i dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a way to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly lost my password. I would love any tricks you can offer me!
@Noe Chase thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
There is something about you that is endearing and pleasant to watch and listen to. Your logics, your facial expressions and tone of voice. Keep up the good work.
The hole poker is called a dibber. When we were at 1500 for garlic, did a lot of things kinda like you are doing, but, it gets to be a LOT more work when you go past planting 5000, and you will figure out ways to streamline the work. Two years ago, we planted on Saturday, intending to mulch it all on Sunday, but when we got up Sunday morning, it was snowing, so we didn't get to mulching. The next summer, we saw no difference in bulb size, yield, or even weeds compared to years we mulched. So now we skip that part of the process completely. Another huge labor saver for us. If my memory is correct, one of your other videos had a little JD lawn tractor for mowing. Look up the bercomac tiller that fits those little things. It wasn't expensive, 30 inch tiller, and it'll do wonders for saving labor working your ground. We have used ours for 5 years now, it's one of the best investments we ever made for tending our plots. Most of our plots are 50' x 75', and two passes thru with the berco tiller turns the dirt well. After that, drop the tiller off the tractor, then drive up the soft dirt, there's 24 inches between the wheels, tire tracks make perfect 'paths' up your garlic patch. You end up with packed paths, and soft rows between them. After running up and down with the tractor to make the rows, grab the dibber and walk down the tire track paths punching holes. You can actually do 4 rows in the 24 inch wide stripe and have a 12 inch packed path between them. Anything narrower than that gets problematic over time. Want to see an easy way to get a dramatic increase in bulb size? With two people planting, one walks up the path dropping fishmeal into each hole, the second behind dropping in bulbs. Again, this can be streamlined, find a little line spreader and just walk up the row dropping the fishmeal over the row, dont worry to much about trying to get it directly into the holes. We started with garlic similar to how you did, with about a hundred bulbs in 2013. We do on the order of 5000 today. When we first started and had not streamlined much, planting 1500 was a weekend project. This year, planting 5000 was a day project, and that included tilling the beds to start the day. As you pointed out, the most tedious part is separating the cloves, some varieties (music in particular) separate quite easily, others are much more difficult. We usually put a movie on then sit in the living room separating cloves while watching a movie. Oh, and on your varieties list, the 'elephant' is not actually a garlic, it's a leek.
Gerry Rozema That’s good advice! It hurts me when people think elephant is actually a type of garlic. Then they show a comparison of how much bigger the elephant is to regular garlic, which is like comparing a grapefruit to a tangerine!
Wow Gerry, great automation/efficiency tips on planting garlic. It's amazing how often just getting out and doing something over and over helps you stumble upon new efficiencies -- sometimes even when you think you goofed up, as with your year-without-mulch experience. Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting! You are well on the way towards becoming a commercial garlic operation. I have been growing garlic for many years for my wife and I. I humbly recommend you sign up to The Garlic News, a quarterly publication connecting the Canadian garlic network. It would help you to be ready for things like the Leak Moth, nematodes and fungus. It would give you an idea of where to market your crop and the sort of condition garlic should be in to sell for a good price! Take care Klaus
Barney Rubble I was perfectly serious! Unfortunately the publisher of The Garlic News, Paul Pospisil recently succumbed to cancer and the publication is no more! There still is a thriving garlic community out there, usually small farms and dedicated home growers but not really connected any more! Hopefully someone will step up to the plate! Klaus
Check out Charles Dowding's videos - he did a crop rotation video and found that in fact it's a bit of a myth. He's very successfully grown potatoes, for example, in the same place for five years in a row..! The crop varied from year to year a bit but he just tops up his compost every year. Worth a look. Very good video - well done.
Yea I'd imagine if you're topping up the compost, then you're replenishing the soil... I mean in a forest the fallen leaves from the fall provide compost, right? But then that's just for nutrients, not for diseases... Also I'd imagine different types of crops have different problems. Like I know the 3 sisters method came to exist because of how badly corn would destroy soil, whereas potatoes have been farmed pretty exclusively in lots of areas for hundreds or even thousands of years.
And, there's this famous grower in France who has grown garlic commercially for 30 years on the same piece of land. I like the homemade-hole-poker-thing name ;-)
Thank you Hilary! I wish we could too... Unfortunately, while I've really been enjoying the animations, they do take a lot of extra time to produce. Hopefully I'll gain speed with practice :)
The off set will help I plant my beds like that the extra space just that inch will give you a better crop. I would love to see how you make garlic salt. All the best Dave
Not sure how I ended up on your channel, but started binge-watching your videos. Wow! You are good! Information is presented in a clear and concise manner. Graphics illustrate the reasoning behind actions being taken. Thoroughly entertaining as well as informative -- Thank you! Became a new subscriber to your channel today (3/28/2019) -- Kate in Olympia, WA. (Oh, and the poking device is called a "dibber").
We've planted some this year, about Nov..on a small scale, and looking forward to next summer. I LOVE garlic..Id put it in my cherios if my wife would let me..lol
When you plant garlic at 6" centres in each direction, you are basically allotting each garlic a 6" x 6" square in which they 'sit' in the centre. To maximise a 2' wide bed. you can put FOUR rows at 6" centres, starting 3" in from one side and finishing 3" in from the opposite side (3" +6"+6"+6"+3" = 24") i.e. 4 rows of garlic with 3 x 6" 'lanes' between them. Each garlic still has its own 6" x 6" square and you are maximising the bed.
You could, but can you even consume 2,000 cloves of garlic? That is a lifetime supply for most. 5.5 years if you consumed a clove a day. 38 years if you consumed one a week.
@Robert He already is growing 1500 in that bed system and mentioned wanting to grow 2000. I guess if he wants to grow 2000, he has thought it out already. He sounds like a sensible practical guy to me . . . .
thanks for all the info I think we’re going to give this try this year... we have used the ruth method but I like the flipped sod for our old hay fields.
For sure they do! Looking now... there are some others already selling varieties of garlic! Let us know if you go down that path! It’s a garden version of Patreon! 😂
Very nice, I really like your educational format. The drawings are spot on as well. Can't wait to see more growing season in the spring. I love seeing your wife's enthusiasm too. Really like your channel.
