Grow Perfect Garlic Every Time

Are you a fellow vampire-defeating, bad-breathed garlic-lover?! Well, get planting NOW!
Many people do not realize that planting garlic in autumn can offer the best results.

There are so many pungent and tasty varieties to choose from and they all offer health benefits along with their flavor-boosting goodness. Ben demonstrates how to plant, what to plant and when to plant in this tasty sizzler!

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[karenpitsenbarger]

I never comment on you tube videos but I felt led to let you know that your videos are the best explained, best advised and easiest to understand videos I have seen yet on youtube! Thank you for explaining the reasoning behind the things you do. I was an instant fan from the first video. Thank you!

[kevinu.k.]

A good tip I was given some years back. Keep some of your garlic back for next seasons planting. Garlic 'adjusts' to the local soil and climate and over a couple of seasons the size and flavour improves.

[michaellippmann]

Great video Ben Thank you!
I plant 250 - 300 cloves every fall (hopefully next week!) We love our garlic...all hard neck. Music and Rocambole are the varieties....we get nice big heads and this year was a banner year!
My favorite garlic recipe (and the one that I reeled in my lovely wife of 32 years with) is 40 garlic clove roast chicken! Yep...you guessed it, stuff 40 nice big fat garlic cloves into the chicken and under the skin along with butter, fresh sage, salt and pepper and then roast at 375 for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours (depending on the size of the volunteer bird) I do mine now on our outdoor grill on a rotisserie!
I cooked that meal for my wife 35 years ago as a first date at my place and she has fessed up that she was looking for a man who could cook (young lads take note here!) and the meal so impressed her that she made her mind up that evening that we would spend the rest of our lives together!
Been cooking for her since we married 32 years ago!
Well it worked! 😁
Have a great day and Thank you for the video!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍

[lorisilva]

Garlic is our favorite!! We make a dipping sauce (for fresh baked french bread) made out of olive oil, splash of apple cider vinegar, salt, and pepper to taste. Mince as much garlic as you like and add to the mixture. Stir well. We often eat it by the spoonful if you feel a sore throat coming on as well. It's delicious!!!

[leslie-lynnesinkey]

"Inchelium Red" is an heirloom variety from the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State, and has been grown since before the arrival of the first Anglo settlers in the area (more than 300 years). It is also on the Slow Food "Ark of Taste" list of outstanding--but also endangered!--varieties at risk of being lost completely. Growing this variety not only helps preserve this important genetic resource, it also ensures you some GREAT garlic!

[HuntFishJits]

I've got a garlic that's been in my family for 5 generations!! I brought it from Michigan to Oregon where it's growing incredibly well. Saved from a handful of bulbs into about 10 square feet of plants with 3 generations planted!

[michelledunavant]

I love your upbeat personality and you explain things so well and make it so easy to garden. Thank you !

[jeffmartin]

that stick trick for the rows is a keeper!

[ivankajuric]

Thank you for the straight forward and to the point information without unnecessary padding and wasting our time!
Much appreciated!
Greetings from Australia 🦘

[PanAmStyle]

I’ve been growing garlic for over 15 years - one year I planted on a friend’s farm and had about 1, 000 plants! In my region (Western New York State) I plant in the middle of November and harvest is reliably the 2nd-3rd week of July. I grow Red Russian exclusively, from a strain I bought from Ted Maczka, “The Garlic Man of Fish Lake, Ontario.” Ted knew more about garlic than just about anyone ever - he was a garlic hero and is much missed.

[mbuhtz]

One of my favorite garlicky recipes is Mediterranean Pasta. Cook bowtie pasta until not quite aldente, reserve some pasta water. Meanwhile, saute 6-10 cloves of minced (or pressed) garlic in the oil from sundried tomatoes. Add the chopped sundried tomatoes and halved or sliced kalamata olives. Then add the pasta and some chicken broth (if bullion/concentrate, add the pasta water). Bring to simmer, add a ton of spinach and some feta. Cook until pasta is tender and sauce is saucy. Amazing immediately or as leftovers.

[redrumble]

I grow about 100 bulbs a year and with all the will in the world it won't last 12 months, So I peel loads of them, and wizz them to a paste with a splash of cooking oil and salt Then freeze them in ice cube trays; enough to add to most meals and will last a long time.

[lisawallace]

I like to harvest all my garlic, then peel and chop it all at once in the food processor with a bit of olive oil. Then I use a cookie scoop to scoop onto a parchment lined tray and freeze solid. Once frozen, I transfer my "garlic balls" to a zip top bag and VOILA, I don't have to peel & chop garlic for every meal! I also do the same with fresh ginger, although up to now, it's been with store bought ginger. Next year, I hope to have my own harvest of ginger too!

[williamcollins]

I grow about 500 plants every year here on my homestead in Southern Vermont. Hardneck variety, a mix of German Hardy, Spanish Roja and others. I save about 15% of my harvest for seed and plant in mid-late October in soil amended with blood and bone meal and a little garden lime. I cover the cloves with a foot-thick blanket of straw and that way they endure the long winter snow cover. In spring I have to move the straw mulch back to let the young plants get up into the air. Once they are well established, I move the mulch back among the plants to reduce the weeds. I use alfalfa meal as a side dressing and fish emulsion as a foliar spray. Aside from what I use as seed, I use almost all the harvest during the year and only have a few bulbs left by the following July, when the new crop is ready. When a recipe calls for three cloves I use three bulbs. I am an allium addict. I tried shallots this year and they were a great success too. Always look forward to your videos and always learn a lot.

[marilynH]

The first time I grew garlic was in 2014. It was a huge success for a beginner! I grow my own garlics since then.

[lennartmoraleslarsson]

We really like your video's. they bring us joy. we usually watch it while drinking coffee in the morning. we hope to have a garden like you in the future. also.. we call you worm-guy instead of growveg, because the first video we watched was you talking about worms and we loved it. greetings from sweden.

[yolovation]

I feel like I'm in school learning so much from your videos. I appreciate your work.

[rowenalloyd]

Clear, concise instructions. Have always been put off growing garlic for fear of failure. But not now. Thank you very much.

[Magushinka]

Besides the excellent explanations you (always) give, you radiate ... openness gentleness and ... love. Keep going! ❤

[Jeff-rdhb]

LOVE LOVE LOVE garlic! I cook a lot, so I use a lot of garlic. For years I've grown whatever soft neck variety I bought at the grocery store a long time ago, and it's always grown just fine. This year (actually 3 weeks ago) I planted several varieties of hard neck. The cool thing about growing garlic is that you get garlic to eat and more garlic to plant for the next year. As long as you keep the cycle going you'll never have to buy garlic for the rest of your life.