@@angelashaw9765 Only use raw honey. I put mine in a mason jar with a Mason Tops fermenting lid on it. You need to shake or turn over the honey in the jar twice a day to keep the garlic cover in the honey. If you don't have a Mason Top you can use a regular lid but you'll have to burp it daily.
Yes Sir, I was a teenager in the '60's at Grandpa's and he didn't wash off the roots of garlic, peanuts, taters, turnips,etc. He laid them all on hay, and taters got sprinkled with lime, and peanuts with the green tops were sprinkled with salt.
I thought that my garlic hadn’t turned out right. I planted late October and harvested them last month. I ignored them becuz I was so disappointed. Last night I was gonna dry them and make garlic powder or garlic salt. They were so fragrant that I decided to bite one and OMG!!! The best, pungent, and spicy garlic ever. I regret not planting more.
I failed miserably on my first year of growing garlic but now from learning from this garden king i hope next years harvest will be better. Thanks Nate, learn something every video and I've been growing for years and wondering what I've been doing wrong. Now I know so much more. Thanks again!!
I harvested my garlic last month. Never grown it before but super easy and bug and deer resistant. I bought the Jadam Organic Farming book by Youngsang Cho. Best garden book I've ever read. I break all the input solutions formulas down to make 1 gallon to put in my pump sprayer. I know some people say they don't know how to do the calculations from liters, etc, to gallons, ounces, etc, and to small quantities. It's not that hard - simple math. Just ask the Google. I've been observing all the plants in my area that bugs, critters, and deer won't touch. Hands down, here it's ferns, and they're plentiful, so I made JHS with ferns and hot peppers. This evening, I mixed a gallon of JNP. I tried it on an army worm that unwittingly wandered into my path. Or was it I wandered into its path? Who knows and who cares. It was too close to my cabbages. Yes I have cabbages in GA in July. Almost instant death. I sprayed a small portion of my garden and will observe for a couple days to make sure I didn't harm the plants. I almost can't wait for the tomato horn worms to show up. Thanks, my friend, for turning me on to all this. Knowledge is always there waiting for me to stumble upon. I only have to go out and stumble more.
Printrbear, you prompted me to say how I dry my garlic. In the back of my firewood storage building, (no sun and plenty of air flow). I have a few pipes ran from wall to wall, about 7' high. I slip knot both ends of a string, open the "circle" large enough to pull the greens of the garlic through. I do the same on the other end of the string. Arrange the heads so that they have space between them. Pull the slip knot tight, then throw one of the bundles over the pipe and adjust both bundles so there is distance and air flow between the heads. I started doing it this way knowing that at the end of the season, a plants aerial parts "juices" are "drained" into the roots to preserve the plant. With that thinking, anything possibly left in the green stems should "drain" into the heads of the garlic. I can't prove any difference but it makes sense to me and curing garlic this way has worked like a charm for 8 years now.
Excellent ! Never heard the erect scape idea , pretty cool. Side note for readers . I’ve seen you can use a fence for hanging , however do it out of the sun . Also last year I used my corn stalks over top of chopped up leaves for my garlic and it worked great to protect the garlic and keep out weeds without having it buy in straw
I use pine straw because I live in the forest and it’s free and very readily available. It works great! I’m also lucky to be able to find leaf mold nearly everywhere. It’s so awesome! ☺️
Again a good video especially discussing when to harvest by leaving garlic scapes. I recently learned that not only we should grow the biggest clove but select them from a bulb with most numbers of cloves on it.
Yes I love garlic too. Still new at learning how to plant garlic. Got some from the nursery last year. Only two made it. But next time I will know better, as to how to plant it. Now I am preparing to soil for spring. Heard a statement. "A farmer grows soil not plants" Something like that. Thank you Nate for another great video. ❤🇿🇦💚👍
This year i followed your previous video about garlic, and i got a fantastic harvest, with enormous bulbs. But i didn t waited for the scapes to come, i harvested after a heavy drought, when all my plant felt on their side, yellowing. I ll try that next year, and a bit more watering during drought...
