Easiest way to grow garlic is around your fruit trees or garden perimeter. Their sulfur content roots in the soil and the smell chases away slugs, snails, flies, etc keeping the fruit trees and garden vegs/herbs safe.
The scapes are actually VERY STRONG tasting- stronger than the garlic cloves themselves - even.. A lot of people make pesto out of them and to calm down the biting flavor, they par boil them for 30 seconds. I've done that and it helps a lot. Also, the type of garlic you plant is not a hard and fast rule. I'm in the south and have planted garlic as late as late November ( our ground doesn't freeze until maybe January if it freezes at all... and I've planted both hardneck and softneck successfully. Each year was around 100 cloves and give or take a dozen or so...produced the same number of bulbs.. All the cloves I planted grew into nice bulbs. Last year some were giant sized... and the hardnecks grew nice scapes a few weeks before I harvested the bulbs. The nice thing about growing softneck garlic is that they keep a few months longer than hardneck garlic does. Keene Garlic recommends soaking the cloves in two different solutions that they recommend on their website. I ALWAYS pre-soak my garlic cloves. I HIGHLY recommend checking their site out. They really know garlic. Garlic is all they do..
I planted all my garlic today. Elephant, German Extra Hardy, Siberian Red and experimenting with some different organic store bought. About 100 in total. My wife tells me I planted way too many garlic and she needs more onions than garlic. I'm trying to over winter some onions, to get a head start. Hoping to surprise her with an early onion harvest. Virginia, zone 7A.
I just planted my garlic yesterday. I didn't know it would take so long to harvest. June seems like a long way off. Guess I'll need to be patient. Thanks for the tips
Zone 5 here- i planted most of my Siberian red last month in my raised bed. I'm just putting it around the edges of the beds so it doesn't conflict Thanks for the awesome video.
I just planted Siberian Red for the first time today. I ended up with 48 nice size cloves, which I didn't expect when I placed my order. Zone 7A, Virginia.
Thanks for the content!! I was needing this. I bought some giant garlic and have been procrastinating because I was unsure of the process. I have grown a garden all my life but never have grown garlic.
Great video. Just don't forget to add about 2 inches of mulch. Especially in warmer areas like zone 9 and 10 where the top inches of soil dry up real easy. Mulch will also protect your garlic in cooler zones that freeze.
I finally got around to Growing some garlic for the first time, I threw together some basic boards from Home Depot at the time as that's what I had available and planted nine of them they all seem to be growing at this point and I'm excited to see how it goes! I just found your channel and I like it. I'm going to be watching more of your videos as well.
I'm in Alabama, zone 7B. I'm going to be planting soft neck garlic in about two weeks, in a 30 gallon grow bag. Along with them, I am going to plant radishes. The Giant Radishes of Sicily are growing the best for me, and producing bulbs the fastest,. I will be planting more of them, along with French Breakfast radishes.
I plant my garlic in the ground . It’s been so warm here in northern New Jersey that I’ve been getting more growth than as I’d like. I grow both soft and hard necks . The hard necks seem to do a little better. As far as refrigerating them I say as long as they don’t end up in spaghetti sauce you should be ok!
Just in time, I'm planting garlic tomorrow. I'd love to know more about planting another crop on top of it like the lettuce you suggested. I didn't know that was possible!
I needed this video! I love garlic. Had wild garlic growing in the backyard and used the snapes for cooking. Delicious! Can't wait for the harvest in June! Happy Halloween!
I let my peppers bush out quite a bit at the end of the season and I’m able to over winter them in the open. The outer stems and leaves get killed by frost but they usually shelter the inner plant. I just cut them back mid March. I’m in 9B climate in NorCal.
