How to plant Garlic | Solent Wight | Elephant Garlic | Autumn Planting Garlic | Green Side Up
Time to get your garlic in, loads of info in this one so dont miss out!
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How to plant Garlic | Solent Wight | Elephant Garlic | Autumn Planting Garlic | Green Side Up
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I’ve had my Solent Wight in the fridge for a couple of weeks to give them a period of cold temp before potting – not sure if it helps or encourages splitting of the cloves but the garlic bulbs usually turn out ok at harvest.
Really helpful, thanks!
Great video today Steve. I am working my garlic bed this weekend adding manure layer topping with fresh layer of compost. Monday I will plant the garlic about 150 I think. I cover with 4" of straw for the winter here in Minnesota zone 4A. I am watching several videos today you had a lot of great information today. Thank you for this video today. Jane also had a great video yesterday on garlic! It is by all the different bits of info adapted to my area and climate really helps me to get to a good harvest sooner. You really got me thinking of elephant garlic I am going to see if I can still source it this year to plant soon. Cya tomorrow in the Potty mouth
Got to get on with this. p.s. YouTube has updated the mobile app so there doesn't seem to be a "big red button" to subscribe to accounts anymore. Maybe you will need to adjust one of your catchphrases in due course – unless they bring it back!
2:30 I'm running an experiment right now where I'll plant my own garlic but the cloves I use for seeds are always the biggest of that blub. It's a very casual endeavour. I think I've planted two (?) in a conatiner. This reminds me though that I should get a move on and plant the rest. I think I'd like to try growing some different cultivars as well. I like growing more then one variety at a time for almost everything because, in my head, it helps with disease resistance.
I've planted around 300 cloves, mainly my own saved Provence Wight and Messidrome, plus a few other bits and pieces grown last year from 75% off reduced end of season stuff.
I daren't leave my garlic un-backfilled as birds would drag them out or rats would eat them. I had enough trouble rotorvating the 'tectonic plates' of heatwave/drought dried topsoil without having loads of extra work replanting them.
Lost all my Elephant Garlic to white rot at my last allotment site, 90 poles but it spread from plot to plot. Now up to 25 poles at our new site, so might start growing again. I always thought of them as a bit of a fun crop, especially when our daughter's 'food technology' teacher's recipe called for "one clove of garlic", and I gave her an enormous EG clove bigger than a whole bulb of garlic.
When they start sprouting I'll spread a mulch of shredded autumn leaves amongst them, not that they need protection from extreme cold, but to protect my clay soil from puddling/compaction from winter rains, plus to inhibit weed growth . Then they'll only need one light weed next year before harvesting.
As for developing your own localised strain of garlic, check out online for commercial growers who believe they get better yields by importing their seed garlic from other areas, such as Scottish garlic growers importing their seed garlic from Canada
Steve of subject, do f1hydbrids work against club root. Tried lime and getting good root stock but my plants have been rubbish this year
What happens if you don't dig your garlic every year
I've just planted all my little cloves too Steve. I was going to just grow them for green garlic. Interesting you noticed no size difference. I'll check that out myself! Thanks for that Steve. Danny 🌱
I bought some Elephant Garlic last year … just assumed I would get 6-8 cloves from each, and hadn't realised that I would need to bulk up "stock" over a number of years … several of them didn't split (this year) … so I have ordered some more, and in doing so I shopped around so, in case helpful to anyone else, price per clove: D.T.Brown and Mr Fothergills £2.79[5], £2.23[20], The Garlic Farm £1.82[6], £1.41[12], Kings Seed £1.19[10] and Simply Seed £17.99 for 500g – no idea how many cloves that is! based on mine I reckon approx £1.00 each
Your elephant garlic looks amazing. I did not grow this year and I have missed it. Do you do your shallots from seed or sets? I tried seed this year and they seem to be storing better than the sets have in the past.
Greetings, Steve, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
Those Bulbs ALL look huge and healthy.
Thanks for all of the brilliant tips. 👩🌾👍
Nice garlic planting. Those elephant garlic are huge.
What is the last word/meaning you say in your videos?
Hi Steve, great video on garlic with lots of advice too. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
Oh planted garlic this year, but know watching your video I think I planted them to close together. Hummmm
Good reminder. I will get mine in tomorrow. 👍
I picked up two packs of two garlic bulbs and one onion set from Wilkos at three for two. So the whole lot cost me a fiver! What a steal.
I planted the shrapnel this year after you mentioned it in an earlier video and I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes. Last year was quite expensive buying garlic and elephant garlic but this year I've planted from my own bulbs. I had a brilliant harvest with the bought bulbs this year so it will be really interesting to see what happens next year. Looking forward to your future videos!
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Hi great videos ! I know everyone says do not plant garlic from supermarkets . But is that a old wives tail . They say you’ll get fungus etc but they are so cheap has anyone tried growing them
Great video Steve. Your right about the price of the bulbs from specialist growers being expensive. Did the same as you with the elephant garlic last year and bought a single bulb and have planted 30 cloves this year. A quick tip if your on a budget, get yourself to Lidl. Bought a couple of their garlic for 49p each and planted up last year. Well impressed with the resulting bulbs which were as good as the more expensive ones. Don’t know what the variety is but it is a hard necked one.
Great video Steve!
I look forward to seeing how they grow!
I thought it was an ice cream cone you were holding up in your thumbnail pic lol .
Great update as always Steve that Elephant Garlic looks amazing …..
I am trying elephant garlic this year. But in Canada so can't leave them in the ground. Excited for them.
Great update Steve , I'm just back from Holiday on IOW , you can't go there without a visit to the Garlic farm I bought Rose Wight, Mersey Wight and Kingsland Wight bulbs which have been duly planted as per your video , keep up the good work
I have saved all my garlic i grown last year so i will like you be putting them all in
Fab vlog 🥰 Google says plant november, YouTube are doing it now as are FB groups how do I know who's right pls 😊
I love to grow garlic and onions because our neighborhood woodchuck doesn’t eat them! This year it will be a lot of garlic. The ‘round’ information is interesting. I especially treasure the scapes.
I'm still waiting on my seed garlic coming 🙁
Had to switch varieties this year cause my usual supplier don't do seed garlic anymore, so will be interesting to see what happens 😀
Will definitely plant some garlic, what was the blue plastic sheet sticking out of your beds ?