am in central texas, it does get cold here - am planning on starting my garlic bed today! thanks for your video! i do have a bit of cow manure in the bed. i hope it doesn't take away from the growth.
I've got mine growing in a plastic bottle on the window sill right now. It is sprouting shoots and roots. If I transplant that to soil in the next month, will I get a crop in the fall?
My uncle, a successful farmer, told me to always plant garlic under the first full moon of October -- like right now. He always planted it with western Moon exposure amongst the hay stubble.
Your uncle is/was an alchemist I'd presume. If you go by the celestial spheres and plant/harvest things on certain days, or time of lunar cycle, etc. will have a profound effect on your final result
U cant do anything wrong with garlic. Gwyneth Paltrow told women to put it inside them to clean out their areas one lady had to have it surgically removed
I live in the Great North. In Canada. Early on as a gardener, I did make the mistake of planting my garlic in the spring with the rest of the garden. It did nothing! I was so upset with it that I COMPLETELY abandoned it. No weeding. No tending to it at all. I even didn't work it under that year as I was so finished with it! Well, the following spring, guess what I had? The MOST BEAUTIFUL crop of garlic ever! It was in the ground for more than a year but still produced beautifully! I'm not fibbing. This actually happened.
Not sure if you will read this; yet, you should also add a couple key details: 1: once you cut scapes, it’s 2-4 weeks to harvest. 2: count down 6 green leaves as marker for readiness. 3: depending on total browsable leaves, you want 2/3 of them to brown before cutting out water. Once all brownable occur, remove in morning time. 4: immediately get in shaded areas with air circulation for 2-3 weeks for curing of bulbs. 5: Once cured cut 1” above bulb and 1/4” below bulb of roots. 6: carefully wipe remaining dirt and store in mesh bag in cool dark area. It’s also best to stop applying any liquid fertilizer (fish/kelp) by early May. Usually applying 3-4 applications starting in mid March when leaves are at least 3-4” tall and at 2-3 weeks apart best and stopping by early May. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your post👍 When do you think it's best to plant garlic in the Middle East where winters are warmers than the states? October and november are still warm during the day. Thanks
You should eat the scapes from the hard neck garlic. They have a lovely garlic flavour, but milder, and they’re absolutely delicious when chopped into salads and stir fry’s. The scapes are indeed a treasure, they’re the very best part of the plant 😊
Watched this video a year ago and followed your advice and had the best harvest I've ever had in the 5 years I've been growing it! Simple and straightforward.. back for a refresher before this years planting! :) Thank you!!
Grew garlic for the first time and largely followed your advice. fabulous results. One tip, the scapes can be eaten. We made pesto sauce out of ours and it was outstanding! Thanks for a nice video refresher. I'll be planting next year's garlic tomorrow.
This video is comprehensive and probably one of the most informative I have watched. Aimed at all gardening experience levels with generous explanations and insight.
I let one scape grow for every 40-50 plants. Watching the scape is the best indicator of when to harvest the bulbs. As the plant matures the scape will uncurl. When it points straight up the garlic is ready to harvest.
A million trillion garden channels.. I picked yours because i like your info on the few videos ive seen and.. the inflection in your voice makes me smile. hahah ...And sometimes i need a chuckle with this gardening stuff! ( holy hell it can be a lot of work! ..but fun!!💜) Big gardener over here... 🙂 forever eager and started so long ago in the house. I'm going outta my mind waiting for some warm soil outside!!! Thank you for allowing me to focus on something already planted outside.. My beautiful garlic! Tips for next plant and my harvest of it in the next few months!!! Good job and Cheers! 🌻
I always planted my Garlic by the 2nd week of August. By September they are popping up and throwing up fresh greens I may cut for soups. Speaking of Soups, I use the cut Scapes in a wonderful Potato/Garlic Soup. I boil the Scapes with Potatoes once cooked I throw em in the Blender. Reheat them with Salt n Pepper and a bit of Cream…. Just Yummy.
Just wanna say, from all the way here in Kea’au, Hawaii that I absolutely LOVE your videos❣️❣️ So perfectly full of excellent information in a calmly beautiful manner. You are the best gardening teacher on RU-vid ever!! Mahalo nui loa for your tutorials and never change that excellent manner💚
Oh man, when you tore out the dandelion.. my heart was screaming. So beautiful and lush. Where i live in the high mountains of mexico, our dandelion is very tiny and as a herbalist, i treasure this little guy so much ❤️❤️ thanks for the tips!
first time to plant garlic . I followed this video exactly and hoping for a good crop. I'm in ohio and just planted them today. thankyou for your videos they really help! 🤗
This is my first time growing garlic. I used a store bought bulb and planted in about November last year. They look like they are almost ready to harvest. I'm waiting til July. It's very exciting
I live in the Uk and grew garlic for the first time this year, I wish I had come across this tutorial first. Not only did I plant them in the spring and wonder why they died off in the summer, there were also weeds around them most of the time and just to top it off it’s quite a clay soil and I didn’t put any sand or compost in the soil to make it more suitable for the garlic, oh, and I didn’t feed them, not once. Well I got what I deserved, it’s now autumn so I’m going to plant some more and pay more attention to what I learned from this video. Thank you for your advise, I pop back next year to reveal the outcome of your advice.