Hi Nate I got a decent harvest of garlic this year, I planted them on bush beans because you said previously and it definitely works. I also put ash and mulched with compost twice during the growing period.👍🏻🤠💗🙏
yes my friend I'm learning more and more about the presentation of the knowledge as the time and videos go on!!... and learning new things along the way!
Thanks! Great info on garlic! I literally knew nothing before this video. Now, I feel confident! I'm going to plant green beans here during the summer in prep for the garlic!
Also I’m the one who commented on monster seed..... I did much research on this and have found that if you plant from the same family of seed, cucumbers, melons, etc...... you can NOT save and replant the seed! That’s Monster! You must NOT SAVE their seed. That’s where you get the cross breed seed. Love your channel Nate and blessings to your sharing information.
thats a great idea!!... I could definitely do that but to do it properly I'd want to take you guys through an entire run or two including the cloning aspect and keeping mothers, when/how to harvest, drying and curing, etc.... but thats not possible in my state at this time!!!
@@gardenlikeaviking I have 3, 1 is doing okay and the other 2 are like growing upward with sparse leaves, I have no money this year for the good stuff, so I am going to follow your videos for help. btw I live in your zone too, Columbus, Ohio 5a, so that is cool, I know I am going to be learning a lot. Okay my friend...✌
Ive grown garlic for 6 years straight and it never occurred to me that I should use manure as a top dressing. Makes complete sense and thank you for waking me up. Would it be an issue to use fresh manure? Also, can I use home made compost instead of the straw? If yes, how thick should I lay it?Thank you for all your wonderful content. You have totally changed my way of life.
fresh manure in the fall when planting is great!!... that horse manure I used was fresh from the horses in the last week or two!... if using compost on top of the manure make it so about 4 inches of total organic material is on top... maybe up to 6 inches... but straw works so fantastic for this application I suggest sourcing some
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, some new learning this way cometh. I always cut off my garlic scapes to eat when curly. I never new that if you left them on they straighten out and we’re an indication of when they are ready to harvest. Thanks for the info. I’ll try it on a few next year!!!
actually I think I was a bit unclear in the video... I do cut the scapes off 99% of them but leave them on only a few select plants to indicate to me when the rest are ready to harvest!!... it's perfect indicator
Hi Nate, it is your northern friend here up in Saskatchewan, central Canada's bread basket. Thought I'd check out your garlic tips. I've been growing about ten years, starting with about eight heads of garlic my uncle gave me, grown out on the western coast. I built it up, with addition of other varieties from the sellers, to a crop of about 2400 heads which I sell into local market. About a third of the crop goes to replanting. I found in the literature that the very largest cloves are not necessarily the best, but just large ones. We definitely don't want to plant any little stuff. I keep good records, so maybe I'll test that out and use only the very largest, this year. As I watched I was impressed that I do pretty much everything the same way you do. For curing, I just use my greenhouse, a 20x50 commercial style unit. The shade cloth goes over the entire structure, the fans set to run at about 70-75 degrees. After two or three weeks, I put them up in plastic milk crates and store in my dry, dark, insulated garage which I keep at about 50 degrees during our deep-freeze winters. They keep great! I will be pulling my crop in two weeks and I am still eating from last year's stock. So, when I harvest the bulbs, I do trim off about half the stalk/leaves, gently removing the dirt in the roots, but no further tampering. I used to hang them when I began, but now I just lay them out one layer deep, shingle style, on large screen mesh tables and other tables get sheets of cardboard laid on them. You are absolutely correct about leaving them dirty and taking no layers off. Pretty doesn't matter. Storing a long time does. My last step is simply to trim off the stalk, leaving the stem about 3 inches, just like you do, and the beard, leaving about a half inch of root whiskers. Funny, I have never seen anyone besides me, leave three inch stems! I use horse manure in the soil, here, working in about 6 inches on the gardens every third year. I have so much room, here that I can rotate every crop easily, even my large ones, like potatoes and garlic and onions, as well as give ample spacing, so amending every year not necessary at all. My main cropper gardens are situated beneath a gentle slope which is a horse pasture, so the runoff from that is manure tea! Everything is "super-size-me" out of those gardens! My Flat Dutch cabbages will approach twenty pounds, sometimes. Anyway, I have not thought about adding nitrogen. I don't have a long enough season to put bush beans in at mid-August and too busy to implement that anyway. Most years the nights reach freezing temps about mid-September. But I am going to try putting a sprinkle of nitrogen fertilizer on the beds in the fall, before laying the straw down. Now, I'm stoked to see what that does! One difference is that I plant the garlics deeper than you, pushing them in about 3 inches. They can get set pretty firmly in the ground so I have a special skinny shovel to break the soil around them at harvesttime. Also, I have not previously done any feeding. I will try adding nitrogen into the situation as you suggest. Always looking for ways to up my game and you are a good resource for that. Thanks for your dedication and heart for sharing! This is a noble work!
