Your closing remarks about perfection, "It doesn't matter how you do it, it's just THAT you do it" is insanely profound for my current life happenings hahaha thanks bro
I found the remark extra comforting because my family has a bad black thumb and knowing I can fuck up a little bit with the fresh garlic I let sit too long in my cupboard, comforts me. I hope all is well with everyone. Cheers
Wow.. keep recording like this (I know this is 5 years old, but still, I'm new) and I'll be back again and again. No wasting time, super informative, no odd camera angles, no flash intro.. in general, no headaches. This is how I wish EVERY learning video on RUclips were and should be as you keep it super interesting, without adding distractions and garbage to "try" to grow an audience. You are like the flowers that the bees seek out.
I dried my last harvest of garlic on my kitchen table. I really liked the smell of the fresh garlic but most people would probably find it too strong. During the month my garlic was drying, I had NO flies in the house =)
......no Vampires either ! Garlic is never too strong ! Full of Vitamins ! It's really medicinal too ! I'm growing potatoes in a container inside . Food prices going up & up . The real good thing is quality ! Garlic , Potatoes , and Onion . ......I could live on them ! Peace !
Do you braid them when they're green or after they've dried? I'm sure they're beautiful I've seen them in stores displayed this way! Thank you for sharing us that beautiful idea! I wish the very best to all who read this!
My family used to do a lot of farming in Cuba when we lived there. We would braid garlic as well. Can be done either dry or green. Ideally you would want to braid them while green so you can hang them all together to dry.
NEW SUBSCRIBER! This is the most complete garlic growing video I have come across. Now I’m gonna go back and watch ALL your other videos! Thank you from a fellow Canadian ☺️
These videos are awesome and very informative. Ive grown organic veggies and fruits for about 35 years and have learned easier ways from your videos..thank you
I absolutely LOVE garlic. I can never have too much of it in my food. Just prior and during the winter months, I chew small pieces of garlic to keep and colds away. And the people. LOL. Works great ! 😃
I enjoy your video because you are such a great story teller; you added a great intro, humor, and tips. Keep them coming! I am going to do my experiment with garlic, ginger and other root veggies.
exactly - harvest the garlic when the bottom leaves are already brown and dried up but the middle and top leaves are still green. That's the exact moment to harvest garlic!
You guys rock! I'm in northern alberta - just learning to do no till on our new acreage. Ive been pouring over your videos - thank you for all the detail, its made this journey much easier!
Lol. People still believe that rumor. I started it over a thousand years ago. We, oh I mean, vampires love garlic it cleans the blood. So eat plenty of garlic, it keeps the vampires away.
@@bjfifi Do you not get the joke? He is hinting that HE is a vampire, and vampires actually loves garlic, and vampires themselves started the rumor to GET people to eat garlic, while people THINK it keeps vampires away, vampires actually LIKE people to eat garlic.
I have never seen any of your videos before, but I'm going to subscribe. This was so clear and simple, well-paced; and I love your attitude: it's not how you do it...it's that you do it. Anything worth doing is worth doing, even imperfectly. I'm a novice gardener and even though I've made plenty of mistakes in the last couple of years, it amazes me how much nature knows what she's doing!
Victoria B ditto! I’ve not seen this channel previously and I’m subscribing too! I’m an experienced gardener, and I’m drawn to all things garden-themed, natural-method, and northern. Love this!
OMG i just love your attitude, " whats most important is THAT you do it NOT how you do it" just love it.....now lets show my hubby your video and see what he thinks about doing it this way, and i know exactly where i would like to plant it too
Awesome. I have maybe 3-4 hundred garlic plants in my yard growing wildly and even though the bulbs are much smaller since they are crowded, I have an endless amount of scapes, bulbs, and dehydrated garlic, powder, and salt throughout the year. I *love* garlic. Eventually I plan on buying property in a more homesteading kind of fashion and growing garlic more systematically is definitely on the top of my list.
I liked that. It was succinct and concise without a lot of extraneous waffle, but packed with helpful information and visual explanations. As a 'tutorial' it was spot on. I eat every part of the garlic, including the flowers (raw on salads) & young stems which are like a sweet, hot spring onion. Garlic is exceptionally good for you.