First video I've ever watched must say always dream to live off the land in Spain and these videos give to every bit of knowledge I need to grow garlic on my own keep doing what ur doing.
Bro, these videos are amazing. So relaxed and educational with just the right amount of production value with the garden map. Only content creator I want to thumb up every video for.
Just found you on RUclips, and I have to say, I'm loving it. We've just got into a great house in the country. I have a few chickens and a beehive and a couple sheep. Life is good. Come spring, I plan on gardening, and having great, informative videos like yours makes it seem so doable. Thanks for your vids.
Great recap! I have no words of wisdom but I am curious... I assume you want to be selling the garlic, am I right? Or maybe you have a lot of vampires to ward off 😂 I have a friend who ended up in the seed garlic business, they do really really well with it.
Spacing every 6 inches,a 50 foot bed would have 101 plants. One at the starting point, then one every six inches. So at teh one foot mark, you would have the starting plant, the one at six inches, and the one at one foot, for a total of three... and so on. (Man, I'm such a nerd. :) )
HI, This was great. I helped a friend plant garlic here in New Zealand using raised compost and bark chip covering. I think I will give it a go this year. I will watch all your videos first. Interesting regarding your row layout, we made that same mistake and it is a real pain having to walk all the way down the rows to get stuff. Keep up the good work. Cheers Simon
Love watching your videos. Unfortunately you live in a different climate so the tips on what to plant when doesn't apply. But I wished there was a Spanish you on RUclips.
It's funny, because being in Canada, it seems that most (but not all) growers on RUclips are located far south of us. So we often find ourselves thinking the same thing. Thanks for watching though, either way!
GREAT VID...WOULD THIS WORK? 1st time gardener 1. mowing a small patch in garden 2. placing cardboard 3 ADDING LEAVES 4. adding top soil 5. Using SOD from my front garden on top 6. Flipping it on top on the leaves and twigs 7 adding more top soil 8. then manure? Thank a million
I have been growing garlic for a number of years and found that when selecting heads of garlic select and plant only the larger outer cloves. These will yield much larger heads at harvest time and the smaller inner cloves can always be used in the kitchen. So remember when planting garlic that the smaller cloves will yield a smaller head of garlic. Perhaps you mentioned it and perhaps not. If you are going to grow might as well get the best bang for your buck. The only time I use smaller cloves is when I have a variety that I want to try but only have smaller heads to begin with.
Hello, new to the channel! LOVE THE CONTENT!! Very attention grabbing, knowledgeable, and holds my attention. Thank you so much for the visual/vocal info! I did have one question: What program do you use to show your garden beds?? I'm in need of a program where I can visually see my garden before planting as I am getting to the point where I have changed my garden so much I am forgetting where I planted my crop and how well/bad it did. Thanks in advance and thanks again for the awesome content!!
Your hole punching thingy is a dibber rake. A correction for your garlic crop rotation issue is to companion plant using an over planted technique. Nature has a really good habit of dealing with plant crowding by evolving around it. If you plant a crop which grows up instead of down then it will be able to utilize canopy space but your garlic is not occupying. Might I suggest planting Some sort of climbing bean in amongst your garlic? This will increase fertility of the soil, allow you to grow vertically, and produce a valuable crop in conjunction with your garlic. You could also try planting a squash to shade the soil. Every 10 feet you could plant a pumpkin or watermelon or Hubbard squash etc. and allow the vines to run the length of the bed providing shade to protect the soil. Layered planting works exceptionally well. For example, this year I will be planting 11 carrots, radishes, two bean plants, one corn plant, one squash plant, and a marigold all within one square foot. I’m doing this over 64 ft.² and will have crazy amounts of yield this year. It might sound crazy but each plant helps every other plant in the planting scheme and no one plant is crowding out any other.
You won't be impresses with the elephant variety. Its very bland in comparison and not even garlic. Its a leek! Also,save yourself the time, effort, and money. Dont mulch over it! It wont effect the outcome. Try 1 row this fall if you are hesitant,and do your comparison next season. It will yield the same size and quality! Do you only plant the hard neck varieties so far? I do the soft neck. Its an Italian variety that comes from the Campania region in Italy. My family brought it back here to try in 1973 after they went back for a visit. We are still using the same variety. We don't do for market, just hobby. And we are in Eastern Onario btw. Cheers
I have several years experience growing garlic, I have read two studies from universities in Toronto, and Auckland both ten year studies. I have always planted 46 plants in one m2. 10cm apart in a row and about 18cm between rows. According to the studies 10cm x 10cm is optimal. I always had good results and depending on type averaging 5kg per m2. You need to let your scapes mature and harvest. Replant these and after a year or two will start producing cloves. Garlic gets tired after seven years of division, and not only will you have fresh planting stock but also disease free.
I love your videos but I have a silly question. Why are rows important? Could you perhaps get more efficiency out of rosettes of hexagons instead? Something like this: favpng.com/png_view/hexaflake-fractal-iteration-wiring-diagram-hexaflake-png/t0avjd8B - ?
Good video , thanks. In Ireland and Scotland these raised beds are called lazy beds. You might want to look at what Bruce Darrel ( a fellow Canadian ) is doing in the RED Gardens project in Ireland. He has had a lot of success with lazy beds particularly on rough ground.
companion planting garlic with strawberry tends to work amazing and also keeps soms pests away for both. Just planted strawberries with Elephant garlic here in the same bad, with some columnar fruit trees mixed in. Three layers: Covercrop (strawberry), middleheight crop (elephant garlic) and a bigger crop (columnar fruit trees). I've chosen the elephant variant because it's easier to find them inbetween the strawberry plants and they reach a little heigher... :)
You asked for Comments regarding the planting distances so as to increase yield: Your current planting gives an actual root spacing of 3" between rows except along the sides where you stayed with 6". You could plant your side rows 3" from the Garden edge, continue with your 6' spacing and squeeze in another row [or even more] without compromising quality.
With a 2-ft bed width and a 6-inch spacing you should be able to do 4 rows. The first and last row only need 1/2 the spacing (3-inches) from edge. Basically, the 6-inch spacing includes 3-inches for the plant you plating and 3-inches for the one adjacent to it, since there is no adjacent pant on the end you should only need to be 3-inches from the edge. Or an I wrong?
