How I Grow Garlic For High Yield And No Disease
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- I have tried growing garlic using a variety of methods and I think its time to keep it simple. In this video we go over why growing garlic is actually mostly about spacing and soil prep if you want big healthy bulbs!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Get Your Garlic Ready
01:37 - Don't Plant These Cloves
02:55 - To Soak Or Not To Soak?
03:33 - Bed Prep
06:05 - Perfect Garlic Spacing
08:00 - Refrigerator Garlic?
13:22 - What To Do With Tiny Cloves
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Pro chef tip: The garlic greens break down quicker in heat than the regular cloves do. Instead of adding the garlic greens to your pan with your onions, you're going to want to wait till the meal is a little further along. Adding them at the very end will give the strongest 'bite' and give you the most heat. The longer garlic cooks the more those sharp flavors become sweet-tasting and mild.
Great advice, thanks
Thank you
Love his bonus tip! I almost always tend to add garlic too early already so I love his reminder!
@@jacquesinthegardenmaybe you can teach Eric how to make a decent dish while you’re at it
Wow, thank you for sharing ❤.
I don’t believe in measuring lol chaos gardening all the way😂😂
I usually go loose chaos mode but with garlic you can fit so much if spaced nicely!
I swear these vids come out earlier than when I plant my own (BI garlic planted 2 days ago). I soaked with IPA and fish fertilizer and planted in Bay Area 9B.
First time gardener seeking plant therapy here. Thank you Jacques and the rest of the Epic for helping me get through this rough patch. Keep on growing ❤
Love seeing this! I got my fingers crossed for you to get a great harvest!
Hello , IPA as in beer? Thanks
@@grisespino5342 Sorry, chemical engineer background here , IPA is a common abbreviation of isopropyl alcohol or 2-propanol. Just your good ole’ 70% rubbing alcohol with slight water dilution (but not to be confused with acetone!)
Haha but I will have an IPA once my garlic grows *fingers crossed*
@@jacquesinthegardenare you gay or straight?
@@alexandertran5962 hi! I'm in the sf bay too (south bay). I've been planting garlic for 3 years & it's one of my favorite things to grow! I just stick em in & cover w a little compost & lots of mulch. I'm doing an experiment this year and planting garlic at different times. I've been planting a handful cloves per week the past 2 weeks & I'll stop around yuletime. I have never soaked my garlic & haven't had diseases (i plant in ground - no raised beds or containers & think it helps prevent disease & it's cheaper than buying soil lol). I'm also trying some elephant garlic from the sunnyvale farmers market this year. Gardening is the best therapy ever - I basically am only happy when I'm gardening. You'll be feeling great soon. Have u heard of jadam? Really keeps costs down & is great for the soil. (I don't use store-bought ammendments anymore ❤). Have a lovely day, bay area gardening friend!
Would love to see updates of that green garlic grow bag as the months progress! 👍🏼
Will absolutely be sure to include in tours
Nice video Jacques. I love the laid back Jacque and your Easter basket. 😆
Haha, the easter basket was the nearest container and it seems that everyone likes it!
I got some bulbs from epic gardening site. They’re still in the freezer so this came at a good time
I also planted my itty bitty cloves close together for fresh garlic! I did it on a whim. Lol.
That is the fun thing about gardening is that our intuition develops and you naturally begin to understand things like this!
I planted about 6 different types of garlic this year. Nootka Rose was one of them. If you're planting Nootka Rose, you need to be very patient. All of the others were growing nicely, except for the Nootka Rose. I was getting nervous about it, thinking they had just died and weren't going to grow. About three weeks after the others broke through and started growing above ground, the Nootka Rose finally started to break through the ground. Be patient because they will show no signs of life until about three weeks later than the other varieties.
I grew Nootka Rose last year. When I planted them in the fall, none of them showed any signs of life at all. I figured they were duds. In the spring, the Nootka Rose all came up. They grew beautifully. Do be patient.
