7 COMMON Garlic Planting MISTAKES! Ope!

Don't make these 7 common MISTAKES when planting your garlic! I see people making these all the time!

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
0:33 - Prepping for planting
2:15 - Mistake 1
3:50 - Mistake 2
4:21 - Mistake 3
4:41 - Mistake 4
6:01 - Mistake 5
6:34 - Mistake 6
7:20 - Mistake 7
9:07 - Final thoughts
08:51 - Final thoughts

[Old-Blue]

All great tips on what not to do. I’m in zone 5 New Brunswick, Canada. I’ve been planting garlic since moving here in 2015 from a zone 7, went to a small farm called the groovy garlic shed and bought 20 bulbs of Porcelain hard neck garlic the bubs were huge, fast forward to 2024 and I’m now planting 400-450 cloves and keeping about half that for consumption and giving away to friends and neighbours. The one thing I’ve done is to use good compost and cover with leaves after they drop off the trees. One thing you didn’t touch on was the depth to plant the cloves, I always use my pointer finger as my gauge about 2-1/2” to 3” deep. Been having great success every year. I just finished planting last week after we had a few hard frosts and cover with about 8” of leaves.

[lisamills-wvnc]

I also live in Minnesota zone 3. It's so nice to have someone with gardening skills to learn from in my own zone! So awesome! 😊

[mrsta]

I've had amazing luck using organic garlic from the store. I've never had any not sprout though I have gotten a few smaller ones. Most likely that could be my lack of nutrients as I didn't know until last year how heavy they feed. So, for anyone wanting to try grocery store garlic, give organic a go!

[louisevad]

Thanks for the tips to help people grow garlic.
I started growing garlic 4 years ago. I started with 5 seed bulbs I got from the local garlic festival. I planted twenty seeds from that. I don't mulch because I live in western Wa. and our winters are mild. Last years harvest 4 years later produced over 200 heads that is maxing my garden space out. So I'm giving it away to friends and acquaintances to plant(my family are garlic nuts already)And I dehydrate all but 200 seed and thirty or so heads that I keep to cook with. Im looking for. I love garlic. I settled on music and elephant as my varieties and my siblings grow other variety's and we share. What satisfying crop to grow.
So my favorite august meal is a thin sliced Cherokee purple tomato with a thin slice of local havarti on a thin slice of homemade bread. Broiled and then topped with an thick layer razor thin slices of garlic. No salt or pepper needed.
It's a flavor bomb in your mouth. At 68 I feel like a kid every summer harvest. Gardening is a lot lot of work but the reward is beyond words. I think garlic can save the world one bulb at a time.

[RVBadlands]

We get rain all winter and only three to four days of freeze in Calif I am zone 9B when I plant.

[joannak]

You have such a beautiful personality 💖 Thank you for teaching us how to plant garlic!!

[evelyncasto]

Thank you for keeping it simple and straight to the point. I have a short attention span, and I can't get through videos where there's too much pointless talking. ❤

[orestwitiw]

Hello from SS Marie northern Ontario. Each mid October I plant around 250 garlic in raised beds that are 4x10’. I use a heavy old broom stick to scribe lines in the soil the length of my two raised beds about 4-6” apart. Then I use the round end of the broom stick to poke hole about 4-6” apart down the length of each line. This gives me my planting pattern. I slide the clove down the edge of the hole to pull soil with it to make sure there are no air pockets next to the clove. I plant the clove thumb deep or about 4” deep. Once all the cloves are planted I fill the holes with soil and cover the garlic with straw. I often have cloves that have the skin pulled off and I plant them anyway and have no issue with the clove germinating. I do have to use a gardening cover so the black squirrels don’t dig up the garlic in the fall and again in the spring. I have to admit the straw works great keeping the weeds down. This past July I ended up with about 290 heads from my 2 raised beds. I give most of my garlic away for people to enjoy. This week I’ll plant 240 cloves as the temperature is dropping to 50 the following week. It’s garlic planting time!

[hometown]

Great tip using a 6 inch square of cardboard.

[jasonkilgore]

Really I feel so dumb I have been replanting the every spring . I always thought that they froze out every winter. Thanks so much

[mywoolmitten]

Thank you! Absolutely loved the tip about the 6" cardboard spacer 😁

[joydavis]

Wooo that is a lot of property. 240 acres. I am so jealous. 😊❤

[chespocket]

I plant cloves 4in deep get better returns on size

[ronwilson]

I always use store bought Garlic, But I also pre shoot them, sitting whole bulbs in water and in under a week they start to shoot, when they all have good shoots they get planted out, in a farmyard muck covered bed, in the UK we have a saying, "plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day" a pretty good guide. Mid Oct to end June approx.

[Adksnate]

A little time saver I use is to lay down concrete wire mesh which has 6” squares then use a dibber to make all my holes.

[artsymargo]

I'm so happy to find you! I live in Zone 4 MN. I've had trouble finding Zone 3/4 YouTube gardeners. Thank you, thank you

[adrianmeilleur]

I also live in Zone 3 in Southern Manitoba, just planted my garlic a couple days ago and have been at it for about 4 years. First year seeded at a depth of about 2" in early October so maybe a little early and no cover, garlic sprouted out of the ground before frost and so the crop was a total failure. I now seed at a depth of 4" and cover with mulch or stray and that along with planting in or around mid October seems to work well for me. Thanks for posting this great video!

[elainetaylor]

Thanks for mentioning the need to avoid straw from crops that have been sprayed with chemicals! I often tell people this and invariably they just haven't thought about it before! We are Zone 3 (formerly 2b) (or not 2b) & in the mountains so few people raise grain, and there is seldom local straw available. If there were, the field would very likely have be dried/killed by spraying with chemical dessicant, so again, avoiding contaminated straw requires knowing the source. We use untreated aspen excelsior which can be used 3 times, and as many fallen leaves as we have. Nice video!

[heatherdendinger]

Thanks for a great video. I am in Michigan and planted on Sunday. My first time planting garlic and after watching your video, it looks like I avoided the mistakes you pointed out! Crossing my fingers for lots of garlic in July!

[emkn]

Zone 6 here and it’s the first year I’ve planted garlic, but I think I’ve successfully avoided all these mistakes 🙌 we have a huge pile of well-rotted leaves, so I used that as mulch.