Wow.. keep recording like this (I know this is 5 years old, but still, I'm new) and I'll be back again and again. No wasting time, super informative, no odd camera angles, no flash intro.. in general, no headaches. This is how I wish EVERY learning video on RU-vid were and should be as you keep it super interesting, without adding distractions and garbage to "try" to grow an audience. You are like the flowers that the bees seek out.
Your closing remarks about perfection, "It doesn't matter how you do it, it's just THAT you do it" is insanely profound for my current life happenings hahaha thanks bro
I found the remark extra comforting because my family has a bad black thumb and knowing I can fuck up a little bit with the fresh garlic I let sit too long in my cupboard, comforts me. I hope all is well with everyone. Cheers
I dried my last harvest of garlic on my kitchen table. I really liked the smell of the fresh garlic but most people would probably find it too strong. During the month my garlic was drying, I had NO flies in the house =)
......no Vampires either ! Garlic is never too strong ! Full of Vitamins ! It's really medicinal too ! I'm growing potatoes in a container inside . Food prices going up & up . The real good thing is quality ! Garlic , Potatoes , and Onion . ......I could live on them ! Peace !
NEW SUBSCRIBER! This is the most complete garlic growing video I have come across. Now I’m gonna go back and watch ALL your other videos! Thank you from a fellow Canadian ☺️
Do you braid them when they're green or after they've dried? I'm sure they're beautiful I've seen them in stores displayed this way! Thank you for sharing us that beautiful idea! I wish the very best to all who read this!
My family used to do a lot of farming in Cuba when we lived there. We would braid garlic as well. Can be done either dry or green. Ideally you would want to braid them while green so you can hang them all together to dry.
You guys rock! I'm in northern alberta - just learning to do no till on our new acreage. Ive been pouring over your videos - thank you for all the detail, its made this journey much easier!
Awesome. I have maybe 3-4 hundred garlic plants in my yard growing wildly and even though the bulbs are much smaller since they are crowded, I have an endless amount of scapes, bulbs, and dehydrated garlic, powder, and salt throughout the year. I *love* garlic. Eventually I plan on buying property in a more homesteading kind of fashion and growing garlic more systematically is definitely on the top of my list.
These videos are awesome and very informative. Ive grown organic veggies and fruits for about 35 years and have learned easier ways from your videos..thank you
I enjoy your video because you are such a great story teller; you added a great intro, humor, and tips. Keep them coming! I am going to do my experiment with garlic, ginger and other root veggies.
exactly - harvest the garlic when the bottom leaves are already brown and dried up but the middle and top leaves are still green. That's the exact moment to harvest garlic!
I have never seen any of your videos before, but I'm going to subscribe. This was so clear and simple, well-paced; and I love your attitude: it's not how you do it...it's that you do it. Anything worth doing is worth doing, even imperfectly. I'm a novice gardener and even though I've made plenty of mistakes in the last couple of years, it amazes me how much nature knows what she's doing!
Victoria B ditto! I’ve not seen this channel previously and I’m subscribing too! I’m an experienced gardener, and I’m drawn to all things garden-themed, natural-method, and northern. Love this!
I watched this last year and in October and planted garlic in generic potting soil, covered up with a boatload of leaves that fell. I just pulled the bulbs a few minutes ago and they are *massive* and fragrant. I cannot wait to do this again this year. Thank you for helping to educate me and better improve myself.
I liked that. It was succinct and concise without a lot of extraneous waffle, but packed with helpful information and visual explanations. As a 'tutorial' it was spot on. I eat every part of the garlic, including the flowers (raw on salads) & young stems which are like a sweet, hot spring onion. Garlic is exceptionally good for you.
I tried planting garlic this way, last season...just one bulb, with about 8 cloves all up, as an after thought one day...and blow me down...they grew! At the same time I planted some bought baby onion "bulbs" to plant and really did just put the little onion bulbs on the soggy straw under the top drier straw...they grew too. I did it all wrong, at the wrong time, with the fresh straw, not aged straw, which I asked for, but as no one here in the Hungarian village understood me...they arrived with 3 of those huge round marshmallows of hay! It's Feb now, I just went to measure up a chook pen, where I had my straw gardens last year and about a dozen garlic clusters are growing with heaps of green tops about 4 inches high. I forgot about them after the excitement of growing a couple of garlics myself. I moved all 8 straw beds in early October, as I didn't check properly for full sun...all day, not half the day Mary! So now all 8 beds are in the middle of the paddock and I'm getting ready to start the year off much wiser, as I didn't understand the growing zones, soil temp etc, as I'm an Aussie, from stinking hot and humid Qld, living in Hungary, where it snows in winter. Yup, as he says in one of his videos...It's not how you do it...it's about doing it!