Oh wow that is super interesting, thanks for the share I will definitely remember this. I'm excited to try them for sure
That cinder block wall next to your new Birdie's bed will create a microclimate in that area. It will absorb the sun's heat during the daylight hours & radiate that heat at night. It's an old strategy for growing fruit trees & vines in climates that are a bit too cold for said fruit.This growing strategy has been used in Europe for more than 100 years.
I wanted to put trees but I also didn't want to deal with the foundation issues of a shared fence with the neighbor so ultimately decided to do the beds. They will absolutely be my early season beds in spring so I can take full advantage of that
I have a squirrel issue, and I found that putting the super baby cloves next to other plants, or in the same pot as my other plants have worked as a great deterrent for critters. I put the cloves inside the same pots as my berry plants, near my radishes, etc. and the pattern I see is that the animal tries to dig a hole in the pot, encounters the garlic, and then gives up. Because these garlic are so tiny, I don't mind them being a sacrifice. It's also a bonus that garlic is technically a perennial, so I don't have to replant them in some of these pots with other perennials; I can just leave them in the pot for a few years, as the cloves eventually get bigger and more abundant with more cloves.
Thank you. I just grow garlic from the grocery store. I always plant the larger cloves, but never thought of growing the smaller ones for the stems.
It is tasty stuff and very versatile as well, I plan on drying a lot of it!
Yes I would love to see more garlic strategies
I have never been so happy I waited to plant my garlic. Ty for all the info. Now I feel prepared 🤞🏼
That's great to hear! Fingers crossed for a great harvest!
I love to grow garlic and had no idea I could do the green garlic thing. Very happy I watched this video. Thanks Jacque!
Last year was my first garlic attempt, and it will always be somewhere in my garden. I grow in zone 5b, so no worries about the cold, it goes in right after the first frost takes my dahlias. Thanks so much for the planting info, I always learn something new and cool that I can add to my process! For my zone, when should I start green garlic if I use a grow bag or pot?
Jacque thanks you for the tip of eating the garlic tops. I have garlic bunches that were self seeded years ago, that have multiplied over the years. The last few years I have been trying to dig them up. Thanks for all your information and time.
Oh that's actually cool! A nice bonus harvest and gold use of the "problem"
love ur show! thank you for doing a solo!
I love love alliums! I’ve got hard neck, soft neck, and elephant garlic, shallots, bunching onions, and the wild garlic🧄all in my garden!
That's amazing! If you haven't tried garlic chives/nira leeks it's an amazing garlicky chive and it grows like crazy!
@@jacquesinthegarden thanks for the advice and encouragement!
Impressive! What zone are you in that you can grow all of those?
@@bethb8276 B6. Southeast Missouri. I forgot I do have leeks and garlic chives also but I added them this fall so I don’t know if they’ll survive the winter. Last year we got a couple nights 20 below zero but it didn’t phase the garlics. Tough plants and so worth growing! The cold will kill the tops but they will come back in the spring.
Very good information, thanks definitely will grow garlic.❤
Hi! Always nice to see a video from you, thanks for sharing. I would love to see more garlic content :) Like you I may have ordered "too much" garlic. Unfortunately we've had an early freeze though, currently both the ground and bags of compost are frozen solid :') so not sure how things will work out but we'll see - live and learn :) All the best to you
Just planted garlic (zone 9a) 2 days ago in a raised Birdies Bed this size. Did rows 6" apart but added kelp meal & crab/lobster to the rows then put garlic in rows. I already had added Happy Frog in the Mels Mix prior to making holes. Slightly put dirt over with my hand like you and topped it off with garden straw. Matching you without seeing the video. Now I know how to plant out all my little garlic! Thanks for the idea. So happy I havent planted out my 15 gallon grow bag. 🤗
That sounds like exactly what I did haha, except I did neem meal instead of kelp!
I always recommend soaking cloves in peroxide for about 10 minutes so that you kill any mites or mold that might be in the garlic, or to buy from certified seed garlic suppliers like Keene who do test garlic for pathogens. You will generally have a much better experience that way. As far as raised beds go I prefer to make mine from Redwood on my own, its more cost effective and they last forever.