Thank you for such informative and engaging videos! First time garlic grower here with a long shot question I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. What if, instead of covering with hay/leaf/other mulch, you were to broadcast a cover crop seed over top of the garlic? The aim being to fix nitrogen, provide mulch (when the crop is killed by the snow) and save the labour all in one go? Perhaps the answer is obvious (e.g. the cover crop smothers the garlic), but I'd be interested to hear from you on it! Cheers.
Plant garlic by grasping the clove by the point, using your thumb and first two fingers. Press it down into the soil up to your second knuckle, or however deep you want to plant it. Done. If the soil is dry, it will cover itself up. Otherwise, just wait for the first rain. Keep an eye on them for a week or so, because birds like to pull them out and toss them this way and that. If you stagger the rows by moving one row a little to the right, and the next a little to the left, you can get more rows in a 50 foot swath while maintaining the 6 inch distance. Triangulation. 4 inches will probably be far enough apart, but suit yourself. More severe winters mean planting deeper, but garlic is pretty hardy. Planting too deep can make the cloves smaller. Experiment. Find that happy medium. Fertilize. Garlic is a heavy feeder. You can use conventional fertilizer or composted shit (Make sure all forms of shit have been well composted!!!!), or bone meal, but use something. Leaf mould is a good soil conditioner, too, if you have any. You will get better plants. When you harvest, make loops of baler twine or something similar that are about 10 or 12 inches long. Pick up enough garlic so that you can just get your thumb and middle finger around the stalks and hold them like you were making a nice bouquet of garlic to give to your wife. Romanitic. Now wrap the twine loop around the stems as close as possible to the cloves, passing the knot through the other end of the loop. Pull it tight and hang the knotted end over a nail in your garage or barn or wherever you dry the stuff. If this seems difficult or time consuming, you are doing it wrong. Don't throw the loops away when you are done with them. Use them next year again. Don't weave the stalks together to make a decorative braid. Your garlic will dry out faster or sprout on you, because you will keep in in the light where everybody will admire it. Better to keep it in a cool, dry, dark place. Hang a picture of garlic on the wall. Before the first frost, clip the dry stems from the cloves and cook something with garlic in it to celebrate. Don't forget the wine. You should not follow any of my advise if you don't want to, because it is your garden, and you should do it however you damn well please. I like to do everything with the least effort and the fewest tools myself. I'm a cheapskate, too. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, you should buy of steal a variety of garlic from a variety of sources. Some will do better than others in your situation. Some will taste better, too. Also, save the best garlic to plant. Eat the flawed ones and little ones. You want to be growing next years crop with the best genetics. Unlike you, your garlic will get better with age. You will develop aches and pains, your hair will get gray and fall out, your back will become stooped......you get the picture. Now, feed someone who needs a good meal. Live a good life. Think about that carbon footprint. You do the dishes tonight.
1500 x 8 cloves per head... thats 12,000 bulbs of garlic.. minus what you take to plant the next year... what on earth are you doing with all that garlic in a family of 2? I dont ask from a critical point.. but literally.. how can you consume that much year over year
I like your videos. I want to grow garlic and this is good instruction to follow. And I will, prepping beds thanks, Its solid knowledge. I thank you for this. How do you consume 2500 head of garlic? I eat a head about a week 2 of us, do you sale it or eat it. Seems like a lot of garlic, and I love garlic as a seasoning. Appreciate your videos, gets a person to daydreaming about gardening.
If the compost you bought were made from kitchen wastes of veggies n fruits that were grown inorganically and if u use them to grow your own veggies,can you claim them to be organic?This a question that has been spinning in my head since I started composting my stuffs.Can u pls help me out? All ur videos are explained in the way they have to be....keep going!!!!
Solution. Get 3-5 goats. Have 3 pens/livunh areas. Rotate them yearly/every two years. I'm looking at a 3-5 year plan to have my own small farm. God bless!
By the way, the red clover that's found in the Pacific Northwest? Those roots are edible in the mid to late spring, and have been a delicacy & a major feast food of of the First Nations & Indigenous Americans in the region, often slow-roasted to bring out the best flavors (after thorough washing, of course).
Simply love your videos, they are so rewarding. But I have one question, can you use any /all of your Types" of soil prep in 3ft. Raised Beds? The bottoms of each bed would contain the grass the box would sit on. As a senior citizen getting down is not so easy anymore.
total newby gardener here...... i panted some garlic cloves in november myself in yorkshire england, in a raised bed. i covered them with hay as you did.....they have sprouted about 10" will this be of for when the frost hits? any advice more then welcome thanks for your video #wyc
You are trying to do farming in a natural way as much as possible. Why don't you abandon the rows and square shapes for planting beds. Rectangular is the one shape you almost never find in nature (at least I cannot think of an example). Make the beds triangular with points facing inwards and you will be surprised how many problems you will solve, like the problem with crop rotation and access to the hey stack. The math with triangular is not harder - just divide the square calculations by two...
I have a suggestion for crop rotation... 7 beds & 7 yr rotation. However, every year you incorporate a 1 bed no-grow rotation. Let 1 bed "rest" for one year without planting anything in it and let it go wild for that year. This way, each bed you grow things in them for 6 years and a no-grow 7nth year. I surmise this might be the most healthiest and productive method. (just wish I could test that...)
Good evening, 1st off awesome video as I have always wanted to grow garlic. I like you and me am in a northern climate so we do have to worry about the cold as well as are planting and growing season windows. I was wondering what are you using to create the animations in your videos? They are great and definitely helped to convey your videos direction and being able to get through to people in a better visual way than just words. Could you please let me know what you use, I would love to give it a try myself. Thank you in advance and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Here's a thought; instead of making paths that cut across your rows and therefore take up valuable growing space, why don't you just make a portable 'bridge' from scrap wood that two people can just pick up and move.
Your hole-poker-thingy can be called a 'dibber' - I looked it up! Are you growing this much garlic because you plan to sell it in the future? Mail orders?
