True story. As a kid, I got into gardening. Planted some onions and garlic. I forgot about them. To this day, nearly 45 years later, I still have volunteer plants that come up from that patch.
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Hey folks! If you want to grow onions, make sure you grow the varieties that are compatible with the amount of DAYLIGHT you receive. For example, do not try to grow walla walla onions (a long day/northern onion) in Texas(a short day/southern state). It will not bulb! And yes they do sell the seeds in your local area despite them being almost useless (if you are a southerner). Don't play yourself. If your latitude is low, grow short day varieties. Onions bulb based on the amount of hours of daylight.
I would've never guessed the day length differences between Washington and Texas would be enough to affect something like that! It's not like you're trying to grow them in Peru.
I would just google what is popular in your area, but I imagine, what with the whole UK being so high in latitude that you would have no problem with your onions bulbing and you would grow some type of long day onion. Charles Dowding is a grower in the UK and he has great RUclips content. I'm sure you could get a lot of info off of his channel. @@FahadAyaz
if you want a REALLY easy and prolific plant, grow Egyptian walking onions. They're kind of like spicier shallots. And they seed themselves, so if you forget about them, they just plant themselves. They won't grow really big like a yellow onion, but they're useful and so easy. Great video!!
Same with society garlic… get the garlicky flavour from its leaves (not bulbs), and you cannot kill it. I’ve left out plants I dug out for over a month outside in a pot without soil coz I forgot about it and they grew even bigger. That stuff grows like a weed and produces pretty purple flowers.
One thing worth knowing about growing garlic is that if you want it to have multiple cloves, you actually NEED to plant it before first frost. Not that you 'can' store it underground in the winter, that it actually *requires* getting frosted in order to go through the stratification process, which is what triggers the planted clove to know that once it wakes up, it should split into multiple cloves within an full head. Otherwise, if you just plant your garlic clove any ol' time, it'll essentially stay as a spring onion and only have the one clove at the base, with green shoots as normal. There is no wrong time to plant garlic, but there is a right time for what your intended outcome is! Also, for braiding garlic, you can really only do it with softneck varieties, since there's no flex to the neck of the hard neck kind, in order to weave. You can use a string and tie them up together to use the string as a sort of netting, but that's a whole other deal. Hardneck varieties are the only kind that produce scapes, and they tend to have larger cloves as well as a shorter shelf life. Softneck-which is pretty much the ONLY kind sold in 'normal' grocery stores-can be braided, and has a longer shelf life, but the cloves are smaller and there aren't any scapes. For what it's worth as well, by the way, the larger the clove you use to plant, the overall larger the size of the cloves in the resulting garlic. If you continually save the largest cloves from your garlic bulb to re plant, even the soft neck varieties will eventually have decently-sized cloves. But as a person who loves garlic and wants to peel as little of it as possible, I'm a fan of hard neck all the way.
We live in a temperature climate where frost is rare and many winters does not occur at all. Our garlic (we grow about 2000/yr) has no trouble forming heads. Plant mid autumn, harvest mid spring. @meowMeowKapow
I had a 92-year-old home health client once who grew Egyptian walking onions. She had been growing the same onions for at least 25-30 years. When I helped her in her garden, pulling the bulbs, I fell in love with this onion type. I like perennials, so I'm going to try this fall to get some started, along with garlic and ginger.
QUESTION: For those of us in apartments, we need help with growing onions and garlic on our patio. What is the minimum depth a pot should be, and what is the minimum spacing in a pot before it’s too crowded. Also, what kind of watering regiment is optimum? How much sun exposure?
The previous owner of the house I live in grew vegetables in their garden. When I was clearing some plants to plant sunflowers and zucchini I found garlic, some small onions and lots of carrots. I was suprised to find it since I started gardening 2 years after I moved in and had no idea these were still in the soil, I thought it was mostly weeds I also had a garlic from the kitchen sprout and put it in a small flower pot and kept watering it, it kept growing for months indoors until I forgot to water it
I’ve been growing garlic and onions for years. Plus a lot of fruits and vegetables. It’s extremely rewarding. More people should learn to garden just in general. Grow your own food lol. It’s delicious! ❤
There are some vegetables that just much more tasty homegrown. Tomatoes 🍅 and carrots 🥕 have the most difference in my opinion. Green Beans and most berries (strawberries,... 🍓) are nice and easy too. Onions are great - you can even harvest the green part of the "spring onions" - if you leave the root it will sprout again.
Not forgetting the feel good factor. Harvesting and cooking with food you've grown is so satisfying. Chickens are so entertaining to watch. Home laid eggs are amazing and even after 20 years, I still thank them for the eggs as I leave the coop.
Homegrown Berries are also very good. Berries cost so much at stores and they're rarely fresh enough. Yet a berry bush will take over whatever space it can growing countless berries.
Growing garlic is next level. Plant and forget over the winter and you have the most wonderful produce in spring. Honestly spring garlic has changed my life, or at the very least leveled up my cooking tremendously.
One thing you didn’t mention which is SO COOL about growing your own food- variety! You can really hone in on the exact varieties you want to grow, because you love the flavor or because they work well in your climate or they store really well, etc. I live in a bit of a tricky area to garden in and one of my favorite parts of growing food is finding varieties that I love and can perform well in my region. It’s just a rewarding hobby to get into.
Don't under estimate the value of growing onions and galic for your local food pantry. Deliver them cleaned off and whole. Watching how various communities wanted the different parts was a learning experience. Our whole garden was for the food pantry❤
I agree. Now i’m working on garden to table meal service by preorder only. I grow so much produce there’s no way to eat them all ourselves. Here in Indonesia there are times when onion’s price sky rocket or garlic or chilies. Having grown my own i could careless how high or low the price go, i simply pick some from the back garden😂😂😂😂😂.
@@ima7333 You're lucky to have the space! Here in Oregon the climate is good for everything except tropical fruit, but my yard is pretty small. My 'in ground' area is about 12 foot square, and I mostly plant garlic there. Using 'grow bags' helps me get a more diverse harvest (usually tomatoes and cucumbers). Still not enough to share with anyone except family an neighbors.
@@DuckGuy-1957 the difference between where u live & where i live is my produce constantly growing & bearing fruits like tomatoes, zucchini & cucumbers. I use pots & planters for herbs like basil, lemon basil & thai basil. I also got ginger, galangal & lemon grass in the front yard and backyard. My mom loves her fruits so we gotta have guava, papaya & mango trees. Used to have star fruit tree too that bear fruit incessantly large & sweet. Remembering those star fruits always make me wanna cry when i saw them on promo for $1 each in my college days in AZ. But yes, i am lucky that my mom decides to keep front & backyards and i could grow all the food i want. I don’t know how long your growing season is, but out here is all year round. We also got pumpkin patch too.
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I’d like to see him grow microdwarf tomatoes. If you plant hem now you will be picking tomatoes Christmas time grow them in a south facing window the northern hemisphere.
I overdid it as well when I first attempted a backyard garden. I ended up with a little of everything but not enough for a meal. This year I am only focusing on a few items in bulk. Green beans, tomato, peas, spinach, green onion. I tried broccoli and the plants have grown well since last winter but aren't producing the flowerettes we know and love so looks like failed on that. Thanks for your video, def leaning into onions and garlic this year along with all the wonderful fresh spices that are super easy to grow. Growing up my Pops always gardened and I honestly did not enjoy getting drug out every weekend to tend to the gardens. Now I totally get it and why Pops loved gardening so much. It truly is good for the soul even when you fail miserably. You get better for the next go. Thanks for sharing.
Loved this video. I've been a small home gardener for more than 30 years. You're featuring two of the easiest crops to grow. One thing I've learned about garlic is that if you aren't planning to use the scapes, remove them as soon as they appear. You will increase the size of your bulbs by as much as 40%. As well, save your largest cloves for sowing. There's a significant difference in the size of bulb produced from a large clove and a small clove. As for onions, I've had the best success with sowing onion seedlings. I grow my own seedlings. I choose varieties that are best for storage. Sometimes I will grow a small amount of some well-known varieties that don't store well - Walla Walla and Vidalia are two of these varieties. Cheers.
