Having grown thousands of heads of garlic personally, this was not done in the best possible way, this is a great way to get it started maybe but after the first couple of days if you are going to continue growing it like this you need to separate the cloves of garlic or you risk the roots tangling and hoping that the garlic will survive when you separate them. If you are going to eat just the greens growing off it go for it. As for harvesting, the garlic is usually planted in October and then harvested in august to September (NY area) but one thing to watch out for is at some point the garlic is going to flower, you dont want it to flower unless you wanna attempt to grow garlic from seed, you will see what looks like a giant curl this is called a garlic scape, you will want to follow that scape down to the the first set of leaves, this will allow the plant to focus all its nutrients into the new garlic head growing below. You can eat and process the scapes, but you first want to remove the flower head portion from there you can process it with oil and seasoning to make a pesto or fry it up or whatever. So this is idea is actually a good one but it takes time, I would recommend staggering growth depending on how much garlic you consumer 1 batch every month? Anything extra can be pickled (good by itself or cooked). The reason you cant grow the garlic together on the head attached is because it stunts the growth of the cloves. If you have large cloves and want to retain that you need to remove them from the head. Please keep in mind too the garlic can and will grow upwards of 3-4.5 ft tall.
I'm surprised by some of the comments made, "I'm not that anal to do that", It's a waste of time doing it that way", "this is just a video to put on RU-vid", etc etc. It goes to show how ignorant some people are. What I see is a way to start garlic so as to plant out Garlic Starts. I tried to grow garlic (30 cloves) and all but two failed, good quality soil, and plenty of compost. This may be a way for me to be successful, so I will try it. This video may not be of much use to the "smart" growers, but it is surely useful to people like me who have a problem growing garlic. I dug up some of my failures and found very little root system, they didn't develop, better luck this time, (second attempt) so, thank you for showing me another way to start growing garlic.
I would like to know what you sprayed on them and did you have drain holes in the potted containers? I would like to see the finished and producing plant
Just plant them in good soil with compost and give them lots of water 💦 on top right away. Then get a tray, put your pots on it and water from the bottom. Garlic needs alot of water. Doing this will make the roots reach downward to get closer to the water at the bottom. Also make sure you have proper drainage. Good luck 🤞 hope this helps
@@truth2792 All parts of the garlic, onion and chive plants are edible (even the roots!) I really love the scapes after they've become flowers to decorate salads.
На скорости 1.5 ролик смотрится гораздо веселее. Автору уважение за труд и аккуратность. Я просто разделяю чеснок на зубчики и в зиму сажаю на грядку, вокруг кустов и деревьев, между кустиками клубники. Но это когда есть огород.
As many have said, plant in the fall and harvest next Aug/Sept. Yeah, that worked great for us until I didn't have time to do the fall harvest one year. Lots of garlic next year but without being separated they are all tiny. Tried to recover by planting the tiny cloves but mostly more tiny cloves. We have a few garlic plants that have held on over the intervening several years that keep coming back. I'm harvesting some now and this technique might just be the ticket to get back to full sized bulbs to plant in the fall. Also, planning to experiment with an LED grow light this winter and this might be a way to grow/start plants for harvesting greens over the winter. The idea of aquarium gravel instead of bottles sounds good. Or maybe use a rectangular plastic bottle so the level is constant and you don't have to create supports to keep the bottles from rolling around. I'd add that this technique could be used by someone in an apartment that doesn't have the luxury of planting outdoors.
Final Crop is just like these only taller and wedged together. I came up with my own idea,by using a clear plastic egg cartons,just snipped off the bottoms,and filled flat side with water, Its much handier than cutting bottles.
Guess the main purpose is to weed out ones that will rot and ensure they are already emerged out of the soil but if you have a big enough scale, this would just be a lot of extra work since with good cloves over 95% will generally sprout when planted direct in the ground
I'd use the tops rather than the bulb much later, it's refreshing and not as pungent as the cloves, but a great idea to replicate, thank yiufor sharing!
You can eat the leaves of garlic. They taste like garlic believe it or not. And they add green to your dish. So you can occasionally pick a leaf off a couple plants and eat them while the plants grow.
I noticed after 2 months of buying garlic, there was green growing off the top. So I took the cloves with green and put them in a small cup and watered them every 2 days and they grew perfectly.
Fantastic for those of us without garden spots. Plant one bottle and then another in five days. Super cheap. And I love garlic greens. 😋 Endless garlic always at your fingertips. I do this with green onions too. You can get three or four cuttings from each green onion in a glass of water. They just keep growing the tops. Chop them off and cook and they grow back in a week.