@@BackToReality hm maby we dare to make an experiment here next year then. But this year its planed in a raised protected bed. The deers here are terminators! 🤣
You should of moved the 2 outer rows of garlic in each bed to 4" from each edge..., this in effect gives each plant an 8" square of soil for their root system.., that is 4" each direction to the start of the next garlic's root system.., a 25% increase for each plant. as you have it there is only 3" to the next garlics root system.
Check this video out! ruclips.net/video/b9Bf4F25Hbw/видео.html. They talk about a healthy approach to growing crops, where you don't need to rotate crops.
I just found your channel recently and I love it. Now I am probably missing a video somewhere but what happened to doing the ruth stout method? Would doing that over and over provided you with the proper nutrients for the plants? Why the change?
Get an old tire and put the hole plugger/coverer pairs at proper distances and just roll the damn thing down the rows. Take a big pole and slide it through like 15 of these at the right intervals. Get all Conan and conscript all loincloth-wearing farm hands handy (ugh lol) to push it down the length of the beds. Done in one. Put yourself some spiral seed/bulb/start feed tubes along the spokes so that it can drop stuff as it rolls along, maybe a flip gate triggered inbetween the hole punch and plugging. The good part about the thatchy bits is that your beds now have structure and won't really wash away so easy lol
If you decentralize some of the garlic and mix it into the hugel polyculture, you can have your kitchen garlic and your crop garlic. Then do your crop rotations ant mix cover crops with your garlic in the same season.
HI there, I grew "legacy" in the UK last year and found it to be an excellent cropper with a success rate in excess of 95%, it also has a great flavour.
how about mixed cultures instead of croprotation? its a concept that states that each crop has specific "friends" which they go along well and are profiting from each other. in case of garlic its carrots or/and strawberries, latice and cuncumber. sorry my bad english the concept is called "mischkultur" in german and i think you could give it a shot with google if interested.
One of the best suggestions I have for solving the mono-crop issues is companion planting. We inter-mix species that are prone to pets, with ones that are not. We also mix in things like marigolds throughout our beds to keep away pests as well. One of the things to remember is that nature has a natural system of checks and balances. for every pest... there is a predator. So the challenge is to identify your pest... and know what predator likes it the most.
If you let you garlic blossom you get about 30 small garlic sets. Set these close the first year then set them out the next. Then you can use all garlic you harvest. First year sets can grow on scrap land you would normally plant in.
Do the ridges/beds and the water ways need to be of equal width or can we go for depth instead of width. I want. Higher ridge/bed area. Any link for designing such a raised be farm?
check into lentils for a crop. frost tolerant, legume, harvestable, cheap seeds available at any grocery store. I am far south from you , but i would like to know your results.
I am fairly new to the channel. I have seen a few other of the videos as well. But what are you going to do with that much garlic. That would be more than enough to last me a life time. Though since i don't use much garlic when cooking a entire bulb tends to last me several months (assuming I can keep it usable that long). Selling it at a local farmer's market or even a few local stores, it still seems like you would have way too much garlic sitting around.
Do you fertilize or just use compost? Does garlic need any supplemental nutrients? I planted garlic in a sunny spot this year as opposed to a shady spot. Hopefully the results will be better.
Like most people I really like your way on your channel it makes it easy to relate to you!! But the garlic you started with are really good!! I heard music is very good garlic strain so cool you got that as one you started with how do you like those strains? Well get back to your thing sorry to ramble but really enjoy your vids!!
Couldn't u add fertilizers and micronutrients to the soil to replenish the soil and stretch the soil for less crop rotation? Also I imagine it would produce higher yields.
use masterblend tomato fert and add calcium and epsom salts use as a weekly feed 1oz per ft then no crop rotation needed as micro nutrients are being made available to both plants and the grow bed. ive used it for several years and have huge healthy crops with few pests.
I like people who are not begging for subscription or thumbs up. I also like your genuine simple explanations including your mistakes. Thank you.
I don't mind background music as long as it is used w/discretion and not willy-nilly.
They aren't mistakes .... they are learning experiences!
Well done. It's like watching a PBS show in the 80s or 90s. Informational, entertaining, and well produced.
i dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a way to log back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly lost my password. I would love any tricks you can offer me!
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@Noe Chase thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm trying it out atm.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Noe Chase It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thanks so much, you saved my ass!
@Nelson Enzo Glad I could help =)
I don't even have a garden. Or a house. But your videos are just so well made and interesting !! Subscribed
No Vampires at your house...
I was just going to comment what you did.
There is something about you that is endearing and pleasant to watch and listen to. Your logics, your facial expressions and tone of voice. Keep up the good work.
The hole poker is called a dibber. When we were at 1500 for garlic, did a lot of things kinda like you are doing, but, it gets to be a LOT more work when you go past planting 5000, and you will figure out ways to streamline the work. Two years ago, we planted on Saturday, intending to mulch it all on Sunday, but when we got up Sunday morning, it was snowing, so we didn't get to mulching. The next summer, we saw no difference in bulb size, yield, or even weeds compared to years we mulched. So now we skip that part of the process completely.
Another huge labor saver for us. If my memory is correct, one of your other videos had a little JD lawn tractor for mowing. Look up the bercomac tiller that fits those little things. It wasn't expensive, 30 inch tiller, and it'll do wonders for saving labor working your ground. We have used ours for 5 years now, it's one of the best investments we ever made for tending our plots. Most of our plots are 50' x 75', and two passes thru with the berco tiller turns the dirt well. After that, drop the tiller off the tractor, then drive up the soft dirt, there's 24 inches between the wheels, tire tracks make perfect 'paths' up your garlic patch. You end up with packed paths, and soft rows between them. After running up and down with the tractor to make the rows, grab the dibber and walk down the tire track paths punching holes. You can actually do 4 rows in the 24 inch wide stripe and have a 12 inch packed path between them. Anything narrower than that gets problematic over time.
Want to see an easy way to get a dramatic increase in bulb size? With two people planting, one walks up the path dropping fishmeal into each hole, the second behind dropping in bulbs. Again, this can be streamlined, find a little line spreader and just walk up the row dropping the fishmeal over the row, dont worry to much about trying to get it directly into the holes.