@@-dash. Nope. I purchase my onion seeds. The varieties I grow are hybrids, which means that if I save seeds and grow seedlings from them, I won't get the genetic traits of the plant. I'm not much of a seed saver, as I grow mostly hybrid types of vegetables.
I grew 30 beautiful bulbs from farmer's market garlic this year and it's hanging braided in my kitchen where I just cut one off as needed. So cool! I'll grow more this year for sure, my current harvest won't get me through the year.
Another plus to growing your own is that you get to share time with, create memories, and teach your children about where food comes from. Little gardeners are good for the Earth
😊 so true! I've been gardening since I was 15. Every year I look forward to the experience. I'm almost 43 now with 3 sons, 19,16, and 10yrs old. I love it even more now with my boys involved. We are all getting in touch with nature and they're learning more and more. I grow medicinal plants as well. We make teas, succus, tinctures. And, with onion and garlic, I keep the skins and make our own powder. Good stuff! Loving it!
Garlic blossoms look really similar to leek blossoms before they open! Do they also have white, very small and adorable blossoms? Now, when you grow/regrow leek, it'll eventually stop regrowing at some point and grow a flower instead. The cool thing about that is: You can just gently shake the flower and live pollen will fall out. If they fall onto soil, like when you let them fall into a pot filled with soil, they will slowly but surely grow into more leek. I just love self pollinating plants. That is also how to "make" more peace lilies when they get those beautiful, big white flowers a few times a year.
add carrots and radishes to your mix. both easy and tasty also many varieties. We used to grow potatoes as a kid and all I remember was planting, forgetting and harvesting; they are more work to harvest but again, if you like a specific hard to find type, they are easy. And for fun, plant sunflowers for awesome looks :) Local birds will love you.
Totally. After years of gardening I have concluded that the absolute best things to grow in a garden (zone 7b) are greens, lettuces, herbs (all of these are salad items) and garlic, onions, and maybe potatoes.
I havbece been gardening from the time i rented my first house in th mid 1980s but never grew onions because of limited space and as you said, they are realitively cheap to buy and i used a lot of them. However, after paying over $3 for ONE red onion last year, i bought some red onion sets and I am growing them in containers this year. another tip: I used to always plant a clove or two of garlic by my roses and in among my flowers to keep the bugs away and they seem to be great compainions,
One more important point is that you know what kind of fertilizer you used. Not full of unhealthy chemicals. I plant 300 bulbs every year and give most of it away to family and friends and yes, keep some to plant again in the fall. Just did onions for the first time this year! So fun to be able to provide for yourself. Thanks for another great video.
We garden on our farm in central Ontario. Our son also has a market garden here. 43 years ago, we bought a basket of garlic from my parents' next door neighbor, a wonderful Ukrainian guy named Nick Pocsje. He had smuggled it from Poland. It s the most flavorful variety that we have ever tried. We have sold or given bulbs to people that have won local agricultural fairs. Several years ago the University of Guelph DNA tested our variety as "Polish White" If you are looking for a variety to try, that is the one.
Love it! I’m growing garlic for the first time this year. Onions next spring. I’ve been growing all of the basics for the last few years ever since I got into gardening during Covid where I had unintended time off. My focus has always been varieties that I can’t easily find at the store or things I use a lot. Excited to get into the alliums a bit more!
If you're looking for something new to try, horseradish grows like gangbusters almost anywhere. I had a plant in a 5 gal bucket that eventually busted out of it like Audrey 2 lol
@@tompadfoot3065 --yes, it will spread everywhere, of you don't keep it contained! I rememher my Dad growing it when I was a child. If you threw a chunk of the root down on the ground, it would root right there & grow. Also, if you grate up your horseradish in a prcessor or blender, do not put these appliances to close to your face!!(I did this once to see if it was grated fine enough and I couldn't breathe! The odor was so pungent & strong, it nearly caused me to pass out!! So, be very carfull when or if you do this!). Never tried to grow it in a container, though. We had to be careful when we dug it up. Any little piece left in the ground, would then grow into new plants.
Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals
Hi Mike, I just wanted to say thank you. Brothers Green inspired me to cook. You and Josh made cooking seem so easy and fun and I started cooking, to the point that I actually got semi-decent at it. I'm moving out in a couple of weeks and will definitely be looking forward to starting my own little kitchen garden.
try to chop the fresh garlic with the green stem in foodprosessor, add olive oil just to make it paste, add salt equal to 5% of the garlic weight, put in a closed jar but not tight for 4-6 days open it once a day for 5 min, put in the fridge it will last for 2 years min, it super tasty and nice for cooking
Gardening is really good for yourself it teaches you how to provide for yourself even if it's just a little. Not to mention saving you the environmental impact of trucks driving your stores produce around. Also as he said you can get some nice variety, stores usually only have the same stuff over and over again. But there's tons of different types and flavor profiles outside of the types that are mass produced. It also feels nice to see exactly where your food comes from cause there's no changing hands and locations. Can also save you issues if a mass farm has a failure with certain crops like losing it to disease or pests which results in a shortage, whereas you have your own to get through it. It really is so good to garden.
Just harvested my 1st 13 (?) onions in 2 10” pots - ate some & forgot to count. Love the info on using the green tops - thanks👍🏻 Will try garlic next❣️
I love this video so much. It's super informative and really shows the whole process and different things you can do throughout the process. Would love to see a whole series on this with all the different vegetables you grow in your garden.
I'm in zone 7b, also. Great to know about garlic storing itself over the winter. I love garlic & onions. Definitely want to grow a ton. Thanks for making this video.
I have a problem growing onions & garlic in my area of Michigan. I live on an old river flood plain. My soil contains alot of heavy clay. And in the Spring or in very wet weather, it holds alot of water.(The water table is very high in the Spring!) The one time I tried to grow both onions & garlic, they were very small so, if I want to grow them again, I'll have to use raised beds or grow sacks I guess. Thanks for all the tips, though.
SW FL here, we get LOTS of water too😂😂😂 I have to use Homer Buckets during Rainy season A LOT!! With 4 holes drilled into the bottom of each bucket. And when I say "drilled" I mean a Phillips and a hammer😂😂😂
Yes! Garlic! I grow lots of it every year & I haven't had to buy any for as long as I can remember. I cook a lot & grow all of the alliums...garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, chives. For onions & shallots I recommend buying the seed you want and starting them in pots (like what you would buy as starts at a nursery). Sets, which you get in a bag of small bulbs are less desirable IMO because the plants often don't know if they're in their 1st or 2nd year...many will think they're in the 2nd year and thus won't form a bulb and will simply make a flower.
I needed this video. I'd recommend potato/sweet potato next, because I as a non-gardener, have managed to overrun my back garden with sweet potato. It even outcompetes the weeds.
Helpful flavor hint for Zucchini in pasta, Shred it. Cook it down first with your Garlic and onions, then add your tomatoes and whatever else you'd like. But the Zuch really blends in better to a sauce with it isn't in huge chunks.. Now if you like it that way or don't have kids that THINK they dislike Zuchs then whatever but for a flavor profile, it's better shredded.
Add shallots to your garden! They grow exactly the same as onions, spaced a little closer. Would love to see what you do with an abundance of those - I'm swimming in them this year 😊
Fabulous video, thank you for sharing. One thing that I find curious about store bought garlic is the tendency for the garlic to rot if not used for a few weeks yet I see garlic braids that seem to last for months. Another point, you can also grow onions from the bottom scraps from whence the roots pop out!
I would add shallots to the list for a few reasons. They are just as easy to grow as onions, but they provide a much better flavour in some cooked dishes, especially anything with seafood. However, a key difference is shallots are expensive in the supermarket where I am in Melbourne. Onions will be around $3/kg whereas shallots are $18/kg. Grown from seed which is cheap, they only use the opportunity cost of the space they take up. As with onions and garlic, you can plant them densely.
