Everything You Need to Know About Planting Garlic

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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[Freestile]

Hi Luke, I live near Lapeer Michigan so not too far from you. You said to plant 30 days before first frost date, which is October 1 in 2024. That means planting day around September 1. But later in your video, you mentioned “when you plant in October…” can you clarify when you actually planted your garlic as this was confusing. thanks Luke! Love your videos!

[curtdunlap]

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!

[gregdoh]

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!

[jordanyeager]

I'm always 6 beers in when in gardening lol 🌿

[matthewwarren]

It was loud enough for me, I heard him. I just planted 60 cloves of Leningrad garlic here in the thumb yesterday. Now I'm worried I went too deep or put too much back over it. I went about 4 inches or so deep, but maybe I'm ok because the cloves were fairly large. I did mix my mulch that contains chicken coop bedding of poo, straw, pine shavings n natural ash / charcoal and lawn clippings in with it so it was fairly loose. This is my first year with garlic so I'm paranoid. I did also plant 6 inches apart, but next year I will do the 3 or so. Trying to bulk produce for a roadside stand here in Applegate 😊

[KathySarich]

Audio is good now. 😊 I just planted all of the cloves last year, big and small, and little bulbs from the little cloves surprised me this year, most separated into two big cloves rather than lots of little cloves. Lol!

[Bigfoottehchipmunk]

Oh golly. I probably better get my garlic in this week! I just know I planted too early two years ago. I have been waiting for a bed to free up from fall stuff. 😅 One thing I did last year that helped in my yard was that I added an inexpensive plastic mesh on top of my mulch to keep the squirrels and some birds from digging up my cloves. It also kept my chickens from accidentally scratching that bed during winter.

[SimplerTimesHomestead]

Thank you, MI Gardener! We had decided that we were going to grow garlic this year for the first time and this helps greatly. Thank you for making the process easy to understand!

[debbieblood]

I would like to see a video on growing garlic indoors, if it's possible to do.

[FarmsteadForge]

Could you use wood ash or epsom salts as a source of sulfur? We have never had any rot, but just curious.

[JCPDBRC]

Just planted some Music Garlic yesterday. Used my finger to poke holes for the cloves. Thanks for the video!

[wickzfy]

your videos are very informative Thank you

[joshuahoyer]

If you've ever broken a pitchfork or shovel off it's handle, that handle makes a great dibber! Might need a little sanding to get the end a little rounded off, but that's what I use to plant most of my transplants now!

[deborahcaldwell]

Oh yay because I just purchased a great glop of plantable GARLIC

[mellyg]

Always learning on this channel. Thanks Luke!

[Tinyteacher]

I just pulled out my last raised bed plant. I had a bunch of rogue tomatoes, 2 heirloom tomatoes, about 3 picky cucumbers, and 1 butternut squash that was about 1 1/2” (Yes, inches!) tall!
I wanted to have a garden this year and last year, but broke my arm falling off a ladder last summer that never healed right because I have Lyme, which restricts blood flow. How disappointing to move from a beautiful condo that had mold on the basement wall, and hence, throughout the entire 3 floors, so I got mold toxicity! I moved to a house that’s very nice with a privacy fence for my dog, here after having it tested, but my summers have consisted of chasing my dog out of the mud (slope in back) and trying to tend a garden, yard, and home alone with one arm. I’m 4’ 9”, and found out quickly who my friends were! Love your channel, even if I can hardly use the tips. 🥲

[scrapdog]

That is interesting about the seed size because the cloves that I bought from you were nowhere near the size you just said.

[beckypeterson]

sulphur! THAT'S what I forgot! Just planted it today- can I top dress the soil with the sulphur?

[SylviaJonathan]

The sulfur at our farm coop comes in VERY FINE powder, like talc, with warning about personal protection gear etc. Where did you buy your granules??

[Wendy-irww]

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.