We started with garlic similar to how you did, with about a hundred bulbs in 2013. We do on the order of 5000 today. When we first started and had not streamlined much, planting 1500 was a weekend project. This year, planting 5000 was a day project, and that included tilling the beds to start the day. As you pointed out, the most tedious part is separating the cloves, some varieties (music in particular) separate quite easily, others are much more difficult. We usually put a movie on then sit in the living room separating cloves while watching a movie.
Oh, and on your varieties list, the 'elephant' is not actually a garlic, it's a leek.
Gerry Rozema
That’s good advice! It hurts me when people think elephant is actually a type of garlic. Then they show a comparison of how much bigger the elephant is to regular garlic, which is like comparing a grapefruit to a tangerine!
I've also heard garden fork
Wow Gerry, great automation/efficiency tips on planting garlic. It's amazing how often just getting out and doing something over and over helps you stumble upon new efficiencies -- sometimes even when you think you goofed up, as with your year-without-mulch experience. Thanks for sharing!
I thought their whole point was not to till or disturb the system
Some areas I can't rotate. Or I choose not to. Same plantings, 15 years, zero problems. Lots of compost added maybe that helps.
#Netflixandpeelgarlic
Love this!
Clear concise content. Excellent job mate. 🇦🇺
Thanks D B!
Agreed
Very interesting! You are well on the way towards becoming a commercial garlic operation. I have been growing garlic for many years for my wife and I. I humbly recommend you sign up to The Garlic News, a quarterly publication connecting the Canadian garlic network. It would help you to be ready for things like the Leak Moth, nematodes and fungus. It would give you an idea of where to market your crop and the sort of condition garlic should be in to sell for a good price!
Take care
Klaus
I can't tell if your joking or if there really is a Canadian Garlic Network and thriving garlic enthusiast community
Barney Rubble I was perfectly serious! Unfortunately the publisher of The Garlic News, Paul Pospisil recently succumbed to cancer and the publication is no more! There still is a thriving garlic community out there, usually small farms and dedicated home growers but not really connected any more! Hopefully someone will step up to the plate!
Klaus
Check out Charles Dowding's videos - he did a crop rotation video and found that in fact it's a bit of a myth. He's very successfully grown potatoes, for example, in the same place for five years in a row..! The crop varied from year to year a bit but he just tops up his compost every year. Worth a look. Very good video - well done.
Awesome, I'll check that out. Thanks!
Yea I'd imagine if you're topping up the compost, then you're replenishing the soil... I mean in a forest the fallen leaves from the fall provide compost, right?
But then that's just for nutrients, not for diseases... Also I'd imagine different types of crops have different problems. Like I know the 3 sisters method came to exist because of how badly corn would destroy soil, whereas potatoes have been farmed pretty exclusively in lots of areas for hundreds or even thousands of years.
I've watched almost all of Charles Dowding's videos. He really knows his stuff. I've started a No-Dig plot for next year.
Back to Eden gardening also doesn't bother with crop rotation. Same principle as mentioned above.
And, there's this famous grower in France who has grown garlic commercially for 30 years on the same piece of land. I like the homemade-hole-poker-thing name ;-)
just wanna say, i find your vids interesting and straight forward....if only more youtubers woulk follow that lead...
I love watching your videos. I wish you could post more frequently.
Thank you Hilary!
I wish we could too... Unfortunately, while I've really been enjoying the animations, they do take a lot of extra time to produce. Hopefully I'll gain speed with practice :)
The off set will help I plant my beds like that the extra space just that inch will give you a better crop. I would love to see how you make garlic salt.
All the best Dave
Love the way you guys think and your great team work!! Thanks for sharing your efforts!!
Thanks One Bar Ranch!
Not sure how I ended up on your channel, but started binge-watching your videos. Wow! You are good! Information is presented in a clear and concise manner. Graphics illustrate the reasoning behind actions being taken. Thoroughly entertaining as well as informative -- Thank you! Became a new subscriber to your channel today (3/28/2019) -- Kate in Olympia, WA. (Oh, and the poking device is called a "dibber").
Here i. Italy i've tried your method for garlic without soil! Pray for my garlic!
We've planted some this year, about Nov..on a small scale, and looking forward to next summer. I LOVE garlic..Id put it in my cherios if my wife would let me..lol
We are of one mind. Garlic cheerios... I'm in!
:)
When you plant garlic at 6" centres in each direction, you are basically allotting each garlic a 6" x 6" square in which they 'sit' in the centre. To maximise a 2' wide bed. you can put FOUR rows at 6" centres, starting 3" in from one side and finishing 3" in from the opposite side (3" +6"+6"+6"+3" = 24") i.e. 4 rows of garlic with 3 x 6" 'lanes' between them. Each garlic still has its own 6" x 6" square and you are maximising the bed.
So we could have squeezed in 2000 plants after all! Oh well, next year :)
Yep, intensive gardening works great. Great for lettuce too. Nice harvest anyhow and thanks for sharing!
You could, but can you even consume 2,000 cloves of garlic? That is a lifetime supply for most.
5.5 years if you consumed a clove a day. 38 years if you consumed one a week.
@@RVBob lol, welcome to our house! I easily cook between 3-8 cloves a night.
@Robert He already is growing 1500 in that bed system and mentioned wanting to grow 2000. I guess if he wants to grow 2000, he has thought it out already. He sounds like a sensible practical guy to me . . . .
thanks for all the info I think we’re going to give this try this year... we have used the ruth method but I like the flipped sod for our old hay fields.
YAY!! Love it when your new videos pop up in my feed! I think you should sell your garlic on Etsy! Lol I’d buy some to help support you guys! 👍🍽
LOL, I wonder if etsy allows the selling edible products...
Either way, I very much appreciate the support! :)
For sure they do! Looking now... there are some others already selling varieties of garlic! Let us know if you go down that path! It’s a garden version of Patreon! 😂
Oh for sure! But im Aussie, my order would without doubt, only be good for dried cooking by the time our Customs let it through. 😭😧
I planted my first garlic this year. Can't wait to see what happens.
How'd it go?
Congrats! I started 2yrs ago and love it!
If you guys put a book together, i will totally buy it.
Very nice, I really like your educational format. The drawings are spot on as well. Can't wait to see more growing season in the spring. I love seeing your wife's enthusiasm too. Really like your channel.
First video I've ever watched must say always dream to live off the land in Spain and these videos give to every bit of knowledge I need to grow garlic on my own keep doing what ur doing.