Longtime follower here-you just inspired me to go plant some of both! I was a bit put off from gardening after my everglades tomato seedlings failed once actually outside, but these look so hardy that I feel they may actually survive. Thanks a ton for both the inspiration and the instructions! :)
Alliums are a hardy bunch. Some of the most recognizable alliums are onions, garlic, chives, leeks, and shallots. About a dozen years ago I grew chives in a pot. At one point I forgot to water them for a week. Despite my neglect, they were just fine - and I live in a semi-desert, so it gets *super* hot out here (I'm talking triple digits). I decided to see how long it would take to kill it. Y'all, it took about a year of not watering - _in a drought_ - to kill them. So, yes, they are easy to grow.
I live in Newport RI (zone 7b), plant every November, 6” deep + mulch with fall leaves, grass clippings or washed seaweed. I harvest around every July 15th + I snip the scapes approx. a month before I harvest! During the Spring I fertilize, water when v dry + stop watering after I remove the scapes- I always get great 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄!
Something I wasn't super clear on was do you harvest only 1 time during the year? I guess since I'm used to grocery store garlic, it doesn't last ~1y in my pantry, but I assume fresh garlic might? Thought I would ask!
I think Potatoes could also go in this list. They are just as easy and abundant. They'll start growing on their own / going to seed like onion and garlic and all you really need to do is plant them and they'll replicate! Though, hilling is a bit of a process but it's not too hard.
Learned from a British fellow who just uses buckets. Every fall he just dumps them and harvests the potatoes, and replants 3 small ones in each bucket and repeats the process. First year you might get no potatoes but the second year you definitely will. Seems that way with many plants. If you build a box framework above the buckets it assists the leaves if they vine. Common potatoes stalk.
What kind of recommendations do you have for people who live in apartments without lawn space to grow some of these? Would love to see a video for that limitation for growing food--I'm sure you have a lot of ideas!
Do you have balcony access? For someone lacking space, you can grow on your balcony especially if it's a glass type since it essentially works like a greenhouse. You won't have the ability to grow as much as in the video, but even growing a couple of bulbs can be satisfying and save you some extra grocery trips I'm sure. Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of sun and have a poor angle of my balcony so I think growing vegetables on it is going to be difficult, the tomato plant I was gifted by a coworker has been struggling a lot, so I will just look into plants that benefit more from being in the shade.
Great informative video! I Just started my first garden at 62yo, lol. I love garlic so am going to plant some this fall and look forward to never having to buy it again! Plus your bulbs look better than most of it I find at the store! You never know how old it is!
Loved this video! I have been considering starting a small garden and this has definitely inspired me to DO IT! Looks like a bit of work, but so worth it & more appreciation when growing yourself.
Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals 😋 💜
I use a growing bag for all of these under ground storage. I started out with sprouted potatoes, then sweet potatoes, then onions & garlics. They’re great to grow. Then practically free food for as long as you keep growing them. Within a year i got a full garden of veggies that i eat, ferment, cook, give away & sold. I live in the middle of a bustling city in Indonesia. The only thing i gave up growing is kale.
FYI Garlic is a mild pest repellent as well, so its not bad to plant them in among other plants you predict could use it. Operative word being mild, it helps against some pests but its not a miracle worker.
For onion seeds what you might want to do is to plant 1 or 2 of the onions you harvested last year (or a store bought) and let them grow into a flower. The year you plant a seed or a set it will focus its energy into creating a big bulb (the onion) and will not make the stalk and flower (or if it does it will be not strong enough). At the beginning of the season plant 2 onions ant it will give you hundreds of seeds (also the flower is quite beautiful)
Love the gardening content and hope to see more of it. It is interesting that you included therapy in a video with gardening content. I started a small garden, for the first time, back in 2013. Since then I have found myself more centered and balanced and I believe gardening is a great form of therapy in it's own unique way. It definitely connects you to the land...i.e...the soil, soil microbes, insects, weather, seasonal changes. I now have a much deeper appreciation for farmers and where food comes from and the work it takes to bring it to our tables. Great video Mike, and thank you for the wonderful content.
one thing if you go to the store to buy onions the onions will usually sprout if planted, in water initially this should give you second year onions, whose purpose in life is mostly just to set seed. not directly useful in that year, but if you collect the seeds, you can plant them (not sure when or where), and they'll be good.
They will get even better over the years. There's something about the ground man, the big symbiosis of the ground and the vegetables that will develop over the years. My grandparents had a food garden that was more than twenthy years old and it was the best I've ever tasted.
I just finished curing and cleaning my hardneck garlic. I had a whole plot this year and got a nice crop for the winter and to share with friends. I am very bless to have a garden, orchard and lake property to enjoy. Is really a joy to garden and grow as much vegies, herbs, flower and fruits. Sometimes, I get some birds too. My experience is that growing your own veggies and eating fresh from garden is the best and you can get so much from a few seeds.
We've been growing tomatoes for a couple years, this year I've planted garlic, spring onions, red onion, yellow onion, bok choy and shallots oh some potatoes as well all from bulbs or just cut offs. Surprisingly everything seems to be doing well thus far. I've tried garlic a couple other times with no luck, planting during summer not during cooler weather
A reason you don't mention: better varieties. I never had Russian red garlic (a hard-neck variety) until moving here, where it's grown locally: enormous, almost sweet cloves, still with pungency AND (big one) *extremely* easy to peel. That stuff from Gilroy - soft-neck small garlic with tightly clinging papery covering - is a pain to peel, with small cloves that lack flavor beyond pungency. The focus of commercial crops is being easy to harvest (thus those tough-skinning tomatoes that are strip-mined somewhere in Texas), withstand long storage, hold up under shipping, etc. - that is, the focus is NOT on taste and flavor and how easy to prepare. Onions, too, have variety beyond just yellow and red. I love sweet onions, apple-like in mildness. However, I think those require low-sulfur soil, so they not be possible in one's own garden but do best in (e.g.) Vidalia, Walla Walla, and Maui, which apparently enjoy low-sulfur soil.
One thing I will point out about buying vegetables and spices from the grocery store is that depending on where they are grown they can pick up heavy metals from the soil. If you grow your own food you can build quality soil to help curb this. You can make your own onion & garlic powder (chili powder too if you grow chilis). Many name-brand spices are very high in heavy metal content not just from where the vegetables are grown, but they pick up a lot during processing. The health perspective is a great case to grow your own as well as avoid any chemical fertilizers & pesticides that have a residual presence.
I've been seeing onions from New Zealand in Czech stores which made me so mad. The idea that it's worth it to transfer a vegetable that can be grown in the final destination literally all around the globe is ridiculous. One of the many reasons I've been motivated to learn how to grow it. Great video!
It brings me to wonder what might be the socioeconomic pressures at play that are making it more affordable to import food from so far away. And a it simply un-beneficial for locals to grow garlic as there are more profitable resources to allocate efforts to, or is there some sort of disruption that has impacted the food chain in some way, or has local cultures changed, focusing so far less on agriculture that such foods must be imported? Or is it political?
transporting stuff is actually absurdly cheap, both in dollars and in carbon, container ships simply are not a big source of emissions. comparative advantage should be taken advantage of where possible, gardening is fun and can be nice, but our food supply system is remarkable and I don’t think it should be disparaged.
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I agree! My community garden plot came with a healthy crop of garlic chives (look it up). I love it in eggs and potatoes... But it grows year round and it's even easier than the bulb plants. The biggest issue is controlling it! This year with all the rain and cool weather we had in California my garlic got rust which made for tiny bulbs and no more garlic in that spot for 3 years. The red onions were smaller than expected but perfect for pickled onions.
I think my number one reason is saving money. Yes these products are not expensive in a store but you can grow these cheap and anywhere in an outdoor area or a single pot in an apartment or a patio very easily
You're forgetting to factor in your labor into the equation. Pay yourself your hourly rate earned at your full time job and I guarantee those vegetables become exorbitantly expensive compared to buying them at the grocery store. Economies of scale always result in a cheaper manufacturing process in mass quantities. When you factor in your time, labor, and water, you're spending more money for the same quantity of vegetables. Yes, you'll get a fresher product and it's self-sufficient, but it would take a market meltdown like a country-wide wipeout of crops or a trucking strike for a home grower's total investment to reach that of the mass-produced produce of today.