I too plan to grow some garlic..just not this year...I'm just getting things "back to normal " after a long spell of no garden (2017). I'm in zone 6, and normally (not this year), October is quite cold. I know that the hard neck is what I need to plant, but it needs to be either in a pot, raised bed, or maybe in a straw bale. More research for next season
When you say planting 2 in. deep, do you mean top of seed covered with 2 in. soil, or bottom of the seed sitting in a 2 in. deep furrow ? Thanks for very informative and enjoyable videos. 😊
hi thank you for video for fun i just planted 3 garlic cloves in pot about week ago & i see them sprouting should i let them keep growing or do i need to wait til next June to do it right
I will be doing a video on that in a couple of weeks. However I have a couple of other videos I've done with that information as well. Last Thanksgiving for one
I find in socal you need to vernalize your garlic bulbs for at least 30 days. Good loose soil and water about 4 inches deep. They should only be planted in there own bed as well. Stop watering about 6 weeks before harvesting! Plant on October 31 and your garlic will be ready in August/September!
Perfect timing! My garlic is being refrigerated now for about or until a hard frost. I'm in zone 8b Arizona high desert. I was advised to do this cause of my milder climate here. 🤔 Thoughts? Tia
What variety of garlic did you plant? Is it grocery bought type so maybe California early? I planted Chesnok Red from bulbs I saved and grocery bought softneck.
What about the cold and snow, I'm in Massachusetts north east? Should I put the growbag planter on an outdoor shelf covered for protection or is under my wood slotted porch
Here’s a dumb question-If you buy organic seed garlic are the inside smaller cloves OK to use in cooking? Still wondering I can use instead of a sea-based fertilizer so I don’t have squirrels and chipmunks digging in my pots😊 Thanks
I watched your previous video and you mentioned vernalization, which you tried and got smaller bulbs, turns out thats used for flowering (hence why tulips need to since we grow them for flowers) so since we didnt want the seeds the plants just became small, brittanica says 26°c+ for 2 to 3 weeks should be enough to make the bulb phase happen and reverse vernalization. Heres what i found "Devernalization can be brought about by exposing previously vernalized plants or seeds to high temperatures, causing a reversion to the original nonflowering condition. Onion sets that are commercially stored at near freezing temperatures to retard spoilage are thereby automatically vernalized and ready to flower as soon as they are planted. Exposure to temperatures above 26.7° C (80° F) for two to three weeks before planting, however, shifts the sets to the desired bulb-forming phase."
This is late, but first time trying to grow garlic. I live in Boston, and I planted garlic in a container. Do I water them during the winter or let mother nature take care of it, especially when the snow comes or can I not grow garlic :-(
Still pretty hot here in Southwest Florida gonna wait probably another three weeks. I am trying the refrigerator method this time lol. Also do you remove the skin around each clove or do you leave them scanned?
I planted some Garlic cloves during the summer. I have never grown them before so I thought I would give it a try. Maybe that was my mistake? Nothing came up? I’m in Wi so I didn’t think you would leave them in ground over the winter. Maybe I’ll try again next year.
Does the garlic need a lot of water? I thought it didnt need or even like a lot of water once it is established. I have mine in already, midwest zone 6 b. We have had a fair bit of rain of late.
I adore garlic and onions. I'm excited to try to grow my own in the coming year. I have a question regarding watering. I live in the Black Hills of SD. We have very sporadic weather/winters here where it can be very cold and snowing for 3 days and then in three days time the snow has melted and it's 60 or 70 degrees. I will be starting with a container this year. What advice do you have regarding the type of bulb (since we're physically in the north but the weather isn't typical)? Would you still advise the hard neck with the abnormal winters we have here? I'm also wondering about moisture/ watering in that we do get heavy snows but they vary dramatically and melt quickly? I can't wait for home grown garlic!! Thank you for your wonderful and informative video. I have just subscribed.
Good timing !! I have just got my organic garlic bulbs so I was glad of a reminder what to do! I got rust on mine last year but it was very humid here during the summer and cloudy do you think that was why I got rust? Thanks Brian love your videos so easy to follow packed with helpful tips! ☘️ ☘️☘️☘️
I lost all of mine this year. First time in a raised bed. Good soil, plenty of compost. NONE of it came up. Kernels were all dried up. Trying again this year
Great video! I tried to grow garlic last year and it was a fail. Looks like the bulbs disintegrated. I wasnt sure how often I would need to water. Does anyone know?