The only thing I disagree with is a small thing, you said the paper cover will split because the garlic grew to big. After 7 years of growing my on garlic(about 6 varities ) I left a few rows in to long & all the paper covers had rotted away & I had to process all of it to keep the cloves from rotting. I never layed cloves on top of soil, so I learded something new also. Always save the large clove for planting & eat the small cloves. The large the clove the larger the bulb in summer.
Super awesome video!!! I LOVE GARLIC. But I've never grown it before. I am excited to give it a go this year with your method! Thank you for your easy-to-follow video.
I watched this last year and in October and planted garlic in generic potting soil, covered up with a boatload of leaves that fell. I just pulled the bulbs a few minutes ago and they are *massive* and fragrant. I cannot wait to do this again this year. Thank you for helping to educate me and better improve myself.
Thank you! You two are so awesome!! All the hay my dad has, and loves gardening out on the farm, this is the best! I shared it with him and my family!!
This video was very informative. I live in the tropics, and always wondered if garlic would grow. So I’ll give it a try with this method. Thanks very much.
One of the best videos I have seen on permaculture. I can't wait to try this now in the fall. I have access to a farm for resources and I can't wait to have our own backyard harvest. I already have wild garlic in spring and wild onions in fall but I am excited to finally plant on our property. What a great experiment!Thank you for sharing with all of us. God bless your harvest. New subbie!
This is a great adventure story. I wish you guys all the success you deserve. I'm in Australia and our seasons are 6 months different from yours, so the lessons you learn I can pretty much apply as soon as I see the video. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
Oh wow, I really love the phrase at the last bit, "It doesn't matter how you do it, it's THAT you do it". I've been trying my hand at gardening for 2 years now after being a failed uni graduate (A degree that doesn't have anything to do with gardening....It's a long story). I love gardening but I still have a lot to learn. Every now and then, I feel discouraged gardening especially since I have no stable income while taking care of family matters but I'll persevere. I'll be sure to make time to watch more of your videos. This made me really interested in growing garlic now!
@@kellypawspa Buy some green nail polish. I paint my thumbnails green before I work in the garden LOL I'm not joking. It's all worn off by the time I get in the house gloves or no gloves. But I love it when people look down and see the green on my thumbs. I don't know technical words I don't know Latin names for most things anymore but my mother really taught me just instinctively how to do things. And I owe her so much for it! I can get more of a yield out of a 12 x 15 patio that I'm living with right now then some people do out of a huge Garden. Again I owe my mother so much for letting me follow her since I was a tiny thing pulling the seeds back out that she was putting in......Thanks Mama❤😢🐌🌲🌞
Blue Sky, I'm sure there are Farmer's Markets that you could sell the products of your garden. The County Extension office is a trove of information, as is the Soil Conservation Service. Check to see if there is a Master Gardeners group in your area too. They understand the generational aspects of knowledge and are willing to pass it on. Community gardens are also available if space is limited. Just some strategeries. Good luck!
I dry them upside down. Then the g-force helps water to run down, in lives. It shortens the drying time. Tie them together, or, even better, use some mesh with wide openings and insert every particular garlic thru hole, bulb upwards. Same goes for onions. Do not let bulbs to touch each other. You are great, so inspirational, thank you and continue the good work.
I tried planting garlic this way, last season...just one bulb, with about 8 cloves all up, as an after thought one day...and blow me down...they grew! At the same time I planted some bought baby onion "bulbs" to plant and really did just put the little onion bulbs on the soggy straw under the top drier straw...they grew too. I did it all wrong, at the wrong time, with the fresh straw, not aged straw, which I asked for, but as no one here in the Hungarian village understood me...they arrived with 3 of those huge round marshmallows of hay! It's Feb now, I just went to measure up a chook pen, where I had my straw gardens last year and about a dozen garlic clusters are growing with heaps of green tops about 4 inches high. I forgot about them after the excitement of growing a couple of garlics myself. I moved all 8 straw beds in early October, as I didn't check properly for full sun...all day, not half the day Mary! So now all 8 beds are in the middle of the paddock and I'm getting ready to start the year off much wiser, as I didn't understand the growing zones, soil temp etc, as I'm an Aussie, from stinking hot and humid Qld, living in Hungary, where it snows in winter. Yup, as he says in one of his videos...It's not how you do it...it's about doing it!