It takes practice to grow garlic but the results are worth the effort. I got none the first couple of tries but now I'm getting good crops but working on getting them better here in North Yorkshire UK.
Im growing garlic in the north and getting slightly bigger harvests each year. Finally planted 80 cloves this year after starting with 25 cloves. I get 3-4 cloves per head. This year I finally got nice size cloves. Cant wait for next year. I made garlic scape salt this year. A tasty bonus!
Very detailed and clearly explained video on growing garlic. It the best on garlic I've ever watched. I'm waiting for last yrs my first and see how they come out. I'll try your technique next time.
Thanks for the thorough guide to growing garlic. I'm glad I watched this video. You covered everything I needed to know, to have success in planting garlic. I'm planning on getting my garlic cloves in the ground this week too, so this video was perfect timing! I liked the simplistic step-by-step instructions you gave, without turning it into a 20+ minute video. Appreciate that greatly.
What’s better after a bad work day? Waking up the next morning watching The Ripe Tomato Farm’s videos!!! Taking a deep breath and get refocused. Fall clean up and garlic planting weekend. Remember everyone garlic is really good for your body. Easy peazy, lemon squeezy!!! 😊 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻
thanks for the encouragement, I just planted my garlic today the biggest choices ones! All the best I did remember some of the tips from your video last year! 😀🙌
Thanks for this informative and interesting video. I've grown garlic for many years in raised beds. My beds are 4 square feet and I usually devote an entire bed to garlic (about 64 plants). I had always removed scapes from the plants but (as is my habit each season), I decided to try an experiment regarding scape removal. I removed scapes from half the plants and left them on for the other half. At harvest time I weighed each half of the plants and compared the results. There was no significance difference. This somewhat surprised me, because the advice to remove scapes seemed to be based on a reasonable assumption. But, as I've learned with so many of my other experiments, there's often a big difference between a gardening theory and the results.
For sure, it might also be timing. If not removed early enough, then removing the scapes later won't have any appreciable benefit. Also, we sometimes have to think in terms of fringe cases where the plants might not have everything they need to the fullest and one small thing makes a bigger difference. In those cases, the scapes can definitely be a drain on an already-stressed plant. It all adds up and its all connected.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Many thanks for the reply. I think my timing of removing the scapes was okay - I removed them when they first appeared and much earlier than you show the scape removal in your video. I'm kinda confused with your explanation of "fringe" cases and how that can apply to removing scapes or not. As for me, if I can get equal results for no effort, I'll take the lazy route and do nothing. Cheers.
@@priayief I think the reference to fringe cases means in a year where the weather etc. is in the fringe, or the bulbs are planted in less fertile soil, and the garlic is struggling, cutting the scapes may make a bigger difference. If it was a great growing year, cutting them may have less of a noticeable difference.
There is a huge difference between the basic beliefs of organic gardening and actual results. We down in South Texas should get white skin garlic from Mexico in the supermarket, in May and keep it to plant in the fall. Day length adaptation is critical.
You are my favorite gardener/farmer now! It's very helpful for a beginner like me and your videos are never boring. Question though, I planted my garlic 10 days ago(19 Aug), is there a possibility that it will not grow as much as it can? I already see a shoot after 10 days. I just watched your video stating that the timing is very important.
Loved your tutorial. I think your an absolute natural: - presenter - teacher - at inspiring PLEASE DON'T STOP THE VIDS Now a subscriber. Greetings from England UK
I plant way too much garlic so I let a few scapes flower, just so I can enjoy the blooms. I do cut most of them back though. I so enjoyed your video. I'm on my 14th season, starting with three heads of garlic given to me by my uncle, like you, I plant my biggest cloves. I give most of it away as I grow a ridiculous amount.
I have tried to plant up here in the NW bulbs in spring, and I can tell you all it does lead to the very tiny bulbs he shows at the start. Rocambole grows great in Vancouver, Washington when planted right now. That is why I am going to my local nursery to pick out a couple types at 2 dollars each and put into planters. I think next summer is going to be fantastic.
Great video! I do everything wrong and get HUGW harvests by adding fresh sheep shmanure after harvest. My bulbs are heavy with corms that are left in the ground. Sides are heaped back up to 18 inches. Mustards, arugula, assorted squash, and the Summer heat does what it does with whatever rain comes. (I'm in north Texas with 6000 sq feet dedicated) Spring comes, I do it all again.