I have not checked the ground to see if it's frozen hard yet, but we have had multiple hard freeze temps... 6-9 hrs per night of 32°F or below. My question: If I plant them in a large container, do I need to do anything special if the soil freezes in the pot? I am in zone 5b, nights are freezing, and day temps are 50's to high 60's, with a sprinkling of low 70's in the forecast.
How high should the containers be? Or if i set up a quick raised bed with cardboard beneath, how tall the sides? This new property has moles & voles, should I use hardware cloth beneath the raised beds? Topped off with cardboard then soil? Also, thanks so much for your videos. ❤
Planted garlic in containers last weekend for the first time. They’re actually growing!!! Question - can you give them too much water especially at the start? I live in Wales UK and we get a lot of rain ☔️. I’ve got a balcony I can put the containers under if I need to get them away from too much rain. Thanks
(9aLouisianaCoast)2?s what size bag did you use and in raised bed I’m planning on going down side of bed like you did , have my fall plants in bed now I can usually plant a early spring garden in January or February. Will the garlic be ok during the transition. Should I do anything different TIA
They have sponsored a few videos and give aways. I have a link in the video description so you can check them out.. I was using them several years before I finally contacted them to see if they wanted to partner with me.
Try growing your garlic in containers, and then have them up against the south side of the house, and mulched over - or inside a south facing arboretum/aviary/hothouse/growhouse ... and you should be able to grow garlic all season long
@@my3bsfarm863 In New England, a YT site has a plastic tube greenhouse with snow outside and covering a portion of the greenhouse. They have smaller interior "plastic tube greenhouses." With sunshine, they have the outside temp 32F, with inside 50-60F, and the interior grow areas as 70+F !! So there are ways to overcome winter weather, wind, snow, winter sunlight, heat, etc. This is like the Canadian Prepper Mors Kochanski's super shelter - by using plastic sheeting near a campfire creating a tropical infrared heat of 80-90F inside ! Same technology applies when you stop induction, convection, and conduction.
I'm in NC 7b. I planted some garlic at the beginning of October in my raised beds and they're currently about 6-8" tall. Hubby wants to take down the raised beds now (I'll be building my permanent garden soon but thought these beds would stay put until spring). Can I move the sprouted cloves to grow bags? I would leave them there until harvest time rather than transplant them a second time.
I'm honestly not sure what I'm going to do! I planted mine in early to mid October thinking that according to weather that we would be getting cold, to our freeze time (mid October), and we've been having 60s and 70s, which is out of our average/normal. Some have started to grow!
I also live in your area (I'm in San Diego) and am planting garlic for the first time this year. Wondering how often we should be watering during the winter for garlic planted in the ground. I will be adding a layer of pine shavings over top once they are planted to help retain moisture. Also, very interesting the results you found with refrigeration. I already have all mine in the frig but next year will definitely do a trial of some without that step. Sure makes planting a bit more flexible. Thanks for all your helpful info. I have learned so much from you over the years.
