Do I have to water during the winter months? How often without snow/rain? Zone 5, average first frost date Oct 9, last frost date Apr 30. I’m attempting garlic in a 25 gallon livestock mineral tub. First time attempting garlic. Just finishing up my 3rd summer gardening. Thank you for your very helpful and informative videos!
Hi Luke, I live near Lapeer Michigan so not too far from you. You said to plant 30 days before first frost date, which is October 1 in 2024. That means planting day around September 1. But later in your video, you mentioned “when you plant in October…” can you clarify when you actually planted your garlic as this was confusing. thanks Luke! Love your videos!
Google what your potential frost date could be. I’m planning to plant late September. I’m in zone 6a northwest Indiana. I do plan on layering a 2-3inch layer of mulch above them. My first frost date is anywhere from October 1-November 10. But on average it’s around October 22
I am 6a in Ohio. I always plant AFTER my first frost which is typically somewhere around October 7-14. We get plenty of warm days after the first frost which means I often have green sprouts come up before it freezes hard. Sprouts aren’t the end of the world, but they’re not something you want in the fall either. I’ve planted in November without ill effect on my crop, but I prefer doing it on a nice sunny day in October because I don’t like to garden when it’s cold outside.
@@karen5311 Not necessarily. I usually have near 100% emergence in the spring even when they sprout in the fall early. The exception was the year I planted them in a low spot that stays wet in late winter when the snow melts and we get a lot of spring rain. I have clay soil and have learned that good drainage is critical for overwintering crops. Garlic doesn’t like wet feet.
Oh how I love hardneck garlics. Those scapes are wonderful in soups, stews, omelets and just sauteed in butter and bacon! The clove harvest is the second wave! It's like two harvests out of one crop!
Thankyou for a great tutorial! I will be planting garlic for the first time. I am an avid gardener but have not tried planting garlic before. I live in Michigan as well. Love you on youtube! you are so😃 helpful!!!
Hi Luke! The garlic I ordered from you is going in today or tomorrow. I'm zone 6. Got soft and hard neck. This is my first time planting it. Thank you for the great tips, and especially, your integrity!!! I love your videos 😊
It was loud enough for me, I heard him. I just planted 60 cloves of Leningrad garlic here in the thumb yesterday. Now I'm worried I went too deep or put too much back over it. I went about 4 inches or so deep, but maybe I'm ok because the cloves were fairly large. I did mix my mulch that contains chicken coop bedding of poo, straw, pine shavings n natural ash / charcoal and lawn clippings in with it so it was fairly loose. This is my first year with garlic so I'm paranoid. I did also plant 6 inches apart, but next year I will do the 3 or so. Trying to bulk produce for a roadside stand here in Applegate 😊
Don't worry about it too much. Your best bet is to wait until spring/summer and see what happens. You'll know then if you did anything terribly wrong, and then just change it up the next planting. I'm on my 3rd year of planting garlic, and I still learned something new from this video. :)
You should be fine. I’ve done it for 4 years and done very well. I just pushed em down in I bought from store and added some farmers market garlic. Now I just replant from last season every year.
We live close to the Canadian border. Last year we planted our first garlic in Nov 1st. It was actually spitting snow as we planted. It all went down over 2 inches deep . Maybe 3! We put a tablespoon of trifecta in each hole first and stirred it up. After planting, we covered with a chopped straw. Then prayed we hadn't messed it up! Ha our garlic was harvested in August and they were huge!!! This year we'll use sulphur. Our bed is very fluffy.. Tyo much so. Also didn't water after planting because it was snowing! Hoses already put away🥶
I'm in south central Wisconsin and plant garlic the first week of November, mostly hardneck, planted 4" apart and 2" deep. I tried 6" spacing once and noticed no difference in bulb size so I went back to 4". I've never added sulfer but we don't get as much rain as Michigan, so I've never had any garlic rot. I haven't needed to buy garlic in 7 years now. So easy and fun to grow and save seed from for the next year! GL everyone!
Audio is good now. 😊 I just planted all of the cloves last year, big and small, and little bulbs from the little cloves surprised me this year, most separated into two big cloves rather than lots of little cloves. Lol!