I had my seed garlic all set to go for fall planting last fall,, when a major family emergency happened. So in early December when it was too late to plant it. .....I found another way. I filled some gallon zip top bags with soil and put my garlic starts in. I let them sit out in the soil bags for a few days until they sprouted and started tiny roots. then I transferred them to the freezer for the winter so they could go dormant just like it they were outside. I took them out a few days ago and set them out at room temp in the house and let the soil thaw. the seed cloves immediately began to sprout green shoots. I prepared the bed today and they will be planted tomorrow. I see no reason why they won't grow just the same as if they were planted outside last fall. just a little trick in case life prevents you from getting your garlic in!
I love how you include cooking tip along with the growing guide. I'm absolutely fed up of paying an arm and a leg for organic onions at the store. Maybe they had a reputation for being cheap in the past but that really isn't the case anymore. I paid about $1 per onion the other day and we use them with every meal multiple times a day..
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Growing garlic is next level. Plant and forget over the winter and you have the most wonderful produce in spring. Honestly spring garlic has changed my life, or at the very least leveled up my cooking tremendously.
Worth mentioning that it is best to save the biggest garlic heads for re-growing next season. Can be hard since you want to use them but bigger cloves produce bigger, stronger plants.
@@бронза.вафля.конус You know... I don't know. I grow onions from seed so I've never tested that theory. I've never heard of it being true when growing onions from 'sets' but it might be, I grow from seed and get very large onions due to the variety I grow.
As you work more in the garden, I wonder if you’ll dabble in composting too. I LOVE how detailed this video that covers the whole life cycle of the onions and garlic. I would love to see you cover composting options i.e. compost devices vs best low cost(cash, time, equipment etc) option with high value.
Have been growing (Hardneck) garlic and onions for YEARS (zone 6). I get stupendous results from planting, by preparing the the beds w/ low% nitrogen plus pelletized chicken manure, plant the garlic @ 2-3 weeks before first frost, 3-4" of added mulch (mostly milled straw and moderately chopped tree leaves). The garlic will begin to grown and 'leaves' will be growing all winter long especially during a mild winter. In early spring when the soil is at ~50°F (garlic leaves @ about 12" tall) I remove half of the thickness of the mulch; then every two+ weeks I apply a 'tea' made from 1 cup of 'old' chicken poop dissolved in 2.5 gallons of water @ every 2-3 weeks. To ensure strong growth I BUY ~15% new garlic from a commercial grower. Life is good, and 'tasty'. BTW, I always plant onion seeds in 36 cell trays, 'inside' at about 6 weeks before 'normal' planting time (early-mid April) and then slowly 'spoon' the dirt away during the growing season, leaving mostly just the onion rioots covered and the bulbs fully exposed by mid May - life is good. The earlier you plant the onions (obviously not during 'hard' freezes), the better.
I am an onion and garlic growing wizard and concur that it is super easy to grow either and both. Fall is time to plant the garlic, i like to wait until spring to plant onion. you can do it! BTW you skipped garlic bulbils and corms...they are the little tiny cloves that are in the garlic flower, in the stalk or hanging off the head itself. I can tell you more about them if interested. The home grown is more pleasant and will increase in strength as it ages, of course it also depends on the variety you planted :) I also rarely tear up when chopping home grown onion...they rock! I've been saving my onion seeds for years and years. I planted up a large pot with onions which I never harvest and just let them go to seed each year...so I have my own onion seed farm...hasn't failed yet!
Hey man, I don't know if you're too big to have time to read comments these days, but I wanted to let you know that your videos are so much better these days. I love these slow paced, calming videos with great explanations and candid moments and not that many quick cuts. I took a break from your channel when you started having quicker cuts and like TikTok-y kind of vibes, but this is the best one I've seen in a while. Good to have you back, hope the family is well.
Onions and garlic are staples in my house. I learned years ago from horticulturist that the garlic likes to grow in same bed every year. So, you don't need to rotate to somewhere else. Love your video, you taught me something new about harvesting garlic early if you need it. I just have trouble storing onions in "cool, dry place". I need a root cellar. Projects !!!!!
Thank you for sharing Why I will never buy onions and garlic again. because you have planted and grown a lot of bulbs, Hello, I'm from Japan, I've seen it all, clicked a million likes and also rang your bell.
I’m a backyard gardener and I plant garlic 🧄 and onions 🧅 every fall season. I grow my own vegetables and fruits because I was so sick 4 years ago from eating salads. So since then I said I’ll grow what I want to eat and that’s including garlic and onions which I used a lot.
MAKE it own!! -kitchen veg scraps -coffee & tea grounds -rake up some dead leaves & throw on top -Cow/Chicken poop -horse poop if it's left to set out for at least one year --turn it over once a fortnight -- you'll have your own grow-dirt in about 6 months (and LOTS of it😂)
i take the root bulb from store bought green onion and just stick it in the ground and it keeps growing. instant onions. I just cut some off the end when i need it.
i cook Indian cuisine - Garlic, Onion, green chilies and tomatoes are basic ingredients which i get from my backyard. i have too transformed my garden to what i need in everyday cooking. i wish i could grow ginger in Ontario. growing stuff that can be frozen can lead you too self sustainable e.g. peas, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.
Have you grown multiplier onions? You plant them in the fall like garlic and each bulb will divide and grow into several.You can replant some and have an endless supply, too. Shallots can be grown the same way.
They also slice a larger onion in half + use it to clean the grates on the grill. (They just apply pressure downward o to the onion + use it to brush off the grates.)
True story. As a kid, I got into gardening. Planted some onions and garlic. I forgot about them. To this day, nearly 45 years later, I still have volunteer plants that come up from that patch.
wow epic
@@LifebyMikeG yeah epic... you have garlic and onions for a couple months out of the year, you can just fast the rest of the year.
@@thomgizziz You do realize that the appeal of onions and garlic is that they are incredibly easy to store, so you can have them all year?
@@thomgizziz Yes, because "having garlic and onions till next harvest" means he will be starving three quarters of the year. Epic math you have there.
@@thomgizziz What makes you think his diet consists entirely of garlic and onions? lolol
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Thank you! Upvoting this.
Hey folks! If you want to grow onions, make sure you grow the varieties that are compatible with the amount of DAYLIGHT you receive. For example, do not try to grow walla walla onions (a long day/northern onion) in Texas(a short day/southern state). It will not bulb! And yes they do sell the seeds in your local area despite them being almost useless (if you are a southerner). Don't play yourself. If your latitude is low, grow short day varieties.
Onions bulb based on the amount of hours of daylight.
I would've never guessed the day length differences between Washington and Texas would be enough to affect something like that! It's not like you're trying to grow them in Peru.
Homegrown taste so much better 😀 Thank You for all your information ❤
Photothermoperiodic or photoperiodism :)
How do I know which would be appropriate for me in the UK ?
I would just google what is popular in your area, but I imagine, what with the whole UK being so high in latitude that you would have no problem with your onions bulbing and you would grow some type of long day onion. Charles Dowding is a grower in the UK and he has great RUclips content. I'm sure you could get a lot of info off of his channel. @@FahadAyaz
if you want a REALLY easy and prolific plant, grow Egyptian walking onions. They're kind of like spicier shallots. And they seed themselves, so if you forget about them, they just plant themselves. They won't grow really big like a yellow onion, but they're useful and so easy.
Great video!!
Shallots are already very spicy, so I'll take that as a recommendation against Allium x proliferum.
They’re also very drought tolerant and heat resistant
Thanks for the advice
Same with society garlic… get the garlicky flavour from its leaves (not bulbs), and you cannot kill it. I’ve left out plants I dug out for over a month outside in a pot without soil coz I forgot about it and they grew even bigger. That stuff grows like a weed and produces pretty purple flowers.
Egyptian walking onions?? Can we eat them?