May I ask what part of the U.S you are from. I'm from Florida and I'm trying so hard to learn how to grown veges, flowers, trees, etc. I know Florida is different because of the climate, this is why I'm asking. It sounds like you may live in the south?? Update: I think I saw you may be from Cali, not sure if you guys have the 150% humidity like we do...lol....I look forward to watching more videos. Thank you so much for taking the time, maybe when I grow up I'll be as good of a gardener as you 😊
I have elephant garlic (yeah, I know.. closer to a leek) ready to go in when we quit going into the 80s. I have a bed I've been prepping for months.. dumped in two big bags of peat moss.. tilled it in.. and just kept putting grass clippings over it. Last week I went to check on it.. seems my ground ate all the organic matter.. there's no evidence that any peat moss went in at all.. and that was in June. I did a soil test.. low in everything but the PH.. that's a little high... so weird with all the grass clippings lurking around. I may have to put grow bags or pots on that bed. sigh
4:01 Your understanding of 'Phosphorus not moving through the soil' is a little off. I believe you are referring to it being 'immobile' or not 'available' to the plant in its insouble (organic) form. Planting garlic on top off a Phosphorus source wont necessarily change that and it is the relationship with other ions present (along wit pH) in the soil that ultimately determines uptake and life in the ground that governs physical break down of the crabmeal particle. Keep up the good work. :)
Easiest way to grow garlic is around your fruit trees or garden perimeter. Their sulfur content roots in the soil and the smell chases away slugs, snails, flies, etc keeping the fruit trees and garden vegs/herbs safe.
Interesting!
The scapes are actually VERY STRONG tasting- stronger than the garlic cloves themselves - even.. A lot of people make pesto out of them and to calm down the biting flavor, they par boil them for 30 seconds. I've done that and it helps a lot. Also, the type of garlic you plant is not a hard and fast rule. I'm in the south and have planted garlic as late as late November ( our ground doesn't freeze until maybe January if it freezes at all... and I've planted both hardneck and softneck successfully. Each year was around 100 cloves and give or take a dozen or so...produced the same number of bulbs.. All the cloves I planted grew into nice bulbs. Last year some were giant sized... and the hardnecks grew nice scapes a few weeks before I harvested the bulbs. The nice thing about growing softneck garlic is that they keep a few months longer than hardneck garlic does. Keene Garlic recommends soaking the cloves in two different solutions that they recommend on their website. I ALWAYS pre-soak my garlic cloves. I HIGHLY recommend checking their site out. They really know garlic. Garlic is all they do..
I planted all my garlic today. Elephant, German Extra Hardy, Siberian Red and experimenting with some different organic store bought. About 100 in total. My wife tells me I planted way too many garlic and she needs more onions than garlic. I'm trying to over winter some onions, to get a head start. Hoping to surprise her with an early onion harvest. Virginia, zone 7A.
Fresh garlic is the best! Thanks for this video.
HA! I just finished watching your vid on growing garlic from last year and now I find this one. Thanks.
I just planted my garlic yesterday. I didn't know it would take so long to harvest.
June seems like a long way off.
Guess I'll need to be patient.
Thanks for the tips
Gardening definitely teaches patience lol
6:15 What a great idea to plant quick growing lettuce on top. I was running out of planters and space. Thank you! Liked and subscribed.
Zone 5 here- i planted most of my Siberian red last month in my raised bed. I'm just putting it around the edges of the beds so it doesn't conflict Thanks for the awesome video.
You're welcome
I just planted Siberian Red for the first time today. I ended up with 48 nice size cloves, which I didn't expect when I placed my order. Zone 7A, Virginia.
Thanks for the content!! I was needing this. I bought some giant garlic and have been procrastinating because I was unsure of the process. I have grown a garden all my life but never have grown garlic.
Growing garlic us so fun... and easy!
Great video. Just don't forget to add about 2 inches of mulch. Especially in warmer areas like zone 9 and 10 where the top inches of soil dry up real easy. Mulch will also protect your garlic in cooler zones that freeze.
You get an awful lot of free advice in these comments, don't you, neighbor? Thanks for a great video, I'll go with it.
David
I am yet to plant my garlic too but I can't decide where to place the bed. It's probably going to be a temporary one. Great video Brian! 🤗🤗
I finally got around to Growing some garlic for the first time, I threw together some basic boards from Home Depot at the time as that's what I had available and planted nine of them they all seem to be growing at this point and I'm excited to see how it goes!
I just found your channel and I like it. I'm going to be watching more of your videos as well.