There’s so many garlic variety. Already pre ordered my garlic for the fall. This year I’m growing Northern White and Purple Russian. I’m also growing some from the store.
I am a container gardener and ordered hard neck Russian Red which I planted last fall covering with straw. It all rotted by spring. I'm in zone 5a. Ended up planting store bought in the spring and got a small harvest with small bulbs. Will try again this fall.
lol I did a couple things wrong with my Spanish Roja. I still have other varieties in the ground so I have the opportunity to do better!! Beautiful garlic Nate!! You truly are the master gardener!
I happen to love garlic as well 😅 specially because its so heating, if we think in herbalism /ayurvedic terms.. i live in very cold climate and i suffer the coldness immensely... I need the garlic 😛
My garlic was was weak. I can't find a guaranteed contaminate-free manure source. I started a worm bin this year. As always, concise information that really highlights your working knowledge. Tyvm!
Well guess what my friend, we have horses. And their manure is good. So I will use it for the garlic this Fall. What a tip. Also, I had no idea the garlic scapes will stand straight up when ready. I was told to harvest the scapes too. Well, I will leave them on this coming new planting. Thank you so much. Excellent tips. 👍
@@gardenlikeaviking Ok! So that small patch lets you know is time to harvest. Got it. Tell, would you plant onions with the garlic? Lets say a square foot garden, would you share the bed for garlic and onions? Or is it best to have them away from each other? I'm learning, can you tell?
Great looking garlic Nate. I just saw a video from your area northern Indiana. A corn farmer giving poison application times. Multiple poisons applied monthly. Scary stuff. They're killing the people who eat ther corn.
We still have some soft necks from last year. Read the opposite soft keeps longer than hard. Honestly it could be that it’s just easier! I braid 12 and hang them up where it can dry. Love the hard-necks for scapes! Such a nice flavor. Somehow the hard necks I thought I planted turned out to be soft necks tho! No scapes. Was very sad! Ended up with a bit over 100. Will have to find some good hard necks to plant in addition to the soft necks I grew this year. You happen to sell any bulbs? 😁
I have never had success in planting those, how many times do you water it in a week and what kind of fertilisers can one apply eg egg shells, wood ash, banana peels etc
Thanks Nate, I'll be lucky if I could fill a small coat hanger with this years produce, it went to sh1t with the massive drought we had, maybe next year, I've got something that tastes of garlic its actually nice, I doubt I'll be feasting on it for Christmas.
I'm really sorry to hear that. I put out extra bucket to collect rain this year. Last year our rain barrow ran out of water. Food stores give away food safe buckets with lids.
Garlic Problem! Some kind of disease with yellow to orange spots, blackish ooze on some, so I couldn't use them as seed. Also, I had some scape seed that I'd planted years ago, but didn't move for them to have more space until this planting time. Almost all of them had the same issue. Is there a way to heal the soil they were planted in? Its my best soil spot for garlic, (or at least it was...). I'm planning to water the soil with Jadam, will that, or anything else help to remove the "disease" from the soil? Thank you! I'm in Southern Missouri Ozarks.
