Ok I see another trial in the making. 4”,3” and 2” spacing. Let’s put your results to the test. Maybe even a 6” spacing to see if there is also a maximum spacing for yield.
As always, great tutorial!!! 🧄Good to show folks that the garden is a fun place to play in!💕 If you cut the roots off when you harvest, they are much easier to cut off and it allows for more airflow across the bottom of the bulb and the inner stem dries out faster.
I always see 6" spacing being ideal, but I've done 4" spacing for the past 10 years, aside from one year where I tried 6" spacing, and the only difference I noticed is that I got a smaller harvest the year I spaced them 6" apart.
Keep doing what works... Some of the smaller Italian hardnecks can likely get away with even 3" spacing.... But when you're trying to make a video for the entire world, you need to follow the guidelines that are going to let everyone be successful
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms agreed! Your guidance is perfect. Over time, as we get the hang of things, we learn to experiment and see what works best for our own individual needs.
Taking note for next season Thanks for the experiment and tips! We had a warm winter, dry spring and an aphid attack. Not all bulbs turned out great for the first ime growing them. I will be planting them later and will probably cut a 4 inch off cut block to make sure we are spacing them out enough. I was worried about them getting too cold so may have planted them deeper as we then also added more compost when we planted out the tomatoes. It hasn't put me off trying again. It is all about learning what works in your garden.
I came to yt this evening for tour videos only! So informative and so relaxing to watch! Thanks a million and keep them coming! I'd love some pumpkin videos myself btw!
Given the amount of time, money and effort I used to put into planting 1,300 cloves, growing the biggest bulbs possible was my goal. However! Even the smaller bulbs were a gift from the gods once I began using them in the kitchen.
I enjoy your videos as they inform in a DIY'er way. Bigger fewer bulbs saves time after harvest too, less to peel during processing. After curing I peel, wash and mince the cloves to a fine/medium sized mince I fill boiled, hot pint jars with 1/2" headspace. Some Kosher salt, 1/2 teaspoon per pint and generously cover them with a high grade single variety olive oil & Refrigerate. Good for a year or more. Been doing garlic this way for many decades now. Yummmmmm! 👍👍👍🍻 to y'all!
1000% correct Keith. Peeling is beyond annoying....the bigger the bulb, the better! Love the preserving them. I freeze mine but they end up a bit on the mushy side. How's the consistency of yours?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms If you do whole cloves the same way they are as if just picked for a full year. My bride of 48 years likes them minced and we all know... Keep the cook happy! LOL. Still going thru your videos. On these hot days it's my go to to keep my mind occupied. Gramps Paddock, the old farmer used to say. If your fingernails ain't filled with dirt, ya just ain't working hard enough! LOL.
Great experiment! And even aside from having to use twice as many seed bulbs for the close packed plants, I just prefer to cook with the larger bulbs. There's that much less overhead on getting to the clove itself.
EXACTLY Todd....peeling off the little paper coatings gets annoying after the 3rd clove, LOL. I can't imagine having to do twice as much with all the garlic we cook with, LOL! Cheers man.
Thank you for experimenting with the spacing issue and sharing your experience. This was really timely for me because I am planning to grow our garlic in a raised bed this fall for the first time. We use garlic a lot so a bountiful harvest is important!! This will be my fourth year for growing garlic, so I am relatively new to all of this. So far the biggest improvement I’ve made is buying hardneck seed garlic (we have cold winters here) from a garlic farmer. This made a world of difference and I have followed the “4 inch rule” since I started. Thanks again for sharing this, much appreciated❣️
I've been growing garlic for years. Started out closer together. Then I expanded to the 4 inch spacing. Last year, I planted very large cloves 6 inches apart and the results were very large bulbs/cloves. So when I recently planted for next year, I stayed with the 6 inch rule. I like large cloves that are easy to peel.
The other experience I have had is that plant too close together and lack of air flow can facilitate more rust growth especially in humid weather. Whilst spores get transported around by wind if spaced too close together and leaves touch it gets transferred between pants even easier. Also if you want successive seed cloves for next year the bigger they are the better they will perform. Thus fewer larger bulbs obtained through adequate spacing gives better stock for next year. I use the smaller bulbs for culinary purposes first and save the larger ones for next seasons seed.