Thanks for explaning. I wil give it a go. Greetings from the Netherlands
I always learn something. Thanks for all your videos ❤️
You're welcome
I'm in Alabama, zone 7B. I'm going to be planting soft neck garlic in about two weeks, in a 30 gallon grow bag. Along with them, I am going to plant radishes. The Giant Radishes of Sicily are growing the best for me, and producing bulbs the fastest,. I will be planting more of them, along with French Breakfast radishes.
Perfect combo!
I plant my garlic in the ground . It’s been so warm here in northern New Jersey that I’ve been getting more growth than as I’d like. I grow both soft and hard necks . The hard necks seem to do a little better. As far as refrigerating them I say as long as they don’t end up in spaghetti sauce you should be ok!
Lol. Is your probably right.
Just planted my garlic. Both in containers and in raised beds. I’m in Louisiana and usually plant in the Fall
Perfect timing my friend!! I'm getting ready to plant some today! I'm going to follow your instructions and see what happens in June! Woo hoo!
Great! Good luck
Thank you! Planting this week! 🧄👌
I love garlic first time growing garlic I n end September thanks for all tips😍😍😍
You're welcome
Thanks! Practical and easy to follow ...
You're welcome
Love garlic for cooking. Thanks so much for this 😊
You're welcome
Just in time, I'm planting garlic tomorrow. I'd love to know more about planting another crop on top of it like the lettuce you suggested. I didn't know that was possible!
As long as there are quick crop and shallow rooted
@@NextLevelGardening cool, thank you!
I needed this video! I love garlic. Had wild garlic growing in the backyard and used the snapes for cooking. Delicious! Can't wait for the harvest in June! Happy Halloween!
I let my peppers bush out quite a bit at the end of the season and I’m able to over winter them in the open. The outer stems and leaves get killed by frost but they usually shelter the inner plant. I just cut them back mid March. I’m in 9B climate in NorCal.
Yes that's kinda what I'm expecting
@@NextLevelGardening you have all this gardening stuff on lock anyway lol
Honestly I'm surprised 9B even gets frost. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@BlackJesus8463 a couple years ago, it didn’t even freeze in my backyard. I’m basically at sea level as well
Great video!! I’m going to try the containers in Oklahoma 👍
Great!
I plant my garlic quite a bit deeper and mulch it heavily to prevent it getting heaved out of the ground during freeze-thaw cycles in Winter & Spring!
I too plan to grow some garlic..just not this year...I'm just getting things "back to normal " after a long spell of no garden (2017).
I'm in zone 6, and normally (not this year), October is quite cold. I know that the hard neck is what I need to plant, but it needs to be either in a pot, raised bed, or maybe in a straw bale.
More research for next season
When you say planting 2 in. deep, do you mean top of seed covered with 2 in. soil, or bottom of the seed sitting in a 2 in. deep furrow ?
Thanks for very informative and enjoyable videos. 😊
hi thank you for video for fun i just planted 3 garlic cloves in pot about week ago & i see them sprouting should i let them keep growing or do i need to wait til next June to do it right
I really needed this, thanks so much!!
You're welcome
Fab vlog, thank you 🥰
useful information waiting for the next video...
Thank you- my last garlic got drowned in pots, will try raised bed this season (almost done- 1 down, 3 to go!).. 🙏🏻💪🙏🏻
Great!
awesome thanks Brian!!
You're welcome
Thank you so much!
You're welcome
Thanks. I have two questions following the video:
1) How important is it to use organic garlic?
2) How much water does it require?
Please give us a list if your favorite garden tools
and items. My children want my Christmas wish list , particularly your favorite prunners
I will be doing a video on that in a couple of weeks. However I have a couple of other videos I've done with that information as well. Last Thanksgiving for one
Great video. I’m in Michigan area and what’s the best month to plant garlic? Is it too late and how do protect soil in below freezing g temps?