Love that Garlic Nate! I'm almost ready to harvest mine. BUT I have had a problem for the last few years. When the scapes first appear a worm infests them, eating its way downward to the stock. The worms don't get into the bulbs but I know they shouldn't be there. What to do?? I wish I could train the little crawlers to attack my invasive Horsetail LOL
I believe you are speaking of the Purple Echinacea aka Coneflower... they're perennial and very hardy plus make a fantastic immune boosting tea and tincture
First time I have heard the suggestion of waiting for an erect scape to determine harvest time vs. the common suggestion of “bottom two/three leaves are yellowing - time to harvest!”. Any particular reason why this helps to indicate peak harvest time has come? I will definitely be trying this method next year! Thanks!
because depending on the variety and the year and the amount of nutrients the plant receives it may never really yellow back... I've had bulbs almost start to rot in the ground while waiting for the plant to yellow... the scape is a fail safe method
It's a challenge in central Florida around Ocala FL -citrus springs FL I tried store bought garlic but the crop fizzled out I kept it moist but to no avail anyway I'm checking for types that do well in my region 🙏
I am going to be harvesting my garlic this weekend. I didn't follow your planting technique, so fingers crossed for a good harvest. On an unrelated matter, I am having trouble converting your formulas from your barrel quantities for my modest garden. I use a hose end sprayer and a 2 gallon sprayer. Can you convert your measurements to those applications?
I ferment my garlic in raw honey and eat a clove a day. 👍👍👍
I tried but the honey never really fermented. Any idea what I did wrong?
@@angelashaw9765 Only use raw honey. I put mine in a mason jar with a Mason Tops fermenting lid on it. You need to shake or turn over the honey in the jar twice a day to keep the garlic cover in the honey. If you don't have a Mason Top you can use a regular lid but you'll have to burp it daily.
Just cloves covered in raw honey? That's it? @jasonheaddy5122
@@TheFrenchPixiecheck out Doug and Stacey Off-grid. They have a very good video on fermenting garlic for cold and flu season
@@jasonheaddy5122 thank you.
"Oookay my friends, here it iiis"
lmao your intro cracks me up every time
Yes Sir, I was a teenager in the '60's at Grandpa's and he didn't wash off the roots of garlic, peanuts, taters, turnips,etc.
He laid them all on hay, and taters got sprinkled with lime, and peanuts with the green tops were sprinkled with salt.
interesting I wonder why the lime?
@@gardenlikeaviking The lime gave it that good citrus taste ;-)
I thought that my garlic hadn’t turned out right. I planted late October and harvested them last month. I ignored them becuz I was so disappointed. Last night I was gonna dry them and make garlic powder or garlic salt. They were so fragrant that I decided to bite one and OMG!!! The best, pungent, and spicy garlic ever. I regret not planting more.
I failed miserably on my first year of growing garlic but now from learning from this garden king i hope next years harvest will be better. Thanks Nate, learn something every video and I've been growing for years and wondering what I've been doing wrong. Now I know so much more. Thanks again!!
Garlics & bush green beans 😉 Got it! Thanks a bunch😊
I just pulled some. It is GIGANTIC! Love garlic so much.
Congratulations on making 100k subscribers. You deserve it.
I harvested my garlic last month. Never grown it before but super easy and bug and deer resistant. I bought the Jadam Organic Farming book by Youngsang Cho. Best garden book I've ever read. I break all the input solutions formulas down to make 1 gallon to put in my pump sprayer. I know some people say they don't know how to do the calculations from liters, etc, to gallons, ounces, etc, and to small quantities. It's not that hard - simple math. Just ask the Google. I've been observing all the plants in my area that bugs, critters, and deer won't touch. Hands down, here it's ferns, and they're plentiful, so I made JHS with ferns and hot peppers. This evening, I mixed a gallon of JNP. I tried it on an army worm that unwittingly wandered into my path. Or was it I wandered into its path? Who knows and who cares. It was too close to my cabbages. Yes I have cabbages in GA in July. Almost instant death. I sprayed a small portion of my garden and will observe for a couple days to make sure I didn't harm the plants. I almost can't wait for the tomato horn worms to show up. Thanks, my friend, for turning me on to all this. Knowledge is always there waiting for me to stumble upon. I only have to go out and stumble more.
very nice my friend that's what its all about!!... did you also use the JWA with the JHS?
@@gardenlikeaviking yes. JWA and JS.
