better and not blow away in the wind as easily. Great job on the garlic!
This is on today's/this weekend's To-Do list! Universe is most definitely saying, GET IT DONE, with this popping up today! 😁 As always, thanks for the inspiration!
Becky you are an inspiration. You can get an inexpensive shredder/mulcher and chop up the leaves.
I separate the cloves and store them in the freezer, peels on. Get them out and let them sit before you want to cook with them, and the peels will just slip right off. That way you don't have to waste any, no matter how small the cloves are.
Hi Karen
Hori hori, a Japanese tool. Its great!
You can cut the ends off the small garlic , put them in a pan lined with foil, drizzle with a little Olive oil, cover and roast it until soft. Then you can squeeze the garlic and freeze it. No need to peel it.
Awesome!!! Now I am going to go back and re-watch 2022 Garlic Harvest, I can not remember how the pots did! Thankyou as always Sweet Becky!
Becky you are a wealth of good information. I only found your channel a few months ago and I absolutely love it.
Your learning as you go. If you don’t try something you’ll never know if it will work.
Love ya.
Easy way to “peel” a clove of garlic (or several) is to put them in a jar, put a lid on it and shake real hard. The papers will come right off rather quickly.
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Awesome. I planted 100 cloves of garlic yesterday in large cement mixing tubs. I have moles in my property so I will have to do lots of container gardening until I can afford to build the raised beds in a way the moles don’t eat my crops
I love my seed square! It helps a lot when you want to minimize thinning of seedlings. I planted my soft neck garlic, Nootka Rose and Inchelium Red, here in S. Florida this past week. It’s my first time planting garlic, so I am hoping to get good results.
I need to try that type! Thank you for sharing with me!
Next time you have a bunch of small garlic bulbs, maybe make some torshi seer (whole garlic bulbs preserved in vinegar). By the time they’re ready to eat (years later) the skins should be easy to remove. =)
Bake the little clove heads in the oven for 60 min. The paste is beautifull in taste.
I am planting my garlic today. Here in Norway we wait a bit longer so they dont start before frost hits. Soil can get too wet.
A tip for more organized gardening; make a simple map of all your garden beds on graph paper (for even more accuracy, one square on paper = one square foot in the garden) and block out where you planted what. You can also write down how much you planted, the spacing and the date. I’d recommend having a specific notebook just for this so you can make notes for the years to come, like how much you planted vs. the harvest, what did or didn’t work, was it too late/early to plant something etc.
I had markers in my garden beds this year, but birds kept pulling them out and littering my property (and my neighbours property…) with them so next year I’m just doing the garden maps instead 😅
Hi Becky, I live in Connecticut we have an abundance of those trees, they're oak tree leaves. A pretty green when alive but turn a boring brown during the autumnal change. Take care!
Oak leaves are fairly acidic which might impact some soils. They also have natural tannin which can be used to dye paper and fabric. You might have seen dead oak leaf imprints on sidewalks after fall or winter rains.
Pin oak. Takes a while to break down. Have a few of these trees in northern pa
Thank you for your garlic videos, they’ve been a great help with me planning my first garlic bed. I’m in Oz & it all (nearly) went in today, 13 varieties, with 3 to go (need more soil). I ordered one pack of every variety from The Diggers Club here. ~248 cloves in total, with the leftovers to go into pots to make scapes for eating & to use the leaves for flavouring.
You just gave me an 💡...I use garlic in just about all my cooking. I live in an apartment so all plants are in containers. I think I'm going to plant some garlic in a garlic and see what happens. Thank you for your inspiration.
Feels good to mark that off the gardening to do list doesn't it?! My garlic does well in containers. BTW those are oak leaves.
The baby small garlic is great for smashing and throwing in unpeeled when making stocks!
After your harvest garlic clip i decide do plant garlic for next year. Have about 200 cloves in the ground. THANK YOU FOR INSPIRATION.
Thanks for the tips, we are heading into summer, so this will be very helpful for next year 😀😀
As someone who lives in an apartment, I'm interested in seeing how the garlic in pots will grow
It can at the least grow the scapes as they will regrow after cutting
Omg you have no idea how happy I am when i saw you uploaded a new video! I'm always looking forward to them. ❤
Perhaps an idea for leftover ends would be shallots. They don’t need a huge amount of room and they are so so good. Give it a try!
Square foot gardening was very popular in the 90s. It's especially great for small areas!!
I still love it!
You can use those small garlic cloves in your bone broths…. Just toss them in with the skins on…
This might have already been mentioned. But just put your label in a sandwich bag and poke it into the ground above the zipper area. It really works! Much love!
I've seen on UA-cam that some gardeners shred their leaves before they use them, in order to make the process of breaking down go a bit faster. They did it with a lawnmower.
Hey Becky. This is Red Oak leafs. Robust trees= String/hard leafs 😋
Becky, this has nothing to do with planting garlic but peeling it. I was peeling garlic to dehydrate by hitting the clove with a butcher knife which began to hurt my hand. I got my kitchen pounder (flattens chicken) and hit the cloves with that. It did not hurt my hand and the peels came right off. Just an FYI.