Thank you for this reminder! I am waiting a little longer to plant mine this year, because we had a mild fall last year, but I will have them in by November. I have garlic hanging up in the above window area in my laundry room, just waiting to be used or planted.
I'm vernalizing mine in the fridge. We don't have cold Winters. My July harvest wasn't bad in July. It was my first time trying both hardneck and soft. Mine will go in probably early November
Your presentations are always good. You get right to the point with well organized information. Great graphics, excellent recordings, no rambling stories. Just good advice !!👍 Thanks
THIS is a very well done video. I've never grown garlic. I've never grown anything. But I'm getting my beds ready for fall planting in my hot, dusty corner of Texas. Thanks for the advice!
Great Video! Garlic is my favorite root vegetable, the key to ALL root vegetables is worms. They fertilize & aerate the soil :) I raise 2 million worms mainly for education and teaching others how to raise worms, but also to produce fertilizer for myself and my neighbors gardens :)
It is the beginning of October here in Central Pennsylvania and I am preparing my soil to get ready to plant garluc for next year. I picked up some garlic from a local lady that bought a large amount to sell and I put it in my crisper drawer and a couple of days ago I separated 3 bulbs. I got 26 bulbs to plant and my son is supposed to bring me some more down so I can plant more. I love garlic and onions in everything. Now I have trouble growing onions. I don't know exactly what I am doing wrong so I will be watching videos on it to try again next year for planting them. Every year I just try to do the best I can and then what I can't seem to grow I buy local and either can or store for winter.
This is the guy that does the mystery videos or ghost videos on Facebook lol. Everyone talks about his voice. Lol. However for this kind of stuff his voice fits. Great info.
I use to grow garlic, then one year the dreaded rust appeared. Have not been able to get rid of it, so have stopped for a couple of years to see if that helps. hink il try the container planting though. Thanks
Brilliant thank you. My seed bulbs just arrived from the Isle of White just off the south coast of England where they are famous for great garlic production. I have seven different varieties including Elephant garlic so I was so pleased to see your video pop up at the top of the list of videos today. I had quite good success with some I bought from Scotland last year but did have a few that were way too small and useless so I really value your advice and will now watch your video on how to grow my new garlic following your method. Thanks again and much love from England. ❤️
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you. I will let you know. I’ve got to get some sand and straw as I only have bark chippings. The compost is quite sandy but I want to add more just like you did. 😊
Yeah, clay an be a big one. Its a good base though. Try to build it up over time with more and more organic matter and you'll be groovin' any crop you want in no time!
Our garlic harvest was great last year, we’re trying to keep everything consistent for this year. Like you mentioned, a couple small mistakes can compound. Thanks for sharing!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you! I started purging your videos! I’m very interested in figuring out how much I can grow inside…I’ve been prepping 😅. Would also love to find info about affordable heat (indoor) lighting etc. ✌️💕
My girlfriend bought some garlic at Seed Savers Exchange 2 years ago. It was very expensive. I think $30 for 1-2lbs? She gave half to me. I have been planting it out now for going on 3 years this fall. I will have about 100 cloves to plant this year. My goal is to be able to donate a large amount to our library's seed saving program. They want to buy it but it is very expensive. Thanks for the tips. I think I have been doing everything right. I have been planting all cloves even small ones just to get my numbers up but this year I am going just for the big ones. Thanks for the informative video.
You do know that I didn't really throw it away right, and that its just for the effect of that part of the video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PSvjAEZka1U.html LOL
Solid video, thanks! I've been growing hardneck for years and your tips were a great reminder to enrich the soil. One other tip is that you'd rather pull them a little too early than a little too late because the paper starts to get thin and they don't keep as long. Also, do you ever have rotting problems? I lost whole crops (300 bulbs) a couple years in a row and found out it could be Fuserium. I laid off for about five years and haven't had large scale loss since but do get some greenish blue rot sometime. I burn those and keep them out of my compost. Any ideas as to what that might be?
Hi! Horticulture student! Your still having a problem with disease probably! If you don't put rotation crops in between planting disease can come back. Due to the fact that they have been given time to redevelope and attack. You can plant something from a different family that doesn't require the same nutrients or simply plant a green manure cover crop they sell these on johnny seed! You can also put a plastic layer over the soil to "sterilize" the soil to start over in a way during the summer months.
@@insomniasugarspite9056 I had rotting on half of my garlic last year. I also blame it on the lack of plant rotation, which I am doing this year. I will see the result next year.
@@asterixky cool! It should help control the problem by allowing other microorganisms to appear or come back to life within the soil and battle the destructive microorganisms. If it's still bad after crop rotations try planting them somewhere completely different.
