I used a "Back to Eden" gardening method and my garlic plants came right out of the ground with just pulling them. I didn't need to dig the cement soil like I used to! The composted wood chips were so amazing.
I would experiment with those two methods, depending on time of year, since you didn't get a reply from the experts. Learning to experiment is useful for a serious gardener. My grandfather had a LARGE garden, had potatoes, invasions of Colorado Potato Beetle, used chemical insecticides, tho had no potato diseases. Mine had no diseases & the beetles' history was extremely short, for them, w/o using chemicals. No 1 taught me this. It's EASY to be rid of those pests. Experiment, think, explore.
Very informative - I have been growing garlic where the necks are almost 2 inches across and the bulb is about the size of a baseball. Only I did not know much about garlic and cut the stems off about 1 foot above the toe. also washed off the mud and ;put them into my work shed to let them dry.
Hi, Mike. Thanks for your helpful reply. Thankfully we don't get that pest here in NZ. I will certainly continue to explore my vege garden ideas. Cheers.
In southern Australia, i grow garlic and it takes at least 8 months to grow, and i find planting well before the winter say early May is best. Nothing is the same as locally grown garlic, and in Australia the imported stuff is treated with chemicals, so it well worth paying extra for local product.
Hi Liz. We are blessed with great soil. Our neighborhood is located on the site of an old farm and the topsoil was left in place when our house was built. -Roger
I think it's stated in this video & if not in this one, then in some others about growing & harvesting garlic. It seems that it should take 2-4 weeks, depending on the humidity of & ventilation in the room where you dry/cure the garlic. If you do it in a room with sufficiently low humidity & well ventilated, then 2-3 weeks may be enough, based on what I've gathered from this video and a few others tonight. Do it in a dry, cool & fairly dark area & you should be fine with 2-3 wks of drying.
My first harvest and there’s more then I expected haha 🤣 It is okay to keep them in the garage in the Texas heat in June to cure? What if you can’t hang them like that?? Are they okay laying on newspaper in the garage? Thanks anyone for help in this matter Take Care God Bless Shey
I don't know what type of garlic bulbs I have. They're cert. organic, large, & 1 I'm looking at right now has 9 cloves on the outside & a clump of cloves in the center. The clump seems to have 5 or 6 cloves. The other bulbs are similar; outer cloves & clumped ones in the center. The bulbs all seem to have 14-16 cloves, each. Maybe Artichoke variety? Our Fall temps haven't been too bad over recent years, so I'm hoping to get a crop from late planting; probably late October or early November.
I don't know which of my comments you're referring to, but if you mean Colorado Potato Beetles, then it's easy & quick to put an end to them. When some adults appear, kill them. Then walk up rows of potatoes between legs, gently lift branches & check underneath leaves. It's where they lay eggs. If not colour-blind, then you can't miss eggs. When finding them, take a leaf from a lower branch & gently press against the leaf that has eggs laid on its underside. Or use suitable companion plants.
I think weed control is important, mulch in the begining is a good idea and i plant far enough apart that i can run my tiller behind my tractor down the rows to get rid of the weeds.
It depends on whether you're located in a cold climate or a warm one. Here in Maine, we plant garlic in the fall (usually late October or early November) and harvest bulbs the following summer, usually in July. In warmer climates, garlic can be planted in February, March or April and harvested a few months later.
Yakety sax! I have garlic that has been growing year after year for over 30 years. They are so big now I must do something with them. When it is time to harvest them I will replant some of the cloves.Same to not have garlic flowers here.
I still don't understand what 'cured' garlic is. Is it the same as the garlic you can buy in the supermarket? (That starts to go off after a month or so.)
Question: Are you washing the heads of garlic before setting them out in the sun to cure? I am pulling mine today, and they are caked with black soil. Should I just let the sun dry it off, so it will fall off? It looks like the dirt with stay caked on there....
After watching your video I check out my garlic and noticed the bulbs never develop I only had one clove with roots. I planted them on sept 21 last year I thought by now I would have a small bulb atleast. What did I do wrong?
I just lifted my garlic from two planting areas. One produced good sized bulbs, but from the other the bulbs are quite small, although the tops were well-developed. Any reason?
If the variety that didn't produce good bulbs was hardnecks, you probably didn't harvest the scapes... you need to harvest the scapes (the curling part of the stem with the flower bud) and then wait a bit so the energy goes into the bulbs rather than the flowers. If the variety that didn't produce well was softnecks, you probably didn't have a long and hot enough growing season.
i've just popped mine face down in water to root and i'll plant them next saturday or when they look ready thanks for the advise so i know what im getting into. This is just a test run i guess this isn't the best time to plant them yet but i thought i'd give it a try now and hope for the best lol
I planted garlic in my kitchen in the month of September. I tried harvesting in February but there was no clove but long white roots. What went wrong? Can someone please tell me what went wrong? For weather purpose, I am based in Scotland and it is grown indoors.
@skoredreng "is it possible to put a pot with newly planted garlic in the fridge, and let it grow in there? lol" That is a thought. Garlic needs a cold spell to get them started so the fridge might work. On the other hand they won't be getting much light so are unlikely to grow
No, I was just thanking you for giving general information in your post to me. I wasn't referring to the beetle. As I mentioned, we don't get it here in NZ. Cheers.
