Are you a fellow vampire-defeating,🧛♂️ bad-breathed garlic-lover?! 🧄 🧄 🧄 Well, get planting NOW!
Many people do not realize that planting garlic in autumn can offer the best results.
There are so many pungent and tasty varieties to choose from and they all offer health benefits along with their flavor-boosting goodness. Ben demonstrates how to plant, what to plant and when to plant in this tasty sizzler! 🤩
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I saw you watered after you planted the first time.. how often would you water after that? Thank you 🙂
I was looking on some websites about garlic and this video was embedded. I thought i would give an update on how it went trying to grow garlic for the first time.
Some things i also learnt this year. I am in zone 9 in London. First frost is Jan 1 – Jan 10.
I planted these at the beginning of Nov, thinking that i was too late. I think i may have been too early as they soon sprouted.
With the even more mild winter and dry spring, come May, they started getting aphids. By June they were suffering and we ended up pulling them out at the end of June/ beginning of July.
They were a bit small. Comparing the size of the bulbs you were using here, i was also disappointed in the size of the bulbs that we received and how many that were usable.
I have also heard that some people store their garlic in the fridge before planting to help with the vernalisation process, where some seeds need to chill out before springing into life.
So i am going to try that and plant later this time around and see how it goes.
Three major things i have learnt the past few years doing "hard core" home veggie growing.
1) Know your OWN climate. That includes weather, height, sun alignments during the season and access to water in heatwaves and droughts (water butts, ground water and nearby stream levels)
2021 – Was very wet and windy. Our bedding area suffered but our containers flourish
2022 – Was very dry and hot. Main crops flourished overall. We covered our legumes with an old net curtain and moved our containers that were suffering into the shade. Mulching really does help but due to family issues, we were too late in acting but it still helped. Containers are more free draining than bedding areas, especially with those fabric pots, so mulch straight away. It helps keep warm in and retain water.
2) Know YOUR soil. No dig is great and all and you can do the PH tests but even with beds, what lies beneath is important, if not for plants but for it's access to water and for it to grow deeper. A decent bed will take a few years to establish before it just requires the topping up. I love my "Darlek" composter but find it is slightly too small and often have to offset it in either the crate wormery"spa" (as i call it) tiered system, or ends up in a builders bucket to either dry as brown layer or gets soggy. So this will be a project to get ready for next year.
3) Know YOUR enemies and choose YOUR battles. Weeds and pests. Whilst we are getting our neighbours bindweed and ivy issues under control, WE still have Marestail and now (our own fault) Wisteria roots to contend with. Mares/Horse tail was a lot easier this year. Not sure if the weather or our measures helped but it was less of a thing. The wisteria we moved out of the bed last year, when we expanded, didn't entirely get removed as it seems. Hopefully, the next layer will help in suppressing them.
Pests- not so new aphids but in the wrong places. The Nasturtium was late to come up, which is our trap crop. Most of our marigolds died but some really took off big time! We also had white fly on the sprouts. Again late on action but we did seem to tackle both bugs with the homemade washing up liquid and vinegar.
We have been luckily this year with hardly any snails and slugs. We always put the bugs in the composter, even caterpillars.
As the temps dropped recently, we also got a flock? of shield/ stink bug larvae on everything in the bed. With the rain starting to split the tomatoes, it attracted loads?
The little birds came back and had a field day on our spinach, now covered.
Also, the rats and foxes are about. The rat traps don't work, so we have now put up a bait station away from the bird area. Potatoes, runner beans, asparagus and even in random places like the baby pear tree and a spot on the lawn were dug up. Will see.
Talking of the lawn, since no mow May, we didn't mow as it was too dry. I has bounced back from dry dirt and weeds but tbh, it's good for a rest. The landscape of the lawn was never even as it was so different to now. We might get a little cultivator in just to level it out and start again. Hubby loves his lawn so hopefully that will motivate him into that project.
We are also planning to install a proper trellis framework on the bedding area after being given the green light to measure up.
Finally growing oyster mushrooms! It's in a box the width of the bath so fits well in the new bathroom. I wish i had checked that the bin bag was water proof before using in the cardboard box! Doh! Might use one of those underbred containers next.
Our chilli's are now red. Think we might do a challenge before doing something more useful with them! haha
I am also setting up some more experiments in the garden and in doors to keep me going as jobs die down.
Thank you for your videos and keeping us inspired!
Music garlic does well in Canada
Thanks for your videos. I am in Seattle and just planted garlic bulbs. I have an abundant amount of old pine needles that have fallen this year.
Can I put the pine needles over the planting area as mulch during the winter.
My Garlic was terrible this year, just so tiny. Your vids are always inspiring me to try harder .
I have grown garlic for the last four years and it’s one of my most reliable and best crop. I plant 16-20 cloves in late September, cover with straw and then harvest in mid/ late July. I just need more room to plant more so we actually have enough for the year and to plant for the following year!
It never gets that cold during the winter here. We never get snow, and it rarely gets below 30F. I plant garlic in mid-November and it is sprouting by late December. Usually matures around late May. Our "cold " weather comes around February. Should I plant closer to February to get more of a chill? I am pretty successful as it is.