I have done alcohol soaks but haven't tried peroxide. I like the idea of killing potential mites. The big bags of garlic are garlic I split from Keene ! As far as raised beds I really like the way nice thick cut wood beds as well as the metal ones.
My current beds are 4 feet wide, 8 feet long and 12 inches tall. And I put Hardware Cloth on the bottom you cant use chicken wire good old hardware cloth which is the weatherproofed metal and lasts forever because I have gophers and they try to kill everything that I planted in the ground and I actually want vegetables. Not to feed a gopher.
Very glad I don't have a major gopher problem.
I envy the people back east who can plant anything they want and not have to worry about gophers, I have 10 acres of land and would love to just dig a plot out and then plant stuff and maintain it and not have to worry about some rotten gophers eating it up. They even go after my vineyard which is planted right into native soil and the vines are too big to kill but they still do a lot of damage. @@jacquesinthegarden
I do not usually have a bed just for garlic. I do this year, but I also plop the extra bulbs all over my garden in the ground or in random containers. If you forget to harvest it, it will keep growing until you remember to harvest it.
Last year, I grew my garlic in a large grow back under a low tunnel covered in row cover. I would definitely consider covering your garlic in the spring when the rust spores start flying around and see if that might help. Of course, my method worked so well, I didn't do it and instead experimented with planting in a hugelkulture bed in its second year. Having mixed results already and wish I'd reserved a grow bag for garlic!
Huh that's an interesting method! I will be keeping a close eye on the garlic this year and if I see any signs of rust I'm using copper spray!
definitely want to see more :D
You have convinced me to get mushroom spawn!!! I used your code and purchased some wine caps and pink oysters 🍄 LONG LIVE SAINT HERMIT!
Love to hear this! I just harvested 30 mushrooms this week!
In australia we are just about to harvest our garlic, planning on doing mine on Saturday, cannot wait!
I've done mine. I don't water them really, this year, they finished up a bit earlier than I hoped for.
So much fun to harvest every year! Enjoy!
Jacques: I’m just up the road by 90 miles from San Diego in Orange County. I have read, even on the Epic Gardening web site that in our climate even softneck garlic needs 5-10 weeks of a vernalization period in a refrigerator (making sure to keep it dry), and hardnecks need about 8-12 weeks - just like tulip bulbs.
I have planted garlic cloves that I got in the grocery store (I’ll get organic) with no refrigeration at all and have had good success and often harvest them as “green garlic” (aka “Mexican” garlic”) which like greens onions are mild and slightly sweet flavor.
So what is right? I would like to see you and Kevin do a whole garlic experiment with soft and hard, various vernalization times, and with no refrigeration at all. Now through late February would be a perfect time to plant garlic in stages and see what works best!
Thanks!
Go for it!
I have had good results planting organuc garlic bought from the store.
I think it's kept cold and dry in order to sell long after harvest- so it has had a cold period already.
@@williamevans6522 That makes total sense! I did get a soft neck and hard neck variety from Epic just to try them (and I have never grown the hard neck variety), so it will be interesting to see the results.
I'm in zone 9b and have grown hard neck garlic with no problems. The scapes are delicious. @@FunAtDisney
@@scottolson6201 Thta is good to know. Yes the scapes I really want to try. I have heard you cook them similar to asparagus.
Really good timing. I had a garlic head sprouting in the fridge. Also some turmeric and ginger sprouting..
Haha maybe the wrong season for the last two but if you have a protected warm spot you could try it! Or even try indoors next to a bright a window.
@@jacquesinthegarden ah yes a warm spot.. I live in a subtropical climate in Queensland Australia. It’s very hot right now 37c. So maybe it’s the wrong season for the garlic? I’ll have to return to this video when it cools down a smidge. Thanks for your content!
Thanks for all the info!! I just got a few bulbs from you guys at epic gardening
It's fun to be able to buy just a few to get into it! Wish you a huge harvest!