U R the Garlic 👑 king
Printrbear, you prompted me to say how I dry my garlic. In the back of my firewood storage building, (no sun and plenty of air flow). I have a few pipes ran from wall to wall, about 7' high. I slip knot both ends of a string, open the "circle" large enough to pull the greens of the garlic through. I do the same on the other end of the string. Arrange the heads so that they have space between them. Pull the slip knot tight, then throw one of the bundles over the pipe and adjust both bundles so there is distance and air flow between the heads. I started doing it this way knowing that at the end of the season, a plants aerial parts "juices" are "drained" into the roots to preserve the plant. With that thinking, anything possibly left in the green stems should "drain" into the heads of the garlic. I can't prove any difference but it makes sense to me and curing garlic this way has worked like a charm for 8 years now.
Excellent ! Never heard the erect scape idea , pretty cool.
Side note for readers . I’ve seen you can use a fence for hanging , however do it out of the sun .
Also last year I used my corn stalks over top of chopped up leaves for my garlic and it worked great to protect the garlic and keep out weeds without having it buy in straw
That's a great idea! thank you for sharing!
I use pine straw because I live in the forest and it’s free and very readily available. It works great! I’m also lucky to be able to find leaf mold nearly everywhere. It’s so awesome! ☺️
My garlic did absolutely amazing it is almost done curing and it looks so beautiful ❤️
Again a good video especially discussing when to harvest by leaving garlic scapes. I recently learned that not only we should grow the biggest clove but select them from a bulb with most numbers of cloves on it.
I didn't have room for bush beans this year and planned to plant them into the garlic bed. Glad to hear why this is beneficial.
Garlic is also the king of wiping out sicknesses! As soon as you feel you might be getting sick, eat a couple cloves of raw garlic. Works so good!
Yes I love garlic too. Still new at learning how to plant garlic. Got some from the nursery last year. Only two made it. But next time I will know better, as to how to plant it. Now I am preparing to soil for spring.
Heard a statement. "A farmer grows soil not plants" Something like that.
Thank you Nate for another great video. ❤🇿🇦💚👍
but you plant garlic in the fall not the spring
Can see when someone is proud of their results 😊
This year i followed your previous video about garlic, and i got a fantastic harvest, with enormous bulbs. But i didn t waited for the scapes to come, i harvested after a heavy drought, when all my plant felt on their side, yellowing. I ll try that next year, and a bit more watering during drought...
Hi Nate I got a decent harvest of garlic this year, I planted them on bush beans because you said previously and it definitely works. I also put ash and mulched with compost twice during the growing period.👍🏻🤠💗🙏
I followed the older video and got a great harvest. I love the updated video, even more concise. I’m going to plant double next year.
yes my friend I'm learning more and more about the presentation of the knowledge as the time and videos go on!!... and learning new things along the way!
Look who passed 100k followers! 🎉💥🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Hello. I'm a Viking.
Thanks! Great info on garlic! I literally knew nothing before this video. Now, I feel confident! I'm going to plant green beans here during the summer in prep for the garlic!
thank you for the support my friend!!
The leaves are also tasty.
Also I’m the one who commented on monster seed..... I did much research on this and have found that if you plant from the same family of seed, cucumbers, melons, etc...... you can NOT save and replant the seed! That’s Monster! You must NOT SAVE their seed. That’s where you get the cross breed seed. Love your channel Nate and blessings to your sharing information.
Great video. Love watching harvest videos. I also had success growing garlic this year ( for the first time ) My bulbs were similar size as yours
Good job! Congratulations!
Love!
The green bean thing, good 👍.
Beautiful garlic! ThanQ for sharing w/us!
Fellow Q-user?
@@noraellen4623 Apparently, fellow Q follower! Glad to "meet" you, Nora! 💖
Great show my brother, I always learn something you. Any chance on a mini series on cannabis?...✌🏻
thats a great idea!!... I could definitely do that but to do it properly I'd want to take you guys through an entire run or two including the cloning aspect and keeping mothers, when/how to harvest, drying and curing, etc.... but thats not possible in my state at this time!!!