Should be ok. Its not the freezing that kills the Garlic over winter. Its that the shoots collect and wick down water, rotting out the bulb. That's what usually happens when they don't fair well. But normally sprouting doesn't affect them.
Great timing! Our garlic is going in this weekend or next. This year (started in fall last year) was our first time growing garlic and we were blown away by the huge bulbs we harvested this summer. All we did was amend with rabbit manure and plant 4 inches deep in the greenhouse. Was going to mulch but never got it done. Still awesome garlic! Thanks for the timely video!
What type of garlic did you plant? I just bought some to plant. And where are you located. I'm in NY but not all the way up. So 3-4 inches should be goodand when did you harvest? I'm looking forward to saying it's a success next year. 😊
@Kimberly Boenig ~ In Maine, we usually plant hardneck just before the frost, which is late October. We have had 100% survival rate, but small cloves because I'm just not good at getting all those "hated neighbors" (weeds) out. Hopefully I'll do better next year when they pop up. I put used hay that my goats waste on top after planting about 3 to 4" deep. Hope this helps.
I've been growing garlic for years. Last fall I accidently planted a clove upside down, when I harvested it I saw the stem underground had grow into a full loop! The garlic grew fine. It's cool to see how determined nature can be. I just planted 177 cloves Oct 4 & 5. Majestic, Great Northern, Susan Delafield and the rare heirloom Red Rezan. It's a glazed purple stripe, the first 3 are porcelains.
Few years back I planted Walmart bought garlic. In the Spring, I discovered some where Softneck, some where Hardneck. From there I only replanted the Sofneck. After 3 years, I suspect my Garlic has acclimated to my area (Kentucky), and is producing some very nice cloves. I save the larger cloves to replant and the rest for cooking or braiding as presents.
I have heard that store bought garlic is treated so it won’t sprout. I bet that Walmart garlic is alot less expensive than the seed garlic I purchased. I might try an experiment just to see how it goes.
@@mariemarcum5613 I have had very good luck with the Garlic I bought from Walmart, as well as Ginger from another supermarket. I guess those are not as treated as suggested. The drawback is you don't know the type of Garlic you are getting.
Wow I planted mine correctly just based on instinct!! Got them in very loose soil and picked the biggest cloves. Your video is so helpful and I've watched a ton! Mine have sprouted already Hope thats not a bad thing.
Right on Heather! Don't worry about early sprouting.....while we don't actively TRY to make them sprout before winter dormancy, it rarely hurts them or the crop. :-)
So glad I watched this. I planted garlic for 1st time last fall but the bulbs came out really small. I think the soil wasn’t loose enough. I have a lot more compost I can add this year so will try that. Also do they need a lot of sun? My once sunny garden beds are getting a bit shady cuz the giant tree in my yard keeps getting bigger! I didn’t get the chance to trim branches this year.
Your page is a life saver. I have a 50X70 backyard and plan on filling it next season. I've been making compost all summer. Where do I find a good blueprint for my garden. Like where do I start.
You got me straightened out on the garlic, thank you so much. // Cover crop Iam tried ryegrass, this is my first year in raised beds with a cover. I dont want to dig (disturb) the soil. It's my understanding just to cut the cover crop in early spring level with the soil/ leave the roots in lay the tops cut on or cover with something or soil and replant over the top ???
Right on NOBULL! Cover crops rule. Yes, cut them in the spring...I like to cut them when the seed pods show up.....don't let them go to seed...but leaving them this long usually prevents them from re-sprouting....you know, like grass likes to do. I don't lay the cut leaves down as usually its too much for the bed. I will chop them up for a mulch for AFTER planting though. :-)
I live in the Netherlands. I moved to my place together with my girlfriend in February and I planted my garlic gloves in February too. The soil is pretty good here and I still have pretty small garlic. I'm gonna plant new garlics next week maybe that will have better results
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I did read on the internet that you could plant garlic in the beginning of the year too. In The Netherlands February is usually the coldest month. We had a lot of snow before I planted the garlic and a little snow after. But yeah most websites did say that planting around Halloween gets better results since we usually have pretty dry late June /early July. None of my garlic harvests failed, but they were all just small.
@@thimovijfschaft3271 yup, you are exactly right. And the small bulbs means the garlic didn't have enough time to develop. Those extra 5 months in winter in a semi dornant state make all the difference. :-)
I planted some garlic last week in my small patio bed and we'll plant some more soon... Is it okay to plant garlic from just store-bought garlic... And does it matter if you completely peel the skin or leave the skin on the individual garlics pieces when planting? Thank you for sharing your very informative and very interesting video ...so excited to see the results next spring! 😊🤗👏🥰
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms too late I peeled all of the dozen ones but I have some more I just purchased and I can just still plant those and leave the peeling on. Thank you for your advice I have to tell you that the ones that I peeled are actually sprouted and are growing so what do you think about that!!!???