You left off a major point... when you grow it at home, you KNOW it isn't sprayed with chemicals and it is truly organic!
One thing worth knowing about growing garlic is that if you want it to have multiple cloves, you actually NEED to plant it before first frost. Not that you 'can' store it underground in the winter, that it actually *requires* getting frosted in order to go through the stratification process, which is what triggers the planted clove to know that once it wakes up, it should split into multiple cloves within an full head. Otherwise, if you just plant your garlic clove any ol' time, it'll essentially stay as a spring onion and only have the one clove at the base, with green shoots as normal. There is no wrong time to plant garlic, but there is a right time for what your intended outcome is!
Also, for braiding garlic, you can really only do it with softneck varieties, since there's no flex to the neck of the hard neck kind, in order to weave. You can use a string and tie them up together to use the string as a sort of netting, but that's a whole other deal. Hardneck varieties are the only kind that produce scapes, and they tend to have larger cloves as well as a shorter shelf life. Softneck-which is pretty much the ONLY kind sold in 'normal' grocery stores-can be braided, and has a longer shelf life, but the cloves are smaller and there aren't any scapes. For what it's worth as well, by the way, the larger the clove you use to plant, the overall larger the size of the cloves in the resulting garlic. If you continually save the largest cloves from your garlic bulb to re plant, even the soft neck varieties will eventually have decently-sized cloves. But as a person who loves garlic and wants to peel as little of it as possible, I'm a fan of hard neck all the way.
So if you were to plant the garlic late winter, does it mean that you will grow solo garlic?
Hi, you seem knowledgeable. Is there any chance you made a video on do’s and dont’s of garlic braiding and storage?
Bang on :) ...(A whole different plant genus ) blueberries are another seed that has to be "frozen" (stratified) for the seed to germinate.
Soo interesting! Thank you for sharing!
We live in a temperature climate where frost is rare and many winters does not occur at all. Our garlic (we grow about 2000/yr) has no trouble forming heads. Plant mid autumn, harvest mid spring. @meowMeowKapow
I had a 92-year-old home health client once who grew Egyptian walking onions. She had been growing the same onions for at least 25-30 years. When I helped her in her garden, pulling the bulbs, I fell in love with this onion type. I like perennials, so I'm going to try this fall to get some started, along with garlic and ginger.
QUESTION: For those of us in apartments, we need help with growing onions and garlic on our patio. What is the minimum depth a pot should be, and what is the minimum spacing in a pot before it’s too crowded.
Also, what kind of watering regiment is optimum? How much sun exposure?
depth, anything you can get, crowding is the same as in ground
1 inch dept, but for space.. I think just give it a normal 20 or 25cm per stalk? Idk tho😅
And let it get some rain water, but never to many.. Idk.. Just forget them maybe?😂 lets try it over n over again!
The previous owner of the house I live in grew vegetables in their garden. When I was clearing some plants to plant sunflowers and zucchini I found garlic, some small onions and lots of carrots. I was suprised to find it since I started gardening 2 years after I moved in and had no idea these were still in the soil, I thought it was mostly weeds
I also had a garlic from the kitchen sprout and put it in a small flower pot and kept watering it, it kept growing for months indoors until I forgot to water it
I’ve been growing garlic and onions for years. Plus a lot of fruits and vegetables. It’s extremely rewarding. More people should learn to garden just in general. Grow your own food lol. It’s delicious! ❤
It makes you appreciate what you eat by a lot as well
I'll stick to watching it's more entertaining to me
@maruiacancerc I’m so sorry about your diagnosis. Please be well, and I’ll be praying for your recovery.
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There are some vegetables that just much more tasty homegrown.
Tomatoes 🍅 and carrots 🥕 have the most difference in my opinion.
Green Beans and most berries (strawberries,... 🍓) are nice and easy too.
Onions are great - you can even harvest the green part of the "spring onions" - if you leave the root it will sprout again.
Not forgetting the feel good factor. Harvesting and cooking with food you've grown is so satisfying. Chickens are so entertaining to watch. Home laid eggs are amazing and even after 20 years, I still thank them for the eggs as I leave the coop.
Awww 🥰 God bless you and your family with your hearts desires for he knows what you have need of❤
Homegrown Berries are also very good. Berries cost so much at stores and they're rarely fresh enough. Yet a berry bush will take over whatever space it can growing countless berries.
Growing garlic is next level. Plant and forget over the winter and you have the most wonderful produce in spring. Honestly spring garlic has changed my life, or at the very least leveled up my cooking tremendously.
One thing you didn’t mention which is SO COOL about growing your own food- variety! You can really hone in on the exact varieties you want to grow, because you love the flavor or because they work well in your climate or they store really well, etc. I live in a bit of a tricky area to garden in and one of my favorite parts of growing food is finding varieties that I love and can perform well in my region. It’s just a rewarding hobby to get into.
that sounds amazing.
Vine ripe tomatoes! Strawberries from stem to mouth! Hundreds of fresh sweet blueberries! Endless potatoes!! I should really start a garden sometime
Don't under estimate the value of growing onions and galic for your local food pantry. Deliver them cleaned off and whole. Watching how various communities wanted the different parts was a learning experience. Our whole garden was for the food pantry❤
I agree. Now i’m working on garden to table meal service by preorder only. I grow so much produce there’s no way to eat them all ourselves. Here in Indonesia there are times when onion’s price sky rocket or garlic or chilies. Having grown my own i could careless how high or low the price go, i simply pick some from the back garden😂😂😂😂😂.
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You're lucky to have the space! Here in Oregon the climate is good for everything except tropical fruit, but my yard is pretty small. My 'in ground' area is about 12 foot square, and I mostly plant garlic there. Using 'grow bags' helps me get a more diverse harvest (usually tomatoes and cucumbers).
Still not enough to share with anyone except family an neighbors.
@@DuckGuy-1957 the difference between where u live & where i live is my produce constantly growing & bearing fruits like tomatoes, zucchini & cucumbers. I use pots & planters for herbs like basil, lemon basil & thai basil. I also got ginger, galangal & lemon grass in the front yard and backyard. My mom loves her fruits so we gotta have guava, papaya & mango trees. Used to have star fruit tree too that bear fruit incessantly large & sweet. Remembering those star fruits always make me wanna cry when i saw them on promo for $1 each in my college days in AZ. But yes, i am lucky that my mom decides to keep front & backyards and i could grow all the food i want. I don’t know how long your growing season is, but out here is all year round. We also got pumpkin patch too.
@@ima7333mbaaaakkk tinggal di manaaa? Mau liat kebunnya dooong..
Galic?
PLEASE do a gardening series! 🙏🏼❤️
Oh my gosh I would give him a kidney to get him to do a garden series :D
Agreed please do garden series
@maruiacancercoh wow, im sorry for you… I hope you get well soon! Cancer can suck. Enjoy the things you have and great for you for discovering new things!
I’d like to see him grow microdwarf tomatoes. If you plant hem now you will be picking tomatoes Christmas time grow them in a south facing window the northern hemisphere.
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I overdid it as well when I first attempted a backyard garden. I ended up with a little of everything but not enough for a meal. This year I am only focusing on a few items in bulk. Green beans, tomato, peas, spinach, green onion. I tried broccoli and the plants have grown well since last winter but aren't producing the flowerettes we know and love so looks like failed on that.
Thanks for your video, def leaning into onions and garlic this year along with all the wonderful fresh spices that are super easy to grow.
Growing up my Pops always gardened and I honestly did not enjoy getting drug out every weekend to tend to the gardens. Now I totally get it and why Pops loved gardening so much. It truly is good for the soul even when you fail miserably. You get better for the next go.
Thanks for sharing.
I grow these 2 crops and love them. I let the onion sit in the soil until the green part is dried up, then theyre ready for fall harvest.
Loved this video. I've been a small home gardener for more than 30 years. You're featuring two of the easiest crops to grow.
One thing I've learned about garlic is that if you aren't planning to use the scapes, remove them as soon as they appear. You will increase the size of your bulbs by as much as 40%. As well, save your largest cloves for sowing. There's a significant difference in the size of bulb produced from a large clove and a small clove.
