The Largest Garlic  

Hey Crafty. I just gave away close to 50 cloves. I gifted @tnog my largest clove because of how influential she has been for me. Fall 2024 the plan is to be selling them. I'm planting 100 cloves and 500 corms in November.

@@growingoutthebox Yes, TNOG 💜 is amazing! Wow that's a lot of garlic lol Thank you for that information. I'll be on the lookout in 2024.

I'll be on the lookout as well 😎👊🏾 That is some beautiful looking garlic.

​@@growingouttheboxis tnog The New Orleans Gardner? New to this gardening community.

@@Ladyscharm Yes. @TNOG511 is The New Orleans Gardener. Amazing person 1st and a great gardener. She gives out valuable information in her lives on Tues and Sunday 7 central time. 100 plus individuals talking gardening and life. Check her out.

Hello Barb. Haven’t seen you here in a while. I hope all is well. Hopefully Ms Linda will be back Tuesday. Will see you in the live.

It was Gmama. The first part of the video is the harvest from this year. I'm planting 100 cloves and 500 corms this Fall. I gave a few away but the plan is to start selling them in Fall of 2024.

That thing was $70 but I had to have it. lol

@growingoutthebox I believe you lol. I've seen some smaller ones that were $40-$50 and I was like😮

Yes they are! I was so happy with the harvest.

I really do appreciate that. I try to put positive energy out and you all seem to embrace it and send it right back. That's the blessing.🙏🏽

That is an absolute honor and I am humbled. Like minds attract. Thank you for giving the channel a chance.

Thank you Ms. Linda.... I know you are going to grow some huge bulbs!

Hey there and thanks for dropping in. It’s all about growing together. 👍🏽

What zone are you in? I plant my garlic on my birthday Nov 11th. Planting 100 bulbs and 500 corms. Really looking forward to that. Best growing with your garlic.

I gotcha! I sent a few out to some people that asked about them when I did the harvest short. I asked that they not say where they got them from but you know Ms Linda is always going to show love that's why we love her so much. You already know that I liked the crab fertilizer short. I like sharing stuff like that. I just wish the share feature had more of an impact. Good day

@@growingoutthebox yes, great job on your garlic. Ms. Linda is the best. I’m happy with how the crab video turned out. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so kindly. I was very pleased with the harvest. Planting 100 cloves and 500 corms this Fall.

Hey Bouje.... I need to learn canning starting next year. I have a few more things I want to do in the garden and then I'm shifting gears over to canning and such. Thanks for stopping by. I really do appreciate that.

Sounds like a plan. I'm looking forward to seeing you canning.

I plant on my birthday November 11th here in Georgia zone 8A

Thanks a million!

Yes ma’am! Excited about this year. I will be planting 100 cloves and 500 corms.

Thank you and I so look forward to this year with the garlic.

Good morning John. As I am opening up messages this morning there is so much positive energy flowing. Thank you for being a part of the channel and adding to the spiritual grounding.

Thank you, you are truly inspiring to me@@growingoutthebox

@@johnsantangelo7773 The soil isn’t the only thing we are growing in over here brother. We’re growing in soul as well. 🙏🏽

Heeeeey Diva. Thanks for dropping in. Hope you are having a great day.

I always appreciate your support

Yeah, they get pretty large. lol

Absolutely my pleasure.

Thanks. I'm planting 100 cloves and 500 corms this year so I hope next years harvest is as good.

"True That".."Appreciate the Reply"!!

I’m hoping to yield enough from this year’s planting and start marketing the elephant garlic next year after curing. Lots of potential. Thanks for your input Pamela.

Glad you liked it!

Everything is coming to life right now.

Wow! All the way across the world. That is really amazing!

My pleasure!

Thank you and I couldn't have asked for a better harvest. Planting 100 cloves and 500 corms this year. I am too excited. I hope your day is going well.

@@growingouttheboxthank you my day is going well, I hope yours is as well.

Good quality compost is key. Very soft soil and is why I prefer growing them in raised beds. I don't plant until my birthday Nov 11th.😁 Maybe that why they grow so good for me. You should try Nov 11th.