@@jacquesinthegarden thank you, I tried some store bought cloves last year that started sprouting so I planted them and had some success. Definitely hoping for something tastier this year. I hope you and Kevin enjoy carving that cherry wood I sent ya
I can't wait to get that wood, thanks again!
@@jacquesinthegarden just checked and the package says it’s been delivered to the address you sent me
We have that same Easter basket ...and ours is used in the garden too 😅
I bought my garlic so late. 😅 I was able to get Chesnok Red 1/4 pound, which is fine since it will be my first time growing garlic so it's a good amount to start.
That is a wonderful variety and also a great amount to start with, best of luck!
Love your videos…you have ACTUALLY gotten better…..how many times does Jacque say ACTUALLY in a video? I haven’t ACTUALLY counted ….has none else? All in good fun Jacque…., actually
ACTUALLY I need to not get stuck on words so much haha, I do appreciate the reminder sometimes I can't hear myself :)
It’s also best to start by weighing each bulb and choose heaviest ones. That tells you best and healthiest cloves within bulbs. Then choose biggest cloves.
Thanks for posting on my birthday lol🎉
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I would love to see an update on this! My question is, does the small garlic create whole garlic bulbs in the container? I planted garlic in the ground back in September zone 7b and I have 65 green garlics coming up from the ground… does this mean it’s not going to bulb underground?
🌷 Wonderful … thank you!
Would love to know any additional strategies that you have for planting garlic. This is my first year - got some from Botanical Interests so I'm excited to get them in the raised beds next week.
Don't over water early, they are barely growing. Fertilizer in spring when they start putting out a lot of green growth will make a big difference in your end yield!
Thank you!!!!@@jacquesinthegarden
I hope my garlic actually trives this year. They decided they didnt want to be dormant and have already started growing. But theyre healthy..........so far......
That is ok, even if they poke out a bit and get nipped by the cold they will return to dormancy and should grow out again in spring.
What is your fertilizing schedule for your garlic?
I applied a decent amount of slow release organic fertilizer at the time of setting the bed up to start. Once I get into spring I will top dress with more of that and probably do a liquid feed every 2 weeks or monthly. I am actually pretty bad about scheduling so I tend to lean on slow release fertilizers.
@@jacquesinthegardenWhich slow release fertilizer do you use for garlic?
@@jacquesinthegarden awesome! Thank you so much!!
I would like more garlic videos and help with artichokes. My 1st garlic patch was… sad and my artichokes did nothing. Maybe the squirrels got them while the opossums and skunks got all my lettuce.
Is there going to be more mushroom videos, like growing mushrooms with alongside garden vegetables?
Do you add fertilizer later as the garlic grows?
I will use liquid fertilizer as the greens emerge, heavy towards nitrogen early on and then more balanced stuff towards the middle.
the rain is starting Wednesday this week here in LA and will go on for four days according the the weatherman.
That is what I heard as well! No watering this week, got to let the rain do the work.
I love that you touched on how the cloves aren't seeds but rather living plants. This is part of the reason why eating raw garlic cloves regularly is so incredibly good for our health. I wont pretend to understand or remember all the specific science but the aromatic oils in garlic are extremely good for our heart in addition to being very good for our beneficial gut flora.
Two questions, first is Would it be a problem if my mulch layer is slightly too much? Like 3 to 4 inches of fine pine shaving mulch? And second I put my nootka rose thru vernalization is that gonna be a problem since it's a soft neck and I live in a warmer climate?
That should be fine as long as garlic isn't buried and additional 4 inches, too deep and it can't easily bulb up. The fridge garlic should be totally fine, the cold won't hurt it but it doesn't need it!
@@jacquesinthegardenok cool thanks Jacques 👍
How long can you keep garlic in the cold see if have snow outside and i want to know when to plant my hard-neck?
Watching you gives me hope that I too can grow garlic, lol. I have a question for you though about basil, actually. I wish I could upload a picture of my basil plants to show you. One is doing fairly well, but the other is very sparse and the stems are turning black. It also flowered. Is there any hope for it, or should I try to propagate a clipping and pull out the rest of the plant? Thanks so much for your videos. I really find them useful.