I dry them upside down. Then the g-force helps water to run down, in lives. It shortens the drying time. Tie them together, or, even better, use some mesh with wide openings and insert every particular garlic thru hole, bulb upwards. Same goes for onions. Do not let bulbs to touch each other. You are great, so inspirational, thank you and continue the good work.
OMG i just love your attitude, " whats most important is THAT you do it NOT how you do it" just love it.....now lets show my hubby your video and see what he thinks about doing it this way, and i know exactly where i would like to plant it too
Super awesome video!!! I LOVE GARLIC. But I've never grown it before. I am excited to give it a go this year with your method! Thank you for your easy-to-follow video.
The only thing I disagree with is a small thing, you said the paper cover will split because the garlic grew to big. After 7 years of growing my on garlic(about 6 varities ) I left a few rows in to long & all the paper covers had rotted away & I had to process all of it to keep the cloves from rotting. I never layed cloves on top of soil, so I learded something new also. Always save the large clove for planting & eat the small cloves. The large the clove the larger the bulb in summer.
Fantastic! Tried growing garlic many times unsuccessfully. Best video I've seen so far on this subject, simple, straight to the point but explains everything from planting to harvest. Never got a clear idea of when it was time to pull them out or how long it took to grow. Many thanks.
I grow garlic in my house, in a window box inside the window. The green stems are the bomb. I uses them like chives and scallions. They have a combination flavor.
This video was very informative. I live in the tropics, and always wondered if garlic would grow. So I’ll give it a try with this method. Thanks very much.
Thank you! You two are so awesome!! All the hay my dad has, and loves gardening out on the farm, this is the best! I shared it with him and my family!!
One of the best videos I have seen on permaculture. I can't wait to try this now in the fall. I have access to a farm for resources and I can't wait to have our own backyard harvest. I already have wild garlic in spring and wild onions in fall but I am excited to finally plant on our property. What a great experiment!Thank you for sharing with all of us. God bless your harvest. New subbie!
You guys are living the dream, well at least my dream. I sincerely wish that everything goes great and all your harvests bountiful. Only complaint I have is that you guys don't upload enough. :)
Oh wow, I really love the phrase at the last bit, "It doesn't matter how you do it, it's THAT you do it". I've been trying my hand at gardening for 2 years now after being a failed uni graduate (A degree that doesn't have anything to do with gardening....It's a long story). I love gardening but I still have a lot to learn. Every now and then, I feel discouraged gardening especially since I have no stable income while taking care of family matters but I'll persevere. I'll be sure to make time to watch more of your videos. This made me really interested in growing garlic now!
@@kellypawspa Buy some green nail polish. I paint my thumbnails green before I work in the garden LOL I'm not joking. It's all worn off by the time I get in the house gloves or no gloves. But I love it when people look down and see the green on my thumbs. I don't know technical words I don't know Latin names for most things anymore but my mother really taught me just instinctively how to do things. And I owe her so much for it! I can get more of a yield out of a 12 x 15 patio that I'm living with right now then some people do out of a huge Garden. Again I owe my mother so much for letting me follow her since I was a tiny thing pulling the seeds back out that she was putting in......Thanks Mama❤😢🐌🌲🌞
Blue Sky, I'm sure there are Farmer's Markets that you could sell the products of your garden. The County Extension office is a trove of information, as is the Soil Conservation Service. Check to see if there is a Master Gardeners group in your area too. They understand the generational aspects of knowledge and are willing to pass it on. Community gardens are also available if space is limited. Just some strategeries. Good luck!
I absolutely LOVE garlic. I can never have too much of it in my food. Just prior and during the winter months, I chew small pieces of garlic to keep and colds away. And the people. LOL. Works great ! 😃
Next year trying braiding the garlics together into a rope. (Use 3 strands of twine, 1 for each strand and add the bulbs like a French braid. This is for strength of the braid for storage). This is simpler/quicker than individual bunches & easy to hang in your winter storage area later and just twist off a bulb as you need it. Good luck & thanks for your video 😀.
This is a great adventure story. I wish you guys all the success you deserve. I'm in Australia and our seasons are 6 months different from yours, so the lessons you learn I can pretty much apply as soon as I see the video. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
Lol. People still believe that rumor. I started it over a thousand years ago. We, oh I mean, vampires love garlic it cleans the blood. So eat plenty of garlic, it keeps the vampires away.
@@bjfifi Do you not get the joke? He is hinting that HE is a vampire, and vampires actually loves garlic, and vampires themselves started the rumor to GET people to eat garlic, while people THINK it keeps vampires away, vampires actually LIKE people to eat garlic.
I have found that pealing garlic cloves and placing them in a baggie with a piece of dry paper towel causes them to grow roots rather than shoots AND KEEPS THEM FROM BEING BITTER for cooking. I experimented & plopped some in a pot of soil and they took right off. LOVED THE TIP: Small cloves produce small bulbs; large cloves produce larger bulbs.