@@growingoutthebox Good idea! Last year I started them in October, but it was warm , like now. Baltimore has crazy weather! It will be 80 on Friday. So I will be planting in November.

I know. This weather is something different these days. I just watch the weather forecast and plan accordingly. Best of growing and any question I always answer.@@MsJKGardener

Hey Mike. Thanks for stopping in. Hopefully I will see you tomorrow on @tnog live.

definitely!@@growingoutthebox

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Thank you for stopping by this morning. I was going to start selling them this year but I decided to hold off till next year. I hope you have a beautiful day Miss Betsy.

@@growingoutthebox thanks so much. Blessings all

Glad you liked it!

Good morning and thank you for connecting. I've been checking you out for a while so it's nice to know that we see each other in this large gardening community. Continue growing.

@@growingoutthebox This community is amazing!!!

Hey Erica. Hope all is well with you and the family. Gotta grow big right!?

@@growingoutthebox I’m going to pick up garlic today. I was excited to see this video! Thanks for the info. I’m looking forward to seeing your crop!

Thank you for the flame! 🤗

Thank you. I can’t say that I have seen you here before. Welcome.

@@growingoutthebox I’ve definitely seen videos but this time I had to comment 🤣🤣🤣 thank you 😊

Thank you. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Do you have a garden?

Does your company have a Amazon store?

You are @msshirleyoggardener 😁. Lots of sunlight, loose compost. ✅

“One raised bed at a time” In short, you already have the answer. Thank you for sharing your story of community. Start with the 1 bed keeping in mind what your extreme temperatures will be both summer and winter. I’m in Georgia zone 8a so the things that work for me may need greater vigilance but it can be done and I would be honored to assist if you are serious. Click the notification 🔔 . When the weather starts to warm up my 1 video will be how to start a garden in 2024.

I have a subscription to Artlist. Great selection of music. I grew mine larger than the ones I purchased last year. I’m planting 100 cloves and 500 corms in November. I got them from a farm in Elijay Georgia last year. Can’t find his phone # now. I’ll see what I can come up with.

I planted some in Spring without any winter and they made more of a single bulb. That's fine because I replanted them this year so I will be able to see if it will split to a larger bulb.

I did the fridge method and it makes a HUGE difference. I tried planting without the cold and the started fine but died later on. I'm in zone 8b Louisiana so last winter didn't pop up till January so I planted right before that. So far, so good😁👍🏾

I'm in Georgia zone 8A so it's only just a bit cooler than TX. You shouldn't have any issues. Good quality compost is key. Very soft soil and is why I prefer growing them in raised beds. I don't plant until my birthday Nov 11th.😁 Maybe that why they grow so good for me. You should try Nov 11th.

No reason to start garlic inside because it needs to cold. Just plant them outside and mulch well.

@growingoutthebox that may be where I went wrong... I have an indoor herb garden and it's about a steady 80ish degrees. Makes sense though since they always get started in the fridge. Any suggestions for onion that are starting to grow out a bit? Do you just plant them and they go or is there a special way? Thanks for the advice in advance Sir 👍 ✌️

@@lordeagle100 After this little cold spell just plant the onions in the ground.

@@growingoutthebox will do. Thank you Sir

Good morning my friend Mark. Thank you for questions as always. It really helps me stay focus on the task at hand. I'm going to give you the exacts as I scribbled down some before and after. I am having my sister put them into a spreadsheet so I can force myself to stay on task. I planted 2 beds separated by the larger and smaller cloves on average. My focus was mainly the larger 56 but to my surprise the smaller bed grew bulbs the size of my original large bed cloves. So that is a promising sign. The average clove from start was about 20g. My average harvest in the large bed was a whopping 28g. The largest clove being 62g! Largest bulb was 181g. Average harvest about 160. Most bulbs were 4 cloves. I need to go back and count again but I had 17 true rounds, 6 split and formed smaller rounds so I'm treating them as large cloves. 7 duds. Overall 112 cloves planted I got 100 super cloves and if my math is correct about 256 cloves in the size range of the initial purchase. I didn't even count the corms but I would guess somewhere around 500 collected and no telling how many still in the beds because they are starting to pop up at random. I have a little bit better idea of what I am doing now so I will do a better accounting this planting. Thanks again for asking the questions that keep me on track.

