Garlic Needs Space. That’s what we’ve always been taught. 4 inches spacing between each clove when you plant them and 2 inches from the sides of the bed or pot. We plant them that way every year without question and get great harvests.
But what if we didn’t?
What if we spaced them close, but not too close? What if we doubled our planting concentration of the bulbs by halving the spacing? Would we get smaller bulbs, but more yield overall? Would the crop suffer and do worse?
So many questions. I wish someone had the foresight 10 months ago to plan an experiment where they planted identical planter boxes using the same soil, same seed source, and exact same conditions so we could test such a thing…..
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I will plant them 4” apart!
What's your favourite variety of garlic to grow (taste wise)?
Great Info! Thanks for your work and lesson.
Thanks for that! Saves us wondering!
Such great a great video! Love these types of garden experiments to really test out the "rule of thumb" rules
Bravo!
Wow! So interesting! Thanks for doing this experiment and sharing the results!! I really appreciate it. I also liked the experiment you did on trimming pepper plants, or not! I followed your results and did NOT trim as some other people suggested! Keep experimenting!Thanks!! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!!
I came to yt this evening for tour videos only! So informative and so relaxing to watch! Thanks a million and keep them coming! I'd love some pumpkin videos myself btw!
Given the amount of time, money and effort I used to put into planting 1,300 cloves, growing the biggest bulbs possible was my goal. However! Even the smaller bulbs were a gift from the gods once I began using them in the kitchen.
When you able to plant the garlic
I wonder if 3” spacing would be a good compromise: getting a few extra bulbs in but also providing more room to grow. Maybe also planting in a diamond pattern rather than in straight rows.
Also, last year I planted garlic in a half whiskey barrel and followed all the rules that normally apply to garlic, but not a single bulb survived the winter.
Fortunately I also planted a bunch in-ground so I still got a harvest. Any reason those winter barrel-planted bulbs died?
What you can do is plant them 2" apart, but thin them out to 4" in early spring, so you can have an early harvest of green garlic and still have big bulbs from the ones you leave in the summer
I like the bigger bulbs because I dislike pealing all those tiny bulbs!
Cool experiment. Thanks for posting.
You DA Man! THNX. I can't wait to plant garlic this fall. YUM
Why are my bulbs not forming? They are staying tiny or dying overwinter? I really appreciate this video.
Good work… love your videos!
Great experiment! And even aside from having to use twice as many seed bulbs for the close packed plants, I just prefer to cook with the larger bulbs. There's that much less overhead on getting to the clove itself.
Currently trying to produce green onion flowers and since I live on the second floor of an apartment idk what types of flowers I can use to attract bees to pollinate them. Some more advice on green onions would be really nice!
Great job man!!
Good stuff! I use 6” spacing and get big bulbs.
Love this experiment! I grow mine between strawberry plants that are approx 8" spacing. So far it's working out.