I grow about 100 bulbs a year and with all the will in the world it won't last 12 months, So I peel loads of them,and wizz them to a paste with a splash of cooking oil and salt Then freeze them in ice cube trays; enough to add to most meals and will last a long time.
Thanks, Ben. This will be my first year planting garlic. I am nervous about it as a new vegetable gardener, but your video is helping!
Thanks Ben, I plant garlic, onions and shallots all in fall here in TN where we're Z6b and many times Z7 which may be the case this winter as warmer than usual weather is forecast. Of all the years I've grown Garlic, I typically grow both hardneck and softnecks – planting Music and California Early a softneck early garlic for summer eating. I'm not too adventurous with garlic – shallots are a very different matter! This year I picked up some Elephant Garlic, I've never home planted before. I see you've included Elephant Garlic in your planting but you didn't cover in the video. I would suspect that garlic to be planted really deep if I take the size of the bulb into consideration. What depth do you plant and any tips on this giant garlic… Again thanks for your videos.
Braise a large head of broccoli (or several small ones) and a full bulb of garlic (pressed or minced) in a ¼ cup of butter in a stove top skillet; add some leftover wine, cover and steam until desired tenderness…delicious! Thank you for the helpful tips.
Love your videos. I grow a LOT of garlic, I'm up to 14 varieties, and I planted 377 cloves this year. My favorite is the Kettle River Giant it's a spectacular specimen in size and flavor.
Thanks so much for last year's advice, Ben, and this video reminding me about the beauties of garlic growing for this coming season. I am taking your advice about crop rotation – I always think it makes sense, so your endorsement was very welcome.
Well! What a garlic (and shallot and onion) harvest outdoors this year in Orkney. The greenhouse and our cool store has swags of alliums! About to check my garlics for planting before the autumn storms get too much.
And I'm thinking about taking Kevin's advice from last year, and using some of the very successful garlics we've been harvesting as our 'seed corn' for growing another crop. Thanks, Kevin!
PS I tried Echlaottes Grises this year. We've had a good crop of small but very tasty shallots fro them and had a better rate of production than the banana shallots I usually grow.
I use garlic in everything and have it growing yearly in my flower beds etc! This year I got some named garlic but forgot to put the names on them. Just love it in every thing and eat it raw daily! Can’t wait to see what I have planted. I chose some Russian and Ukrainian types due to my mother being from Russia. She would have been excited and I know she is anticipating their grown in the spring. S he is always with me in my gardening endeavors,
My plans were to grow garlic next season. As I look this Fall the seed companies I've have used sell garlic for Spring planting, not Fall planting, as per this video and the Garden Planner. What's the difference and perhaps why am I running into this? Live in US Midwest
I had garlic that had been planted in 2020, should have been ready in 2021. The whole bed got overgrown with nasturtium flowers and I forgot about it. In winter 2021 the nasturtiums died back and there were loads of garlic stems poking up- I had a monster crop ready in July this year! (2022)
Pineapple-Garlic Upside Down Cake.
2/3 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar, packed
20 oz can pineapple, drained
10 garlic cloves or more
18 1/2 oz yellow cake mix or use your own
Preheat oven to 350. Spread butter over bottom of 13×9 pan. Sprinkle evenly with brown sugar. Arrange pineapple rings. Place 1 garlic clove in center of each ring. Prepare cake batter and pour over pineapple mixture. Bake 30-35 minutes, toothpick test. Cool 10 minutes. Turn out onto serving platter to serve, warm or cold.
I always enjoy your videos…
Garlic candy is great. Chop the garlic, not fine, put in a non stick ceramic fry pan with organic virgin first cold pressed olive oil. Fry until brown and crispy. Sweet like candy.
Last summer I had some grocery store garlic that sprouted and so I planted them in the ground without any research, just to see what would happen. Well the weather dried up, and so did the garlic, and I just assumed that was the end of that, experiment concluded. Well now it's winter and I took a little walk around the garden and what a lovely surprise it was to see some healthy looking shoots popping out of the ground! The experiment resumes 😀
As a bonus, I also just found a beautiful little sprout happily growing in my compost bin with some healthy looking roots that I transplanted in the ground with a bit of what I found it growing in, along with another that hadn't gotten light but had sprouted. Fingers crossed they turn into something delicious in a few months!
I saw a homestead video where they peel the garlic then put in a jar and cover with raw honey. Make sure garlic is covered. Mix daily. In 2 weeks and longer she says it’s an awesome remedy for flu colds and who knows what else. I’ve already tried it a few times and kicked whatever was trying to get me. She’s had some jars for years and it’s still good. Even better with age I think she said
Thank you for all the work you put in to these videos! They have really inspired me to start my own vegetable garden. I haven't been very successful at it yet, something always seen to happen to my veggies, but I do still enjoy the feeling of hope and optimism gardening gives me 😛 there's always next time
plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day.
i like my garlic in currys and on beard
and i eat it raw when have a hot bath with plenty of water
Thank you for sharing!