It’s garlic, planting season, come with me, and let’s plant nearly 200 heads of garlic. In today’s episode, I will tell you everything you need to know about planting garlic.
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Also, grocery store garlic is treated with an inhibitor to prevent sprouting.
Planted garlic for the first time this year watching your older videos. Is there any fertilizing or maintenance done in the spring to keep it going that you could do a video about?
I have 2 varieties; Music, and Persian Star that I'll be planting this year. I'm glad you did a video on this. I have straw that I've been using on my other plants as mulch. Will that work for growing garlic or does it have to be some sort of wood chips to keep the ground from compacting?
Just planted my soft neck a week ago, but I didn’t know about the sulfur. I’ll rake the mulch back & add it. Thanks Luke!
How often should you water garlic
Very informative!
The video I needed 🙌🏼 got my garlic from y’all!
Greetings from the Netherlands… (8a-8b-9) … last year i attempted hardneck Garlic … and i got a huge harvest
This video is great! I've learned so much. I'm really nervous being a first-time garlic planter and this is really helpful. I did buy some of the culinary garlic, oh well, life lesson. Living in zone 10A I'm thinking I'm going to have to water because we don't get too much rain or snow.
Garlic scapes make the best pesto
I always learn something new from your videos! I didn't know about the sulfur, so I will have to do that from now on. Thanks! 🙂
So as I plan on soon covering my chicken pen area with a new layer of pine, I can add some of that to a new batch of garlic plantings. Also good to know that my being in zone 6, I should be able to grow hardnecks and softnecks in my yard.
Ideal planting time here in middle Tennessee is a bit of a guess, every year. Our weather yo-yo's so much that 30 days before first anticipated frost means you'll see greens growing in about 45 days. Then again, we can only do hardneck varieties here, and we're in 7a.
I love the German hardneck garlic I purchased at MI Gardener, they had crazy big cloves 💖When I save my own Hard-neck garlic I leave the stem at least 4 inches long, it helps break the garlic apart and you can bunch varieties together with a rubber band. It Just loosen the skin by rotating it in circles pull off the stem paper and loosen the glove paper rotate it again and the cloves should pop off, or at least gone enough room to get your thumb in there.
Snow? laughs in southerner
I don't think the Link worked but I hope you get credit … all the best from Arkansas!!!
So, I have some garlic that is small but I am attached to it because it's from my family. I want to keep planting it, but will it never get larger even if I plant the largest bulbs each year?
Thanks, Luke. This info was great, but I plant my garlic in grow bags and I'd love a video on that.
Mulch. I gotta learn more about mulches. We use shredded leaves & grass clippings. Worked good last year. Sometimes, we use mowed weeds & grasses, that doesn't work too well, tons of foxtail pop up.
What kind of sulfur
Oh how I love hardneck garlics. Those scapes are wonderful in soups, stews, omelets and just sauteed in butter and bacon! The clove harvest is the second wave! It's like two harvests out of one crop!
I am ready to plant my garlic. I am waiting another week or so to do so. I learned about pelleted sulfur today. Usually I just give a light dose of the sulfur powder.
I wanted to tell you that your videos are so informative and helpful. I just bought my garlic for the first time this year. Of course it's MI Gardner garlic. I live in zone 9 in a desert and I have a real problem with ground squirrels and pocket Gophers. I decided to try growing my garlic in my garden tower. Since I don't normally get rain here in the high desert of California very often, I wasn't sure how much to water my garden tower. I'm glad I watched today for two reasons; amending the soil and mulching with pine shavings. I'm hoping this will truly help my garlic to grow this year if you have any advice on how often to water my garden tower it would be deeply appreciated. Thanks again for all the gardening help you've provided since I found your channel. Open.
Good video as always. Picking the proper planting time for garlic is never easy. I'm in zone 6A, 16 miles west of Boston. Our average first frost is Oct 6th. Last year our first frost didn't come until early Nov and this year its looking like next Tuesday BUT warm days remain ahead. Now I go by either the native Indians rule of around the last full moon of October of AFTER the first frost. Both those will be a few days apart this year. I will let you know how it works out.
Some mighty BIG heads of garlic there ! So much fun to grow.
I'm in south central Wisconsin and plant garlic the first week of November, mostly hardneck, planted 4" apart and 2" deep. I tried 6" spacing once and noticed no difference in bulb size so I went back to 4". I've never added sulfer but we don't get as much rain as Michigan, so I've never had any garlic rot. I haven't needed to buy garlic in 7 years now. So easy and fun to grow and save seed from for the next year! GL everyone!
I bought 4 different varieties of garlic from MiGardener. I've planted 1/2of them.
I'm glad I watched this video, because I didn't know about the sulfur & I have planted them too deep.
What kind of sulfur? Is epsom salt the same thing?
Btw, I've decided to plant a few garlic cloves in my flower pots to discourage critters from eating my flowers!!
(Deer & raccoons hate garlic!!)
We can plant 2 months before our first frost in CA since we don't always get an actual frost and the garlic just plows on (slowly) through the winter. I'm only about 40 miles from Gilroy, the "garlic capital of the world" and can reliably use the local farmer's market garlic for seed and get big healthy heads. What's weird is that some of it is hard-neck and that's unexpected, but it grows well here in Zone 10a.