Bro, these videos are amazing. So relaxed and educational with just the right amount of production value with the garden map. Only content creator I want to thumb up every video for.
Just found you on RUclips, and I have to say, I'm loving it. We've just got into a great house in the country. I have a few chickens and a beehive and a couple sheep. Life is good. Come spring, I plan on gardening, and having great, informative videos like yours makes it seem so doable. Thanks for your vids.
Great recap! I have no words of wisdom but I am curious... I assume you want to be selling the garlic, am I right? Or maybe you have a lot of vampires to ward off 😂 I have a friend who ended up in the seed garlic business, they do really really well with it.
Eating tons of garlic will keep the Jehovah witness away as they can't stand the smell while knocking in the door 😂
Spacing every 6 inches,a 50 foot bed would have 101 plants. One at the starting point, then one every six inches. So at teh one foot mark, you would have the starting plant, the one at six inches, and the one at one foot, for a total of three... and so on.
(Man, I'm such a nerd. :) )
I love how you are matter of fact by getting to the point and no extra words that aren't needed. Will be back to your channel!
What program do you do the animation in? That's very beautiful!
HI, This was great. I helped a friend plant garlic here in New Zealand using raised compost and bark chip covering. I think I will give it a go this year. I will watch all your videos first. Interesting regarding your row layout, we made that same mistake and it is a real pain having to walk all the way down the rows to get stuff. Keep up the good work. Cheers Simon
Love watching your videos. Unfortunately you live in a different climate so the tips on what to plant when doesn't apply. But I wished there was a Spanish you on RUclips.
It's funny, because being in Canada, it seems that most (but not all) growers on RUclips are located far south of us. So we often find ourselves thinking the same thing. Thanks for watching though, either way!
GREAT VID...WOULD THIS WORK? 1st time gardener
1. mowing a small patch in garden
2. placing cardboard
3 ADDING LEAVES
4. adding top soil
5. Using SOD from my front garden on top
6. Flipping it on top on the leaves and twigs
7 adding more top soil
8. then manure?
Thank a million
I have been growing garlic for a number of years and found that when selecting heads of garlic select and plant only the larger outer cloves. These will yield much larger heads at harvest time and the smaller inner cloves can always be used in the kitchen. So remember when planting garlic that the smaller cloves will yield a smaller head of garlic. Perhaps you mentioned it and perhaps not.
If you are going to grow might as well get the best bang for your buck. The only time I use smaller cloves is when I have a variety that I want to try but only have smaller heads to begin with.
Hello, new to the channel! LOVE THE CONTENT!! Very attention grabbing, knowledgeable, and holds my attention. Thank you so much for the visual/vocal info!
I did have one question: What program do you use to show your garden beds?? I'm in need of a program where I can visually see my garden before planting as I am getting to the point where I have changed my garden so much I am forgetting where I planted my crop and how well/bad it did. Thanks in advance and thanks again for the awesome content!!
Your hole punching thingy is a dibber rake. A correction for your garlic crop rotation issue is to companion plant using an over planted technique. Nature has a really good habit of dealing with plant crowding by evolving around it. If you plant a crop which grows up instead of down then it will be able to utilize canopy space but your garlic is not occupying. Might I suggest planting Some sort of climbing bean in amongst your garlic? This will increase fertility of the soil, allow you to grow vertically, and produce a valuable crop in conjunction with your garlic. You could also try planting a squash to shade the soil. Every 10 feet you could plant a pumpkin or watermelon or Hubbard squash etc. and allow the vines to run the length of the bed providing shade to protect the soil. Layered planting works exceptionally well. For example, this year I will be planting 11 carrots, radishes, two bean plants, one corn plant, one squash plant, and a marigold all within one square foot. I’m doing this over 64 ft.² and will have crazy amounts of yield this year. It might sound crazy but each plant helps every other plant in the planting scheme and no one plant is crowding out any other.
You won't be impresses with the elephant variety. Its very bland in comparison and not even garlic. Its a leek!
Also,save yourself the time, effort, and money. Dont mulch over it! It wont effect the outcome. Try 1 row this fall if you are hesitant,and do your comparison next season. It will yield the same size and quality!
Do you only plant the hard neck varieties so far?
I do the soft neck. Its an Italian variety that comes from the Campania region in Italy. My family brought it back here to try in 1973 after they went back for a visit.
We are still using the same variety.
We don't do for market, just hobby.
And we are in Eastern Onario btw.
Cheers
Don't think I will be trying this...but I certainly enjoyed hearing about your experiment. Happy New Year and all best wishes!
I have several years experience growing garlic, I have read two studies from universities in Toronto, and Auckland both ten year studies. I have always planted 46 plants in one m2. 10cm apart in a row and about 18cm between rows. According to the studies 10cm x 10cm is optimal. I always had good results and depending on type averaging 5kg per m2. You need to let your scapes mature and harvest. Replant these and after a year or two will start producing cloves. Garlic gets tired after seven years of division, and not only will you have fresh planting stock but also disease free.
I love your videos but I have a silly question. Why are rows important? Could you perhaps get more efficiency out of rosettes of hexagons instead? Something like this: favpng.com/png_view/hexaflake-fractal-iteration-wiring-diagram-hexaflake-png/t0avjd8B - ?
Good video , thanks.
In Ireland and Scotland these raised beds are called lazy beds.
You might want to look at what Bruce Darrel ( a fellow Canadian ) is doing in the RED Gardens project in Ireland.
He has had a lot of success with lazy beds particularly on rough ground.
I prepare oil for deep frying chicken by first frying elephant garlic. Cut them like chips. Watch them carefully, they burn quickly. Delicious!
companion planting garlic with strawberry tends to work amazing and also keeps soms pests away for both.
Just planted strawberries with Elephant garlic here in the same bad, with some columnar fruit trees mixed in. Three layers: Covercrop (strawberry), middleheight crop (elephant garlic) and a bigger crop (columnar fruit trees). I've chosen the elephant variant because it's easier to find them inbetween the strawberry plants and they reach a little heigher... :)
You asked for Comments regarding the planting distances so as to increase yield:
Your current planting gives an actual root spacing of 3" between rows except along the sides where you stayed with 6".