@@gardenlikeaviking I have 3, 1 is doing okay and the other 2 are like growing upward with sparse leaves, I have no money this year for the good stuff, so I am going to follow your videos for help. btw I live in your zone too, Columbus, Ohio 5a, so that is cool, I know I am going to be learning a lot. Okay my friend...✌
Awesome Thanks Nate!!
Ty! U never disappoint!!
Ive grown garlic for 6 years straight and it never occurred to me that I should use manure as a top dressing. Makes complete sense and thank you for waking me up. Would it be an issue to use fresh manure? Also, can I use home made compost instead of the straw? If yes, how thick should I lay it?Thank you for all your wonderful content. You have totally changed my way of life.
fresh manure in the fall when planting is great!!... that horse manure I used was fresh from the horses in the last week or two!... if using compost on top of the manure make it so about 4 inches of total organic material is on top... maybe up to 6 inches... but straw works so fantastic for this application I suggest sourcing some
Garlic is now on my todo list.
1st time I've seen 1 of your videos. Nice work. Everything I needed to know. I'm subscribing. Thank you.
welcome to the channel my friend!
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, some new learning this way cometh. I always cut off my garlic scapes to eat when curly. I never new that if you left them on they straighten out and we’re an indication of when they are ready to harvest. Thanks for the info. I’ll try it on a few next year!!!
actually I think I was a bit unclear in the video... I do cut the scapes off 99% of them but leave them on only a few select plants to indicate to me when the rest are ready to harvest!!... it's perfect indicator
Green beans bush green !!!!!!! Thank you 🙏
Your energy is inspiring!!!!!!!!
i 🤍 garlic also. thank you for sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge. 🕊
Hi Nate, it is your northern friend here up in Saskatchewan, central Canada's bread basket. Thought I'd check out your garlic tips. I've been growing about ten years, starting with about eight heads of garlic my uncle gave me, grown out on the western coast. I built it up, with addition of other varieties from the sellers, to a crop of about 2400 heads which I sell into local market. About a third of the crop goes to replanting. I found in the literature that the very largest cloves are not necessarily the best, but just large ones. We definitely don't want to plant any little stuff. I keep good records, so maybe I'll test that out and use only the very largest, this year.
As I watched I was impressed that I do pretty much everything the same way you do. For curing, I just use my greenhouse, a 20x50 commercial style unit. The shade cloth goes over the entire structure, the fans set to run at about 70-75 degrees. After two or three weeks, I put them up in plastic milk crates and store in my dry, dark, insulated garage which I keep at about 50 degrees during our deep-freeze winters. They keep great! I will be pulling my crop in two weeks and I am still eating from last year's stock.
So, when I harvest the bulbs, I do trim off about half the stalk/leaves, gently removing the dirt in the roots, but no further tampering. I used to hang them when I began, but now I just lay them out one layer deep, shingle style, on large screen mesh tables and other tables get sheets of cardboard laid on them. You are absolutely correct about leaving them dirty and taking no layers off. Pretty doesn't matter. Storing a long time does. My last step is simply to trim off the stalk, leaving the stem about 3 inches, just like you do, and the beard, leaving about a half inch of root whiskers. Funny, I have never seen anyone besides me, leave three inch stems!
I use horse manure in the soil, here, working in about 6 inches on the gardens every third year. I have so much room, here that I can rotate every crop easily, even my large ones, like potatoes and garlic and onions, as well as give ample spacing, so amending every year not necessary at all. My main cropper gardens are situated beneath a gentle slope which is a horse pasture, so the runoff from that is manure tea! Everything is "super-size-me" out of those gardens! My Flat Dutch cabbages will approach twenty pounds, sometimes. Anyway, I have not thought about adding nitrogen. I don't have a long enough season to put bush beans in at mid-August and too busy to implement that anyway. Most years the nights reach freezing temps about mid-September. But I am going to try putting a sprinkle of nitrogen fertilizer on the beds in the fall, before laying the straw down. Now, I'm stoked to see what that does!
One difference is that I plant the garlics deeper than you, pushing them in about 3 inches. They can get set pretty firmly in the ground so I have a special skinny shovel to break the soil around them at harvesttime. Also, I have not previously done any feeding. I will try adding nitrogen into the situation as you suggest. Always looking for ways to up my game and you are a good resource for that. Thanks for your dedication and heart for sharing! This is a noble work!