@@growingouttheboxThis sounds like 1 clove in, 4 in return. (not counting corms) 100 held back, 300 to sell. But leaves you with same result year after year. However, 1 clove planted, 4 in return, 2 held back, 200 to replant, 800 in return. about 4 raised beds, hold back 400 Just one more 400 planted, 1600 in return, hold back 800, yields 3200 in return. 2400 to sell, 800 divided by 56=14 beds. 14, 8' long beds = 112' of beds, without spacing. (still not including corms) Beyond here, the numbers just get nuts. Especially drying/curing racks enough to hold 3200 plants/bulbs.. To me, that's the largest stumbling block. On a good note your seed/cloves are free from this point forward. I think you mentioned a friend you have down there that you could bounce this off from, that's forgotten more on this subject than I'll ever know. I love gardening and numbers, so, I'm loving this adventure you're on and can't wait to follow you on this journey. Until you "Grow Out the Box" you'll never know. Mark n Rosa

@@marktoldgardengnome4110 You see Mark, you just opened up a lot of thought to future plantings and harvest. I have been to focussed on building inventory. Looking at your 2nd projection of holding back 2 cloves for every 1 clove planted sounds like a plan. Now I'm thinking of the 2 for 1 and listing them next season after curing to start building a presence in the market. I would rather sell out as opposed to having too much inventory. With an average of 500 corms and 100 huge cloves I could sell anything over 200 using the 200 as the base line and gauge how the demand is. Year 2 the corms alone will have developed which potentially is 2,000 cloves in 2025. next years harvest video has to be epic. That's all the marketing I would need and I could have them available in the RU-vid store. My subscribers have really grown. From 1,300 a few months ago to 41,000 and counting. I'm turning down paid promotions every day. Here are my 1st 3. ru-vid.comXlMlc42EcRw ru-vid.com2UACnhT9fDo ru-vid.commvXip7bwAQE

Yes. I use cypress mulch on all my beds.

@@growingoutthebox awesome thank you!

Next year if all goes well I will be selling them.

You can remove any dead leaves but as soon as the weather is consistently warm add fresh compost around the base of each and water them with some fish emulsion to wake them up good. amzn.to/3vvBJuA

@@growingoutthebox how often should I fertilize them with that?

@@Ladyscharm At planting, spring and 6 weeks before harvest

@@growingoutthebox thanks Bro👍🏾 As always, your advice is greatly appreciated 🙂👍🏾

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Good morning. The height of the planters I would say needs to be at least 10 inches for garlic. All my raised beds are open bottom to allow the soil biology to work it's best. Closing the bottoms of cuts of the natural nutrient cycle causing you to need to water more and fertilize more in my opinion. if that is what you have I say do it the bestway you can because I encourage anyone to grow no matter how they do it. We tend to learn what works best for us as we grow. I hope you are having a great day.

As you see at the end of this video I do a layer of mulch after planting. Regardless of what anyone will tell you I’ve showed how I do it. Garlic comes up as shoots/firm points. They will push through the mulch. Further, corms are forgotten and where I grew garlic last year already has volunteer garlic growing and they too came up through the cypress mulch I use in all my beds. Just lightly cover the soil until they come through.

@@growingoutthebox ok. Thank you. Will do.

Hereeey, haven’t seen you in a while. I hope all is well with you and your family.

Doing well. Had to learn a new video editor. Daughter wouldn't help me this time.

@@sow2grow The best thing was when my son didn’t have time to edit my videos. I showed him I could if I put my mind to it and now I edit better than him. 🤫

Hey Honeybee. Personally I think it's late in the season to add worms to a bed and definitely not a bed growing onion or garlic. When garlic is metabolized in the body, it becomes alkaline-forming due to its high content of sulfur-containing compounds such as allicin. The plant in its raw form is slightly acidic. Worms don't particularly care for acidity. I would create a nice home for them in a garage over the winter and introduce them into the garden in the spring. This is one of the reasons I add worm casting to my garlic beds and not rely on the worms.

