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The Garlic Grower
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We are a small family farm now located in Greensboro Bend Vermont (after growing in Eastern Pennsylvania for many years), focused on growing 90+ varieties of Hardneck Garlic. You can find out more about the varieties that we grow, our growing practices and additional growing tips at our website: HardneckGarlic.com or follow us on a Facebook or Instagram at: HardneckGarlic
Garlic Planting - Clove Soak & Treatment -
In this video we'll provide a detailed overview of the products we use to soak and treat our garlic cloves prior to planting. Used as protective measures to protect against bulb/wheat mites & bacterial disease and to protect an extra boost of fertility to stimulate quick root growth in the fall along with beneficial mycorrhizal fungi for healthy root growth and enhanced nutrient exchange throughout the growing season.
If you are struggling to control mites in your garlic we strongly recommend that you DO NOT USE straw or other grain crop mulches. Instead use chopped leaves or do not mulch at all. Additionally if you are planting cloves that have obvious signs of mite damage its critical that you use a miticide (Cinnerate is OMRI approved miticide) or Neem Oil to kill mites/eggs prior to planting. Alcohol & sanitizing dips, in our experience, have proven to be ineffective against GOOD control of mites in garlic.
Cinnerate: www.everwoodfarm.com/Organic_Pesticides_Pest_Management/seipasa/Cinerate
Neem Oil:
neemresource.com/
Oxidate: Oxidate is often available significantly cheaper if you can find a local source. Due to the pandemic supply has been inconsistent.
www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/pest-and-disease-controls/fungicides/oxidate-2.0-2.5-gal.-9719.html?source=google_johnny_seeds&gclid=Cj0KCQiAt8WOBhDbARIsANQLp94YMEIXhYefnuZj067byskq-TMXNHhzFwsDJM8jg01i2jBwAO7NZQ0aAqSXEALw_wcB
Mycorrhizal Fungi (MycoApply):
www.amleo.com/mycoapply-soluble-maxx-mycorrhizae/p/SMAXX1
Bone Meal & Fish Fertilizer can be sourced from your local Ag Store/Hardware Store.
If you are struggling to control mites in your garlic we strongly recommend that you DO NOT USE straw or other grain crop mulches. Instead use chopped leaves or do not mulch at all. Additionally if you are planting cloves that have obvious signs of mite damage its critical that you use a miticide (Cinnerate is OMRI approved miticide) or Neem Oil to kill mites/eggs prior to planting. Alcohol & sanitizing dips, in our experience, have proven to be ineffective against GOOD control of mites in garlic.
Cinnerate: www.everwoodfarm.com/Organic_Pesticides_Pest_Management/seipasa/Cinerate
Neem Oil:
neemresource.com/
Oxidate: Oxidate is often available significantly cheaper if you can find a local source. Due to the pandemic supply has been inconsistent.
www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/pest-and-disease-controls/fungicides/oxidate-2.0-2.5-gal.-9719.html?source=google_johnny_seeds&gclid=Cj0KCQiAt8WOBhDbARIsANQLp94YMEIXhYefnuZj067byskq-TMXNHhzFwsDJM8jg01i2jBwAO7NZQ0aAqSXEALw_wcB
Mycorrhizal Fungi (MycoApply):
www.amleo.com/mycoapply-soluble-maxx-mycorrhizae/p/SMAXX1
Bone Meal & Fish Fertilizer can be sourced from your local Ag Store/Hardware Store.
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Garlic Early Season Care, Cultivation and Fertilizer - April 1, 2020
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Growing your own garlic? Here are some early season tips to maximize your garlic harvest, whether you are growing Hardneck or Softneck Garlic. We’ll discuss fertilizing garlic, cultivating garlic and more with recommendations for fertilizer and equipments. For more details check out our website at www.hardneckgarlic.com
Late Planted Garlic Turban Varieties - Planted 12/28/2019
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The crazy weather the last few years has us constantly adjusting and experimenting to find the right balance of timing and approach. Most people are surprised to learn that garlic will continue to grow so long as the ground isn’t frozen. Below 40 degree she’ll keep putting roots down and above 40 you’ll experience top growth. Top growth in the winter is not ideal but often times, especially in ...
