Thanks so much Huw! All my garlic this year has developed rust. I was devastated as I’ve been watching it grow since autumn. Going to pick some of it right now and make a lovely pasta butter chilli flake situation :)
@@georgiepowell6432 I didn't know garlic can have rust. But you still can let it keep growing and eat it? I'm curious to learn. I will have to check on my garlic in the morning. Do you know how we can prevent rust on garlic? Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Terrific information about garlic and tonight I´m gonna check out Sam´s instagram! Have been a little sad because only one of my varietes have started to sprouting (we´re having had a very cold and windy May) but now I now what to do with the rest if they don´t bulb up later on!
I really love the direction you're taking the channel... branching off into experimental techniques... garden to table recipes... VERY helpful tips like storing the garlic in butter in the freezer!!!... keep it up brother!!
@@HuwRichards ~I am growing a big amount of Russian Giant "Hardneck" Marbled Purple Stripe garlic variety in my garden now, it is the best variety with very large cloves that are very easy to peel. ~Yes I know "Softneck" garlic varieties would work by harvesting them early to eat, 'BUT' I am wondering if also the "Hardneck" garlic varieties with the >stem< through the middle all the way to the root, can be pick early for eating before it turns into bulbs?? Because on "Hardneck" garlic the >lower stem< that connects to the root is not edible from my experience. I have never done it before but I could pick one of my "Hardneck" garlic early and find out. ~I really enjoy your tips and a great video, but you're wrongly pronouncing it as g'o'lic, h'o'vest, G'o'den, and winta. The right pronunciation is g'ar'lic, h'ar'vest, g'ar'den, and winter as correctly said in Scotland and also Ireland. Don't forget to pronounce all and every "R" clearly as done in Scotland and Ireland, it takes a little practice but it makes the pronunciation more clear.
Have I got a hot tip for you! You can eat the stem of green garlic of course but the real bonus are the roots! They have a supercharged garlic flavour. Wash them off, chop finely and sprinkle over almost anything or they can also be preserved. Dry the roots on a piece of paper towel on a radiator then sprinkle them on dishes until your hearts content 👍 The dried, delicate, wispy, white roots also make a very nice visual (and tasty) garnish when arranged on a dish that I’m sure your chef friend would appreciate. It’s a real conversation starter. Trust me, have a taste! Cheers
@@wheebke Thanks! I'm sure you could also pickle them. `chop them up when fresh and add to your jars of pickled beetroot, carrot etc It's surprising how many roots you can get off a single plant if you loosen the ground with a garden fork.
It's almost time to enjoy the green garlic. I saw this last year and though "damn, next year I have to plant extra cloves for green garlic". And now here we are. Wishing everyone abundant green garlic harvests.
Now I wish I’d planted a lot more garlic. The dozen or so in the bed are doomed to the chopping block. Thanks Huw and Sam, oh and baby sheep with the big lungs. Please don’t ever edit out all the bits where you crack up.
I do this with small cloves. I plant the large fat cloves to grow into bulbs but the smaller cloves I wouldn't normally plant for bulbs, I instead plant to use as green garlic. The might not grow into good bulbs due to being the small cloves but they do grow in to good green garlic plants to harvest.
A few years ago when we pulled the green garlic, on some of them the stems broke of, and the bulbs stayed in the ground. Next year, there were clomps of garlic there. So we just left some of them on the side of our garden and they remain there the whole year. Each year the clomps get larger. Usually we harvest some of them in spring and leave the rest for next year.
I've had garlic scattered around the garden, so usually miss some! I usually gently break clumps up in the spring, and replant them. I've also got a big batch of topset leeks, which I cut at the base to use, and they regrow - was thinking of doing that with some of my garlic!