That sounds great but what does the garlic say in this matter? Would it not want to have a relationship with the sun, soil worms manure etcetera before it gets munched every five days. We are truly here to not be part of the landscape but 🔨 the one we see best. I wonder if we this to humans this will be acceptable. I place mine in the dirt in my front grass and over time I rip the fruit and keep the seed for next season. I am not being a killjoy I hope simply curious about how a garlic life has been handled.
@@winniethuo9736 I believe we should consider the feelings of animals, but I don't understand the concept of plants having feelings or a mind to care about sunshine and soil with worms.
@@AbbaJoy1 Ok may be I got a little carried away but having come to a realisation that all living things are living and growing up with nature I saw the smallest plant navigate their way to towards soaking sunlight, and plants performing so much better when they are grown where worms have taken time and mixed other dead organic material to make the soil to make manure, food for the plants that we then consume made me think a little more. There are certain processes that need to happen before we humans, part of the cycle play our role which is not just eating the stuff but making sure we allow natural processes to happen even when they don’t resist as we take them to our menus. I also think they give us more nutrients this way.
I was so excited to try this. I drank some soda so I could have the bottles. I rinsed them, and set them out to dry. A couple days later I trimmed my garlic pods, cut the tops and got my bottles ready. I carefully cut the bottles and then it dawned on me... I forgot to save the bottle caps!!! Oh mon dieu!! So don't forget to save the caps!
I'm really having a hard time believing that in five days you have that much growth on your garlic bulbs... Maybe five weeks but five days is hard for me to believe...
No the green shoot growth is almost instantaneous! After 5 days I planted my separate bulbs into grow-pots. Want harvest of continuous green garlic shoots. The flavour is amazing! I rooted mine balanced on Sherry glasses, filled with water & a little Seasol. Overnight the first tiny shoots appeared! 😊
I think his days add up. So day 1, then 2 days later (actually day 3), 4 days later (actual day 7), 5 days later (actually day 12), etc. It was just poorly phrased.
OkieRanchWife ~I also usually plant (giant Red Hardneck) garlic in October-November but never got a chance to do it last fall either but I still have last year’s harvest. Like you, I want to try this method now as well. Someone said to use square instead of round plastic bottles so they do not roll around and also the water stays more constant on the top hole. ~I have only one query :: In this video above, why does this person “cut about 1/4” inch off the top of each garlic toe” with a knife.?? Is this necessary to do.??
Nice , so you're basically "cloning " garlic cloves . I'm gonna give it a try , thanks for sharing . I like your gardens too, nice and clean , organized , and well managed 😁👍
Very good Terrence. I was a bit sceptical at first, after trying your method it works perfectly.. I’ve been planting bulbs in soil direct and waiting for them to shoot, where is within three days. I’ve got excellent result appreciate thanks for your video. Really helpful. Keep up the good work kind regards. 👍
Never cut toward yourself. But lovely video - I think we need more knowledge like this out there as things are going to get really tough in a few short months.
I have seen way too many people cut themselves with that little knife! Showing concern for your fellow man shouldn’t be frowned upon it should be appreciated! Yes, when using a pairing knife most people cut towards themselves. I do 90% of my kitchen cutting with a chef’s knife because I have more control with it but that’s just me.
Brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing. I do hydroponics as I am in Zone 3b and any start to the season is a tremendous help. It always amazes me how different techniques are adopted in different parts of the world. I am going to try this in one mason jar. I've successfully been growing via Kratky method in addition to DWC.
Thank you for posting. We don’t need music. You should speak and explain what you’re doing, why, when and what to expect from the final harvest. Example, why are you adding rice to the soil?
Often times the person making the video doesn’t speak English. It’s pretty common. If I were among a video for, say, Korean distribution, I’d likely add music and text and not even try to talk, too.
First thing that came to my mind was what about all the chemicals, BPA? that can leech from the plastic, into the water and right through those roots. 😞 I propagated some garlic indoors, however used glass. I do appreciate the video, nicely done.
probably no BPA but BPF and other bisphenols used instead of A, all petro-plastics are toxic sooner or latter, better to use organic-all natural-biodegradable materials, but if you buy greens in clamp shells sold in stores as " organics" they are grown in plastics pipes under a roof in warehouse ( hydroponic) and not in real soil outside in the fields most of the times.
I had a family here that were my friends. They moved out of town when they became pregnant and grew all their own food...all garden, eggs, meat milk. You name it they did it. Organic everything. After about six years their doctor asked if he could test them to see the difference. None. They had just as many chemicals as every single person buying their food from the store. That stuck with me. The parents were absolutely crushed. All their hard work made zero difference. The people growing their garlic like this are probable not any worse off than others using other methodology. After all the water used for watering travels though pipes and hoses to arrive at the plant.