Thank you, MI Gardener! We had decided that we were going to grow garlic this year for the first time and this helps greatly. Thank you for making the process easy to understand!
I am in northern ME and I plant 3rd and 4th week in October. I plant before the ground freezes not before frost which we can get as early as Labor Day weekend. I harvest around 3rd week in July. I am close to MI zone but maybe little colder and more snow depending on where Luke is located in state.
Oh golly. I probably better get my garlic in this week! I just know I planted too early two years ago. I have been waiting for a bed to free up from fall stuff. 😅 One thing I did last year that helped in my yard was that I added an inexpensive plastic mesh on top of my mulch to keep the squirrels and some birds from digging up my cloves. It also kept my chickens from accidentally scratching that bed during winter.
@@pilsplease7561 They are all put to bed during a warm up last week, with added compost soil and a fat layer of leaves. I guess I will find out if I should have done more.
I planted my garlic 7 days ago cause it cooled off then its been over 70-80 for 6 days and im worried it will mess the garlic up, did put it in the fridge for like 7-10 weeks prior to planting im hoping that was enough to help make sure it gets enough cold to grow right cause i dont get enough frosts here @@Bigfoottehchipmunk
30 days before the first frost date? That would be August for us. I always thought you plant in November, that's what I've done but I've only planted one year. They got huge.
If you've ever broken a pitchfork or shovel off it's handle, that handle makes a great dibber! Might need a little sanding to get the end a little rounded off, but that's what I use to plant most of my transplants now!
I love the German hardneck garlic I purchased at MI Gardener, they had crazy big cloves 💖When I save my own Hard-neck garlic I leave the stem at least 4 inches long, it helps break the garlic apart and you can bunch varieties together with a rubber band. It Just loosen the skin by rotating it in circles pull off the stem paper and loosen the glove paper rotate it again and the cloves should pop off, or at least gone enough room to get your thumb in there.
I just pulled out my last raised bed plant. I had a bunch of rogue tomatoes, 2 heirloom tomatoes, about 3 picky cucumbers, and 1 butternut squash that was about 1 1/2” (Yes, inches!) tall! I wanted to have a garden this year and last year, but broke my arm falling off a ladder last summer that never healed right because I have Lyme, which restricts blood flow. How disappointing to move from a beautiful condo that had mold on the basement wall, and hence, throughout the entire 3 floors, so I got mold toxicity! I moved to a house that’s very nice with a privacy fence for my dog, here after having it tested, but my summers have consisted of chasing my dog out of the mud (slope in back) and trying to tend a garden, yard, and home alone with one arm. I’m 4’ 9”, and found out quickly who my friends were! Love your channel, even if I can hardly use the tips. 🥲
WHAT?! No volunteers out there in RU-vid land to come rushing to my aid, and replace the boyfriends and fiancée that I let go because they didn’t care for the fact that let family members move in even they had mold in their house? (They just happened to be my ex-husband and grown son, but I’m compassionate!) I’m so alone with my 1 1/2”…… squash! At least it wasn’t a picky cucumber! 😜
I bought elephant garlic from Ireland to France, as can't seem to buy much here, just tiny things, for teeny garlic! I must get some sulphur then - my garlic went rotten last year and was a total waste of time. Nice video.
I planted garlic I got from the Amish. I’ll add the Trifecta I just bought from you and I need to get pine shaving added. Yay!!!! Thanks for the videos!
So as I plan on soon covering my chicken pen area with a new layer of pine, I can add some of that to a new batch of garlic plantings. Also good to know that my being in zone 6, I should be able to grow hardnecks and softnecks in my yard.
Mulch. I gotta learn more about mulches. We use shredded leaves & grass clippings. Worked good last year. Sometimes, we use mowed weeds & grasses, that doesn't work too well, tons of foxtail pop up.
Hi, thank you for explaining this process. You mentioned that after you put the pine shavings on you water it well. After that initial watering, when do you begin to water it again? thanks.
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The first frost date is somewhat difficult to tell when the weather is crazy like these last years. Other sources advice to plant garlic when the soil temperature drops under 9 degrees of Celsius (48 F). I guess that might be little bit easier to get it right. Concerning the spacing - space the rows about 15 cm (6 inches) from each other but within the row you can plant the cloves as close as 8cm (3 inches) and it will be fine.
