Grocery Store Garlic vs Seed Stock
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- In this video Greg compares his results using both grocery store garlic and garden centre seed stock. He also explains how he chooses the number of garlic to save, and which ones to save. Thanks for watching, and if you enjoyed this content, please subscribe to our channel. You can also check out our podcast (maritimegardeni...).
Garlic seed in florida is hugely expensive. I always use store bought and very happy
I have been growing the same garlic for 30 years. Every year the garlic just get better and bigger. I alway save the biggest and the best for seed. People think I am growing elephant garlic till I give them a sample.
That's awesome man! Same goal I'm working toward :)
I spring planted some grocery store garlic it stayed single cloves so I planted those that fall. Can’t wait to see how they grow this spring.
I grow Music also. Zone 4a. Started with 8 Kg and planted about 5 Kg of that from which I harvested 16 Kg and planted about twice as much as the year before last fall. This year's is drying, and I'll be weighing the harvest in a week or two. They're definitely beefing up. I plan on increasing the crop till there's just no more room available. Also, I harvest about 8 Kg wet weight of scapes, from which I made 4 1l jars immersed in olive oil, and the rest dried and powdered. Really enjoy your channel.
Did you start from seed garlic?
Wow , very interesting , I want to plant some now too :)
Quite a good harvest there Greg,
My cousin is a farmer (small time) when the garlic greens are abt. 18" tall she trims off the tops ( just like shallot greens), after rincing them she cuts them up to abt 1/4 in" pieces ..
then on a large tray she spreads them out , lightly salts & add some olive oil , mixes all up & dries them.When dry it stores very well in glass bottles. It's amazing in soups, or any stews , gives it a lovely garlicky flavour. Sad to see all those greens going to waste .
Love your videos.
I do a very similar thing when I make pesto from the garlic scapes: ua-cam.com/video/qtK-oyZONi0/v-deo.html
I like your style. Very down to earth and good sense of humor. Great information as well.
Awesome! Thank you!
Another inspiring video. Thanks for posting it. I don't know how I missed this one before.
I, like you, started out with a small number of garlic and kept keeping my own seed garlic every fall for replanting. I started off with about 50 and after I have my breakfast in a few minutes I am going to sit down with the biggest of this year's fall garlic harvest and prepare cloves for planting 400 to 500 garlic for next year's harvest. This will be my 4th planting. This year I had 276 garlic and, because of selecting my seed from the largest garlic heads, more than a third of my garlic crop were large this fall. I divide them into small, medium, and large. The small category was, by far, the smallest group this year. (I'm in Eastern Ontario, zone 5a)
Have you have any problem with nematodes? I heard that was a problem for garlic in Ontario.
@Sheila Mchgee Leave them be !!! :)
Growing garlic for the first time and could not find a good local place with a variety of bulbs. Ended up finding a place online called the Garlic Store from Fort Collins, Colorado. I have never seen so many varieties! Tried 3 varieties. The bulbs are beautiful and growing well.
That's awesome. I plant garlic for the first time last Fall.
Watching this during fall of 2020 I can’t even Find very many seeds right now so store bought garlic it is
Great Show , the Law of Abundant Return , go forth and multiply , Cheers , good job .
Thank you kindly
Looking good! It's good to assume maybe 1/3rd will be smaller than you'd like. I'm at just under 1800 this year and easily had 400 that were either a round or too small that I would want to replant. Plant every extra clove you have though.
1800 wow!
Dang! Nice looking Garlic! I want to grow some here in South Texas.
I'm getting mine at HEB!
I didn't get my garlic planted in the fall but my goal is to get it planted this Fall. I use A Lot of garlic, as In one whole head in my soups daily. Hence why I had to buy a bag of garlic from Costco. I grow hard neck garlic too. We have a very short growing season, long snowy winters, long cool wet springs, maybe a handful of 80-90* summer days. Cool season crops work better here where as our last property was the other way around.
I use a lot too. I'm finding that about 60 heads to make enough cloves for cooking and have enough left over for the following year. That gives you about 300 heads, so 240 for food, and 60 for seed
Liked the video and good concept. Where is the best place to buy the bulbs online and how long does it take before they can be harvested from each little clove planted?
