How to Braid Garlic (hardneck or softneck) 

Finally a clearly visible demonstration, where I can actually see where and how the stems are crossed. Thank you, David from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

I love how no matter what video I click on you are like a story teller☺️

Where was this video two months ago when I was struggling to braid all my hardneck garlic? I'm already planting next year's crop! :-)

Thank you for the braiding lesson. As short haired guy always wearing my hair open I wouldnt have known this.

nice to see it again

That is seriously the BEST explanation I’ve ever seen for braiding!!! I was a tomboy so I barely knew how to do normal 3 strands braiding (& only with a small part of the side of my hair), so French braiding was like yeah right!!! I love this!!! Thank you so much for that explanation!!!!

Simply the very best garlic video I have ever seen! Thank you.

Wow! You could teach a master class in how to share info via RU-vid. Thank you very much!

I do this for flower bulbs. (mostly daffodils) It helps me to keep the bulbs together and means I don't have to store them in bags. Vthey all stay together in a braid

I appreciate the esthetic appeal of a nicely braided garlic, but for my part I love the look of a full basket of neatly trimmed bulbs and skip all that work of rehydrating and rolling pins :) I find the act of garlic growing to be very profound and rewarding, more so than any other crop to me. The act in the fall of sacrificing my 100+ absolute best cloves into the cold fall earth is nothing short of a leap of faith, but every summer around mid July I am grateful to my previous self for that act. I love the tactile feel of every part of this - the crumbly shredded maple leaves I use to mulch, the tear of the roots when I harvest (I don't follow conventional wisdom of loosening with a fork first and have never had a issue, granted I only plant hard neck), and feel of the dirty paper coming off after curing to expose the gorgeous, clean white inner layer. I planted two weeks later than usual this year as we experienced a very warm fall here in NH, so yesterday I got mine in the ground. I won't be braiding next year either, but I thank you for this content!

Plzzz plzzz post more frequently. Atleast 1 video per month. Yours is the 1st (gardening) channel i started to watchand binge watched all your videos. Now you are posting 1 video after 2 to 3 months. Plzz post more videos. Updates of your garden.

Thank you for finally developing an easily digested video on this technique! Makes so much sense now. My grandfather did this but never taught me.

Nice to hear from you! It's been so long and just the topic I am interested in! I received my seed garlic last in the mail last week and hope to get it planted by the weekend. thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks. That was well done with lots I didn’t know. Now to braid my garlic .....

Every video is a true gem. Thank you.

I learned this technique by myself last spring after my garlic harvesting. Thanks for sharing this information and for the tips.

I really like your explanations of… EVERYTHING. Your scientific information is intriguing and I love it. I just wish you made videos more often but I’ll take what you can accommodate. Thank you for expanding our knowledge!

Great video - and I learnt a bit more about garlic - I only planted a dozen this year but next year I’m going to plant enough for the village!!!

Now that’s how to demonstrate a plait ! Wish I’d seen that before the others I’d had to learn from 😂 I’ve even mastered how to do it without string at the bottom and how to add small bulbs up the stem like buttons. I like that look. If you plait them while they still green they look absolutely lovely…….for 3 weeks ! But, oh dear after that the stems go black because of the lack of air round them. Hope you guys are happy and well. Thanks for your vlogs 😊

What a lovely video. Thanks and happy growing, from Somerset, England

What a great, detailed video. Thank you.

Love your videos!!!! Good vibes your way 👩🏼‍🌾💕👨‍🌾

Loved your video ,explanation was simple ,and I'm a visual learner so I'll be braiding garlic like a pro in no time 😉 😋

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Thanks for another great video, love the simplicity in the design. Got inspired by your previous videos and planted around 40 cloves in my greenhouse 2 weeks ago. Using no til and no dig method inside the greenhouse. Worked wonders with the cucumber and tomatoes. Having high hopes for spring and a garlic harvest 😁

Excellent teaching

Thank you this video. It is very helpful.

We had our first garlic harvest this Fall, from bulbs we planted in the early Spring. They weren't huge, but it was lovely, all things considered. Made me hopeful that we'll have a nice harvest next year! Can't wait to try braiding ours when the day comes.

Thank you so clear. Good info

Thank you - I love your videos and your presentation style. :)

Thank you! Clear and concise! I will review next year after my harvest. After years of jumbled up messes of garlic, this year I just trimmed and placed in netted bags. I like the braided look but just couldn't get it right. This is a big help! :D

Your explination of the French brain made me understand more than before... thank you! 👍

Bummer, I had just processed all of my garlic for the year and I did the traditional cut off the tops method. The garlic braids are very lovely!

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Great to hear from you! Hope you are doing well :) Would love to see more videos from you, but of course that depends on your motivation and time ;)

Don't think Ill ever grow garlic, but I plan to have kids someday and I appreciate the simple and broken down explanation on how to braid! As always you guys are amazing! P.S. I love garlic and knew different kinds existed, but I didn't know much about the differences, I live in Maine (cold state a lot of the time) and I now plan to look for some hardneck garlic since you mentioned a stronger flavor!

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Thank you!

Loved this! I never braid my garlic, just store it in a basket, but I always fancied learning to French braid my hair (I normally wear it in a simple braid) - but never seem to find time to get my head around it, now it all makes sense 💚🧄

Good stuff! It's my first year growing garlic and things seem to be coming along very well. I subbed to your chan. It's helpful to find someone from 'neck of the woods' (Maine.🌲) So many YT gardeners are from the lower part of the US and much of the content doesn't really apply to my zone of 5a.