Wow! So interesting! Thanks for doing this experiment and sharing the results!! I really appreciate it. I also liked the experiment you did on trimming pepper plants, or not! I followed your results and did NOT trim as some other people suggested! Keep experimenting!Thanks!! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
Thanks so much Eileen! I want to keep experimenting more too! The only trouble is that you have to plan soooo far in advance and so many things can mess with your results, LOL. Take care. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I can imagine how that would be!! As I was taught by my mom as a child, "Anything worth doing well, is worth the time" !! 😊 Thanks again!
I like spacing on a 6” grid too. It is far enough apart that I can get a small hand tool in between the rows without damaging the garlic. Plus big heads that are easy to work with in the kitchen.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I am assuming that means that 4" is a compromise. I am also assuming that the amount of fertilizer used has some affect on the bulb size. What would happen if you used the 2" spacing but double the recommended fertilizer for the given area?
Good info! I tried the closely spaced last season and got tons of smaller bulbs. Gearing up for fall planting, though I need to vernalize my garlic, since we don't get frost or freeze
What you can do is plant them 2" apart, but thin them out to 4" in early spring, so you can have an early harvest of green garlic and still have big bulbs from the ones you leave in the summer
Garlic greens can be harvested without ruining the plant, so you can just space normal and take the greens here and there without the extra work or seed stock.
Thanks for a great video Just wondering what about if the cloves are planted 3" apart? Unfortunately I don't have that much spare space to experiment so I always plant 4" apart.
I wonder if 3” spacing would be a good compromise: getting a few extra bulbs in but also providing more room to grow. Maybe also planting in a diamond pattern rather than in straight rows. Also, last year I planted garlic in a half whiskey barrel and followed all the rules that normally apply to garlic, but not a single bulb survived the winter. Fortunately I also planted a bunch in-ground so I still got a harvest. Any reason those winter barrel-planted bulbs died?
3" might indeed be a good comprimise! Container (barrel) planted garlic is more exposed to winter chill and freeze. In colder climates, in-ground is better.
Just out of curiosity, I'll try planting cheap, store-bought cloves in a fabric bucket with handles this fall. When the below 30 F temperatures arrive, I'll bring them into an unheated room until the temps warm up again. If that works, I'll try some better varieties the following winters until I have ground ready for planting.
@@flatlander2743 Yeah, even under cover near the house or grouping the pots together is sometimes enough. Its just those few weeks of sub zero exposure that's the difference!
Quick question. harvested all my garlic - what a haul! :) One question - several of the large bulbs had small "yellow bulb" appendages the size of sweetcorn dangling off the root base. Are these immature garlic cloves that can be planted or should they be binned? Cheers
I noticed that you harvested the garlic this time when all the leaves were brown. I’ve been watching all your videos today but it was said to harvest once only the bottom 2 sets of leaves turned brown. Which is best? Thank you👍
Hey Michele, once you get a feel for it, the window to harvest is quite large. Later is better as the crop continues to grow larger. I tend to harvest ealier in the big beds though because in the middle of summer there's still time for another crop. With these planter boxes here, I wasn't going to replant them, so they could brown out and grow a bit more.
Great guide. How can we grow garlic in extremely cold place? I planted garlic in fall, and mulched well for the last 2 years, but they never survived. In my area, it drops to -35 Celsius.
Currently trying to produce green onion flowers and since I live on the second floor of an apartment idk what types of flowers I can use to attract bees to pollinate them. Some more advice on green onions would be really nice!
Hey Lynn. Green onions are biennials and often only flower in their 2nd year. So they need to often be overwintered.: ua-cam.com/video/fGDuWmD9an0/v-deo.html
Hi Lila, I find that the clove size does matter. Some people say it doesn't, but I believe it contributes to the end product. So I made sure with this experiment to user virtually identical to cloves all the way through!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Last fall, I planted out some "forgotten" garlic that sprouted, even the small cloves. Many of the small ones failed, and those that did grow were definitely small. They were going to be tossed, so it was a good experiment as I got a fair amount of bulbs! Now I'm going to plant a larger crop with big cloves this fall. 💕
Also, for the rest of Europe could you add links on German Amazon? UK is not longer in the EU and we have to pay customs if we order from there, but I've ordered from German Amazon (the Nordics don't have their own) and I'd love to support your channel if I need something gardening related 🤗
Last year I saw where someone planted 2 rows of garlic, spaced as recommended (4"?). Then they planted a row of garlic in between the rows, but off-set from the others (i.e. in a "block" of 4 cloves planted, they added 1 in the center). They didn't do a side-by-side to see if this affected bulb size. Would you consider an experiment like this to see if you could get a good harvest without compromise? TY! 🙂
Yup, zig-zag to maximize the space. You can do that with regular plants as well (zucchinis, tomatoes, etc). And the plants don't know any better. All they know is the proximity from their roots to the next plant's roots. As long as minimum diameter is observed, it should work. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms When you offset alternate rows, you can place the rows a bit closer together and still maintain the 4" spacing between cloves. Planting two rows 4" between rows and then placing additional cloves in the center of each block of 4 would violate spacing significantly. Those center bulbs would only be slightly over 2 3/4 away from the surrounding 4 bulbs. A person would have to experiment to see what affect that has on yield.