As for onions, I've had the best success with sowing onion seedlings. I grow my own seedlings. I choose varieties that are best for storage. Sometimes I will grow a small amount of some well-known varieties that don't store well - Walla Walla and Vidalia are two of these varieties.
Cheers.
So for onion you are buying the seedling everytime you are planting a new batch?
@@-dash. What I meant is that I germinate my own seeds for seedlings.
@priayief Ah so like the flower he shown in the video? you pluck them off and germinate them in small pots?
@@-dash. Nope. I purchase my onion seeds. The varieties I grow are hybrids, which means that if I save seeds and grow seedlings from them, I won't get the genetic traits of the plant.
I'm not much of a seed saver, as I grow mostly hybrid types of vegetables.
I grew 30 beautiful bulbs from farmer's market garlic this year and it's hanging braided in my kitchen where I just cut one off as needed. So cool! I'll grow more this year for sure, my current harvest won't get me through the year.
Another plus to growing your own is that you get to share time with, create memories, and teach your children about where food comes from. Little gardeners are good for the Earth
😊 so true! I've been gardening since I was 15. Every year I look forward to the experience. I'm almost 43 now with 3 sons, 19,16, and 10yrs old. I love it even more now with my boys involved. We are all getting in touch with nature and they're learning more and more. I grow medicinal plants as well. We make teas, succus, tinctures. And, with onion and garlic, I keep the skins and make our own powder. Good stuff!
Loving it!
Garlic blossoms look really similar to leek blossoms before they open! Do they also have white, very small and adorable blossoms? Now, when you grow/regrow leek, it'll eventually stop regrowing at some point and grow a flower instead. The cool thing about that is: You can just gently shake the flower and live pollen will fall out. If they fall onto soil, like when you let them fall into a pot filled with soil, they will slowly but surely grow into more leek. I just love self pollinating plants. That is also how to "make" more peace lilies when they get those beautiful, big white flowers a few times a year.
add carrots and radishes to your mix. both easy and tasty also many varieties. We used to grow potatoes as a kid and all I remember was planting, forgetting and harvesting; they are more work to harvest but again, if you like a specific hard to find type, they are easy. And for fun, plant sunflowers for awesome looks :) Local birds will love you.
Totally. After years of gardening I have concluded that the absolute best things to grow in a garden (zone 7b) are greens, lettuces, herbs (all of these are salad items) and garlic, onions, and maybe potatoes.
This has been my 4th year growing both onion and garlic. Once you know the right type to grow and the timing, they are incredibly easy to grow.
I havbece been gardening from the time i rented my first house in th mid 1980s but never grew onions because of limited space and as you said, they are realitively cheap to buy and i used a lot of them. However, after paying over $3 for ONE red onion last year, i bought some red onion sets and I am growing them in containers this year. another tip: I used to always plant a clove or two of garlic by my roses and in among my flowers to keep the bugs away and they seem to be great compainions,
One more important point is that you know what kind of fertilizer you used. Not full of unhealthy chemicals. I plant 300 bulbs every year and give most of it away to family and friends and yes, keep some to plant again in the fall. Just did onions for the first time this year! So fun to be able to provide for yourself. Thanks for another great video.
We garden on our farm in central Ontario. Our son also has a market garden here. 43 years ago, we bought a basket of garlic from my parents' next door neighbor, a wonderful Ukrainian guy named Nick Pocsje. He had smuggled it from Poland. It s the most flavorful variety that we have ever tried. We have sold or given bulbs to people that have won local agricultural fairs. Several years ago the University of Guelph DNA tested our variety as "Polish White" If you are looking for a variety to try, that is the one.
Love it! I’m growing garlic for the first time this year. Onions next spring. I’ve been growing all of the basics for the last few years ever since I got into gardening during Covid where I had unintended time off. My focus has always been varieties that I can’t easily find at the store or things I use a lot. Excited to get into the alliums a bit more!
If you're looking for something new to try, horseradish grows like gangbusters almost anywhere. I had a plant in a 5 gal bucket that eventually busted out of it like Audrey 2 lol
@@tompadfoot3065 --yes, it will spread everywhere, of you don't keep it contained! I rememher my Dad growing it when I was a child. If you threw a chunk of the root down on the ground, it would root right there & grow. Also, if you grate up your horseradish in a prcessor or blender, do not put these appliances to close to your face!!(I did this once to see if it was grated fine enough and I couldn't breathe! The odor was so pungent & strong, it nearly caused me to pass out!! So, be very carfull when or if you do this!). Never tried to grow it in a container, though. We had to be careful when we dug it up. Any little piece left in the ground, would then grow into new plants.
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Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals
Hi Mike, I just wanted to say thank you.
Brothers Green inspired me to cook. You and Josh made cooking seem so easy and fun and I started cooking, to the point that I actually got semi-decent at it.
I'm moving out in a couple of weeks and will definitely be looking forward to starting my own little kitchen garden.
try to chop the fresh garlic with the green stem in foodprosessor, add olive oil just to make it paste, add salt equal to 5% of the garlic weight, put in a closed jar but not tight for 4-6 days open it once a day for 5 min, put in the fridge it will last for 2 years min, it super tasty and nice for cooking
Gardening is really good for yourself it teaches you how to provide for yourself even if it's just a little. Not to mention saving you the environmental impact of trucks driving your stores produce around.
Also as he said you can get some nice variety, stores usually only have the same stuff over and over again. But there's tons of different types and flavor profiles outside of the types that are mass produced. It also feels nice to see exactly where your food comes from cause there's no changing hands and locations. Can also save you issues if a mass farm has a failure with certain crops like losing it to disease or pests which results in a shortage, whereas you have your own to get through it.
It really is so good to garden.
Just harvested my 1st 13 (?) onions in 2 10” pots - ate some & forgot to count.
Love the info on using the green tops - thanks👍🏻
Will try garlic next❣️
I love this video so much. It's super informative and really shows the whole process and different things you can do throughout the process. Would love to see a whole series on this with all the different vegetables you grow in your garden.
I'm in zone 7b, also. Great to know about garlic storing itself over the winter. I love garlic & onions. Definitely want to grow a ton. Thanks for making this video.
I have a problem growing onions & garlic in my area of Michigan. I live on an old river flood plain. My soil contains alot of heavy clay. And in the Spring or in very wet weather, it holds alot of water.(The water table is very high in the Spring!) The one time I tried to grow both onions & garlic, they were very small so, if I want to grow them again, I'll have to use raised beds or grow sacks I guess. Thanks for all the tips, though.
SW FL here, we get LOTS of water too😂😂😂 I have to use Homer Buckets during Rainy season A LOT!! With 4 holes drilled into the bottom of each bucket. And when I say "drilled" I mean a Phillips and a hammer😂😂😂
Yes! Garlic! I grow lots of it every year & I haven't had to buy any for as long as I can remember. I cook a lot & grow all of the alliums...garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, chives.
For onions & shallots I recommend buying the seed you want and starting them in pots (like what you would buy as starts at a nursery). Sets, which you get in a bag of small bulbs are less desirable IMO because the plants often don't know if they're in their 1st or 2nd year...many will think they're in the 2nd year and thus won't form a bulb and will simply make a flower.
I needed this video. I'd recommend potato/sweet potato next, because I as a non-gardener, have managed to overrun my back garden with sweet potato. It even outcompetes the weeds.
Sounds like a good problem to have
Helpful flavor hint for Zucchini in pasta, Shred it. Cook it down first with your Garlic and onions, then add your tomatoes and whatever else you'd like. But the Zuch really blends in better to a sauce with it isn't in huge chunks.. Now if you like it that way or don't have kids that THINK they dislike Zuchs then whatever but for a flavor profile, it's better shredded.