I planted garlic I got from the Amish. I’ll add the Trifecta I just bought from you and I need to get pine shaving added. Yay!!!! Thanks for the videos!
If denser soil squeezes the bulb, keeping it small… but the plant is still putting the same energy into that bulb, does it make any difference in the flavor? I would guess that it might make it more intense like stressed pepper plants often make hotter peppers?
I am just 2 mins in and i am already confused on what you are trying to say.
– 30 days from where you are? I have no idea where you are, your gardening zone or climate.
* I am based in London Zone 9a but we typically have wet autumns from mid Sept. "Hurricane" season is in Oct but true light frosts generally start in Dec. Our tomatoes and other warm weather crops are usually taken out by the rain, wind and especially the humidity levels, not the cold. (14-15/10/23 abnormal low of 1/2c but the humidity had already began)
– Hardiness zones are lower, when it is colder. Talking just solely about hard neck and using polar opposites doesn't translate to other varieties. Keep it simple.
* Soft necks are less hardy and have no scapes. Can be planted in early spring, after the hard frosts of colder climates. If you can dig the hole, you can plant it. We planted both types 4/12 got down to a very low and unexpected -7c. Harvested in the beginning of July and they were great.
– "Garlic is going to be in the soil for up to 6 months", then why say to plant in Oct and harvest in July?
* Garlic varies and also dependant on the variety. Your seller should tell you when to plant and harvest your variety. Buy as local as you can for your weather/ climate. You plant based on your area. Zones 9 +, it is recommended to place your garlic, esp hard necks, in the fridge for about 6 weeks before planting time, to get that "cold period" it needs. Some varieties can take 8-9 months to harvest. NEVER FREEZE garlic to plant! It is too cold and as it defrosts the protective dry paper around the bulb will go mouldy and will rot the clove just like another bulbs.
– "Elephant garlic is not garlic and more like leek"
* This is more in reference to the growing space and stem size, rather than the species itself.
The general rule of thumb, is the smaller the clove it naturally is, the more pungent the bulb and cloves. Elephant garlic do produce bigger cloves but they tend to be as mild as a leek. Hence why hard necks are generally stronger than soft necks. By removing the scapes early doors, it re focuses it's energy to the bulb. Weather, climate and soil health, will determine the size of the hard neck. You can also choose when to harvest your scapes vs bigger bulbs.
– Plant the garlic clove the double the depth as the bulb size. Say if your bulb is 2.5cm/ 1 inch high then dig a 5cm/ 2 inches hole. Then use about the same mulch layer on top. If you are in a colder climate who have already planted by now 3/4 " down is good.
* No need to water if in wet or cold season! If no rain for 2 weeks than check the soil. These cloves needs to produce roots, so let them be and seek water.
* I would be wary of adding sulphur to your soil unless you have had a soil test.
I usually go by the first light frosts as in about below 7-4c. My no dig is showing signs of high nitrogen so i won't be adding blood, fish and bone mix/ tri factor this year.
Planing to sieve out my one crate ready of worms from the wormery. It normally goes onto this main bed but i am now thinking of placing it on my b sprouts bed. If i don't sieve out all of the worms, it is no biggy. The worms left over is going to be relocated to the main composter over winter. I don't like to look after an over crowded wormery over autumn and winter. Those 15/20 red worms we found in the garden are surely making life easier now days. Our trouble now is the food for the council gets really bad before we get a full small in house bag full.
We just are on the last legs of processing 40kgs of tomatoes in a small London garden. Hopeful that we can find some space in the fridge soon for the council food bin! Once you have a setup of different bins for zero waste, it is so easy but the waste bin that the council now provides doesn't have the drainage section. We can't afford that type of composting and don't have wild stock.
I have only one small section of your garden and that also includes a lawn to play. So are you self sufficient now in that big back and front garden and your other plots?
What actually happens to the clove that is planted? Did you say it divides into multiple cloves to for a bulb?
I have a question! How much water does garlic need in the winter, and how often? 🙂
This came in time for me to plant. I was watching a video from someome who has planted garlic for 30+yrs. They said to soak in a solution of baking soda, kelp & humic acid & water. You didn't meantion this. Do you do this? If not why?
Garlic is one of my absolute favorite things to eat in the kitchen. Thank you for the helpful video. I’m glad that trifecta plus is finally available on Amazon. Thank you.
Wait, 30 days before first frost? Aren’t you in Michigan, that date came and went by now?
Can you put a link of your garlic seed ..
Question: when are the 2024 seeds available, generally, if I buy seeds now am I buying 2023 garden seeds or 2024. Not just from you but from other producers as well…
Hi, thank you for explaining this process. You mentioned that after you put the pine shavings on you water it well. After that initial watering, when do you begin to water it again? thanks.
Do you rotate where you grow your garlic each year or every so often? Or always plant it in that same bed? Does it really even matter if you're amending the soil with compost, etc each season? Each year I grow more than the last and it's one of my favorite crops to grow and give away to friends and family!
Man i would like to date this migardner guy. He's nice, kind, useful, and seems pretty amazing with his knowledge.
What brand of sulfur do you use?
Alot of good info i wasnt aware of! Thanks!
I'm always 6 beers in when in gardening lol 🌿
I would like to see a video on growing garlic indoors, if it's possible to do.
everytime I think of planting something, a video comes out! I wasn't serious about garlic !