@@growingoutthebox ok. Well, when i pick up the cypress mulch from ACE Hardware Friday. I can just layer the mulch over pine bark nuggets. I the nuggets is not enough. I have a bag of worm casting in my garage i ordered from drip depot over 3 to for year ago when i was living in the apartment. I knew one day i would move. I 'm wondering if it too late to Add the castings now since garlic is planted. It's a lot to gardening. I just started trying to grow. They are all going to be in pots till i get that fence build😊

I have all sorts of nutrient fertilizer , soils and dont know to do with them i guess i will have fun figuring it and starting plants from seed. I am going to find one of those warer containers you for water. The guys thisvyearvthat cut the grass push a lots of the leaves back against wood line. I told them i was going to make some kind of compost pile but to buy a bin, i guess. Eventually, i want to learning to make your compost tea as well. Thank you for teaching 😊

Just mulch them good and nature will do the rest. Congratulations 🎊

@@growingoutthebox alright, i have the mulch now. I will mulch 2 layers over the 20 gallon hard neck garlic. Should around the soft neck? The green part is up by 2 to 3 inches. Thank! you much.😊

@@honeybee6674 That’s a good thing. Mulch around what you can see. The cold will knock the green off but they will bounce back in the spring. Give them 1 feeding of the fish emulsion and again when they emerge in spring. The hard neck will give you scapes in the summer. That tells you they are maybe 4 to 6 weeks from harvest. Fertilizer with the fish emulsion for the last till and back off watering. That’s it. You got it! 🫵🏽

If you have just planted them I would water with a fish emulsion. When they emerge in spring water again with fish emulsion and about 6 weeks before harvest water again with fish emulsion. From this point no more water. You want them dry when harvesting.

@@growingoutthebox ok. I have to go and buy it. The only thing i have right now is maxicrop soluble seaweed powder 0- 0- 17. Will do. Thank you.

@@honeybee6674 what do you use that for? That’s a lot of potassium.

@@growingoutthebox if i remeber correctly. I was use it for an avocado tree i trying keep alive but i lost it. I was living in an apartment then in Jackson Tennessee before i move here. Mama and Daddy always had a garden. They are not here now. They were from the South. Thanks!

@@honeybee6674 Be careful with the potassium it can throw your soil off. Nitrogen is more likely the thing low in your soil. It gets used up faster than phosphorus and potassium barley is used by most plants so it stays in the soil longer.

November and December for the onion. They grow over the winter until they're ready to harvest in mid-April. The potato likes cool weather but not frost. You can try growing the potatoes inside this winter.

@@growingoutthebox ok, still waiting on garlic from annie heirloom Wisconsin. If potatoes don't like frost it snows in kentucky. Just moving here in this home in May. I guess I figure out what time to plant the potatoes. I seen what you use for garlic. Do i use the same fertilizer for onions and potatoes?

@@growingoutthebox can i put the potatoe sprouting plants in ground pot in garage under a grow light until it can be planted in April or May?

Earthworms are some of the best beneficials to have in your garden. They are excellent in nutrient cycling if you are aspiring to be an organic gardener. I love seeing them in the garden.

@@growingoutthebox i guess i have to go buy some but not sure how to work them in since the garlic is already planted. Going to bowling green tomorrow to look for some more mulch as well. Thank you, Blessings!

Mini pine bark nuggets can be called different things. The smaller the better surface area which blends better.

@@growingoutthebox Bosnai pine nuggets, is that ok. They saidvthey was wash and chopped fine. Thanks, Kentucky

@@honeybee6674 Do you have a Lowe’s and Home Depot. Ask for mini pine bark nuggets.

@@growingoutthebox they are all out

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I'm sorry, but I tried. I turned on captions, which worked, but it also captioned the lyrics. That "song" is just 🤮

I can't take out the music because the video is already published but I am more conscience of the background sounds and trying to find that sweet spot. After this years harvest I will go back and take out the music and do a separate video. Thanks for you input. I do value that.

@growingoutthebox thank you. The music is my only complaint. YOU did a great job on the video.... from what I did see. I recently finally found some elephant garlic and, even though it's late in the season, I have it in the fridge till it sprouts. I'm hoping that it's not too late in zone 8a to plant. Thank you again