If it flowered, you should have seeds. Wait until the flowerheads are brown and pull off, you can save for better weather, or plant now, depending on your zone.
@@bethb8276 Thanks, that's so helpful. I'm in San Diego, so planting now should be okay.
It's just sadly the time of year, all of my basil is slowly turning into the same situation. The cold weather and less sun really makes it a sad plant. If you have a spot with full sun it will likely do fine though!
Jacques,
On the mushrooms, is there a Zone requirement (I' m in VA Zone 7A) for growing them during the winter months?
Thank you. 😊
I don't think they have a zone exactly but I wouldn't want to establish them right before freeze time for sure. Some mushrooms do better In warm climates and some can't tolerate cold but they are usually specific. Spring should be the ideal time for you though!
Did Epic buy birdies? Or are the US birdies different then the original AUS version? Love the new braces.🎉
I’m in zone 6, and am trying garlic for the first time! Chose inchelium red and chesnok I believe! I am so excited but nervous! I did straw mulch just in case… don’t know what to expect! Haha
It is a pretty wonderful plant to grow, extremely low maintenance, just plant and wait!
@@jacquesinthegarden is the growing habit kind of comparable to tulips? Just have to wait a bit longer to harvest the bulb?
Once about half the leaves turn brown and flop down its pretty safe to assume its time to harvest, usually this is around early summer.
@@jacquesinthegarden oh sweet! Thanks! Super excited!!
If we cut the garlic green to cook, would it still produce the bulb?
You can graph it by the meter just as easy
I meant it in the sense that everyone in the US plants by the inch and foot so the bed being in inch and foot makes it easier for people who never consistently use metric. You can of course do the same and just use metric but for most anyone in the US that is not the norm (I wish it was!).
@@jacquesinthegarden I know I'm just busting your chops, from a Canadian using the metric system 😂 I know most of your viewers are probably from the United States.
I always notice that you and Kevin use a lot of straw to cover your planting beds. What happens to all of it? Can it be constantly reused, or do you have to keep replacing it? Just curious - seems like a huge volume of material. 🙂
It breaks down into the soil, and improves the soil 👌
The straw actually breaks down over 3 months or so and enriches the soil. The carbon in it helps feed soil microbes and worms and then when we replant we add more mulch. This helps build soil while retaining moisture. The straw doesn't have to be replaced until it's gone!
@@jacquesinthegarden 👍
I planted 12 hard neck cloves 3 weeks ago a couple of days before our first frost(I live in Chicago) with a couple of inches of wood shaving mulch over it and they all have shoots at least 6 inches or more over the mulch. I’m concerned they will die back when we get our normal January/February deep freeze that we normally get and then not come back in the spring.
Try a make shift cold frame
No, they won't die because of the deep freeze of winter if they are hardneck, they will just stagnate during winter until spring. :) It is actually good that they have a root system before the deep freeze.
From everything I've seen it's totally fine, the tips might get frost burnt but then the garlic will go dormant until it wakes up and grow. If you are extra concerned add another inch of mulch to make sure it's well insulated.
I tried growing garlic last year; but, it didn't do well at all. I wanted to try and leave it in my bed to see if it would come back this year after being subjected to winter weather; but, the city wanted everything gone by the end of October. The city was going to give the land to the developer that had put an apartment building across the street. I think the developer planned on putting a parking lot in; but, the last time I drove by the location, there still was no parking lot. Our community garden has been in a new location this past season and I grew a lot; but, no garlic. I just checked on my kale and it has survived multiple frosts. It even looks better than it did during the actual growing season. I want to see how it survives snow.
Back to the garlic, maybe I don't know what kind is best. The last time I bought garlic, I bought what was available at the store. I think it was labeled as soft neck garlic. I had plans to ferment garlic; but, I ended up with no garlic. We have cold winters, think 30s or below at the coldest temperatures. Last winter we even had single digit temps. Our summers are hot. Mostly in the 90s, sometimes 80s, and possibly in the triple digits. The growing season is 125-150 days depending upon the year.
