My NEW Favorite Way To Plant Garlic 🧄

Growing garlic is rewarding, flavorful, and yes, sometimes frustrating. After years of planting, we’ve seen it all—bumps, bulbs, and breakthroughs. 🧄 This guide covers every step to help you grow the biggest, best heads of garlic yet.

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[epicgardening]

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[brianseybert]

Last year I soaked my garlic with pretty good results. This year I planted some unsoaked garlic as a test to see if it makes much of a difference. I am a self sustainable gardener, do not purchase any fertilizers. Soaked my garlic in a worm casting/compost extract and a couple quarts of fermented comfrey tea, smelled lovely, lol. In each hole before planting the garlic, a handful of worm castings. What was interesting was my planting got interrupted for a few days, so I stored the soaked garlic cloves in a bucket of worm castings, when I went to plant the remaining cloves, roots were already sprouting.
Happy holidays ! Seay Well !!!!

[itsmeayanna]

That soaking in fertilizer trick really works I soaked store bought garlic in some seaweed fertilizer and every bulb grew roots over Hopefully they bulb 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[SamanthaDoerge]

FWIW, I came across a video about planting garlic around fruit trees for a tastier yield and to deter pests. You don’t harvest the garlic but leave it there for its benefits to the tree. I’m trying it this year since all my apples all had bore holes from something eating them. And also planted some garlic in my strawberry patch as an experiment too.

[EP-qied]

FYI, that's is not chicken wire. That is welded HARDWARE CLOTH that rodents cannot chew through, but is a lot more expensive. Chicken wire has that hexagon shape and is cheaper metal that rusts eventually, even if it's coated. Hardware cloth comes in various sizes and densities.

[MarthaMajority]

Okay Epic guys, I’ve followed your instructions for 3 years and finally this summer I grew some nickel size cloves. They had the cutest cloves about the size of a chickeydee’s little claw. 😂 But I was so happy to finally see a head develop from a clove. So this year I rushed to your store and ordered whatever kind you have. I hope “Epic Eric” blessed the bulbs before mailing cause this is THE year. If I get useless heads I will move on. If I’m blessed with real garlic heads I’ll buy a birdie bed like yours (when on sale of course). Love. Your encouragement guys, you seem to know I failed. 😢

[kapstersmusic]

Good advice on planting only big cloves. Over 12 years of growing garlic have proven that is 100% true for me. I use floating row cover to keep our squirrels from digging in my garlic and planting walnuts. I do doubt hydrogen peroxide will kill white rot, since its invades inside the clove. That's why its good to only grow certified seed garlic. I have replanted clean garlic from my own crop, as I have never gotten white rot here. But I am a home grower and I wouldn't plant anything but certified seed if I was growing it commercially. I also plant in clean potting soil that has never grown any onions, leeks, or garlic before.

[mishkahappy]

I do this soaking method and use an organic garlic fertilizer. Last year I added the Purple Cow foliar and drench in between fertilizer applications and had the biggest bulbs yet. If you can, start out with gargantuan sized bulbs.

[Nimbus]

I actually put a cover crop of mustard, peas and oats over the garlic bed right after planting last year. Everything grew happily together, including the garlic. The cover died here mid January, after which we covered with leaves and let it be. We had amazing garlic this year, so I'm definitely repeating with a cover this year. But I ran out if peas and oats, so I just threw a bunch of seeds for various winter greens in. Edible cover crop ftw!

[TomA-hw]

Wow you have an amazing system with a small space and big harvests of many different veggies! Thanks for sharing! My mother had a large garden canned everything and she had an organic garden! This was before YouTube made it extremely popular. She would be amazed if she was living to see the many different garden styles and methods being used today. I think especially the no till would be very intriguing to my mother! Rototilling that she did was more of a problem than a benefit according to some garden YouTubers!

Thanks for sharing your garden on YouTube

[jamesanderson]

Hey, I've been subscribed for a while, thanks for all of the tips they really help with my gardening! I also run into problems when i grow garlic! So thanks!

[chattyotter]

I just planted elephant garlic last week and now I’m just waiting for a sign of life😂 I bought them from a local co-op and the cloves looked really pathetic as I caught the last few but we’ll see what happens!💚

[mattiamagurno]

Cultivating the like, comment and subscribe buttons really work. I got a lot of cucumbers this year like multiplier style

[Greens]

Grrr, I believed the no paper myth for years! Grrrr, thanks for setting me straight! 👍👍

[georgecrinnion]

I add bone meal to the planting holes of my Garlic when I set them in late Autumn/early Winter

[forreal]

Gourmet Garlic Gardens had a soak method I use and I have grown several thousand cloves a year and sold at a Local day long Garlic Festival. The 1st soak is 1 tablespoon each of Vinegar, Baking Soda and an organic fertilizer to one gallon of water. Ideally u do this soak overnight but even a couple hours helps a lot. Then u soak them in rubbing alcohol or vodka for three to five min. b4 u plant. Due to weather I at times was not able to plant for a couple days after doing these soaks and had 1/4 inch and longer roots. And every time if u took the clove wrapper off of a soaked and compared it to an unsoaked clove the soaked one had the green sprout showing in the soaked clove and the unsoaked showed none of that..

[JD-zbve]

in Ontario, Canada, just starting to plant my garlic now. Fingers crossed

[beckymartinez]

I still use the little cloves as pest deterrent.

[jillwright]

Thanks guys! I enjoy watching and learning from you both! I also love buying my seeds from you, they are great!

[LK-wqsu]

I purchased organic garlic at the farmers market in town this year, and planted it, following your instructions. I'm hoping I actually have something a little bigger than my puny harvest of previous years. This year, I planted in October - previously, I'd been planting in spring - derp! Finger's crossed!