Once again, very helpful. Thank you for your time and generous sharing of expertise. 👍
I have some garlic that has seed on the bottom about half the size of a marble and seeds on top. Have you ever seen any like this?
Thanks bud I have just grown garlic for the first time and I thought I was to late to harvest them so glad you made this video.
There’s so many garlic variety.
Already pre ordered my garlic for the fall. This year I’m growing Northern White and Purple Russian. I’m also growing some from the store.
Thanks! That was great.
Thank you for sharing. Where do I buy the best garlic to plant? Blessings🙂
Another fantastic informative video, thank you Nate!🙏
Thanks for sharing.
I am a container gardener and ordered hard neck Russian Red which I planted last fall covering with straw.
It all rotted by spring. I'm in zone 5a.
Ended up planting store bought in the spring and got a small harvest with small bulbs.
Will try again this fall.
I’ve had very tasty heirloom garlic from a farm in NY. They were always smaller but delicious
Thanks!
lol I did a couple things wrong with my Spanish Roja. I still have other varieties in the ground so I have the opportunity to do better!!
Beautiful garlic Nate!! You truly are the master gardener!
thank you!
I like it you had a huge like thank you 👍
Thank you so very much! This is the best video on garlic ever!!!!!! I am harvesting today!
Congratulations on surpassing 100k subscribers 🎉
Wowowowow! Fantastic video Nate! Thank you soo much! I’ve got a good while to wait - I’m in central Florida- but can’t wait!! You’re the BEST!!
I happen to love garlic as well 😅 specially because its so heating, if we think in herbalism /ayurvedic terms.. i live in very cold climate and i suffer the coldness immensely... I need the garlic 😛
My garlic was was weak. I can't find a guaranteed contaminate-free manure source. I started a worm bin this year. As always, concise information that really highlights your working knowledge. Tyvm!
THANK YOU. BE BLESSED❤😂
Do you you think planting clover instead of green bush beans would be as good?
ANOTHER AMAZING video!! So so helpful! Can chicken manure bedding be used Nate? Thanks again!!
Well guess what my friend, we have horses. And their manure is good. So I will use it for the garlic this Fall. What a tip. Also, I had no idea the garlic scapes will stand straight up when ready. I was told to harvest the scapes too. Well, I will leave them on this coming new planting. Thank you so much. Excellent tips. 👍
actually I do harvest the scapes of most the garlic thats why I plant a small patch and just let it go all the way so I can see the scapes stand up...
@@gardenlikeaviking Ok! So that small patch lets you know is time to harvest. Got it. Tell, would you plant onions with the garlic? Lets say a square foot garden, would you share the bed for garlic and onions? Or is it best to have them away from each other? I'm learning, can you tell?
You are amazing😻
Thanks again for the easy to understand knowledge.
Keep the information coming. This has been extremely enlightening.
OUTSTANDING CLEAR VIDEO NATE❤
Any tips to prevent rust? Destroyed my crop last season (country is New Zealand)
Great looking garlic Nate. I just saw a video from your area northern Indiana. A corn farmer giving poison application times. Multiple poisons applied monthly. Scary stuff. They're killing the people who eat ther corn.
Excellent tips my friend!! My garlic is in the ground, winter here in NZ.
Thank you! Your videos are great. (Loved the turkey feather @4:00)
What type of hard neck garlic is your preference,thanks
Thank you. I very much appreciate how you explain things. I hope to plant a large bed of garlic this November 😁
Great video! Is that variety Music you've got in the video?
Would shredded leaves work instead of straw?
You mentioned these are hardneck, is there any reason to avoid soft? Love the full year guide, that takes effort and forethought.
I just prefer hard neck because I feel they store longer and I LOVE to eat the scapes during the summer!!
We still have some soft necks from last year. Read the opposite soft keeps longer than hard. Honestly it could be that it’s just easier! I braid 12 and hang them up where it can dry.