Garlic is one of my absolute favorite things to eat in the kitchen. Thank you for the helpful video. I’m glad that trifecta plus is finally available on Amazon. Thank you.
I bought 4 different varieties of garlic from MiGardener. I've planted 1/2of them. I'm glad I watched this video, because I didn't know about the sulfur & I have planted them too deep.
I've been experimenting with straw bale gardening. As the main season winds down the bales are usually beginning to fall apart. I use the semi rotted straw as mulch.
I got inchelium red garlic and nootka rose garlic undergoing vernalization right now, ive been gardening for years and this is the first year im trying to grow garlic, can't wait to see which variety taste best 😁
this is my first yr growing garlic. I saw in another video that it can be planted in a strawberry bed. I have a large and medium raised beds. If the strawberry bed is NOT an option, if there any area from the passed growing season I should avoid because garlic "doesn't like that" thanks for your help with this
Love this. Third year planting garlic. First year almost complete bust. This year just harvested so excited to have a somewhat decent yield. Planting now maybe a little late in Ohio. Nov 8. Lots more this year so with this info hopefully will yield great results 🤩
Ideal planting time here in middle Tennessee is a bit of a guess, every year. Our weather yo-yo's so much that 30 days before first anticipated frost means you'll see greens growing in about 45 days. Then again, we can only do hardneck varieties here, and we're in 7a.
Good video as always. Picking the proper planting time for garlic is never easy. I'm in zone 6A, 16 miles west of Boston. Our average first frost is Oct 6th. Last year our first frost didn't come until early Nov and this year its looking like next Tuesday BUT warm days remain ahead. Now I go by either the native Indians rule of around the last full moon of October of AFTER the first frost. Both those will be a few days apart this year. I will let you know how it works out. Some mighty BIG heads of garlic there ! So much fun to grow.
I always wait to plant until warm weather is done so the garlic doesn't sprout. We usually get a few light frosts in October here in Wisconsin, but not enough to freeze the ground. Been growing garlic for about 8 years now and there was 1 year where I planted in mid-october and the garlic sprouted. It still did well enough though.
@@MorroccoM13 We start by following advice from others to maximize results then experiment on our own and do what works best for our individual needs! And sometimes we still have failures that we might have little to no control over (such as a very late frost in spring that could kill fruit tree buds and prevent fruit from growing). My middle row of garlic didn't do great last year, most likely due to the drought we had in my area and uneven watering as I watered by hand (I'm setting up drip irrigation next year). Cheers!
Planted garlic for the first time this year watching your older videos. Is there any fertilizing or maintenance done in the spring to keep it going that you could do a video about?
Just watch it grow! :) Give it some water if your spring time is dry, but usually not needed. Maybe pull a weed here and there, but shouldn't be too much of a problem, since you have mulch in place.
We’re in 4b . Had our first frost last week but back to warm temps. I already have a leaf coming up. Hope it doesn’t ruin it but the others are still underground. I will search your video to see what I should or shouldn’t do for this early riser. Hope the other soft and hard necks stay below my mulch layer.🤞
I planted 30 days before my first frost date but the weather has been so nutty that it’s started to have shoots break the surface. I hope they’re ok. Fingers crossed. First timer.
I am ready to plant my garlic. I am waiting another week or so to do so. I learned about pelleted sulfur today. Usually I just give a light dose of the sulfur powder.
I wanted to tell you that your videos are so informative and helpful. I just bought my garlic for the first time this year. Of course it's MI Gardner garlic. I live in zone 9 in a desert and I have a real problem with ground squirrels and pocket Gophers. I decided to try growing my garlic in my garden tower. Since I don't normally get rain here in the high desert of California very often, I wasn't sure how much to water my garden tower. I'm glad I watched today for two reasons; amending the soil and mulching with pine shavings. I'm hoping this will truly help my garlic to grow this year if you have any advice on how often to water my garden tower it would be deeply appreciated. Thanks again for all the gardening help you've provided since I found your channel. Open.