Hardneck garlic would do better for you in that climate. It is adapted to grow well in cold winters and warm spring/summer so that would be your best bet for sure. The kale should survive cold temps, even down to 20s on some varieties, and it will taste better after the frost!
All my veg spacing is based around the spacing of the dripper points on my reticulation hose
That's actually how I do mine as well, once I finally add it in haha
Hi Jacques I planted several cloves about a month ago. They've all come up but three and I'm not sure why. Any ideas why? I made sure to plant the pointy side down and spaced them by 6 inches. I'm not sure what to do.
Err I mean up*
Your video clips are very interesting. Sorry I can't help, but I'd like to know your growing zone and growing culture, since I don't see that in your channel's description. I think the growing zone and growing style are really important, because the results could be very different when it comes to practicing on every individual using the same techniques. Your house style looks unique, and I can't tell that house is in California or in Texas. While I'm under the impression that your channel growing style has a Hispanic background, but I haven't checked enough your clips to see if you introduced Spanish favorite chilies and herbs? Some of your clips also mentioned Bulgaria, so does that has anything to do with your background and has influenced your growing style? Thank you.
Will the new bracing hardware work with the older Birdie's beds?
It should work just fine, but you would have to dig it out to install properly
What do I do with my cloves that are 6 inches tall. Zone 6b. Can I snip them? Or does it not matter? I was sold soft neck and that worries me. I wrapped my 45 gallon grow bag with bubble wrap. Do you have any more tips? There's about five inches of straw. Thanks.
From everything I've seen it's totally fine, the tips might get frost burnt but then the garlic will go dormant until it wakes up and grow. If you have 5 inches of straw you should be fine though. Since it's in a grow bag that does change it a bit since it's not insulated underground. Bubble wrap will surely help!
Very curious how that 200 garlic grow bag will look later
I'm excited to see a sea of garlic greens!
My hard neck garlic are growing leaves already, it under 10 deg C, can I cut and eat the leaves before frost get here? If I cut the leaves would it still grow bulb by next yr? Ty
From everything I've seen it's totally fine, the tips might get frost burnt but then the garlic will go dormant until it wakes up and grow. If you are extra concerned add another inch of mulch to make sure it's well insulated.
I had a few cloves last year that had orange spots on the actual cloves, was this rust? Didn't seem to matter, I ate it all and it tastes fine.
It's totally fine to eat, it just makes the plants smaller overall. I can't say for sure if it's rust but it definitely could be
I planted my garlic end of last month, but I still have a pound left that im trying to give away to some more home garlic growers.
I always over order so I feel that!
Do u water ? Drip system?
I will be adding drip to this bed, in the winter I try to keep water low to avoid rotting the cloves early on.
Make sure to water well before you straw Can stay dried out )
The advantage of soft neck is that they keep longer after harvest.
For sure that is a great bonus, I am still going through my softbeck harvest and it shows no signs of issues
@@jacquesinthegarden I have some from my 2022 crop! I freeze my hard neck in cubes, crushed with olive oil and sometimes fresh herbs.
Foot by foot is great for you, but what happens when you live in an entirely metric country, like Australia?
The beds are from Australia which is why they were metric to begin with! So if you get birdies down there you are good to go with metric.
Is green garlic the same thing as garlic chives?
Green garlic is straight up green garlic leaves while garlic chives are a different plant that tase like garlic but isn't technically garlic, although it is delicious as well!
I did not know there was such a thing as Rust on garlic maybe Its In the soil
I got it last year. Not sure what it’s from. But I had to purchase seed garlic this year because I couldn’t plant my saved cloves.
It can blown in and also live inside the soil until something is planted that it can colonize. That is why I didn't plant it in the same bed which had rusted garlic in it prior.
@jacquesinthegarden I'm wondering something, are there different varieties of Rust? In other words, would it be the same Rust on a Plumeria, a Canna, a Fig, and garlic (alliums)?
Isn’t Birdies an Australian company? How do you change the design?