One way I like to preserve garlic is to ferment it in honey. Makes for great addition to Asian dishes, marinades and salad dressings;)
I ended up with a failed garlic harvest, planted in the spring, all the heads were small. So instead of peeling them and using them in recipes, I just toss the whole head in when I make stock. This year I planted in the fall and I can't wait to see what I get. Cheers and Merry Christmas!
all you can eat bug buffet lol; i bet the chickens love it.
I do that with my peppers. I save the seeds so I can plant them. That way I know they’ll produce. I planted large cloves this year hoping for large heads/cloves. I bought organic garlic and planted it. Hopefully it’ll work for me. I’m a garlic lover…my husband too. Tfs.🤗
Great job Becky! I sadly think I missed garlic planting this year-its currently snowing and 25 degrees. :( But I think I will throw a few in a pot and maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised next year!
I just love your "no fear" attitude!!!
Blessings my dear friend, you are a hard worker, I wish I could have energy like you 💯❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Yay!!! I've been waiting for this video! You inspired me to try planting garlic this year. We loooove garlic scapes, but they aren't easily available where we live so we are planting our own. I'm doing all container gardening so I'm super stoked about this year's container forays! I'm just so excited and it's all thanks to you!
I need to look up if I can plant garlic in a container considering Minnesota is now 20 degrees and will get alot colder yet lol
Enjoying your videos from Australia. Your fast and direct which makes you easier to watch thank you.
Someone may have already mentioned this, but I ended up with a lot of smaller heads last year (now I know why!) and instead of pealing them and using them in dishes I literally just throw the entire head in with my broths that I cook down and it works out perfectly.
Hey Becky, those are Oak leaves that you covered the garlic with.
At the other end of this process. When you want to peel large amounts of garlic, break up the bulbs and drop into a bucket/bowl of boiling water leave till cool and the skin should just slip off. I know it's not hard to get the skin's off but we used to do this in the Greek kitchen I worked in and when we had to do an bag of garlic a day it took the fiddle out of the process. I am now looking for garlic to plant.
Becky, I so enjoy you videos. You are my new Marth Stewart. :) I don't know how you get so many different things done the way you do, and all done well. I look forward to your videos everyday. I'm 63 years old and you have taught this old dog some new tricks. Can't wait for my next lesson. Bless you sweet girl.
I'm super excited to see how the garlic turns out in the pot! Last year I experimented with 1 jalapeno plant in a pot and it did so well! Better than the other ones. In 2022 I'm going to experiment with more planting in pots. Thank you for another great video! 💖
Hi Lori
I would be thrilled if I had the ability to plant all that garlic. I’m in the south so I just planted short neck varieties and I planted 3 5 - gallon buckets for the first time.
I do hardneck garlic because I want the scapes, and when it's ready, I just seprate it all and prep it for the freezer by chopping it up or as a whole clove.
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If you put your garlic cloves no matter how small in a plastic container or glass jar and put the lid on then shake the jar the skin on the garlic loosens and you can just pull the papery skin off, I don’t bother peeling the garlic when roasting with vegetables or when crushing as it will just cook in with the dish hope this helps take care 😀
Here in Florida, it doesn't get cold enough for large garlic heads to form. But we trim the greens (I chop, freeze and use the greens for cooking) for the months the garlic is in the ground. And around April, we harvest the mini-bulbs. I run them through the food processor and freeze them (I defrost what I do need, add oil and put into the fridge). It's really amazing how different areas have different ways of growing.
You should try freezing or refrigerating them
I grow only soft neck garlic because I live too far south to grow hard neck effectively :) Unfortunately, because I moved this summer, I didn't get my garlic bed up and ready before October passed (which is the prime time for growing garlic here!) I MIGHT be able to put it in, but despite the fact that I live in the same zone as I did before, I've found that moving just 60 miles north of where I was before the climate in the country is DRAMATICALLY different than in the suburbs.
Instead, I'm taking notes about my microclimate so I know exactly when and how to get my garlic in the ground in 2022 to have a monster crop in 2023. I can handle buying garlic for a year for great results happily ever after!
I'm also super interested in planting Transylvanian garlic. I've heard the flavor is amazing!
Get yourself one of those rubber garlic rollers. I don't know what the actual name is. You put the garlic in the middle and just roll. I've always just smashed and peeled. Bought one of these and I love it. Works great on any size head of garlic.
I’m going to plant garlic for the first time! Thanks for the inspirational video :)
I planted a few garlic bulbs when I saw this two weeks ago, and I already see several garlic sprouts that around about 2” high! By the way, on another channel, Daisy something or other, this guy Jag said that planting large bulbs produce larger heads. So I selected do large bulbs snd we’ll see what we get.
I planted soft neck too. I personally like the flavor more than the different hard necks I've tried.