Your closing remarks about perfection, "It doesn't matter how you do it, it's just THAT you do it" is insanely profound for my current life happenings hahaha thanks bro
Same. Best wishes Jeffrey!
Likewise. The advice I didn't know I needed. Thank you!
Tech Stuf, no doubt about it. But it’s nice to find so much tried and true techniques. Especially for us Northerners
I found the remark extra comforting because my family has a bad black thumb and knowing I can fuck up a little bit with the fresh garlic I let sit too long in my cupboard, comforts me. I hope all is well with everyone. Cheers
The important thing is making the garlic boys, that’s all that matters here
He's a natural teacher. No fluff, yet kept it interesting. Good Job!
Wow.. keep recording like this (I know this is 5 years old, but still, I'm new) and I'll be back again and again. No wasting time, super informative, no odd camera angles, no flash intro.. in general, no headaches. This is how I wish EVERY learning video on RUclips were and should be as you keep it super interesting, without adding distractions and garbage to "try" to grow an audience. You are like the flowers that the bees seek out.
What a wonderful comment. Thanks so much!
@@BackToReality Of course! It's my pleasure and your efforts in this deserve to be applauded! I look forward to learning with you!
How often do you need to water the garlic?
I dried my last harvest of garlic on my kitchen table. I really liked the smell of the fresh garlic but most people would probably find it too strong. During the month my garlic was drying, I had NO flies in the house =)
Jon ooooh I’ll have to try that!
oh Awesome idea, thanks😉
Jon and no guests. Lol
......no Vampires either ! Garlic is never too strong ! Full of Vitamins ! It's really medicinal too ! I'm growing potatoes in a container inside . Food prices going up & up . The real good thing is quality ! Garlic , Potatoes , and Onion . ......I could live on them ! Peace !
Do you think it'll have similar results with fire ants? A colony has set up near my rosemary..
I'm Tuscan we make braids with at least 10 heads of garlic then we hang then, then take up less space and are decorative 😊
Do you braid them when they're green or after they've dried? I'm sure they're beautiful I've seen them in stores displayed this way! Thank you for sharing us that beautiful idea! I wish the very best to all who read this!
I thought it was too dry on Tattooine to grow garlic
My family used to do a lot of farming in Cuba when we lived there. We would braid garlic as well. Can be done either dry or green. Ideally you would want to braid them while green so you can hang them all together to dry.
Garlic braids work really well with Softneck varieties. Hardneck varieties (like the ones they grew here) are too stiff to braid well.
They will grow like that? How do you braid them? Can you show us. TY :)
I love nothing more than nice wholesome channels like this
NEW SUBSCRIBER! This is the most complete garlic growing video I have come across. Now I’m gonna go back and watch ALL your other videos! Thank you from a fellow Canadian ☺️
Wonderful pep talk at the end. Great attitude to have and spread! 🙏
Excellent presentation! No wasted time fumbling for words, organized, lots of info, upbeat & succinct. Thank you 👍
These videos are awesome and very informative. Ive grown organic veggies and fruits for about 35 years and have learned easier ways from your videos..thank you
You speak such nice clean English up there in the freezing northland.. Good garlic lesson! I'll try some.
I think your channel is excellent!! You have enough geekiness to keep it feeling technical and not farmy. Nice seeing your wife! Ball of energy.
I absolutely LOVE garlic. I can never have too much of it in my food. Just prior and during the winter months, I chew small pieces of garlic to keep and colds away. And the people. LOL. Works great ! 😃
NoProGoPronto you’re like me. The recipe says 1 clove garlic...me, 1 bulb it is!
I do too! Love it. Garlic is the best natural antibiotic and blood thinner.
if im around garlic ill probably have a clove in my mouth
My dad starts each morning with a half a bulb of garlic and a grapefruit. He's in his 80s and strong as an ox.
As an introvert who dreams of being a hermit, I am very interested in your use of garlic :)
I enjoy your video because you are such a great story teller; you added a great intro, humor, and tips. Keep them coming! I am going to do my experiment with garlic, ginger and other root veggies.
exactly - harvest the garlic when the bottom leaves are already brown and dried up but the middle and top leaves are still green.