@@xnotx2 Its usually lack of drainage and excess precipitation that rots the stems and bulbs. I live in Victoria BC where we RARELY get below zero. My garlic sprouts to about 4 feet tall BEFORE Christmas! I've never had a bulb rot. Drainage is key key key. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Yea I hear ya. They're in pots with good soil, but the weather here can freeze solid for weeks then warm for weeks and rain and snow. It's crazy.
@@xnotx2 Try a very thick layer of straw mulch. Crown it so the straw sheds some the rain. I get almost continuous rain from late fall through most of spring and rarely have rot. As TRTF said - improve your drainage. It may be your pot drainage that is the problem.
uh oh, ive already harvested my 250 🧄s, but i did pull them by the stalks after loosening the soil around the bulb. should i watch for something to be sure i didnt cause any damage?
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Ok I see another trial in the making. 4”,3” and 2” spacing. Let’s put your results to the test. Maybe even a 6” spacing to see if there is also a maximum spacing for yield.
As always, great tutorial!!! 🧄Good to show folks that the garden is a fun place to play in!💕 If you cut the roots off when you harvest, they are much easier to cut off and it allows for more airflow across the bottom of the bulb and the inner stem dries out faster.
Thanks Tess! 🙂
I always see 6" spacing being ideal, but I've done 4" spacing for the past 10 years, aside from one year where I tried 6" spacing, and the only difference I noticed is that I got a smaller harvest the year I spaced them 6" apart.
Keep doing what works... Some of the smaller Italian hardnecks can likely get away with even 3" spacing.... But when you're trying to make a video for the entire world, you need to follow the guidelines that are going to let everyone be successful
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms agreed! Your guidance is perfect. Over time, as we get the hang of things, we learn to experiment and see what works best for our own individual needs.
@@gregdoh so true man, so true!
Taking note for next season Thanks for the experiment and tips!
We had a warm winter, dry spring and an aphid attack. Not all bulbs turned out great for the first ime growing them. I will be planting them later and will probably cut a 4 inch off cut block to make sure we are spacing them out enough. I was worried about them getting too cold so may have planted them deeper as we then also added more compost when we planted out the tomatoes.
It hasn't put me off trying again. It is all about learning what works in your garden.
Love the mindset! Experiment a couple of times and get a feel for what works best for YOUR garden and your climate. Perfect! 🙂
I came to yt this evening for tour videos only! So informative and so relaxing to watch! Thanks a million and keep them coming! I'd love some pumpkin videos myself btw!
Thanks so much Maija! Means a lot. I've got a pumpkin one that could be amazing if it works out!
Given the amount of time, money and effort I used to put into planting 1,300 cloves, growing the biggest bulbs possible was my goal. However! Even the smaller bulbs were a gift from the gods once I began using them in the kitchen.
Exactly. The goal is almost always bigger bulbs....not more smaller ones. I agree. :-)
Such great a great video! Love these types of garden experiments to really test out the "rule of thumb" rules
Me too S B! I'm always questioning "well why is that a rule?", ha ha!
I enjoy your videos as they inform in a DIY'er way.
Bigger fewer bulbs saves time after harvest too, less to peel during processing.
After curing I peel, wash and mince the cloves to a fine/medium sized mince I fill boiled, hot pint jars with 1/2" headspace.
Some Kosher salt, 1/2 teaspoon per pint and generously cover them with a high grade single variety olive oil & Refrigerate.
Good for a year or more.
Been doing garlic this way for many decades now. Yummmmmm!
👍👍👍🍻 to y'all!
1000% correct Keith. Peeling is beyond annoying....the bigger the bulb, the better! Love the preserving them. I freeze mine but they end up a bit on the mushy side. How's the consistency of yours?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms
If you do whole cloves the same way they are as if just picked for a full year. My bride of 48 years likes them minced and we all know...
Keep the cook happy! LOL.
Still going thru your videos. On these hot days it's my go to to keep my mind occupied.