We are the primary sellers here and so they worked with us to develop this specific line just for us. In Aus they will still be metric
@@jacquesinthegarden I’m so happy to see you promoting an Australian product. They are excellent quality.
I can’t remember if you guys have a video on this but spider mites and rust issues. Prevention, and then organic ways to get rid of it. 😊
It's a good topic to cover, we haven't formally done so yet
@@jacquesinthegarden omg hi!!! Have a nice thanksgiving
garlic rust never sleeps
i like garlic, but, is there a benefit for growing yourself.. with other things, there is a better to getting freshly harvested
Mine has been much stronger flavor than store bought. Also get to have scapes from the hardneck varieties. And if you keep a few bulbs for replanting each year you don't have to repurchase it, endless garlic!
A lot of the garlic sold in grocery stores is grown in China. You don't even want to know what they grow it in. If the roots are cut off & the bulb is kind of indented there, it's from China. Even if the garlic sold in stores is grown in America, you don't know how long it sat in a warehouse. Homegrown garlic is so much better. I've grown it for years in my little backyard.
The variety selection is actually amazing. You get way more nuanced flavors in these garlics than what you would usually find in the store. As other people said you also get control of where your garlic came from and how it was grown. If you try to buy organic garlic, for example, it's quite expensive. And of course the additional bonus of harvesting scapes, which are delicious treats from hardneck garlic is something I look forward to every spring.
Flavour!
WE NEED TO CREATE PERMANENT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME! :o
As an Aussie, I laugh that you think an 'update' to the Birdie beds is making them in imperial measurements.
It's more like you've taken them back to the 1940's 🙂
Unfortunately we are stuck in the past and I don't see us going metric any time in my lifetime!
Why would metric measurements stop a single thing you demonstrated?
Why change to an inferior measurement?
I prefer my raised beds measured in smoots
Looks like Elephant garlic. It's supposed to grow that big.
It is an elephant garlic but the hardneck music garlic i grew last year was basically the same size. If you planted elephant garlic close together it would also end up smaller.
May you never have bindweed. The roots go on forever.
Oof I've heard about that devil weed, happy to not have it
Imperial? Are we going back in time 😢
You can still order metric, the beds come from Australia and are in metric. But for the majority of Americans we use the Imperial method, so yay, I'm happy!
Yeah we are set back in imperial times sadly. The convenience of working in our home units and even measurements is for sure worth it for me. If I was living somewhere metric based I would definitely prefer metric though!
@@jacquesinthegarden are you keeping the metric ones available for the rest of the world?
Sterzlization destroys the natural microbiome of the garlic.
I've also thought this, especially since I'm sure plenty is preserved on garlic.
i think im in love with you
First!! ;p
Second!! ;p
People still do this?
4:24 thus, downgrade
Too much extra work to get 6 inches. Gee whiz
It makes me sad Americans insist on keeping out imperial measurements. It would be so nice to join the rest of the world and just switch to metric.. it’s a much better system.
I gotta say, I prefer your videos over Kevin's. I realize YT makes you want to look like a clown for views, but at least your silly titles and subjects don't cater to your audience's stupidity like his do. You've actually got more subscribers than him in much less time, so maybe the audience prefers not being talked to like they're stupid also. (Simultaneous garlic vids for reference.)
I am happy to have to here! It is fun to clown a bit but we do have different personalities and presentation styles, glad to hear you enjoy the way I make videos
Too much talk
Why not mince and dehydrate the rest of the garlic and put it away for use later? Or perhaps you could saute it and then turn it into a garlic paste, that would also be quite delicious. Thinly slicing and dehydrating the garlic is also an option, kind of like making garlic chips. You could also mix them in with some other things like sauces and freeze those for later use. There's a lot that you can do with that extra garlic. 🧄
Cuz those cloves are expensive!
@@eviltomthai Exactly, so USE them!
The annoying thing is peeling all the tiny cloves! Overall I expect to get more garlic mass out of the greens over the garlic itself. The plan is to dehydrate and make green garlic powder!