I don't know if there's a best place. Any good seed provider should have them. Of course, if you want to help support this channel - buy yours from Veseys Seeds using my coupon code (GAVS20) for free shipping. You plant garlic in the fall (like with tulips), and then harvest them in July/August.
I live in 5a and I keep the seeds from my earliest RIPENED plants AND my biggest or most prolific and that is my seeds for next year, its my own especially for HERE farm hybrids, it works n I'm happy......
awesome!
I got some free garlic and they are huge. Would u recommend using them to grow more garlic. We can't eat enough to use them all. Lol
I've only had good success with planting garlic in the fall - I don't find them to get any real size when planted in spring - but hey if the option is either let them go the waste or plant and see what happens - I guess it's an easy choice. Just be careful - only certified seed garlic are guaranteed not to bring any pathogens into your soil.
Nice looking garlic. I grow garlic too. I can't believe you eat that much garlic. I love garlic.
It was not enough. I'm already all out!!!
How do you store it for a year without it drying out or molding?
Made a video on that: ua-cam.com/video/-yFO5neSujQ/v-deo.html
Great video!
Thanks!
i love garlic!
Hi Greg. Nice harvest. The grocery store garlic we get here is usually from China and is soft neck. I've been resowing my own seed garlic for 20 years now. I've noticed rust is usually a problem here because of the leeks over wintering near the garlic. I dehydrate some of my garlic to save on storage space. I also inter plant it with other crops. From Judy Victoria BC Canada.
Maybe you should try hard neck
garlic?
Sorry I guess I wasn't clear. Only the store bought garlic is soft neck. My own garlic I've been growing for 20 years is hard neck. Judy.
Is it just the soft neck that has the rust prob?
No. Both types get it. I plant fava beans between my garlic rows and it seems to help. Protects the garlic from the spores blowing in. I'm in an allotment garden situation so others grow leeks. I also have my Permaculture Design Certificate. Judy.
Can you eat fresh garlic?
If you mean can you pick it and eat it - then yes :)
eat fresh garlic every day you wont catch a cold or attract vampires
Yes! Northern Chinese people eat garlic and spring onions everyday
So this wasnt a good comparison seeing how you've already been saving the best of seed garlic for multiple years and selecting for biggest. The grocery garlic still made, so 4years of selecting for size in your climate should also produce larger cloves
Music is a nice tasting variety but expensive to buy from the suppliers- $16 for 8 oz!
Initially yes, but if you save your own seed you save money over the long run. This year I planted 200+ garlic, didn't spend a cent
My problem is having the discipline to save seed stock! It tastes so good it ends up getting eaten. I do replant and am slowly getting to where I don’t have to buy any. My downfall is roasted garlic, I could eat it at every meal. Lol
@@brucea550 you eat seed heads of garlic ??
@@robaldridge6505
Yes! Before they go to seed, the scapes are delicious.
@@brucea550 I've eaten the stalks but not the seed heads
The large heads look like what we call elephant garlic which is actually more closely related to a leek.
The variety is "Music" garlic. They just look like elephant garlic because I save and replant only the biggest ones.
It's not exactly Store garlic vs. Seed garlic. More One species garlic vs. another. Bigger is not necessarily better. Actually, for me, variety is the best. I like to grow a few different plants. :)
That's a pretty nice crop BTW.
Thanks :)
You talk too much men!, go to the point!!
What men am I talking about; and what is this point to which I should be going?
Been doing garlic for 3 yr now i have braid what i wanted to save for this yr but when i went thru again to plant in Oct they almost disintegrated most of it. Was have any idea if why?its very heavy humidity here in S tx.can i do else to help dry them out more
I found the same thing - they went all moldy/mildewy. I think the braid technique works if you are somewhere with low humidity. My solution is to just cut the stems about 3" long and place them all on a baby gate (great for drying things, and people throw them away all the time). ua-cam.com/video/op-uIJR3iNw/v-deo.html