That's the whole garlic growing cycle for this method. It won't produce a new bulb that year, just the greens which are tasty to eat. If you let it over-winter, it will produce a bulb next year.
I've got my garlic and my plastic bottle ready. Thank you for sharing how to grow food when you don't have a big garden area. I would really like to know, if you're willing to share, what is growing in the post in the background of this video, and how is the post made? Growing more food in less space is more and more important as our populations grow and our cities take up more area.
This was a great video . I do this as well but only in saucers or bowls of shallow water. When I transplant it out I remove a centimeter of leaf from each plant. It stimulates growth
Do these cloves go on to develop full bulbs or do they remain under-developed...to be used as garlic shoots/greens? I ask, because, in Scotland, we grow garlic from Oct through Dec to be early harvested, around April/May, as greens or harvested late June/Aug for fully mature bulbs. Me, I grow them all year round, however, as greens, for bulbs, but also flowers (providing seeds, too) and for the very important reason they act as a repellant to a great many insects and their young that would prey upon my other fruit, vegetables and herbs. I love the idea they can be encouraged to grow such an abundant, healthy root system, so rapidly, using only water, but am concerned the individual cloves might not be receiving enough nutrients to encourage good growth to kick-start them for being planted out. Thank you for uploading.
it will not grow cloves in full amount…water is onlx sprout leabe which grow and feed it out for one peace of clove it will die..it need proper soils to mature and mass water cannot grow tree or fuitr onlx sustain leaves it need soil to grow chemical only goes so much..it take it nuthrien and etc but it need earth to form structure.
Thanks for your narrative. I myself have just started a couple plants. Observing the green shoots and wondering about using in salads. Here in the Caribbean we are blessed. You stick something in the earth and it grows. God’s magic 🙏
Garlic is also supposed to have a "cold spell". This is why they are often planted out late in the year, otherwise they often don't develop into full bulbs but remain as a single clove. One way around this, and I am trying it this year, is to put the garlic cloves in the fridge for a couple of weeks before planting out in the spring. especially important here in the south (Sussex) where the weather is so much milder.
@@janicejames3005 I use the shoots in salads, also frying them gently to make garlic butter or, adding extra butter, then rolling it into a sausage, for storage in the freezer, when a chunk can be sliced off to add to casseroles, etc. How I envy you your weather (except the stormy hurricane season) with that sun and glorious warmth. Here, in Glasgow, we are beset by lashing winds and torrential rain, which will continue for at least another fortnight. Occasionally, for brief periods, the wind calms down and the sun peeks through the clouds and I can see my plants desperate to get on with the business of growing. May your fingers stay green. 😊
@@r1273m Lots of plants require that cold spell to scare them into the reproductive stage, such as roses and poppies. Some get their jollies from being almost burnt alive, the eucalyptus, lodgepole pine, etc. Pyrophytic (Perverts, I call them. 😂😂😂) plants
00:52 If you want to keep your fingers when using a craft knife "cut away from yourself and towards your mate". I actually flinched when you finally cut through the plastic bottle............
Too longwinded, I grow my own garlic, just separate the cloves and bury them 2inches deep in soil, no other prep required, just have to wait till they are ready to pull up.
Agreed! I've grown garlic for over 30 years. It is very rare that I don't get 100% to shoot and I'm growing 150-300. It is a very simple method that doesn't require all these steps and time. Just plant, mulch well and harvest. I don't even water. Failure could be the result of poor bulb storage. Be sure to brush off dirt to prevent mold, hang to dry and keep in a cool, dark space. Also, never start with grocery store garlic.
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Hi really appreciate your video and can't wait to give it ago,was slightly disappointed at the end that you didn't show the final results however more than appreciative of your time and effort..look forward to more videos lewy UK
Fantastic idea. Thank you. But mine will be eaten in the leaf stage. Like the subtle Garlic taste of the leaves and not the strength of the bulbs themselves.
Thank you very much l never knew how to grow garlic thank you for the wealth of knowledge l will be setting some tomorrow what is the final topping you put on the garlic when you transplant
If the point was not to keep the hydroponic approach all the way to the end, they could have just planted the garlic directly in the soil from the beginning. The cloves would have used the nutrients from the soil to grow better and get that nourishment.
I think the video's method seems ideal, if the roots can deal with the soil well. Having those greens would allow for strong photosynthesis. You can also harvest a section of the greens as an early crop.
I was very excited at first thinking that I'd get the end results from the plastic bottles without using any soil!! There's no soil here so a shame I can't grow my own garlic. I might try the leaves though!!