Some of my garlic did not do well last year and I forgot it. This year it has grown and clumped . I am looking forward to making some green garlic butter.😊
Cracking us up this morning! So fun to start the day with a laugh. Definitely going to try your idea with planting garlic close and pulling every other one green. Thanks for the tips and the laugh:)
Hahahahaha I love that you left the sheep sounds and your reactions in!! Great laugh this morning, alongside a great video ☺️ I'll definitely try this!
The sheep 😂😂😂 hilarious 🤣 Never thought of harvesting green garlic, I will give it a try, especially planting the cloves closer and then pulling out every other one in May. Seems to be a good use of the space. Now I‘ll check out the blog and Instagram.
Here in southeast Spain I usually plant garlics to get green garlics every month, but I think summer is the worst time to do this. I always put the whole garlic bulb 20-25 centimeters down below the surface, and they grow 10-12 green garlics in the same place, you don't really need to split the bulb and plan them separately. Also here we get them smaller, 1cm or less width. It works really great with eggs as scrambled tortilla for example.
@@andreabelli6589 the more deep you plant it, more white part you will get. That is the part you can use for the kitchen. The green part (the one receiving sun light) is good too but with different flavor. You can also plant it closer to the surface and add more compost when you see the leaves coming out, but you have to work twice.
@@andreabelli6589 exactly, it's the same way to do it! After 6-8 weeks you can just get all of them by pulling out from its leaves and you get a 8-12 (as many as garlic cloves the bulb had). If you plan the bulb so deep, keep in mind that you will see it getting out of the surface after a month, so put something there to mark where they are! ☺️
Huw this is literally brilliant, we didn't manage to sell any of our garlic (except in our CSA baskets) and we had to double our production. This means I can add a crop of green garlic to our early baskets when there aren't as many other crops ready. THANK YOU mate! 👌
I usually forgot to plant garlic in autumn, so I end up planting it in spring and rarely I have anything left until the autumn. It‘s use up as green garlic. My garden is very small, so I have to always make space for other crops. Green garlic can be nicely chopped and freeze for cooking. It goes so nice in a stir-fry. Some other gorgeous mix is to crash green garlic with lovage, salt and vinegar. Just sprinkle that on your chippies. That‘s unbelievably delicious.
A very nice video Huw! Made me hungry😘. There is a 4th crop you forgot to mention: garlic scapes, the flower buds are delicious in stir fries and give one of the best pestos, both easy to freeze for cold winter days. Greetings from Germany.
Loved the tip about green garlic. The heckling sheep was hysterical. Thank you for keeping that in the video, I must have watched that part at least 6 or 7 times.
Thank you so much for inviting the chef onto the video. It’s all fun and good to grow food but it’s invaluable to actually know how to cook, eat it and enjoy it
I just found your site; you are an incredible teacher! Thank you for deepening my knowledge in gardening (and instilling confidence) with all your special tips! I am very excited about growing garlic!!
Thank you so much! I discovered I wasn’t getting a lot of bulging action in my garlic (first time growing) but knowing I can use it anyway is very helpful.
Yes! Been harvesting green garlic for a while already, I basically treat it like i would leeks, spring onions or basil really. They're great as a pesto, or just as finely chopped leaves on top of a soup or as flavourful greens in a salad. As said in the video, they're also great as a basis for so ups, like a creamy onion or leek soup, but with garlic greens is always amazing. I also have a specific patch where I had planted a single clove of garlic a few years back, and just let it sit there, as if it's a wild garlic. and I just keep harvesting the leaves of it, and use it like i would chives. Just treating it as a perennial really and sure, it won't grow nice big fat bulbs, but it's really just a plant and forget type of herb, if you grow it like that. and it keeps on multiplying.
That's actually funny, I harvested one green garlic a few day ago and thought like I just want to use it like leak, but never saw this somewhere! And now you're coming and telling me, it was a good idea 😉
I accidentally left a few really small bulbs in the garden bed last fall. They sprouted and look like green onions!! They are so freaking good! I’m calling them forgotten garlic shoots and wow! I love them!