That's the exact moment to harvest garlic!
That quote at the end was weirdly inspirational for a garlic growing video
Watched a few Back To Reality vids now. And now I subscribed. I like your attitude.
That voice is GOLD. Love the video style too. Factual, and front end heavy, and honest.
Great video. I appreciate the conciseness (well done editor) of this relatively long term project. I’m inspired to grow garlic now.
So glad I found your RUclips channel!! Amazing and so clear. Thank you!
Love your videos. This one could take a preper to gourmet preper instantly.
"That you do it, not how you do it'' Love it and love you guys.
that was epic mate
So true!
You guys rock! I'm in northern alberta - just learning to do no till on our new acreage. Ive been pouring over your videos - thank you for all the detail, its made this journey much easier!
I just discovered your channel and I have to say it is one of the clearest and most enjoyable to watch among all the permaculture videos out there
My goodness, thanks so much!
Best video I have watched on growing garlic 🧄!!!!! Thank you very much you made it look very easy doesn’t look like you need lots of effort 😊
This was fantastic. Fast, you got to the point, and covered a lot. Thank you!
Thanks Dana, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
My husband found your videos and I am addicted! Very interesting and helpful, thanks much!!
What a wonderful example of how to do it, and make a really cool timeline video of it. Many thanks !
Thanks so much for the effort to document months worth of work, edit and create animation for clarity! So so so helpful for someone new like me!
Thanks for the encouragement! To paraphrase, "It doesn't matter how you do it; just that you do it." That is so encouraging and comforting, thank you!
I'm assuming you effectively kept the vampires at bay for those four weeks. -- Great video!
Lol. People still believe that rumor. I started it over a thousand years ago.
We, oh I mean, vampires love garlic it cleans the blood.
So eat plenty of garlic, it keeps the vampires away.
@@pychohobo1832 2
Lazy Hobo No vampires hate garlic know your common sense
Lazy Hobo And humans can’t live 1k years and if this is an R/whoosh or joke.I don’t find it humorous
@@bjfifi Do you not get the joke? He is hinting that HE is a vampire, and vampires actually loves garlic, and vampires themselves started the rumor to GET people to eat garlic, while people THINK it keeps vampires away, vampires actually LIKE people to eat garlic.
All the millions of people who watched this video need to come back and give it a like pls.
your storytelling skill are just amazing
Your video was one of the most informative and easy to understand. Love your "How To" Keep up the great work.
I have never seen any of your videos before, but I'm going to subscribe. This was so clear and simple, well-paced; and I love your attitude: it's not how you do it...it's that you do it. Anything worth doing is worth doing, even imperfectly. I'm a novice gardener and even though I've made plenty of mistakes in the last couple of years, it amazes me how much nature knows what she's doing!
Victoria B ditto! I’ve not seen this channel previously and I’m subscribing too! I’m an experienced gardener, and I’m drawn to all things garden-themed, natural-method, and northern. Love this!
Thank You! You are one of the most complete and most informative video on harvesting fall garlic
OMG i just love your attitude, " whats most important is THAT you do it NOT how you do it" just love it.....now lets show my hubby your video and see what he thinks about doing it this way, and i know exactly where i would like to plant it too
Thanks so much Libby! And good luck with you hubby ;)
Absolutely beautiful garlic bulbs..
Thanks for the follow-up! You do a great job of explaining everything, so that even a complete gardening newbie like me can easily understand.
Nice kai. Great vid and great observation re scattered bulbs. Ty.
Dude , I didn't know you , but your videos are such great to view! Direct, simple,precise ... Back to Reality!
Awesome. I have maybe 3-4 hundred garlic plants in my yard growing wildly and even though the bulbs are much smaller since they are crowded, I have an endless amount of scapes, bulbs, and dehydrated garlic, powder, and salt throughout the year. I *love* garlic. Eventually I plan on buying property in a more homesteading kind of fashion and growing garlic more systematically is definitely on the top of my list.
I liked that. It was succinct and concise without a lot of extraneous waffle, but packed with helpful information and visual explanations. As a 'tutorial' it was spot on.
