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Now that we’ve doubled our growing area, it’s time to plant our garlic. Also: Crop rotations, our homemade hole poker thing, lessons learned, etc.
Plant Hardiness Zones, Annual Rainfall, and Other Important Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8
Instant Raised Garden Beds by Flipping Sod: Expanding our Garlic Patch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tay9Mi7XM4U
No Dig Garlic: Planting, Harvesting, and Drying Garlic Using the Ruth Stout Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhpvMg5d1OM
Spring Garden Update: Hugelkultur, Ruth Stout, and Garlic Sprouts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1FCsF-iAI
GGC – 71 – Planting Garlic in a Modified Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TXfeq9wdc
GGC – 70 – The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfi-n0Oq38E
He looks like Louis C.K. In this video.
Garlic, potatoes, onions
Im so bored with this quarantine stuff yet this is making me survive….its surprisingly interesting..
Thank you this was very helpful! I tried planting a little garlic this winter but this time I’ll start in the fall
I think it's a dibbler, Grampy had a few for different spacing.
You should of moved the 2 outer rows of garlic in each bed to 4" from each edge…, this in effect gives each plant an 8" square of soil for their root system.., that is 4" each direction to the start of the next garlic's root system.., a 25% increase for each plant. as you have it there is only 3" to the next garlics root system.
When ya gonna sell that garlic?
Why do you grow so much garlic?
Yes sir rotation of crop is very important for good yield and maintaining soil nutrition
Loved the tractor/walking graphic. Thanks for posting 🙂
How did you cut the sod ? Did you make a video of the building the sod flipped build(by actual humans-you & yours)?
Thank you for such informative and engaging videos! First time garlic grower here with a long shot question I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. What if, instead of covering with hay/leaf/other mulch, you were to broadcast a cover crop seed over top of the garlic? The aim being to fix nitrogen, provide mulch (when the crop is killed by the snow) and save the labour all in one go? Perhaps the answer is obvious (e.g. the cover crop smothers the garlic), but I'd be interested to hear from you on it! Cheers.
Good video , thanks.
In Ireland and Scotland these raised beds are called lazy beds.
You might want to look at what Bruce Darrel ( a fellow Canadian ) is doing in the RED Gardens project in Ireland.
He has had a lot of success with lazy beds particularly on rough ground.
If you let you garlic blossom you get about 30 small garlic sets. Set these close the first year then set them out the next. Then you can use all garlic you harvest. First year sets can grow on scrap land you would normally plant in.
Curious if you mow between the raised beds or put down mulch or something to avoid a row of weeds between the crops.p?
You asked for Comments regarding the planting distances so as to increase yield:
Your current planting gives an actual root spacing of 3" between rows except along the sides where you stayed with 6".
You could plant your side rows 3" from the Garden edge, continue with your 6' spacing and squeeze in another row [or even more] without compromising quality.
Don't think I will be trying this…but I certainly enjoyed hearing about your experiment. Happy New Year and all best wishes!
the device schould be called a manual soil drill
Check out the 'whack' method of separating your garlic cloves. It is very efficient and satisfying. https://youtu.be/4wfWaFZ77z8
Thank you for all the information on planting garlic!
It’s called a dibber
Follow up video? Which garlic did you like best?
If you decentralize some of the garlic and mix it into the hugel polyculture, you can have your kitchen garlic and your crop garlic. Then do your crop rotations ant mix cover crops with your garlic in the same season.
Peanuts make nitrogen.
use masterblend tomato fert and add calcium and epsom salts use as a weekly feed 1oz per ft then no crop rotation needed as micro nutrients are being made available to both plants and the grow bed. ive used it for several years and have huge healthy crops with few pests.
the hole poker thingy is called a dibbler here is a link to make one for your 6×6 holes(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3p8TIP9Fs)
This so well done and you are such a great presenter.
Informative, well presented, good info and no BS..Go well, grow well and thanks
Do the ridges/beds and the water ways need to be of equal width or can we go for depth instead of width. I want. Higher ridge/bed area. Any link for designing such a raised be farm?