Add shallots to your garden! They grow exactly the same as onions, spaced a little closer. Would love to see what you do with an abundance of those - I'm swimming in them this year 😊
Alison Roman has a good caramelized shallot pasta recipe
That cannot be good for your eyes ... unless you're wearing goggles
Fabulous video, thank you for sharing. One thing that I find curious about store bought garlic is the tendency for the garlic to rot if not used for a few weeks yet I see garlic braids that seem to last for months.
Another point, you can also grow onions from the bottom scraps from whence the roots pop out!
I’ve been waiting for someone to do a garden to kitchen show. Thank you for this great episode! 😊🎉
I would add shallots to the list for a few reasons. They are just as easy to grow as onions, but they provide a much better flavour in some cooked dishes, especially anything with seafood. However, a key difference is shallots are expensive in the supermarket where I am in Melbourne. Onions will be around $3/kg whereas shallots are $18/kg. Grown from seed which is cheap, they only use the opportunity cost of the space they take up. As with onions and garlic, you can plant them densely.
Longtime follower here-you just inspired me to go plant some of both! I was a bit put off from gardening after my everglades tomato seedlings failed once actually outside, but these look so hardy that I feel they may actually survive. Thanks a ton for both the inspiration and the instructions! :)
They’re growing!!!!!
Alliums are a hardy bunch. Some of the most recognizable alliums are onions, garlic, chives, leeks, and shallots.
About a dozen years ago I grew chives in a pot. At one point I forgot to water them for a week. Despite my neglect, they were just fine - and I live in a semi-desert, so it gets *super* hot out here (I'm talking triple digits). I decided to see how long it would take to kill it. Y'all, it took about a year of not watering - _in a drought_ - to kill them. So, yes, they are easy to grow.
7:08... wow what a camera trick. you look so different planting the onions than on your regular shot... amazing! LOL... great video.
I live in Newport RI (zone 7b), plant every November, 6” deep + mulch with fall leaves, grass clippings or washed seaweed. I harvest around every July 15th + I snip the scapes approx. a month before I harvest! During the Spring I fertilize, water when v dry + stop watering after I remove the scapes- I always get great 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄!
I think you just persuaded me to give gardening a try. Been wanting to give it a go & garlic seems like my starting place. Thanks for sharing this
Something I wasn't super clear on was do you harvest only 1 time during the year? I guess since I'm used to grocery store garlic, it doesn't last ~1y in my pantry, but I assume fresh garlic might? Thought I would ask!
I think Potatoes could also go in this list. They are just as easy and abundant. They'll start growing on their own / going to seed like onion and garlic and all you really need to do is plant them and they'll replicate! Though, hilling is a bit of a process but it's not too hard.
Learned from a British fellow who just uses buckets. Every fall he just dumps them and harvests the potatoes, and replants 3 small ones in each bucket and repeats the process. First year you might get no potatoes but the second year you definitely will. Seems that way with many plants. If you build a box framework above the buckets it assists the leaves if they vine. Common potatoes stalk.
I grew some in an bed last year. Didn’t get all of them io and this spring they’re sprouting. Will I get more potatoes?
This is me and my brother’s first year gardening and we chose to grow both garlic and onion, this was the perfect video!
What kind of recommendations do you have for people who live in apartments without lawn space to grow some of these? Would love to see a video for that limitation for growing food--I'm sure you have a lot of ideas!
Do you have balcony access? For someone lacking space, you can grow on your balcony especially if it's a glass type since it essentially works like a greenhouse. You won't have the ability to grow as much as in the video, but even growing a couple of bulbs can be satisfying and save you some extra grocery trips I'm sure. Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of sun and have a poor angle of my balcony so I think growing vegetables on it is going to be difficult, the tomato plant I was gifted by a coworker has been struggling a lot, so I will just look into plants that benefit more from being in the shade.
Great informative video! I Just started my first garden at 62yo, lol. I love garlic so am going to plant some this fall and look forward to never having to buy it again! Plus your bulbs look better than most of it I find at the store! You never know how old it is!
Loved this video! I have been considering starting a small garden and this has definitely inspired me to DO IT! Looks like a bit of work, but so worth it & more appreciation when growing yourself.
Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals 😋 💜
Imho potatoes are the easiest to grow. It just takes a lot of space
I use a growing bag for all of these under ground storage. I started out with sprouted potatoes, then sweet potatoes, then onions & garlics. They’re great to grow. Then practically free food for as long as you keep growing them. Within a year i got a full garden of veggies that i eat, ferment, cook, give away & sold. I live in the middle of a bustling city in Indonesia. The only thing i gave up growing is kale.
So far potatoes have been pretty easy in grow bags. I started with 2 this year to try it and they did fantastic. Might up it to 3 next year.
FYI Garlic is a mild pest repellent as well, so its not bad to plant them in among other plants you predict could use it. Operative word being mild, it helps against some pests but its not a miracle worker.
You have enough garlic for the fall/winter!
You’re also very protected against vampires.
It’s a win win!
For onion seeds what you might want to do is to plant 1 or 2 of the onions you harvested last year (or a store bought) and let them grow into a flower. The year you plant a seed or a set it will focus its energy into creating a big bulb (the onion) and will not make the stalk and flower (or if it does it will be not strong enough). At the beginning of the season plant 2 onions ant it will give you hundreds of seeds (also the flower is quite beautiful)
Love the gardening content and hope to see more of it. It is interesting that you included therapy in a video with gardening content. I started a small garden, for the first time, back in 2013. Since then I have found myself more centered and balanced and I believe gardening is a great form of therapy in it's own unique way. It definitely connects you to the land...i.e...the soil, soil microbes, insects, weather, seasonal changes. I now have a much deeper appreciation for farmers and where food comes from and the work it takes to bring it to our tables. Great video Mike, and thank you for the wonderful content.
one thing if you go to the store to buy onions
the onions will usually sprout if planted, in water initially
this should give you second year onions, whose purpose in life is mostly just to set seed. not directly useful in that year, but if you collect the seeds, you can plant them (not sure when or where), and they'll be good.
They will get even better over the years. There's something about the ground man, the big symbiosis of the ground and the vegetables that will develop over the years. My grandparents had a food garden that was more than twenthy years old and it was the best I've ever tasted.
I just finished curing and cleaning my hardneck garlic. I had a whole plot this year and got a nice crop for the winter and to share with friends. I am very bless to have a garden, orchard and lake property to enjoy. Is really a joy to garden and grow as much vegies, herbs, flower and fruits. Sometimes, I get some birds too. My experience is that growing your own veggies and eating fresh from garden is the best and you can get so much from a few seeds.
Bro made an infinite garlic glitch without spending any money
We've been growing tomatoes for a couple years, this year I've planted garlic, spring onions, red onion, yellow onion, bok choy and shallots oh some potatoes as well all from bulbs or just cut offs. Surprisingly everything seems to be doing well thus far. I've tried garlic a couple other times with no luck, planting during summer not during cooler weather
A reason you don't mention: better varieties. I never had Russian red garlic (a hard-neck variety) until moving here, where it's grown locally: enormous, almost sweet cloves, still with pungency AND (big one) *extremely* easy to peel. That stuff from Gilroy - soft-neck small garlic with tightly clinging papery covering - is a pain to peel, with small cloves that lack flavor beyond pungency. The focus of commercial crops is being easy to harvest (thus those tough-skinning tomatoes that are strip-mined somewhere in Texas), withstand long storage, hold up under shipping, etc. - that is, the focus is NOT on taste and flavor and how easy to prepare. Onions, too, have variety beyond just yellow and red. I love sweet onions, apple-like in mildness. However, I think those require low-sulfur soil, so they not be possible in one's own garden but do best in (e.g.) Vidalia, Walla Walla, and Maui, which apparently enjoy low-sulfur soil.
One thing I will point out about buying vegetables and spices from the grocery store is that depending on where they are grown they can pick up heavy metals from the soil. If you grow your own food you can build quality soil to help curb this. You can make your own onion & garlic powder (chili powder too if you grow chilis). Many name-brand spices are very high in heavy metal content not just from where the vegetables are grown, but they pick up a lot during processing. The health perspective is a great case to grow your own as well as avoid any chemical fertilizers & pesticides that have a residual presence.
