Whack and Unwrap! Quickly Prepare Your Garlic for Planting! 

Very satisfying! It just falls apart after it pops!

Thanks! Will do, heading over now!

6 lb is a good amount! Just Whack and Unwrap!

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Would you recommend any fertilizer for the soil. I have a 4 by 10 foot bed with about 9 inches of screened soil. The soil contains some last years kelp, some this years fish guts etc. When I screened the soil 2 weeks ago there were maggots in it from the fish waste put into it this summer. I mean maybe 14 buckets of bones. heads etc. Which is almost gone to nothing. Also put cardboard in the bottom of the bed but after a heavy rain 2 weeks ago the bed filled with water. So have raised the bed 1 inch off the ground. I expect some soil to leach out . So to sum up this because am sure you are busy. What fertilizer would you recommend , should I remove the cardboard, do you think the maggots will hurt ? Thank you for any reply

I usually spread 1 cup of blood meal per 20 sq ft, same for bone meal. typically top dress with several inches of compost containing chicken manure, I mulch with a few inches of maple leaves when ever they’re available and use a few boughs to keep them from blowing away!

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock ok. That will help. Thank you

Great tip!

Yes try it! Just make sure when you process your bulbs next summer you leave a 2-2.5” stub on your garlic bulb! Let me know when you try it! You’ll love it!

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock I already did, since I haven't cut the stubs short. It worked perfectly, gonna try some big bulbs when these are eaten.

That won’t work very well. It will just give you lots of small cloves, which if you’re trying to make green garlic pesto in the spring would be fine, but not so fine if you want to have real Garlic to sell… Or to use at home.

@@garthwunsch Works great actually for home use. Probably not for selling. The cloves are a bit smaller but not unusably small. I actually was surprised the first time this happened. I had left a clove or 12 lol in the ground and the next season I was really surprised to see how much it actually produced.

@@garthwunsch agreed, it wont work that well for commercial application which this garlic is headed for. However as Nat below mentions it could work well for home use. I am planning on adding garlic as a perennial in our food forest project. SHould be interesting to see how the bulbs size up and the root mass propagates every year.

@@CrossroadToCountry We're going to try this in our food forest project.