Watch This Before You Plant Garlic

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00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Garlic Varieties
01:48 - Climates & Vernalization
02:46 - Garlic Prep Bed
04:01 - How & When To Plant

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[harrie]

In the Netherlands we have a beautiful rule of thumb for garlic 10-10-10-10, meaning plant on the tenth of october 10cm deep and 10cm apart from one another

[GeorgiaGrowGuy]

"Everything you need to know?" I need to know what time you're coming over to plant mine.

[sixtwoinak]

Thank you sir. Also, thank you to the ones behind the cameras and keyboards. I appreciate all of you. 👍💪🙏

[tianamarie]

Im in zone 6a. Northeastern PA. Ive tried 3 times with seed garlic and theyve all failed. Last year i stuck a bag of sprouting garlic from sams club in the ground. I got a ton of garlic this past year. Freaking crazy! They were also softneck which is weird to me but it worked. I saved a ton of garlic for planting this year so im hoping these cloves "remember " they were here before and do great again. I left out all of the tiny cloves and only kept the big ones. Im hoping for success again.

[laurap.]

OH NO! I literally spent the day in my garden and planted garlic 😳. I took a shower, made a G&T then sat down and turned on YouTube to see your video posted 3 hours ago!! 😮

[fofocarcoffee]

In a garden so smelly, not far from the town,
Grew garlic so strong, it could knock you right down!
The gardener was proud, with a grin ear to ear,
"Come visit my garlic!" he'd shout far and near.

People would come, but they'd quickly retreat,
The smell of the garlic knocked them off their feet!
But the gardener just laughed, "It's the scent of success!"
While munching on garlic, in his garlic-pressed dress.

He'd dance through his rows, with a garlic bulb crown,
Singing, "Garlic's the king, it will never back down!"
His garden grew famous, a smelly delight,
Even vampires stayed far, flying off in the night!

So here's to the garden, where garlic's the star,
So potent and pungent, you could smell it from afar.
It might not be roses, but to the gardener's part,
The smell of strong garlic was the scent of his heart!

[scallywags]

I like the hard neck living in pacific northwest Vancouver island. Some of my garlic cloves are the size of a small plum. Keep the best large ones each year for planting in the fall. Been doing this for years!

[braddudzinski]

As everyone has mentioned, perfect timing for this video! We just bought garlic to plant this morning. Love your channel!

[ceecee-thetransplantedgardener]

5b here - planting Hardneck at the end of October, early November. The last few years, hard freeze in my area has come later - so I've had major success waiting a bit. If you're into cooking with Hardneck Garlic: The Porcelain and Rocambole varieties are divine!

[GyuriVanda]

My mom's been struggling with garlic for years now. This year in May she finally accepted a bit of help (I had to be subtle though, I told her to try to use the garlic that was in the fridge) and I put a big amount of compost on them while planting. And not as close as she used to plant them. She was so surprised when this year she finally had garlic in her garden. I wish she could speak English and I could show her this video. I'm visiting her in November and thank you so much for this video, I will plant some garlic for her, so she can have some already planted in the spring. I will definitely give it a try here as well, although my climate tends to be warmer. Great video and tips as always. 😊

[MrSBGames]

Instead of digging a hole and plopping the clove in then covering, I find drilling a long trench, spacing the garlic in it then covering all at once is a quicker and more accurate way of planting them 👍

[karenjohnson]

Perfect timing! I’m planting mine tomorrow. The refresher was just the thing!

[adb]

Dang, I must've gotten really lucky when I planted garlic in my backyard - I sort of just barely pushed some bulbs (from the grocery store) into the dirt and walked away. Now, ten years later, it has spread along my fence line and grows prolifically every year. Must be hundreds of plants out there now, but I typically trim off about 1/3 of the garlic scapes, and pull up even fewer bulbs. I also planted wild garlic the same way in a different spot - and the same thing happened with those.

Been thinking of digging it all up and planting in a raised bed to better control things, so this video helps.

[gregdoh]

In central Wisconsin, I've had great success with 4" inch spacing between bulbs for the past 10 years. I tried 6" spacing one year and didn't notice a difference, except that my harvest was smaller.

[sandrakulikowski]

I have been watching you for years. You have helped me so much with my garden. I am so proud of you and the success that you have all accomplished.

[peterb]

I figured I'd add my 2 cents. I've always grown softneck in the Sacramento valley with great success (especially Inchelium Red), but I personally prefer hardnecks due to the larger sized and ease of separating the cloves, and the flavor. Not to mention you won't usually get a ton of small cloves with every bulb.
With that said, I tried Spanish Roja, and to say they produced is an understatement. While they do produce a scape, they do so very late in the season where they don't seem to effect the harvest if you happen to miss cutting them off. I'm on my fourth year now (I always plant on October 10th) and the cloves keep getting bigger and the bulbs more reliable. Amazing variety I hope people in hotter climates will try.

[lisareis]

I received my soft neck seed garlic this past week and it is absolutely beautiful! Large heads, very healthy looking and packaged nicely. I would highly recommend this seed garlic.

[kansasgardener]

Great tips. I've been growing garlic for some time and like yourself grew Music and several others. My go to garlic now is Red Roja. We just like the flavor. I might add I also soak my garlic before planting. Alcohol for about 5-10 min then liquid kelp or fish emulsion over night. Thought I might share this with you and your viewers as some of the largest garlic growers also soak their cloves. A Google search will bring up links and specifics. I usually grow around 100 plants every year. We dehydrate lots of it and give away small jars of garlic powder as gifts. 😊

[mathijs]

In northern climates use the rule 10-10-10; 10th of the 10th month with 10 cm (4 inch) apart.

[rebeccamaterasso]

Kevin - this is a great video! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate major companies specifying growing for zones 9 & 10. Zone 10 is often left out as we usually require extra or different steps/instructions to grow things that we otherwise couldn’t.