I find in socal you need to vernalize your garlic bulbs for at least 30 days. Good loose soil and water about 4 inches deep. They should only be planted in there own bed as well. Stop watering about 6 weeks before harvesting! Plant on October 31 and your garlic will be ready in August/September!
Perfect timing! My garlic is being refrigerated now for about or until a hard frost. I'm in zone 8b Arizona high desert. I was advised to do this cause of my milder climate here. 🤔 Thoughts? Tia
Brian, I’m in zone 6a…do I leave the container after planting outside, in an unheated garage, or indoors over the winter?
What variety of garlic did you plant? Is it grocery bought type so maybe California early? I planted Chesnok Red from bulbs I saved and grocery bought softneck.
I wonder if you can use oyster shells and died cooked egg shells?
I think a healthy 2" mulch layer on top is an important step for garlic (organic straw or shredded leaves)
Growing some comfrey and using that as a mulch over the garlic bulbs also works quite well in overwintering in-soil garlic
What about the cold and snow, I'm in Massachusetts north east? Should I put the growbag planter on an outdoor shelf covered for protection or is under my wood slotted porch
Might be a silly questions but after the initial planting and watering how often do they need watered...?
How often did you water your garlic ? As I've never grown garlic before ?
Here’s a dumb question-If you buy organic seed garlic are the inside smaller cloves OK to use in cooking? Still wondering I can use instead of a sea-based fertilizer so I don’t have squirrels and chipmunks digging in my pots😊 Thanks
I watched your previous video and you mentioned vernalization, which you tried and got smaller bulbs, turns out thats used for flowering (hence why tulips need to since we grow them for flowers) so since we didnt want the seeds the plants just became small, brittanica says 26°c+ for 2 to 3 weeks should be enough to make the bulb phase happen and reverse vernalization. Heres what i found "Devernalization can be brought about by exposing previously vernalized plants or seeds to high temperatures, causing a reversion to the original nonflowering condition. Onion sets that are commercially stored at near freezing temperatures to retard spoilage are thereby automatically vernalized and ready to flower as soon as they are planted. Exposure to temperatures above 26.7° C (80° F) for two to three weeks before planting, however, shifts the sets to the desired bulb-forming phase."
This is late, but first time trying to grow garlic. I live in Boston, and I planted garlic in a container. Do I water them during the winter or let mother nature take care of it, especially when the snow comes or can I not grow garlic :-(
What can you use instead of crab and lobster? My family is allergic to shellfish. Thanks
Still pretty hot here in Southwest Florida gonna wait probably another three weeks. I am trying the refrigerator method this time lol. Also do you remove the skin around each clove or do you leave them scanned?
Leave them skinned
I planted some Garlic cloves during the summer. I have never grown them before so I thought I would give it a try. Maybe that was my mistake? Nothing came up? I’m in Wi so I didn’t think you would leave them in ground over the winter. Maybe I’ll try again next year.
Does the garlic need a lot of water? I thought it didnt need or even like a lot of water once it is established. I have mine in already, midwest zone 6 b. We have had a fair bit of rain of late.
Great Video, thanks. I have some one meter long and 24 cm deep window boxes, is that deep enough to plant garlic in ?
Yes!
Just harvested mine. Mmmm
Thanks I was going to buy a fabric pot. They are not available. How much were they? I always love your videos. My ' go to guy'.. to learn from.
Thanks! Can't remember but there's a link in the video description.
What zone are you? I'm 8b and we must refrigerate garlic before planting
I’m in Zone 7B and I’m late getting my garlic and shallots in. How late is late for an early summer harvest?
I adore garlic and onions. I'm excited to try to grow my own in the coming year.
I have a question regarding watering. I live in the Black Hills of SD. We have very sporadic weather/winters here where it can be very cold and snowing for 3 days and then in three days time the snow has melted and it's 60 or 70 degrees.
I will be starting with a container this year. What advice do you have regarding the type of bulb (since we're physically in the north but the weather isn't typical)? Would you still advise the hard neck with the abnormal winters we have here?