We can plant 2 months before our first frost in CA since we don't always get an actual frost and the garlic just plows on (slowly) through the winter. I'm only about 40 miles from Gilroy, the "garlic capital of the world" and can reliably use the local farmer's market garlic for seed and get big healthy heads. What's weird is that some of it is hard-neck and that's unexpected, but it grows well here in Zone 10a.
@@lsherylc2524 I got mine in the ground this past week, so do it now! It should be ready to harvest around the summer equinox next year...long time but worth it.
My wife and I watch your very informative video's. I'm not picking on you because most of the youtube channels we view Do Not say where they live before you start your episode. At least please let us know what state your in. Thank you,,,
This video is great! I've learned so much. I'm really nervous being a first-time garlic planter and this is really helpful. I did buy some of the culinary garlic, oh well, life lesson. Living in zone 10A I'm thinking I'm going to have to water because we don't get too much rain or snow.
Luke, I look to you for a lot of gardening knowledge. I didn't plant garlic last fall, could I still do soft neck garlic and get it in now? Or did I completely miss my chance till fall?
Hello Luke! Love your videos. We also are northerners, here in SE Wisconsin. I heavily invested In some good Northern varieties of garlic. Problem: there were a couple of family tragedies which prevented me from planting. Now it's Nov 24. If I plant my garlic anyway, what do you think will happen?
Hello this is a great video. I planted my garlic 2-3 Wk’s ago and it is beginning to grow up thru the soil already. My question ... is that normal. I’m in N. Central Texas, zone 8a. Thank you in advance. Debbie
I am in zone 3 with a first frost date of Sept 20th. Planting garlic before frost date would give horrible results, you do not want any garlic to sprout before winter, it wastes bulb energy.
So I planted German white this year 125 cloves. 6” apart But I also planted them 3”-4” deep. They have been in for two weeks now. A few have even sprouted thru. Just buried them in leaves. Should I dig them up and plant more shallow? Columbus Ohio 6a
I just made time to watch this video and, of course, I’ve already planted some of my garlic in a large container. I’m in GA 7b/8a. That said, I DID NOT put sulfur down but I did mulch heavily AFTER a couple of sprouts popped up. I’m a garlic newbie!!!! Is it too late to add the sulfur or can I peel back the mulch, sprinkle it in and throw it back on top??
Do you rotate where you grow your garlic each year or every so often? Or always plant it in that same bed? Does it really even matter if you're amending the soil with compost, etc each season? Each year I grow more than the last and it's one of my favorite crops to grow and give away to friends and family!
If denser soil squeezes the bulb, keeping it small... but the plant is still putting the same energy into that bulb, does it make any difference in the flavor? I would guess that it might make it more intense like stressed pepper plants often make hotter peppers?
How do you "save" garlic from the winter planting to be able to use for fall planting again. Seems like it would go bad from a July harvest to a fall planting.
This came in time for me to plant. I was watching a video from someome who has planted garlic for 30+yrs. They said to soak in a solution of baking soda, kelp & humic acid & water. You didn't meantion this. Do you do this? If not why?
I call it the bonus harvest. Raw on salads or pesto. Cooked takes a lot of the garlic flavor away but still tasty. I toss it on the grill and eat it like asparagus
I think it depends on your soil, climate, cultivar, bulb size and objectives. The South Central PA garlic farmer who was teaching me to grow garlic usually planted her cloves 3" apart in raised rows of four cloves 4" apart. She was planting 20,000 cloves, I was maybe 1,200. Her soil was loamier, better fertilized, watered and weeded than mine. I bought my seed garlic from her so a comparison was easy to make. Her harvested bulbs were bigger of course, but mine were every bit as flavorful and I didn't sink anywhere near the time, money and effort into the growing of them.
I’ve had several that inadvertently became partially peeled while separating cloves and they grew just fine as far as I could tell. I think there is a chance it could become susceptible but not a certainty. I’ve talked to others that purposely peel them before planting and say it doesn’t matter. Which I respond with why do it then? Some people just want to be different I think.
Planted garlic three years ago .. garlic keeps growing!! Now this year there are baby garlic patches. Wondering if I should leave them or dig and spread them out ??? Any advice??
