In this video I'll give you a few simple tips on growing garlic in containers, raised beds or in the ground. Neptunes Harvest and Grassroots Fabric Pot Discounts and Links: www.nextlevelg...
Easiest way to grow garlic is around your fruit trees or garden perimeter. Their sulfur content roots in the soil and the smell chases away slugs, snails, flies, etc keeping the fruit trees and garden vegs/herbs safe.
The scapes are actually VERY STRONG tasting- stronger than the garlic cloves themselves - even.. A lot of people make pesto out of them and to calm down the biting flavor, they par boil them for 30 seconds. I've done that and it helps a lot. Also, the type of garlic you plant is not a hard and fast rule. I'm in the south and have planted garlic as late as late November ( our ground doesn't freeze until maybe January if it freezes at all... and I've planted both hardneck and softneck successfully. Each year was around 100 cloves and give or take a dozen or so...produced the same number of bulbs.. All the cloves I planted grew into nice bulbs. Last year some were giant sized... and the hardnecks grew nice scapes a few weeks before I harvested the bulbs. The nice thing about growing softneck garlic is that they keep a few months longer than hardneck garlic does. Keene Garlic recommends soaking the cloves in two different solutions that they recommend on their website. I ALWAYS pre-soak my garlic cloves. I HIGHLY recommend checking their site out. They really know garlic. Garlic is all they do..
I planted all my garlic today. Elephant, German Extra Hardy, Siberian Red and experimenting with some different organic store bought. About 100 in total. My wife tells me I planted way too many garlic and she needs more onions than garlic. I'm trying to over winter some onions, to get a head start. Hoping to surprise her with an early onion harvest. Virginia, zone 7A.
Thanks for the content!! I was needing this. I bought some giant garlic and have been procrastinating because I was unsure of the process. I have grown a garden all my life but never have grown garlic.
I just planted my garlic yesterday. I didn't know it would take so long to harvest. June seems like a long way off. Guess I'll need to be patient. Thanks for the tips
Great video. Just don't forget to add about 2 inches of mulch. Especially in warmer areas like zone 9 and 10 where the top inches of soil dry up real easy. Mulch will also protect your garlic in cooler zones that freeze.
Zone 5 here- i planted most of my Siberian red last month in my raised bed. I'm just putting it around the edges of the beds so it doesn't conflict Thanks for the awesome video.
I just planted Siberian Red for the first time today. I ended up with 48 nice size cloves, which I didn't expect when I placed my order. Zone 7A, Virginia.
This is late, but first time trying to grow garlic. I live in Boston, and I planted garlic in a container. Do I water them during the winter or let mother nature take care of it, especially when the snow comes or can I not grow garlic :-(
I lost all of mine this year. First time in a raised bed. Good soil, plenty of compost. NONE of it came up. Kernels were all dried up. Trying again this year
What variety of garlic did you plant? Is it grocery bought type so maybe California early? I planted Chesnok Red from bulbs I saved and grocery bought softneck.
I watched your previous video and you mentioned vernalization, which you tried and got smaller bulbs, turns out thats used for flowering (hence why tulips need to since we grow them for flowers) so since we didnt want the seeds the plants just became small, brittanica says 26°c+ for 2 to 3 weeks should be enough to make the bulb phase happen and reverse vernalization. Heres what i found "Devernalization can be brought about by exposing previously vernalized plants or seeds to high temperatures, causing a reversion to the original nonflowering condition. Onion sets that are commercially stored at near freezing temperatures to retard spoilage are thereby automatically vernalized and ready to flower as soon as they are planted. Exposure to temperatures above 26.7° C (80° F) for two to three weeks before planting, however, shifts the sets to the desired bulb-forming phase."