You could plant your side rows 3" from the Garden edge, continue with your 6' spacing and squeeze in another row [or even more] without compromising quality.
With a 2-ft bed width and a 6-inch spacing you should be able to do 4 rows. The first and last row only need 1/2 the spacing (3-inches) from edge. Basically, the 6-inch spacing includes 3-inches for the plant you plating and 3-inches for the one adjacent to it, since there is no adjacent pant on the end you should only need to be 3-inches from the edge. Or an I wrong?
Thank you for such informative and engaging videos! First time garlic grower here with a long shot question I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. What if, instead of covering with hay/leaf/other mulch, you were to broadcast a cover crop seed over top of the garlic? The aim being to fix nitrogen, provide mulch (when the crop is killed by the snow) and save the labour all in one go? Perhaps the answer is obvious (e.g. the cover crop smothers the garlic), but I'd be interested to hear from you on it! Cheers.
Plant garlic by grasping the clove by the point, using your thumb and first two fingers. Press it down into the soil up to your second knuckle, or however deep you want to plant it. Done. If the soil is dry, it will cover itself up. Otherwise, just wait for the first rain. Keep an eye on them for a week or so, because birds like to pull them out and toss them this way and that. If you stagger the rows by moving one row a little to the right, and the next a little to the left, you can get more rows in a 50 foot swath while maintaining the 6 inch distance. Triangulation. 4 inches will probably be far enough apart, but suit yourself. More severe winters mean planting deeper, but garlic is pretty hardy. Planting too deep can make the cloves smaller. Experiment. Find that happy medium. Fertilize. Garlic is a heavy feeder. You can use conventional fertilizer or composted shit (Make sure all forms of shit have been well composted!!!!), or bone meal, but use something. Leaf mould is a good soil conditioner, too, if you have any. You will get better plants. When you harvest, make loops of baler twine or something similar that are about 10 or 12 inches long. Pick up enough garlic so that you can just get your thumb and middle finger around the stalks and hold them like you were making a nice bouquet of garlic to give to your wife. Romanitic. Now wrap the twine loop around the stems as close as possible to the cloves, passing the knot through the other end of the loop. Pull it tight and hang the knotted end over a nail in your garage or barn or wherever you dry the stuff. If this seems difficult or time consuming, you are doing it wrong. Don't throw the loops away when you are done with them. Use them next year again. Don't weave the stalks together to make a decorative braid. Your garlic will dry out faster or sprout on you, because you will keep in in the light where everybody will admire it. Better to keep it in a cool, dry, dark place. Hang a picture of garlic on the wall. Before the first frost, clip the dry stems from the cloves and cook something with garlic in it to celebrate. Don't forget the wine. You should not follow any of my advise if you don't want to, because it is your garden, and you should do it however you damn well please. I like to do everything with the least effort and the fewest tools myself. I'm a cheapskate, too. Oh, yes, I almost forgot, you should buy of steal a variety of garlic from a variety of sources. Some will do better than others in your situation. Some will taste better, too. Also, save the best garlic to plant. Eat the flawed ones and little ones. You want to be growing next years crop with the best genetics. Unlike you, your garlic will get better with age. You will develop aches and pains, your hair will get gray and fall out, your back will become stooped......you get the picture. Now, feed someone who needs a good meal. Live a good life. Think about that carbon footprint. You do the dishes tonight.
1500 x 8 cloves per head... thats 12,000 bulbs of garlic.. minus what you take to plant the next year... what on earth are you doing with all that garlic in a family of 2? I dont ask from a critical point.. but literally.. how can you consume that much year over year
I figured they were selling at a Farmer's Market?
I like your videos. I want to grow garlic and this is good instruction to follow. And I will, prepping beds thanks, Its solid knowledge. I thank you for this. How do you consume 2500 head of garlic? I eat a head about a week 2 of us, do you sale it or eat it. Seems like a lot of garlic, and I love garlic as a seasoning. Appreciate your videos, gets a person to daydreaming about gardening.
You remind me of Josh Gates on the TV show EXPEDITION UNKNOWN!! (which is a good thing)
If the compost you bought were made from kitchen wastes of veggies n fruits that were grown inorganically and if u use them to grow your own veggies,can you claim them to be organic?This a question that has been spinning in my head since I started composting my stuffs.Can u pls help me out?
All ur videos are explained in the way they have to be....keep going!!!!
Solution. Get 3-5 goats. Have 3 pens/livunh areas. Rotate them yearly/every two years. I'm looking at a 3-5 year plan to have my own small farm. God bless!
By the way, the red clover that's found in the Pacific Northwest? Those roots are edible in the mid to late spring, and have been a delicacy & a major feast food of of the First Nations & Indigenous Americans in the region, often slow-roasted to bring out the best flavors (after thorough washing, of course).
Simply love your videos, they are so rewarding. But I have one question, can you use any /all of your Types" of soil prep in 3ft. Raised Beds? The bottoms of each bed would contain the grass the box would sit on. As a senior citizen getting down is not so easy anymore.
total newby gardener here...... i panted some garlic cloves in november myself in yorkshire england, in a raised bed. i covered them with hay as you did.....they have sprouted about 10" will this be of for when the frost hits? any advice more then welcome thanks for your video #wyc
check out Richard Perkins, aproach to market gardning and standardizing the bed sizes for maximum efficiency. great experiments
You are trying to do farming in a natural way as much as possible. Why don't you abandon the rows and square shapes for planting beds. Rectangular is the one shape you almost never find in nature (at least I cannot think of an example). Make the beds triangular with points facing inwards and you will be surprised how many problems you will solve, like the problem with crop rotation and access to the hey stack. The math with triangular is not harder - just divide the square calculations by two...
I have a suggestion for crop rotation... 7 beds & 7 yr rotation. However, every year you incorporate a 1 bed no-grow rotation. Let 1 bed "rest" for one year without planting anything in it and let it go wild for that year. This way, each bed you grow things in them for 6 years and a no-grow 7nth year. I surmise this might be the most healthiest and productive method. (just wish I could test that...)
Great video! I'm wondering though.. why so much garlic?? Won't a couple hundred be enough for the year?