I eat every part of the garlic, including the flowers (raw on salads) & young stems which are like a sweet, hot spring onion. Garlic is exceptionally good for you.
I loved the delivery of this video. So professional and the message at the end 🙂
Your channel is a standout!
I grow over 100 heads each year, great information! Thanks!
I did it last year and my family have homegrown garlic for the first time. I am ready to plant it again. I use sawdust. Thank you for instructions.
Wonderful presentation. I love the energy... Which is now inspiring me to get out of my bed and go work in the garden. Thank you... God Bless !💐
Thanks for the great video I love the little pitch fork elf you have assiting you! Adorable!!! And the moral of the story was great as well!
I just caught myself trying to upvote a second time. This video is awesome.
Excellent wording and delivery!
The only thing I disagree with is a small thing, you said the paper cover will split because the garlic grew to big. After 7 years of growing my on garlic(about 6 varities ) I left a few rows in to long & all the paper covers had rotted away & I had to process all of it to keep the cloves from rotting. I never layed cloves on top of soil, so I learded something new also. Always save the large clove for planting & eat the small cloves. The large the clove the larger the bulb in summer.
Nice video, very informative as well. I'm a grower myself and would agree with all your information. Well done !
Hi. I'm Asha from Mauritius. Your videos and their content are simply mind blowing. God bless you two always. Happy permaculturing friends.
This channel is like the hoovies garage of gardening. I love it
So envious of your lifestyle.
Super awesome video!!! I LOVE GARLIC. But I've never grown it before. I am excited to give it a go this year with your method! Thank you for your easy-to-follow video.
At the "4 weeks later" part your audio became much better, than the previous 5 minutes, may be wind, may be the mic.
Thanks for the garlic video!
I watched this last year and in October and planted garlic in generic potting soil, covered up with a boatload of leaves that fell.
I just pulled the bulbs a few minutes ago and they are *massive* and fragrant. I cannot wait to do this again this year.
Thank you for helping to educate me and better improve myself.
Woooh!
Lol, I dig the playful energies in your contents... Cheers!
Thanks for this videos I’m going to pick my garlic in the next week according to the leaves!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️
that little nice words at the end got me ... thanks
Great video!!! I’m so glad I found it!! I’m doing garlic for the first time and this was very informative!! ❤️
Love, Love, Love this! Hello from New Brunswick!
Congrats I spent years looking for a gardening channel and this is the one 🌱 🌱
Short, informative, and straight to the points of interest! Nice. Thank you for sharing
Thanks .... this will help as we harvest our first garlic crop this year.
Really enjoying your videos. Love the format and the content.
Such great videos! You two are great artists!! Thank you for your work.
Good job! I haven't bought garlic for 10 years. I have some pickled in white vinegar that's almost 10 years old.
I'm really enjoying your videos. Nice to get info on gardening from a fellow Canadian in Canada's climate. Great work, thank you.
You remind me of Alton Brown and how he explains the science in a wonderfully easy to understand way. Very nice to watch. More videos plssss. 😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you! You two are so awesome!! All the hay my dad has, and loves gardening out on the farm, this is the best! I shared it with him and my family!!
Love your presentation, always
Awesome video, I can’t WSIT to plant some garlic! Starting today 😉👍🏽😉 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄
Great lesson in life- it’s not how you do it - just that you do it! ❤️
Every year I plant the largest bulbs from the previous season and I love the results. Great video, thanks!
This video was very informative. I live in the tropics, and always wondered if garlic would grow. So I’ll give it a try with this method. Thanks very much.
I garden in Toronto and Nfld and just love this video - there's no wasted time
Just found your travels etc. I see that I have many great travel videos to catch up on. You found a fabulous place to homestead and flourish.
I love Ruth Stout's garden methods, they really work and are easier than 'traditional' ones.
I absolutely love your show I love it I am going to grow all the garlic that I can muster up I love it love it love it love it
One of the best videos I have seen on permaculture. I can't wait to try this now in the fall. I have access to a farm for resources and I can't wait to have our own backyard harvest. I already have wild garlic in spring and wild onions in fall but I am excited to finally plant on our property. What a great experiment!Thank you for sharing with all of us. God bless your harvest. New subbie!