Here’s a dumb question-If you buy organic seed garlic are the inside smaller cloves OK to use in cooking? Still wondering I can use instead of a sea-based fertilizer so I don’t have squirrels and chipmunks digging in my pots😊 Thanks
4:01 Your understanding of 'Phosphorus not moving through the soil' is a little off. I believe you are referring to it being 'immobile' or not 'available' to the plant in its insouble (organic) form. Planting garlic on top off a Phosphorus source wont necessarily change that and it is the relationship with other ions present (along wit pH) in the soil that ultimately determines uptake and life in the ground that governs physical break down of the crabmeal particle. Keep up the good work. :)
hi thank you for video for fun i just planted 3 garlic cloves in pot about week ago & i see them sprouting should i let them keep growing or do i need to wait til next June to do it right
Just in time, I'm planting garlic tomorrow. I'd love to know more about planting another crop on top of it like the lettuce you suggested. I didn't know that was possible!
Does the garlic need a lot of water? I thought it didnt need or even like a lot of water once it is established. I have mine in already, midwest zone 6 b. We have had a fair bit of rain of late.
I needed this video! I love garlic. Had wild garlic growing in the backyard and used the snapes for cooking. Delicious! Can't wait for the harvest in June! Happy Halloween!
I let my peppers bush out quite a bit at the end of the season and I’m able to over winter them in the open. The outer stems and leaves get killed by frost but they usually shelter the inner plant. I just cut them back mid March. I’m in 9B climate in NorCal.
Still pretty hot here in Southwest Florida gonna wait probably another three weeks. I am trying the refrigerator method this time lol. Also do you remove the skin around each clove or do you leave them scanned?
I plant my garlic in the ground . It’s been so warm here in northern New Jersey that I’ve been getting more growth than as I’d like. I grow both soft and hard necks . The hard necks seem to do a little better. As far as refrigerating them I say as long as they don’t end up in spaghetti sauce you should be ok!
I'm in Alabama, zone 7B. I'm going to be planting soft neck garlic in about two weeks, in a 30 gallon grow bag. Along with them, I am going to plant radishes. The Giant Radishes of Sicily are growing the best for me, and producing bulbs the fastest,. I will be planting more of them, along with French Breakfast radishes.
I will be doing a video on that in a couple of weeks. However I have a couple of other videos I've done with that information as well. Last Thanksgiving for one
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I too plan to grow some garlic..just not this year...I'm just getting things "back to normal " after a long spell of no garden (2017). I'm in zone 6, and normally (not this year), October is quite cold. I know that the hard neck is what I need to plant, but it needs to be either in a pot, raised bed, or maybe in a straw bale. More research for next season
I planted some Garlic cloves during the summer. I have never grown them before so I thought I would give it a try. Maybe that was my mistake? Nothing came up? I’m in Wi so I didn’t think you would leave them in ground over the winter. Maybe I’ll try again next year.
When you say planting 2 in. deep, do you mean top of seed covered with 2 in. soil, or bottom of the seed sitting in a 2 in. deep furrow ? Thanks for very informative and enjoyable videos. 😊
I'm honestly not sure what I'm going to do! I planted mine in early to mid October thinking that according to weather that we would be getting cold, to our freeze time (mid October), and we've been having 60s and 70s, which is out of our average/normal. Some have started to grow!
Perfect timing! My garlic is being refrigerated now for about or until a hard frost. I'm in zone 8b Arizona high desert. I was advised to do this cause of my milder climate here. 🤔 Thoughts? Tia
I find in socal you need to vernalize your garlic bulbs for at least 30 days. Good loose soil and water about 4 inches deep. They should only be planted in there own bed as well. Stop watering about 6 weeks before harvesting! Plant on October 31 and your garlic will be ready in August/September!
I finally got around to Growing some garlic for the first time, I threw together some basic boards from Home Depot at the time as that's what I had available and planted nine of them they all seem to be growing at this point and I'm excited to see how it goes! I just found your channel and I like it. I'm going to be watching more of your videos as well.
I adore garlic and onions. I'm excited to try to grow my own in the coming year. I have a question regarding watering. I live in the Black Hills of SD. We have very sporadic weather/winters here where it can be very cold and snowing for 3 days and then in three days time the snow has melted and it's 60 or 70 degrees. I will be starting with a container this year. What advice do you have regarding the type of bulb (since we're physically in the north but the weather isn't typical)? Would you still advise the hard neck with the abnormal winters we have here? I'm also wondering about moisture/ watering in that we do get heavy snows but they vary dramatically and melt quickly? I can't wait for home grown garlic!! Thank you for your wonderful and informative video. I have just subscribed.