The recipes on the blog all look amazing. I’ve been wanting to try making a green garlic aioli. I’ll be pulling a row of green garlic along the back my garlic bed to put in some pole beans or other vining crop.
Oh yeah. I always eat some Early Green Garlic. It is Superb in flavour. Great in Soups and chopped in salads. Try this salad=cooked Potatoes, Olive oil, Lemon juice and chopped green garlic & onions, salt & pepper...YUM
On my road to self-sufficiency I realized that growing your own food is only the beginning. You need to know how to cook what you've sown! I am delighted with your collaboration with Sam. I've saved the link to Farmer and Chef, pre-ordered your new book and brilliant on the idea to sow garlic closer to thin them later and voila, two crops!
Try picking the garlic stems much earlier, 1 cm or less, thus you'll be able to eat all the leaves too. They make an incredible combination with green salad and sliced radishes or cucumbers.
Ah what a timely video for me. I'm about to plant out my garlic cloves as we're in autumn in South Africa - so I'm going to try the 2.5 inch spacing. Thank you Huw! And thanks for the laughs...
I was forced to harvest my garlic early this year, because I have been moving & need to be out of my residence by the end of May. I pulled up 2 beds at the stage you're pulling your young garlic. I cooked with some but dehydrated the remainder, stems, leaves & all. I got 18 trays total of dehydrated garlic, giving me a very nice amount for the kitchen. Was able to share some with friends as well. It really does have a nice sweetness, as mentioned. I have even been snacking on the dehydrated bits from time to time. Really very nice 🙂
Oh MY! I have always thought you were a handsome young man but when you were laughing your inner beauty just shined! Love your garden and all your tips. Even though I have been gardening for over 50 years I still learn a few new things from you. Green garlic will be added to that list. Thank you .
i love the scapes that grow from the tops of the garlic. we even allow it to flower and freeze the flower heads and use the small flowers to season soups and stews.
I forgot to put down plant labels and couldn’t remember where I planted leeks vs garlic. I ended up pulling my garlic early and ❤️’d it!! Very potent and easy to slice / chop and put in freezer bags.
I'm so glad I got watched this as I pulled one up and it looked like the green garlic. It smelt amazing. We crushed it and put it in ice cube trays with butter
You answered a question for me for sure! I didn’t get all of my spring garlic harvested last spring…..well those bulbs grew up a ton of foliage this spring again and I’m going to harvest some now and see what I’ve got!!
Nice! I'll try it next year (or maybe this year with spring garlic) although I don't use my garden beds to grow garlic. I plant it around the trees, even pine trees. Just mark a little circle around each tree I can find on my property. It's quite fun! :)
Beginner gardener here and growing garlic seemed daunting but the green garlic has given me the confidence to try, so thank you. Going to use the green garlic for spanakopita, should be an interesting flavour profile.
Brilliant idea of doubling up on spacing to harvest both green Garlic and bulb Garlic! Definitely going to give that a go for next season. 🙏🏼🤗 Lol the Sheep🤣🐑
I just found your channel recently and am looking forward to diving in. I have been slowly building my garden over the last 8 years and have some good soil and a decent garden plan. I really appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your thoughts, ideas and techniques. (and friends. Shout out to Sam)
Long time subscriber, first time commenter! Love this video, and the collab with Sam! Would love to see more recipe suggestions for what’s in season! You rock bud, keep it up!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Sam and myself are really keen to showcase the relationship between the garden and kitchen. You can see lots of seasonal recipes on our blog farmerandchef.co.uk/blog :)
Thank you, a very timely video. I work with growers at the Husbandry School and we harvested green garlic today for veg bags in the hungry gap. I've never tried it before, had mine pan fried in butter with wilted spinach. Delicious! I may be harvesting my own garlic early this year! 😊
I've only recently started gardening (finally have a place of my own with the space to do so), and your videos have been a great resource. But as a vegetarian with a vegan partner, I was thrilled to stumble across your blog today! I can't wait to try those recipes. Such clever uses of whatever's in the garden! Thanks so much for putting these resources together
Hi Huw! I'm sure this has been asked before, but do you and Sam have any plans to start a cooking channel featuring the food you grow (ie what you have on the blog but video form)? I'd subscribe in an instant.
