Planting Garlic // Garden Answer

ABOUT ME: Hi my name is Laura and I, along with my husband, make gardening videos. I live in Eastern Oregon and garden in a zone 5. My parents own an independent garden center that I've worked at for over 10 years.

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[JeNetty]

You cannot even imagine how excited I am for this entire series of vegetable garden videos!!

[DotTrotsLowCarbLiving]

Awesome video. This fall the husband and I are redoing out tiny back yard by putting in a little patio and raised beds. Im planning what to plant for next year and I thought about fall garlic. Seems so simple. Thanks for easy explanation.

[kathleenreynolds]

You inspired me to finally plant garlic. So I did. Right after I finished tulips & daffodils. Nestled them into my new raised beds, that is after chopping icey soil cuz it’s almost the end of November (I’m in a high zone 5/5b). Finished as the sun went down. Two minutes after taking shoes off and collapsing in a comfy chair, the lightbulb went on. I planted whole heads, not cloves!!! Well... back out the next morning to undo & re-do before the big storm hits. Wish me luck.

[mystrength]

You always seem to answer all my questions without me asking. You are amazing. So in Love and addicted to your videos. They are all an inspiration to me and have changed my life especially when life gets to be so sad sometimes and you always seem to make me smile. God bless you and family.

[barbaram]

Love it when you do a drone view. You two work well together and make great videos.

[emilykiesling]

Watching you plant your garlic made me think of Gilroy California they would have a Garlic festival every year, The whole town smelled so good with all the different foods that they made. I believe it was in the month of July people from everywhere would come. I lived there for quite a few years. It was exciting.

[seriouslyreally]

You CAN braid hard neck garlic! First, you can harvest the tender scapes ( delicious!) for stirfry or pickling ( like pickling asparagus tips) in the closed bud stage before the scape tip fully forms the flower. Follow the curly scape stalk down to the base of the plant and cut, leaving the other garlic leaves in place to continue growing until you are actually ready to harvest the garlic. At garlic harvest you'll only have a short hard neck stump to process for braiding. If you choose to leave the scape on, I clip the forming flower bud off the tip so the developing bud isnt wasting energy making seeds as well as an underground bulb. At harvest dig up the garlic bulb leaving the stems and leaves attached and dry/ cure the bulbs as usual. Once the bulb has cured, spread the softer leaves to the side and using a wood or rubber mallet, gently pound just the hard dried scape stem to soften and make pliable the woody stem fibers. Dont over pound the stem, just enough to make pliable and try not to pound the dried side leaves as dried leaves can breakup and you won't have anything to braid. Braid as usual. I braid when the leaves and stems still have a tiny bit of green left in them so they dont crumble and fall apart during the braiding handling process, and let the braided ropes hang in a cool dry place to finish the final leaf drying. You can still use the garlic as the braid dries. If you do this, braid as tightly as you can as the slightly green leaves will shrink a little more as they dry.😊

[Bendorify]

Never planted garlic before. Didn't realize there were so many varieties. Can't wait to see them come up and harvested.

[MilkAndHoneyAcreage]

I braided hard neck garlic last spring. I just make a slit and remove the shoot inside. It works perfectly! Just planted about 100 cloves from last spring. Love garlic

[nolannernberg]

Thank you for this! Also I like how you have arranged the raised beds, it looks very nice and patternistic

[JelleyBean]

I'm so eager to plant things I can eat. Your videos are truly inspirational and informative!

[Niyajenai]

Thank you for being so informative! Im learning how to grow food, and youre a great teacher

[chelseadidde]

Really cool drone shot of Laura planting from above!

[toddw]

You and your videos are such good educators for gardeners both novice and experienced. Thanks you so much!

[allisonhartley]

Garlic was all sold out last fall when I started looking. I just went to a Publix and bought organic garlic and planted it. I just harvested it and they were huge! I planted the two packs I bought, which was a LOT of garlic lol. But it worked fine if you can’t find any online or at a garden center.

[MIgardener]

Great video! Just reminded me that I had better start planning for garlic here too. I hate to think about it because it means winter! We really hope to get together sometime, if you are ever in Michigan let us know we would love to connect.

[shorty]

This video has been so encouraging to me that right after watching it I went ahead and planted my own garlic in my raised garden and so can't wait for next year for harvest something to look forward to in 2021 thank you so much!

[mirandarose]

I’m so excited to watch your veggie garden come together! I really like your style and your videos are very informative 😁

[pamketron]

Thank you so much. I have been wanting to plant garlic for a few years now. I have heavy clay here in TN so I would need to trench mine. If I can still find some at my garden center, I think I will plant some just to see how it does. I've never had fresh garlic but everything I read says it is so much better than store bought. I love garlic. I so appreciate you taking the time to show us how to do this. 😍🙃

[dawnpleasant]

Your veggie garden beds are beautifully arranged. Having a spigot on each bed is a great idea.