What about the cold and snow, I'm in Massachusetts north east? Should I put the growbag planter on an outdoor shelf covered for protection or is under my wood slotted porch
Try growing your garlic in containers, and then have them up against the south side of the house, and mulched over - or inside a south facing arboretum/aviary/hothouse/growhouse ... and you should be able to grow garlic all season long
@@my3bsfarm863 In New England, a YT site has a plastic tube greenhouse with snow outside and covering a portion of the greenhouse. They have smaller interior "plastic tube greenhouses." With sunshine, they have the outside temp 32F, with inside 50-60F, and the interior grow areas as 70+F !! So there are ways to overcome winter weather, wind, snow, winter sunlight, heat, etc. This is like the Canadian Prepper Mors Kochanski's super shelter - by using plastic sheeting near a campfire creating a tropical infrared heat of 80-90F inside ! Same technology applies when you stop induction, convection, and conduction.
I have not checked the ground to see if it's frozen hard yet, but we have had multiple hard freeze temps... 6-9 hrs per night of 32°F or below. My question: If I plant them in a large container, do I need to do anything special if the soil freezes in the pot? I am in zone 5b, nights are freezing, and day temps are 50's to high 60's, with a sprinkling of low 70's in the forecast.
(9aLouisianaCoast)2?s what size bag did you use and in raised bed I’m planning on going down side of bed like you did , have my fall plants in bed now I can usually plant a early spring garden in January or February. Will the garlic be ok during the transition. Should I do anything different TIA
I have elephant garlic (yeah, I know.. closer to a leek) ready to go in when we quit going into the 80s. I have a bed I've been prepping for months.. dumped in two big bags of peat moss.. tilled it in.. and just kept putting grass clippings over it. Last week I went to check on it.. seems my ground ate all the organic matter.. there's no evidence that any peat moss went in at all.. and that was in June. I did a soil test.. low in everything but the PH.. that's a little high... so weird with all the grass clippings lurking around. I may have to put grow bags or pots on that bed. sigh
Planted garlic in containers last weekend for the first time. They’re actually growing!!! Question - can you give them too much water especially at the start? I live in Wales UK and we get a lot of rain ☔️. I’ve got a balcony I can put the containers under if I need to get them away from too much rain. Thanks
Great video! I tried to grow garlic last year and it was a fail. Looks like the bulbs disintegrated. I wasnt sure how often I would need to water. Does anyone know?
Good timing !! I have just got my organic garlic bulbs so I was glad of a reminder what to do! I got rust on mine last year but it was very humid here during the summer and cloudy do you think that was why I got rust? Thanks Brian love your videos so easy to follow packed with helpful tips! ☘️ ☘️☘️☘️
May I ask what part of the U.S you are from. I'm from Florida and I'm trying so hard to learn how to grown veges, flowers, trees, etc. I know Florida is different because of the climate, this is why I'm asking. It sounds like you may live in the south?? Update: I think I saw you may be from Cali, not sure if you guys have the 150% humidity like we do...lol....I look forward to watching more videos. Thank you so much for taking the time, maybe when I grow up I'll be as good of a gardener as you 😊
I'm in NC 7b. I planted some garlic at the beginning of October in my raised beds and they're currently about 6-8" tall. Hubby wants to take down the raised beds now (I'll be building my permanent garden soon but thought these beds would stay put until spring). Can I move the sprouted cloves to grow bags? I would leave them there until harvest time rather than transplant them a second time.
How high should the containers be? Or if i set up a quick raised bed with cardboard beneath, how tall the sides? This new property has moles & voles, should I use hardware cloth beneath the raised beds? Topped off with cardboard then soil? Also, thanks so much for your videos. ❤
I also live in your area (I'm in San Diego) and am planting garlic for the first time this year. Wondering how often we should be watering during the winter for garlic planted in the ground. I will be adding a layer of pine shavings over top once they are planted to help retain moisture. Also, very interesting the results you found with refrigeration. I already have all mine in the frig but next year will definitely do a trial of some without that step. Sure makes planting a bit more flexible. Thanks for all your helpful info. I have learned so much from you over the years.