Before watching the video: 'braiding, what's there to learn about that' Midway through video: ......... Thank you for posting all the information, tips & tricks It's very beneficial

Huh. I grow hardneck here and would have loved to braid it, though they may have been a bit too puny with the wicked drought we had this year. Only ever heard of people braiding softneck, so I'm happy to see this.

Like it! 👍 😆

Next time I French Braid Sweeties hair, I think I may have to slip in a couple heads of garlic. It is close to Halloween after all...

Had an interesting thought, you could probably make a sort of "garlic rope" with the bulbs hanging freely. Rope is _insanely_ easy to make out of just about anything flexible and would make a pretty neat feature to hang around a kitchen. Plus, the garlic would always be handy.

Thanks, I've got some garlic I need to braid up. I actually planted my "grocery store garlic" late. I didn't do it in the fall, zone 6b. I planted it in April and harvested it this summer. They are small but they are garlic. I actually have 2 that are growing again. I thought they died. So, I guess I'll wait until I pull up my voluntary cherry tomato plant in December and get those and try to transplant them in a pot and keep them on my front porch. I'm supposed to be making a little green house on my south-facing front porch for the broccoli rabe, pak choi, tomatoes and pepper plants I have left...we'll see if I get that done.

Just started getting into your channel and love your content. Im on year two of trying to grow garlic from scapes to bulbs. Have you, or anyone reading comments, tried this? I haven’t been able to find too much.

Ever since Derrick and Paula mastered garlic braiding, the B2R homestead has been comfortably vampire-free.

The braid is so pretty and well explained and thought out! I am waiting for my garlic to arrive as i am going to try and grow it for the first time, here in London. I have learnt that it can stunt strawberry growth. My rhizomes are in separate strawberry planters. Is that ok or do they mean move the pots well away from the garlic? I will be planting the garlic so it grows in between the tomatoes, when they eventually get planted next year. I am also going to grow "Green Manure"/ cover crops in the rest of my bedding over winter as i didn't know such a thing existed. I used to just chuck the tomato plants in the composter and leave the rhubarb, oregano and rosemary in the bed over winter. I have learnt so much this year about gardening from YT videos. Such a lovely community too and just as in to it as i am!

Thank you ! So informative. Have not watched a video from you for awhile. How is your homestead going??

Nice to see a video of yours again. My mother used to do that but with onions, garlic not so much, pretty much the same as anyone else around here. BTW, I told you I went and planted one simple garlic a (bit long) while back. Well, it grew, and it had its scape and all, which I cut off as you mentioned in another video, and let the plant mature or something. However, when I decided to pull it off the ground, there was nothing there. The plant just broke at ground level and though I looked for the "garlic itself" underground, there was nothing there. I think it rotted away, as it was close to some lettuce that got watered on a daily basis. I'll see next time. Oh, and it was just today that I picked my crop of butternut squash. About one year ago I bought one to make some "vegetable cream" (just a soup made with some different vegetables, boiled and then you mix them with a hand blender). I kept the seeds until spring when I did pretty much the same as you with your tomatoes: plant them inside and put them outside when they are big enough. I must say the grow up very quickly, although they didn't like being put outside for a few days. I didn't care too much about them, I just watered them a little bit when it was too hot in summer. Today I picked 16. I plan on collecting all their seeds and plant them all next season somewhere else. But first I need to find some new recipes. Thanks for your videos, they are really nice to watch, listen to and learn.

The "see you soon" is a bit ironic

You need to post more often; my blood pressure drops 10-15 points after watching one of your vids.

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Thanks so much! I might have missed it, but how long will garlic hold this way?

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Great tutorial for braiding garlic! I have thought about it, but I figured it would not keep as well in a braid if it was hung up anywhere that light could reach it. I always keep mine in a cardboard box with the flaps loosely closed. That way they can breathe, but not get any light that might encourage growth. Does you braided garlic keep as well as any you store in a box or basket?

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Also, if you go to Canadian Tire, you can have the chance to spend a steep $5.99 for 2 heads of Transylvanian garlic (softneck) - which is on about the same parallel. Combined with the weather forecast from theweathernetwork, it would make an interesting experiment...

Could you skip the rehydrating step by doing the braiding before you hang the garlic to dry? And then just dry the garlic already braided?

Have you thought about confiting the garlic, it will last forever and tastes so much better than raw or roast garlic, and you get confit garlic oil as a by product

Is there a reason braiding doesn't happen before drying?

I would hope washing the bulbs before curing was an option too.

Instead of drying garlic, then needing to rehydrate it to make the stems pliable, do you think you could take green garlic and braid it? Beat it to break the hardneck, braid and hang to cure. Thanks in advance for your response.

Why not roll the pin on the stems when they're greener and not so brittle?

It's easier to braid TOWARDS yourself, instead of AWAY

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Guys, could you please publish your videos a bit frequently? It's really hard to wait 2 months to get a new video in your channel. TIA

Unfortunately, I can only grow about a dozen bulbs every year and they only last about 2 weeks.

Best subscribe i ever make :)

why use the towel, u can braid after it is cut when it is fresh and pliable.

Since you seem to have some free time now. Have a look at what grows in our Yarden in Ohio! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0QcRe8V4BPQ.html

I see you got one thumbs down. Typical vampire.

This is hardneck garlic which you shouldn't braid as the stem is too hard. You only braid soft neck variety.

Hard neck 4me!!!!!!

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Honestly I found it cheaper to just buy Garlic Powder in bulk.