This is a great adventure story. I wish you guys all the success you deserve. I'm in Australia and our seasons are 6 months different from yours, so the lessons you learn I can pretty much apply as soon as I see the video. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
And with youtube and people like you I can do whatever I can find a good video for and this was a good one.
His voice is so comforting and she is just so happy that now i am too :3
What a great video! This video is high quality. Thank you so very much for sharing your talents and knowledge.
Thanks for taking the time for the animations and editing
Oh wow, I really love the phrase at the last bit, "It doesn't matter how you do it, it's THAT you do it". I've been trying my hand at gardening for 2 years now after being a failed uni graduate (A degree that doesn't have anything to do with gardening....It's a long story). I love gardening but I still have a lot to learn. Every now and then, I feel discouraged gardening especially since I have no stable income while taking care of family matters but I'll persevere. I'll be sure to make time to watch more of your videos. This made me really interested in growing garlic now!
@@ericolens3 Lol yep just gotta put in the work
I hear you, I have a black thumb. Lol
@@kellypawspa Buy some green nail polish. I paint my thumbnails green before I work in the garden LOL I'm not joking. It's all worn off by the time I get in the house gloves or no gloves. But I love it when people look down and see the green on my thumbs. I don't know technical words I don't know Latin names for most things anymore but my mother really taught me just instinctively how to do things. And I owe her so much for it! I can get more of a yield out of a 12 x 15 patio that I'm living with right now then some people do out of a huge Garden. Again I owe my mother so much for letting me follow her since I was a tiny thing pulling the seeds back out that she was putting in......Thanks Mama❤😢🐌🌲🌞
Blue Sky, I'm sure there are Farmer's Markets that you could sell the products of your garden.
The County Extension office is a trove of information, as is the Soil Conservation Service. Check to see if there is a Master Gardeners group in your area too. They understand the generational aspects of knowledge and are willing to pass it on. Community gardens are also available if space is limited.
Just some strategeries. Good luck!
I dry them upside down. Then the g-force helps water to run down, in lives. It shortens the drying time. Tie them together, or, even better, use some mesh with wide openings and insert every particular garlic thru hole, bulb upwards. Same goes for onions. Do not let bulbs to touch each other. You are great, so inspirational, thank you and continue the good work.
I love you videos. Very informative, delivered in a way that keeps you watching until the end of the video.
I tried planting garlic this way, last season...just one bulb, with about 8 cloves all up, as an after thought one day...and blow me down...they grew! At the same time I planted some bought baby onion "bulbs" to plant and really did just put the little onion bulbs on the soggy straw under the top drier straw...they grew too. I did it all wrong, at the wrong time, with the fresh straw, not aged straw, which I asked for, but as no one here in the Hungarian village understood me...they arrived with 3 of those huge round marshmallows of hay! It's Feb now, I just went to measure up a chook pen, where I had my straw gardens last year and about a dozen garlic clusters are growing with heaps of green tops about 4 inches high. I forgot about them after the excitement of growing a couple of garlics myself. I moved all 8 straw beds in early October, as I didn't check properly for full sun...all day, not half the day Mary! So now all 8 beds are in the middle of the paddock and I'm getting ready to start the year off much wiser, as I didn't understand the growing zones, soil temp etc, as I'm an Aussie, from stinking hot and humid Qld, living in Hungary, where it snows in winter. Yup, as he says in one of his videos...It's not how you do it...it's about doing it!
Thank you so mucho for these amazing videos you both do. I simply love them and bless you for your time and good energy.
Now that's what I call an info filled and watchable video. thanks
Fantastic video! I enjoyed the presentation and the commentators personality! Thank you for an interesting and informative production!
I absolutely love your videos! Thanks and keep them coming!
Hej! Glad to see ye back! And it was cool to see the results of the garlic experiment, thanks for posting it
I am really enjoying and learning from your videos! Thanks for sharing what you learn. I love the way you approach this as experiments!
Great video as always. Glad you are having so much luck for your hard labor. 👍
love the video. cant wait until we get our garlic bed in!
I'm new here and I must say that was a very well done video on all levels! Thank You.