Love the hard-necks for scapes! Such a nice flavor. Somehow the hard necks I thought I planted turned out to be soft necks tho! No scapes. Was very sad!
Ended up with a bit over 100. Will have to find some good hard necks to plant in addition to the soft necks I grew this year. You happen to sell any bulbs? 😁
I have never had success in planting those, how many times do you water it in a week and what kind of fertilisers can one apply eg egg shells, wood ash, banana peels etc
if you follow this tutorial exactly right you will have success this year!!
Stores for a year if you leave it like that?! That’s a game changer!!!!
Can you do this method in containers?
What type of garlic do you recommend?
Thanks Nate, I'll be lucky if I could fill a small coat hanger with this years produce, it went to sh1t with the massive drought we had, maybe next year, I've got something that tastes of garlic its actually nice, I doubt I'll be feasting on it for Christmas.
I'm really sorry to hear that. I put out extra bucket to collect rain this year. Last year our rain barrow ran out of water. Food stores give away food safe buckets with lids.
lol you have me laughing every time with your postage stamp descriptions my friend!!
So for zone 7b, I should start planting garlic in November? Thanks for all your informative videos.
yes around thanksgiving time is good enough
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you!
how did you get your dill to grow so well
Garlic Problem! Some kind of disease with yellow to orange spots, blackish ooze on some, so I couldn't use them as seed. Also, I had some scape seed that I'd planted years ago, but didn't move for them to have more space until this planting time. Almost all of them had the same issue. Is there a way to heal the soil they were planted in? Its my best soil spot for garlic, (or at least it was...). I'm planning to water the soil with Jadam, will that, or anything else help to remove the "disease" from the soil? Thank you! I'm in Southern Missouri Ozarks.
Love that Garlic Nate!
I'm almost ready to harvest mine.
BUT I have had a problem for the last few years.
When the scapes first appear a worm infests them, eating its way downward to the stock.
The worms don't get into the bulbs but I know they shouldn't be there.
What to do?? I wish I could train the little crawlers to attack my invasive Horsetail LOL
I have just gotten all the scapes cut off. I think mine still have a cpl weeks. I have to check them for ripeness. They may be ready.
Is the green part, I guess the stoke, is it eatable?
What is the name of the vibrant pink flowers at 5:45? I really enjoy the downward facing pedals. Definitely need to grow some this year
I believe you are speaking of the Purple Echinacea aka Coneflower... they're perennial and very hardy plus make a fantastic immune boosting tea and tincture
Where do you recommend getting the garlic to begin with?? I live in zone 9a. Hard neck or soft?
You didn’t mention the watering....do they love water? Or do you only rely on rain? Mine are under 3” mulch. Love your videos and thank you Nate
Hey Nate, did you happen to get that clip? And comment?
Love the how-to's!
Great video, as always! Thank you 💪🏻💪🏻
First time I have heard the suggestion of waiting for an erect scape to determine harvest time vs. the common suggestion of “bottom two/three leaves are yellowing - time to harvest!”.
Any particular reason why this helps to indicate peak harvest time has come?
I will definitely be trying this method next year! Thanks!
because depending on the variety and the year and the amount of nutrients the plant receives it may never really yellow back... I've had bulbs almost start to rot in the ground while waiting for the plant to yellow... the scape is a fail safe method
@@gardenlikeaviking That makes perfect sense! Thank you so much!
Great presentation! 👍👍
Is that bronze fennel?
I am from Pakistan .as u put straw after sowing so doesn't it create hurdle in growing up the seed?
It's a challenge in central Florida around Ocala FL -citrus springs FL I tried store bought garlic but the crop fizzled out I kept it moist but to no avail anyway I'm checking for types that do well in my region 🙏
watch my previous video last year about garlic and I explain what you can do in a warm climate like that... you have special procedures to follow!
What kind of garlic do you grow?
Wow! Great tips...thankyou!
I am going to be harvesting my garlic this weekend. I didn't follow your planting technique, so fingers crossed for a good harvest.
On an unrelated matter, I am having trouble converting your formulas from your barrel quantities for my modest garden. I use a hose end sprayer and a 2 gallon sprayer. Can you convert your measurements to those applications?