Gramps Paddock, the old farmer used to say. If your fingernails ain't filled with dirt, ya just ain't working hard enough!
LOL.
Such a great video. Putting in our first garlic planting this week and was wondering about this. Thanks for doing this experiment for us!
@@ibcsam thanks so much for watching, best of luck with your first planting!
Thank you! I love the ease of use in the larger bulbs 🎉. Sounds like a no brained.
Everyone loves bigger Garlic! :-)
Great experiment! And even aside from having to use twice as many seed bulbs for the close packed plants, I just prefer to cook with the larger bulbs. There's that much less overhead on getting to the clove itself.
EXACTLY Todd....peeling off the little paper coatings gets annoying after the 3rd clove, LOL. I can't imagine having to do twice as much with all the garlic we cook with, LOL! Cheers man.
Thank you for experimenting with the spacing issue and sharing your experience. This was really timely for me because I am planning to grow our garlic in a raised bed this fall for the first time. We use garlic a lot so a bountiful harvest is important!! This will be my fourth year for growing garlic, so I am relatively new to all of this. So far the biggest improvement I’ve made is buying hardneck seed garlic (we have cold winters here) from a garlic farmer. This made a world of difference and I have followed the “4 inch rule” since I started. Thanks again for sharing this, much appreciated❣️
I've been growing garlic for years. Started out closer together. Then I expanded to the 4 inch spacing. Last year, I planted very large cloves 6 inches apart and the results were very large bulbs/cloves. So when I recently planted for next year, I stayed with the 6 inch rule. I like large cloves that are easy to peel.
1000%. Give me bigger bulbs any day. Less peeling, less work!
The other experience I have had is that plant too close together and lack of air flow can facilitate more rust growth especially in humid weather. Whilst spores get transported around by wind if spaced too close together and leaves touch it gets transferred between pants even easier. Also if you want successive seed cloves for next year the bigger they are the better they will perform. Thus fewer larger bulbs obtained through adequate spacing gives better stock for next year. I use the smaller bulbs for culinary purposes first and save the larger ones for next seasons seed.
100% true. Proper spacing is just all around the better option.
Wow! So interesting! Thanks for doing this experiment and sharing the results!! I really appreciate it. I also liked the experiment you did on trimming pepper plants, or not! I followed your results and did NOT trim as some other people suggested! Keep experimenting!Thanks!! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
Thanks so much Eileen! I want to keep experimenting more too! The only trouble is that you have to plan soooo far in advance and so many things can mess with your results, LOL. Take care. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I can imagine how that would be!! As I was taught by my mom as a child, "Anything worth doing well, is worth the time" !! 😊 Thanks again!
@@eileenbartnick7202 Wise words to live by my friend...! 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarmsjust like "water in the hole"!! 😉😉😉
@@eileenbartnick7202 ha ha! :-)
You DA Man! THNX. I can't wait to plant garlic this fall. YUM
Thanks Shiloh! 🙂
Good stuff! I use 6” spacing and get big bulbs.
Nice Tom! If you got the space, 6" is great!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Having a few acres to play with definitely has it’s benefits!
@@tombryant4518 ha ha no doubt Tom!! :-)
I like spacing on a 6” grid too. It is far enough apart that I can get a small hand tool in between the rows without damaging the garlic. Plus big heads that are easy to work with in the kitchen.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I am assuming that means that 4" is a compromise.
I am also assuming that the amount of fertilizer used has some affect on the bulb size. What would happen if you used the 2" spacing but double the recommended fertilizer for the given area?
Great video and very informative. Thanks for sharing.
Hey thanks Marcus, and thanks for watching! 🙂
Thank you! This is the type of content I needed in my life. Truly appreciate it 😊
Thanks, and thank you for watching! :-)
Cool experiment. Thanks for posting.
Cheers, thanks for watching!
Great Info! Thanks for your work and lesson.
Cheers Candy, appreciate that, and thanks for watching!
Awesome, getting ready to plant this week and this was exactly what i needed. I really appreciate it !!!
Love this experiment! I grow mine between strawberry plants that are approx 8" spacing. So far it's working out.
VERY cool! I always wanted to try growing it together with strawberries.....let us know how it goes!
Awesome information as always. Thanks
Thanks Bev! Enjoy the Sunday!
Good info! I tried the closely spaced last season and got tons of smaller bulbs. Gearing up for fall planting, though I need to vernalize my garlic, since we don't get frost or freeze
But I bet they still tasted great helen! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms absolutely! If anything, the flavor seemed more intense at times. Needed less garlic than usual in some cooking
@@helenalderson6608 maybe you're on to something helen! Maybe we need to take this further and break the cloves down to their base chemistry!