Potato leek soup is a weekly staple in my house and I love subbing/cutting the leeks with whatever alliums I have growing. Last week's was green garlic and a few spring onions.
Nice one - for me one of the joys of growing your own is that you can have things you can't buy in the shops - yesterday I had onion scapes (with a romesco sauce - bostin') , chive flowers, and pea shoots; today it'll be green garlic . I'll be doing the close planting/intermittent harvesting too next season. Thanks Huw
Thank you, Huw. We have very different growing seasons, but I very much appreciate the channel and information. Plenty of knowledge no matter where you are located. ✌️
I grew garlic in a regimented way...but then let it go wild years ago. I use it 'scallion' size in just about everything savoury. It is sweet and beneficial. A good old leek pudding is scrumdiddlyumptious made with 'garlic greens'👍 That sheep !!🙈🤣🤣
I did experimented with cooking green garlic, and this one recipe turn out yummy for me:- I chopped them fine fry them for sometime, after that I add the sardines in brine, salt and lots of chilli powder, cook it for a min or so and it's ready! Do try it out
I‘ve been harvesting my garlic prematurely and using it to cook all kinds of things. It‘s really delicious, have you tried it in white wine risotto😋 Also, slicing and freezing it just like leeks is another way to preserve it fresh.
Thanks Huw and Sam what a wonderful video 🤗🤗🤗☘️ I think I may plant extra garlic this year and use half as green garlic - it’s the easiest thing to grow with no pests unlike the crop of tiny leeks I have just lost outside 😟 give that sheep a hug from me your reactions were hilarious - good call for leaving it in 🙏🏻😊
Your garlic is very good health and you can harvest in may , my garlic is smaller and not good health like yours, thanks so much for sharing gardening tip
Ive been doing this for over a decade. I just plant the cloves more thickly and thin-out the plants by pulling-up the smaller ones and using them for Spring Garlic.
I'm going to try green garlic mash this week. I can't eat dairy products so my husband uses olive oil in mash. Also if you are growing in a garden and you have roses, plant some under your roses. It keeps pests at bay. Just don't forget to harvest it. My mum did and within a few years her roses smelt of garlic.
I haven't laughed so hard in ages, thank you so much, not just for the quality of information and ideas but for pure entertainment value as well. Huw, you are such an inspiration. Thank you.
Thx Huw you’ve answered a question for me! I’ll remove the volunteer garlic from the bed where tomatoes will be planted and construct a poly tunnel over top. Potato spring garlic soup tonight!
We pickled a lot of last season's garlic rather than cure it. Turned out quite handy as we can grab a jar out of the fridge, pick out what we need, and keep going. As a bonus, the apple cider vinegar we used makes an excellent garlic-infused vinegar for multiple uses. Harvested a bit of green garlic yesterday and used it like a spring onion or leek with a dish. Very instructive video, as usual. Nice to have Sam on; farm to table sort of stuff indeed.
As a novice gardener I grew garlic for the first time last year. I used supermarket garlic. Around this time last year I decided it hadn't worked as what I had looked like baby leeks. I pulled them up and started using them in stir frys and stews etc and they were delicious. I was about halfway through them before I discovered that that's the way garlic grows. I left the rest and they grew fine if a little small.
Oh my goodness. So happy you did this video. I love growing leeks and garlic but I didn't know about green garlic. Thanks so much, fr Newfoundland Canada
Or if you always plant too much garlic, this looks like a great way to trim it down. That garlic butter looks delicious. I think I'll try it. I always plant too much hard neck garlic and it ends up going bad before we use it up which is always sad.