I'm also wondering about moisture/ watering in that we do get heavy snows but they vary dramatically and melt quickly?
I can't wait for home grown garlic!!
Thank you for your wonderful and informative video. I have just subscribed.
Good timing !! I have just got my organic garlic bulbs so I was glad of a reminder what to do! I got rust on mine last year but it was very humid here during the summer and cloudy do you think that was why I got rust? Thanks Brian love your videos so easy to follow packed with helpful tips! ☘️ ☘️☘️☘️
Definite possibility.
Where do you find hard neck garlic?
I lost all of mine this year. First time in a raised bed. Good soil, plenty of compost. NONE of it came up. Kernels were all dried up. Trying again this year
Great video! I tried to grow garlic last year and it was a fail. Looks like the bulbs disintegrated. I wasnt sure how often I would need to water. Does anyone know?
Just keep the ground moist
What about planting the small garlic cloves to use as garlic scallions?
You could definitely do that!
I have not checked the ground to see if it's frozen hard yet, but we have had multiple hard freeze temps... 6-9 hrs per night of 32°F or below. My question: If I plant them in a large container, do I need to do anything special if the soil freezes in the pot?
I am in zone 5b, nights are freezing, and day temps are 50's to high 60's, with a sprinkling of low 70's in the forecast.
They can handle freezing soil
So how'd it turn out? It's been more than a year.
I hope I’ve learned something. Just got my raised beds finished and filled. Not to plant the garlic. I’ll let you know how it goes!😃
Good luck!
How often do you water container garlic through the winter?
I have the same question😊
Depends on how much rain you get. Just keep them moist.
How high should the containers be? Or if i set up a quick raised bed with cardboard beneath, how tall the sides? This new property has moles & voles, should I use hardware cloth beneath the raised beds? Topped off with cardboard then soil?
Also, thanks so much for your videos. ❤
6 to 8" high
@@NextLevelGardening ok, thx for your time/reply. The hardware cloth question, though?
Anybody?
Planted garlic in containers last weekend for the first time. They’re actually growing!!! Question - can you give them too much water especially at the start? I live in Wales UK and we get a lot of rain ☔️. I’ve got a balcony I can put the containers under if I need to get them away from too much rain. Thanks
Yes you definitely won't want them to be sitting in soaking wet soil all the time
Do I need to water the cloves when the ground is frozen (Chicago, Zone 5)
No
(9aLouisianaCoast)2?s what size bag did you use and in raised bed I’m planning on going down side of bed like you did , have my fall plants in bed now I can usually plant a early spring garden in January or February. Will the garlic be ok during the transition. Should I do anything different TIA
Should be ok. I used a 5 gal bag
What is this Neptune Harvest stuff and how do I buy some? Are they your sponsor? I am in the southern Sierras of California.
They have sponsored a few videos and give aways. I have a link in the video description so you can check them out.. I was using them several years before I finally contacted them to see if they wanted to partner with me.
I live in Kansas. Can I do March-October? This might be a dumb question but won't they freeze over the winter especially when you water? 😋
You still want to plant before your ground freezes. Planting in spring you won't get large closed bulbs. They can be in freezing ground.
Try growing your garlic in containers, and then have them up against the south side of the house, and mulched over - or inside a south facing arboretum/aviary/hothouse/growhouse ... and you should be able to grow garlic all season long
Ok thank you! That sounds good 😉
@@johnlord8337 I am trying a couple of small bulbs in the greenhouse to see if I can grow and harvest them out of season. I figured nothing to lose!
@@my3bsfarm863 In New England, a YT site has a plastic tube greenhouse with snow outside and covering a portion of the greenhouse. They have smaller interior "plastic tube greenhouses." With sunshine, they have the outside temp 32F, with inside 50-60F, and the interior grow areas as 70+F !! So there are ways to overcome winter weather, wind, snow, winter sunlight, heat, etc. This is like the Canadian Prepper Mors Kochanski's super shelter - by using plastic sheeting near a campfire creating a tropical infrared heat of 80-90F inside ! Same technology applies when you stop induction, convection, and conduction.