Thanks for that! Saves us wondering!
Happy to help, and thanks to you guys for watching! 🙂
Nice experiment, thank you!
Cheers, thanks for watching!
I also consider the ease of use with cooking; I find the smaller cloves are more fiddly to peel and dice
Fantastic experiment
What a trip! Great experiment. 😃🤪
I've never done good with garlic, will use your advice this year. Thank you.😸
Best of luck and let us know how it goes! The key is timing and depth and mulch!
Interesting experiment but I prefer the big bulbs. Thanks for doing it. Subscribed
Yeah, we use the bulb onions a LOT more in our cooking too Robert....but the green shoots do have their place. Cheers man! :-)
LOVED this experiment video, thank you SO much for quality & useful content. God bless & have a wonderful day
Bravo!
Cheers Natalya! 🙂
What you can do is plant them 2" apart, but thin them out to 4" in early spring, so you can have an early harvest of green garlic and still have big bulbs from the ones you leave in the summer
Garlic greens can be harvested without ruining the plant, so you can just space normal and take the greens here and there without the extra work or seed stock.
Good work... love your videos!
Thanks so much Katrina! 🙂
Thanks for a great video
Just wondering what about if the cloves are planted 3" apart?
Unfortunately I don't have that much spare space to experiment so I always plant 4" apart.
Ha ha, sold! Let's try 3" for next season! :-)
I wonder if 3” spacing would be a good compromise: getting a few extra bulbs in but also providing more room to grow. Maybe also planting in a diamond pattern rather than in straight rows.
Also, last year I planted garlic in a half whiskey barrel and followed all the rules that normally apply to garlic, but not a single bulb survived the winter.
Fortunately I also planted a bunch in-ground so I still got a harvest. Any reason those winter barrel-planted bulbs died?
3" might indeed be a good comprimise! Container (barrel) planted garlic is more exposed to winter chill and freeze. In colder climates, in-ground is better.
Just out of curiosity, I'll try planting cheap, store-bought cloves in a fabric bucket with handles this fall. When the below 30 F temperatures arrive, I'll bring them into an unheated room until the temps warm up again. If that works, I'll try some better varieties the following winters until I have ground ready for planting.
@@flatlander2743 Yeah, even under cover near the house or grouping the pots together is sometimes enough. Its just those few weeks of sub zero exposure that's the difference!
Planting now ❤❗️
:-)
Great job man!!
Thanks Tyler! 🙂
Would love a Flavor update when they cure! Shout out from Orlando Florida...You've got some Epic Balls Of Garlic bro 🧄
Great idea! :-)
love your channel! Thanks for doing this so that we won't have to. 🙂
Cheers Brenda, thanks so much for watching! :-)
Quick question.
harvested all my garlic - what a haul! :)
One question - several of the large bulbs had small "yellow bulb" appendages the size of sweetcorn dangling off the root base.
Are these immature garlic cloves that can be planted or should they be binned?
Cheers
I always just eat those guys, never had any success replanting them. I only plant the largest cloves.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Ah ha, gotcha. Thanks for the heads up. :)
@@Joseph_Dredd always save back the biggest cloves for replanting Joseph. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Absolutely! :)
Tried three types of garlic last year - the elephant garlic is simply "mahoosive"
@@Joseph_Dredd Elephant garlic is misnamed. It is closer to an onion or chive.
Why are my bulbs not forming? They are staying tiny or dying overwinter? I really appreciate this video.
What variety? What zone? When are you planting? How are you planting? We can solve this! 🙂
Thanks.
Cheers Elle!
I noticed that you harvested the garlic this time when all the leaves were brown. I’ve been watching all your videos today but it was said to harvest once only the bottom 2 sets of leaves turned brown. Which is best? Thank you👍
Hey Michele, once you get a feel for it, the window to harvest is quite large. Later is better as the crop continues to grow larger. I tend to harvest ealier in the big beds though because in the middle of summer there's still time for another crop. With these planter boxes here, I wasn't going to replant them, so they could brown out and grow a bit more.
You showed 4" is roughly double the size of 2inch but if it's in a ground bed, would that be 4inch apart and rows 4 inches apart too?
Great guide. How can we grow garlic in extremely cold place? I planted garlic in fall, and mulched well for the last 2 years, but they never survived. In my area, it drops to -35 Celsius.
Try mulching them more deeply. Even a foot of straw should be OK.
