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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…
It Is Finally Time To Harvest Your Garlic. After 9 months or more of building (and bulbing!) up, the wait is over at last and Garlic harvest time is upon us! As a low-maintenance crop, the journey hasn’t taken a lot of effort, but we have played our part. At planting, we ensured the proper…
Garlic Harvest Time Is Finally Upon Us! Its been a long wait, so what better than a quick video showing us 3 hot tips how Garlic is harvested. These 3 tricks are a great refresher if its been a while for you, and if this is your first year growing Garlic, then you’ll definitely want…
How to Grow Lots of Garlic | Planting to Harvest GROWING TIPS:- Break apart cloves from the bulb a few days before planting, but keep the papery husk on each individual clove. Place cloves 2 to 4 inches apart and 2 inches deep, in their upright position (the wide root side facing down and pointed…
We finally get the definitive results of growing garlic in straw! I have had such good luck growing everything else in straw that thought I would try growing garlic in straw using the no dig, Ruth Stout method. The results of the straw grown garlic is nothing less than incredible. The garlic harvest this year…
In this most awesome Battle of the Sexes, we attempt to finally answer the age old question “who pick garlic better?”. You have to watch to the end to find out if you are on the winning side, or if you are one of the losers. There are so many massive garlics plucked from their…
This is our garlic harvest for 2019. We left the garlic in the ground until all the foliage was dead this year instead of digging it as soon as the foliage started to bend over. We had a pretty nice garlic harvest!
Serina and Ian are digging up their massive garlic harvest at the old house. Can you ever have enough garlic? Not for us! And 100 bulbs is what we are harvesting today. After 9 months it is exciting to see the garlic come out of the garden. We share some of our tricks for how…
Ian is obsessed with garlic. He doesn’t think you can ever have too much. Follow Ian as he finishes up cleaning the garlic and sorting out the best heads for seed crop. Are we set for the year?
We have tried garlic in the past however we have never got any results until now. Last October we planted in October and it was the first plant to come through in spring. So with the stems leaning over it was time to see what the bulbs where like and then I planted salad rocket,…
I just love easy, fun, and even odd garden tips. I stumbled upon this idea myself when I found myself searching for a way to cure garlic and onions in in the garage without taking up space on tables. Just add a fan to the area, let your bulbs cure for a few weeks, and…
When I first began gardening, my biggest question with garlic was knowing when it was ready to harvest. In this video, I show you the signs your garlic is ready to harvest. Plus, I give some other tips on harvesting, storing, and curing garlic so you can use yours for months. More for beginning gardeners:…
We are harvesting our garlic in this video. We noticed that it was looking like time to harvest the garlic, but it is a lot earlier in the year than usual. We might have waited a tad too long…