I've been seeing onions from New Zealand in Czech stores which made me so mad. The idea that it's worth it to transfer a vegetable that can be grown in the final destination literally all around the globe is ridiculous. One of the many reasons I've been motivated to learn how to grow it. Great video!
It brings me to wonder what might be the socioeconomic pressures at play that are making it more affordable to import food from so far away. And a it simply un-beneficial for locals to grow garlic as there are more profitable resources to allocate efforts to, or is there some sort of disruption that has impacted the food chain in some way, or has local cultures changed, focusing so far less on agriculture that such foods must be imported? Or is it political?
transporting stuff is actually absurdly cheap, both in dollars and in carbon, container ships simply are not a big source of emissions. comparative advantage should be taken advantage of where possible, gardening is fun and can be nice, but our food supply system is remarkable and I don’t think it should be disparaged.
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Not enough garlic 😀
I agree!
My community garden plot came with a healthy crop of garlic chives (look it up). I love it in eggs and potatoes... But it grows year round and it's even easier than the bulb plants. The biggest issue is controlling it!
This year with all the rain and cool weather we had in California my garlic got rust which made for tiny bulbs and no more garlic in that spot for 3 years. The red onions were smaller than expected but perfect for pickled onions.
What a luxury it must be to have space to grow your own food that’s amazing thank for sharing I miss my garden.
I think my number one reason is saving money. Yes these products are not expensive in a store but you can grow these cheap and anywhere in an outdoor area or a single pot in an apartment or a patio very easily
You're forgetting to factor in your labor into the equation. Pay yourself your hourly rate earned at your full time job and I guarantee those vegetables become exorbitantly expensive compared to buying them at the grocery store. Economies of scale always result in a cheaper manufacturing process in mass quantities. When you factor in your time, labor, and water, you're spending more money for the same quantity of vegetables. Yes, you'll get a fresher product and it's self-sufficient, but it would take a market meltdown like a country-wide wipeout of crops or a trucking strike for a home grower's total investment to reach that of the mass-produced produce of today.
I had my seed garlic all set to go for fall planting last fall,, when a major family emergency happened. So in early December when it was too late to plant it. .....I found another way. I filled some gallon zip top bags with soil and put my garlic starts in. I let them sit out in the soil bags for a few days until they sprouted and started tiny roots. then I transferred them to the freezer for the winter so they could go dormant just like it they were outside.
I took them out a few days ago and set them out at room temp in the house and let the soil thaw.
the seed cloves immediately began to sprout green shoots. I prepared the bed today and they will be planted tomorrow.
I see no reason why they won't grow just the same as if they were planted outside last fall.
just a little trick in case life prevents you from getting your garlic in!
My man just discovered gardening.
thanks for the encouragement! I only grow flowers bc we have a great farmers market but honestly, why not plant garlic? We love it
First. Love onions and garlic in my vegan cooking. Thanks for the vid.
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I love how you include cooking tip along with the growing guide. I'm absolutely fed up of paying an arm and a leg for organic onions at the store. Maybe they had a reputation for being cheap in the past but that really isn't the case anymore. I paid about $1 per onion the other day and we use them with every meal multiple times a day..
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Growing garlic is next level. Plant and forget over the winter and you have the most wonderful produce in spring. Honestly spring garlic has changed my life, or at the very least leveled up my cooking tremendously.
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Worth mentioning that it is best to save the biggest garlic heads for re-growing next season. Can be hard since you want to use them but bigger cloves produce bigger, stronger plants.
Sounds like Darwinism for veggies ...
It's it the same for onions?
@@бронза.вафля.конус You know... I don't know. I grow onions from seed so I've never tested that theory.
I've never heard of it being true when growing onions from 'sets' but it might be, I grow from seed and get very large onions due to the variety I grow.
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As you work more in the garden, I wonder if you’ll dabble in composting too. I LOVE how detailed this video that covers the whole life cycle of the onions and garlic. I would love to see you cover composting options i.e. compost devices vs best low cost(cash, time, equipment etc) option with high value.
Great Video, I planted some onions a couple weeks ago here in Florida, and will start my first Garlic crop this Fall when it gets cold enough!
Have been growing (Hardneck) garlic and onions for YEARS (zone 6). I get stupendous results from planting, by preparing the the beds w/ low% nitrogen plus pelletized chicken manure, plant the garlic @ 2-3 weeks before first frost, 3-4" of added mulch (mostly milled straw and moderately chopped tree leaves). The garlic will begin to grown and 'leaves' will be growing all winter long especially during a mild winter. In early spring when the soil is at ~50°F (garlic leaves @ about 12" tall) I remove half of the thickness of the mulch; then every two+ weeks I apply a 'tea' made from 1 cup of 'old' chicken poop dissolved in 2.5 gallons of water @ every 2-3 weeks. To ensure strong growth I BUY ~15% new garlic from a commercial grower. Life is good, and 'tasty'.
BTW, I always plant onion seeds in 36 cell trays, 'inside' at about 6 weeks before 'normal' planting time (early-mid April) and then slowly 'spoon' the dirt away during the growing season, leaving mostly just the onion rioots covered and the bulbs fully exposed by mid May - life is good. The earlier you plant the onions (obviously not during 'hard' freezes), the better.
I am an onion and garlic growing wizard and concur that it is super easy to grow either and both. Fall is time to plant the garlic, i like to wait until spring to plant onion. you can do it! BTW you skipped garlic bulbils and corms...they are the little tiny cloves that are in the garlic flower, in the stalk or hanging off the head itself. I can tell you more about them if interested. The home grown is more pleasant and will increase in strength as it ages, of course it also depends on the variety you planted :) I also rarely tear up when chopping home grown onion...they rock! I've been saving my onion seeds for years and years. I planted up a large pot with onions which I never harvest and just let them go to seed each year...so I have my own onion seed farm...hasn't failed yet!
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Onions and garlic are staples in my house. I learned years ago from horticulturist that the garlic likes to grow in
same bed every year. So, you don't need to rotate to somewhere else. Love your video, you taught me something new about harvesting garlic early if you need it. I just have trouble storing onions in "cool, dry place". I need a root
cellar. Projects !!!!!
I picked about 35 garlic heads this summer. Definitely leaving space for it in my garden. Such a high value crop for the place it takes
Thank you for sharing Why I will never buy onions and garlic again. because you have planted and grown a lot of bulbs, Hello, I'm from Japan, I've seen it all, clicked a million likes and also rang your bell.
I’m a backyard gardener and I plant garlic 🧄 and onions 🧅 every fall season. I grow my own vegetables and fruits because I was so sick 4 years ago from eating salads. So since then I said I’ll grow what I want to eat and that’s including garlic and onions which I used a lot.
I don't have a garden unfortunately, but I am now keen to use more garlic. Thank you for the video!
Here in Sweden, buying soil for gardening costs way more per garlic than just buying garlic at the store :( same with all vegetables pretty much.
MAKE it own!!
-kitchen veg scraps
-coffee & tea grounds
-rake up some dead leaves & throw on top
-Cow/Chicken poop
-horse poop if it's left to set out for at least one year
--turn it over once a fortnight
-- you'll have your own grow-dirt in about 6 months (and LOTS of it😂)
i take the root bulb from store bought green onion and just stick it in the ground and it keeps growing. instant onions. I just cut some off the end when i need it.
Excellent video and advice! As a keen relatively new gardener who has grown onions & garlic for 2 years now, I completely agree ❤
i cook Indian cuisine - Garlic, Onion, green chilies and tomatoes are basic ingredients which i get from my backyard. i have too transformed my garden to what i need in everyday cooking. i wish i could grow ginger in Ontario. growing stuff that can be frozen can lead you too self sustainable e.g. peas, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.
Have you grown multiplier onions? You plant them in the fall like garlic and each bulb will divide and grow into several.You can replant some and have an endless supply, too. Shallots can be grown the same way.
They also slice a larger onion in half + use it to clean the grates on the grill. (They just apply pressure downward o to the onion + use it to brush off the grates.)