Currently trying to produce green onion flowers and since I live on the second floor of an apartment idk what types of flowers I can use to attract bees to pollinate them. Some more advice on green onions would be really nice!
Hey Lynn. Green onions are biennials and often only flower in their 2nd year. So they need to often be overwintered.: ua-cam.com/video/fGDuWmD9an0/v-deo.html
Hi Jeff, I'm wondering what happens if you plant those smaller bulbs vs larger bulbs. Do the larger bulbs create a larger next harvest?
Hi Lila, I find that the clove size does matter. Some people say it doesn't, but I believe it contributes to the end product. So I made sure with this experiment to user virtually identical to cloves all the way through!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Last fall, I planted out some "forgotten" garlic that sprouted, even the small cloves. Many of the small ones failed, and those that did grow were definitely small. They were going to be tossed, so it was a good experiment as I got a fair amount of bulbs! Now I'm going to plant a larger crop with big cloves this fall. 💕
@@robine916 right on Robin, no crop is a failure if we learn from it!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms 👍
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Great idea, will do Maija! 🙂
Nice.
the same soil okay to use for another seeds or plant?
Perfectly ok
Thanks 😊💝
Cheers
What's your favourite variety of garlic to grow (taste wise)?
I like all the purple Russian hardneck types..
Last year I saw where someone planted 2 rows of garlic, spaced as recommended (4"?). Then they planted a row of garlic in between the rows, but off-set from the others (i.e. in a "block" of 4 cloves planted, they added 1 in the center). They didn't do a side-by-side to see if this affected bulb size. Would you consider an experiment like this to see if you could get a good harvest without compromise? TY! 🙂
Yup, zig-zag to maximize the space. You can do that with regular plants as well (zucchinis, tomatoes, etc). And the plants don't know any better. All they know is the proximity from their roots to the next plant's roots. As long as minimum diameter is observed, it should work. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Good to know!
@@robine916 Really helps with the spacing when things are getting tight!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms 😁
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms When you offset alternate rows, you can place the rows a bit closer together and still maintain the 4" spacing between cloves.
Planting two rows 4" between rows and then placing additional cloves in the center of each block of 4 would violate spacing significantly. Those center bulbs would only be slightly over 2 3/4 away from the surrounding 4 bulbs. A person would have to experiment to see what affect that has on yield.
I would rather work with larger cloves so I spaced at 5" for years and have be happy with the results.
Perfect Dan! Don't fix what isn't broken! :-)
I like the bigger bulbs because I dislike pealing all those tiny bulbs!
EXACTLY Charmaine! Such a time-killer peeling all those tiny cloves..! I totally agree.
garlic season grown ?
Planted in the fall, harvested the following summer.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms can it roll any Season?
I'd be interested to see if they were watered more and given more amendments in the bed with more bulbs, id they would have grown larger 😊
I gotta figure out when to plant my garlic because of thawing during the winter. End of November maybe 🙄 Zero garlic this year. Grrr
Always plant 2-4 weeks before your first frost date. Thawing in the winter isn't a problem for most hardneck varieties.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I can't, get too many thaw periods and the stem rots.
@@xnotx2 Its usually lack of drainage and excess precipitation that rots the stems and bulbs. I live in Victoria BC where we RARELY get below zero. My garlic sprouts to about 4 feet tall BEFORE Christmas! I've never had a bulb rot. Drainage is key key key. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Yea I hear ya. They're in pots with good soil, but the weather here can freeze solid for weeks then warm for weeks and rain and snow. It's crazy.
@@xnotx2 Try a very thick layer of straw mulch. Crown it so the straw sheds some the rain.
I get almost continuous rain from late fall through most of spring and rarely have rot. As TRTF said - improve your drainage. It may be your pot drainage that is the problem.
Hello
Hey Rob!
When you able to plant the garlic
I plant in October.
I will plant them 4” apart!
Wise choice Linda! :-)
I planted garlic for the first time this year. 2024 4 inches deep with 2 In of mulch. Let's see what happens baby
@@SteveRoscoe-t2t all tucked in for the winter Steve!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms expecting snow in a few days. Oh boy
@@SteveRoscoe-t2t already?? Oh man!
We need 3 inches! Lol
uh oh, ive already harvested my 250 🧄s, but i did pull them by the stalks after loosening the soil around the bulb.
should i watch for something to be sure i didnt cause any damage?
No worries Amber. It doesn't damage the bulbs every time. But it can, especially if just yanked on without loosening the soil. 🙂