Great👍
2:19 How did you manage to put the garlic in the fridge accidentally (without noticing)?
I can't use fabric pots here. It's too hot and dry. But I love growing garlic in my beds.
I'm in NC 7b. I planted some garlic at the beginning of October in my raised beds and they're currently about 6-8" tall. Hubby wants to take down the raised beds now (I'll be building my permanent garden soon but thought these beds would stay put until spring). Can I move the sprouted cloves to grow bags? I would leave them there until harvest time rather than transplant them a second time.
I've not done it but I would bet they'll be ok.
@@NextLevelGardening I'll let you know how it turns out
I am doing an experiment I am starting my cloves in perlite and once I see good roots Then I’ll move them to containers
Let me know how that goes
Can you use blood and bone meal instead?
Yes!
How big a container can one use to plant garlic?
As big as can provide you good spacing and the number of bulbs. You want about 5" between each
I'm honestly not sure what I'm going to do! I planted mine in early to mid October thinking that according to weather that we would be getting cold, to our freeze time (mid October), and we've been having 60s and 70s, which is out of our average/normal. Some have started to grow!
I also live in your area (I'm in San Diego) and am planting garlic for the first time this year. Wondering how often we should be watering during the winter for garlic planted in the ground. I will be adding a layer of pine shavings over top once they are planted to help retain moisture.
Also, very interesting the results you found with refrigeration. I already have all mine in the frig but next year will definitely do a trial of some without that step. Sure makes planting a bit more flexible. Thanks for all your helpful info. I have learned so much from you over the years.
I will be planting my garlic in an old kiddie pool the blew into my yard during a storm.
May I ask what part of the U.S you are from. I'm from Florida and I'm trying so hard to learn how to grown veges, flowers, trees, etc. I know Florida is different because of the climate, this is why I'm asking. It sounds like you may live in the south?? Update: I think I saw you may be from Cali, not sure if you guys have the 150% humidity like we do...lol....I look forward to watching more videos. Thank you so much for taking the time, maybe when I grow up I'll be as good of a gardener as you 😊
San Diego. We definitely don't have the humidity but a lot of the information I give proteins to all gardeners in all climates
Do I have to cover them for the few days that we have frost?
Going to try container garlic in Indiana 🎃
Good!
I planted two different garlics last month and they started sprouting.
Good!
Wow! the shipping cost of orders from Grassroots is prohibitive! 😮
Love the garlic but I never had scapes! wtf is my life?! 😅😅
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I have elephant garlic (yeah, I know.. closer to a leek) ready to go in when we quit going into the 80s.
I have a bed I've been prepping for months.. dumped in two big bags of peat moss.. tilled it in.. and just kept putting grass clippings over it.
Last week I went to check on it.. seems my ground ate all the organic matter.. there's no evidence that any peat moss went in at all.. and that was in June. I did a soil test.. low in everything but the PH.. that's a little high... so weird with all the grass clippings lurking around.
I may have to put grow bags or pots on that bed. sigh
They would probably be OK. I would try doing some of both
I would give up everything else as long as I can grow garlic
4:01 Your understanding of 'Phosphorus not moving through the soil' is a little off. I believe you are referring to it being 'immobile' or not 'available' to the plant in its insouble (organic) form. Planting garlic on top off a Phosphorus source wont necessarily change that and it is the relationship with other ions present (along wit pH) in the soil that ultimately determines uptake and life in the ground that governs physical break down of the crabmeal particle.
Keep up the good work. :)
This is weird. Not the video but the views. It says no one has viewed it but it is obvious by the comments that it has been.
Probably just need to refresh the page. You must have been an early watcher😁
Potting soil? Fertilizer? Ever heard of composting? You're growing depopulation food loaded with chemicals. You have NO idea what's in that crap.