Good evening, 1st off awesome video as I have always wanted to grow garlic. I like you and me am in a northern climate so we do have to worry about the cold as well as are planting and growing season windows.
I was wondering what are you using to create the animations in your videos? They are great and definitely helped to convey your videos direction and being able to get through to people in a better visual way than just words. Could you please let me know what you use, I would love to give it a try myself.
Thank you in advance and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Informative, well presented, good info and no BS..Go well, grow well and thanks
Here's a thought; instead of making paths that cut across your rows and therefore take up valuable growing space, why don't you just make a portable 'bridge' from scrap wood that two people can just pick up and move.
Your hole-poker-thingy can be called a 'dibber' - I looked it up!
Are you growing this much garlic because you plan to sell it in the future? Mail orders?
Im so bored with this quarantine stuff yet this is making me survive....its surprisingly interesting..
How did you cut the sod ? Did you make a video of the building the sod flipped build(by actual humans-you & yours)?
Amazing good video. How come you plant outside the fence? Do deer not destroy the garlicbeds? Keep it up! Greetings from Sweden.
Thanks Torpliv!
So far, we haven't had any issues with animals eating our garlic, so we've decided not to waste the valuable fence space.
@@BackToReality hm maby we dare to make an experiment here next year then. But this year its planed in a raised protected bed. The deers here are terminators! 🤣
You should of moved the 2 outer rows of garlic in each bed to 4" from each edge..., this in effect gives each plant an 8" square of soil for their root system.., that is 4" each direction to the start of the next garlic's root system.., a 25% increase for each plant. as you have it there is only 3" to the next garlics root system.
Check this video out! ruclips.net/video/b9Bf4F25Hbw/видео.html. They talk about a healthy approach to growing crops, where you don't need to rotate crops.
As a level 4 (out of 10) gardener, playing for 40+ yrs, agree with all your ideas, and like your attitude. Just try and don't worry.
I just found your channel recently and I love it. Now I am probably missing a video somewhere but what happened to doing the ruth stout method? Would doing that over and over provided you with the proper nutrients for the plants? Why the change?
Get an old tire and put the hole plugger/coverer pairs at proper distances and just roll the damn thing down the rows. Take a big pole and slide it through like 15 of these at the right intervals. Get all Conan and conscript all loincloth-wearing farm hands handy (ugh lol) to push it down the length of the beds. Done in one.
Put yourself some spiral seed/bulb/start feed tubes along the spokes so that it can drop stuff as it rolls along, maybe a flip gate triggered inbetween the hole punch and plugging. The good part about the thatchy bits is that your beds now have structure and won't really wash away so easy lol
If you decentralize some of the garlic and mix it into the hugel polyculture, you can have your kitchen garlic and your crop garlic. Then do your crop rotations ant mix cover crops with your garlic in the same season.
You are amazing!!! Using your brain versus brawn. I love it! Good job.
HI there, I grew "legacy" in the UK last year and found it to be an excellent cropper with a success rate in excess of 95%, it also has a great flavour.
how about mixed cultures instead of croprotation? its a concept that states that each crop has specific "friends" which they go along well and are profiting from each other. in case of garlic its carrots or/and strawberries, latice and cuncumber. sorry my bad english the concept is called "mischkultur" in german and i think you could give it a shot with google if interested.
One of the best suggestions I have for solving the mono-crop issues is companion planting. We inter-mix species that are prone to pets, with ones that are not. We also mix in things like marigolds throughout our beds to keep away pests as well. One of the things to remember is that nature has a natural system of checks and balances. for every pest... there is a predator. So the challenge is to identify your pest... and know what predator likes it the most.
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Loved the tractor/walking graphic. Thanks for posting :)
I think it's a dibbler, Grampy had a few for different spacing.
No offense, but you are like the Canadian, gardening version of Deviant Ollem.
FYI the tool you made is called a Dibbler.
If you let you garlic blossom you get about 30 small garlic sets. Set these close the first year then set them out the next. Then you can use all garlic you harvest. First year sets can grow on scrap land you would normally plant in.
Do the ridges/beds and the water ways need to be of equal width or can we go for depth instead of width. I want. Higher ridge/bed area. Any link for designing such a raised be farm?
check into lentils for a crop. frost tolerant, legume, harvestable, cheap seeds available at any grocery store. I am far south from you , but i would like to know your results.
I think all varieties of garlic taste like garlic, sure some are stronger, some are milder.........
Very impressed with your video and actually learned a lot. Simple and to the point. Awesome!
I am fairly new to the channel. I have seen a few other of the videos as well. But what are you going to do with that much garlic. That would be more than enough to last me a life time. Though since i don't use much garlic when cooking a entire bulb tends to last me several months (assuming I can keep it usable that long). Selling it at a local farmer's market or even a few local stores, it still seems like you would have way too much garlic sitting around.
Why are you using the Imperial System? I thought the US does that, not Canada...
Your "hole-poker" is called a "dibbler". Kind of a cute name.
Do you fertilize or just use compost? Does garlic need any supplemental nutrients? I planted garlic in a sunny spot this year as opposed to a shady spot. Hopefully the results will be better.
Does garlic have an off season? Could you do a cover crop during off season that gives the soil back what the garlic takes?
made your dibbler for myself and its working out great. thanks again for all your hard work, guys!
Like most people I really like your way on your channel it makes it easy to relate to you!! But the garlic you started with are really good!! I heard music is very good garlic strain so cool you got that as one you started with how do you like those strains? Well get back to your thing sorry to ramble but really enjoy your vids!!
your animation got much better
Thanks Nemmax! I've been practicing :)
ok, i just have to ask: what the heck do you plan to do with that much garlic - planning a crusade against vampires or what?!
Couldn't u add fertilizers and micronutrients to the soil to replenish the soil and stretch the soil for less crop rotation? Also I imagine it would produce higher yields.
corn.. corn is ALWAYS a good as a resting/refreshing crop for the ground o3o tho it takes a wile to grow
use masterblend tomato fert and add calcium and epsom salts use as a weekly feed 1oz per ft then no crop rotation needed as micro nutrients are being made available to both plants and the grow bed. ive used it for several years and have huge healthy crops with few pests.
Okay but who needs this much garlic? one harvest of that would last me a lifetime!