Fortunate little sh*t you are. :) I joined a new community garden a month ago & we can't start planting until June 15th, due to preparation of the garden area still being underway; but I hope to be able to plant garlice on the 15th for a tardy harvest, probably around end of October or sometime during first half of November. This is in southeastern Quebec, Canada, & the soil is still workable in November. 4 1/2 to 5 months should be enough for a harvest, I hope. X fingers, knock on wood.
I usually don't rinse off the dirt because I don't want to do anything to harm the bulbs' protective "skin" but a light rinsing should be ok. The dirt tends to fall off on its own as it dries.
Hi there. Thanks for the video. First time garlic-grower here. If I want to keep some cloves for seed the following year, should I separate the cloves I want to keep, after the bulb has been through the drying-out process, and store them in some shredded paper or something?
I am harvesting my garlic right now and want to use some of the cloves for the next planting period in the fall. Does anyone know the best way to hold my current bulbs throughout the summer so that they are viable to use then?
I live in Southern Ontario and leave my garlic in the garage, for October planting. Actually I leave my garlic in the garage all winter and bring it into the house as required. I find that the humidity in the house can set them off growing again, causing the centre to go green.
Can we eat fruit when we pick it? Of course. If it's not organic, then rinsing or washing the fruit would be most recommendable, but fruit & vegetables are edible when picked ripe, and garlic isn't or shouldn't be harvested until it's ripe, right. You don't answer most people who've posted questions, but I have an urgent question (already posted) and hope you'll reply ... soon. Fresh organic garlic can get to $3 a bulb here & that's outrageous, so I wish to get around that gouging price.
Garlic tolerates cold, tho I can't predict what kind of cold we'll have in this fall. It's been pretty to very good over recent yrs; some frosts, but overall quite good. But this yr is a new yr, & while I've learned that garlic tolerates cold, I've never read of how cold this can be before garlic can't manage this temp for continued growth for harvesting before winter sets in. If like last yr, then temps should be fine. It would then only be a Q. of how long it takes for plant maturity.
I didn't use companion plants, tho some vegetables happen to serve in this manner, so maybe some of my garden had companion planting & I just didn't know about it at the time. But could you have to deal with Colorado Potato Beetles in NZ? It's very far from North America, but I guess it's possible that these beetles have shown up in NZ. And maybe the manual extermination method can work well for some other pest beetles. Some beetles apparently are good companions for gardeners tho, I think.
If you don't cut the scapes off, they will put energy into flowering instead of making the bulb bigger. Cut the scapes off and harvest it a few weeks later.
And in what part of the North American continent do you live, northern US, further south, east/west, Canada, and if in Canada, then what part, if you don't mind me asking such personal information?
We have been growing for years. I plant ours in October/November in N.E. Ohio then harvest in April / May. Our issue we have just gotten a mold this year, and a little bug causing all the damage on about 1/4 of the crop. Any one else experinceing this issue and what have you treated the plants with or soil?
Mary Brady I realize it's six years on, now... but just wanted to offer the one thing i recall about your question. Which is that you can't plant garlic in the same spot again for three years (??? i think???), if mold becomes an issue. This was on one of the garlic bulb sales websites, sorry i forget which one, but they were pretty clear the problem would persist and only get worse. Did you resolve your mold issue?
raul gallegos not The Roots You Got to use the bulb itself just take it into sections you'll see the end that the tips come out and the end that The Roots come out obviously Roots down
Since you haven't received a reply after 5 months, I'll add some tentative suggestions. If it's still fall season, then plant the cloves now, for harvesting bulbs the following spring (late spring, or early summer). Else, why not just plant your prefered cloves in pots/containers of appropriate soil & grow indoors next to a window that gets plenty of direct sunlight? In the latter case, if they don't grow to adequate maturity by next spring, then gently transplant or else place outdoors.
If you're referring to garlic, then there're many videos at RU-vid, some for how to plant, some about harvesting & curing or drying, & some about the scapes. erochow is 1 RU-vid channel that seems quite good, but I also viewed videos uploaded by oldfarmlars, TheSunshineFarm & kitchengardeners that're good. If wanting to learn about how to garden like Nature does, then there's a 103-min. docu., "Back to Eden", at RU-vid & backtoedenfilm. com, which also has short FAQ vids & a text how-to.
I just brush the dirt off, but you can wash them gently. Just be sure to keep them out of the elements for curing as continued exposure to water will harm them.
ive watched about 15 videos about garlic and none of them have mentioned how may months it takes to grow.. just loose terms like ' a very long time' and or watch for discoloring' but nobody has mentioned 3 months 20 days 6 mos ..??
It depends where you live and what variety you're planting. Hardneck varieties are planted in the fall and are ready around mid summer. I was watching this video to find out how to tell from looking at the plant and it seems pretty clear to me.
Hello and thank you for the informative video! I live in Ohio, and would like to try growing. If I were to use garlic in the organic isle at my local grocer, how would I know if it is hard or soft? I would most definitely need hard with colder winters here in Ohio. Thanks so much.. Niki
Here in the south I can grow both. Best to get cloves from a reputable dealer so you know what you have. I have garlic plants that have grown undisturbed for over 30 years.
Niki, A better place to get your garlic will be a farmer's market. Then you know the garlic was grown locally and is suitable for your area. You are also likely to meet the farmer and so you can ask about the variety and when they plant and harvest, etc.