Garlic Field Walk February 2020 - Lehigh Valley PA
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Planting Garlic Sept/Oct 2019 in Greensboro Vermont
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Our first full planting at the new farm in Greensboro Vermont. Just less than 90,000 planted from dozens of different varieties for harvest in late July 2020. In this video we are utilizing a Buckeye Dry Wheel Transplanter that allows us to plant at a rate of roughly 4000 per hour. Cloves were “popped” the day prior to planting. For more information on the many varieties we grow make sure to ch...
Early June on a Garlic Farm in Pennsylvania.
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Welcome to our farm! This is early June from a few years ago on our home farm in PA when we were only (ONLY) growing about 40 varieties of hardneck garlic. We now grow nearly 100 most in significant quantities between our two farms in PA and Vermont. You’ll find more information about all those unique varieties at www.hardneckgarlic.com and check us out in Facebook, Instagram and since you are ...
is the plastic you are using the biodegradable 0.6 mil?
Thank you very much for the video. Wish I was able to order some garlic from your farm. I am in Canada and unfortunately can not order garlic from the US. For harvesting, I count the number of leaves on each variety and harvest once 50 to 60% of the leaves have turned brown. I have not been having issues with this method but to be safer and for longer storage, you can stick with 50%. Wishing everyone a healthy and wonderful garlic harvest. ❤ from 🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing. Back yard gardener in Iowa, but your process has applications for us. I have a question for you. My wife wants to only plant cloves from bulbs with 6 cloves, since that's the ideal count for the Korean Red that we grow. Does it really matter? We have some large bulbs with fat cloves @ 7 or 8 per bulb. I would like to use them for planting. BTW, 'large' for this variety is a bulb 2 to 2 1/2 inches in diameter. At least that's what we've got. I'm happy with it...
Excellent job with this Garlic Grower. Much appreciated!
Very good but one of the most important parts of understanding scapes is which section of the scape to use in eating. An inexperienced grower may use the entire scape which is way too woody. Of course the woody parts of the scape can be used to flavor stocks and soups like bay leaves and discarded latter. But neglecting to tell a total neophyte making soup or dishes with bay leaves to discard or not consume the bay leaf.
wow, wish I had found this video last fall. I just had a horrible learning experience in losing half of my hardneck garlic crop. I planted 2 varieties that did well in the past (music and montana), but this year, the entire montana variety was lost to some kind of bulb rot...always at the root end. Suspect some kind of fungal rot, but don't know for sure. thankfully, the music variety all made it. I will for sure, be doing some kind of bulb/clove presoak to try and prevent this from happening again. thx for posting your wisdom....never too late.
Did not work for me! I advise a small experiment with portion of your cloves before adopting this method.
U r crushing the plants under the wheel
I haven’t seen the little beasties yet here in southern Ontario, perhaps because I grow in relative isolation. I’m thinking that a weekly spray with BT would hopefully work for me if the problem ever appears!
Glad they haven’t traveled that far yet. We now grow in Northern VT and they haven’t reached here yet but we do have Leek Moth. BT is ineffective against ALM. Entrust, if timed correctly provides some protection but far from ideal in our experience.
Hi, the soil is full of stones dosnt it affect garlic bulbs?
Only if they are large and the bulb is growing against it. You’ll get a slightly deformed bulb but usually no issue.
Thank you!! Looking forward to placing my order with you!
This video was great, thank you! I'm growing garlic for the first time and am still learning so this was so informative. Also the frozen pesto idea sounds lovely!
Thanks Garlic Grower. I'm more on the organic side, but your tips on the logic of growing garlic are useful. I especially appreciate your adding the date of the video in the title. The date of the video is critical information for a gardening channel. Anymore, YT converts the date to '3 years ago' or something similar. Not helpful...
Would you recommend fertilizing garlic planted in compost (no dig) the previous fall? I have about 2500 planted (3rd year) and largest only get to 1.75" and wondering if it could use a little spring fertilizer boost. What kind would you recommend..thanks!
I have been able to control ALM with Spinosad up to this point, but it’s getting more difficult. The problem with using stuff like insect netting is that it is so hard to get in there to weed and such, and get it re-fastened.
You kinda sound almost exactly like Joe Rogan.
How much garlic did you plant this year?
Only about 25,000 this year.
Nice video and great knowledge past on. Thanks :) tomorrow we are planting our first 14 lbs of music. Cheers ! :)
The best video so far. Thank you
Excellent video. Im in Toronto Canada. Close to you. I have a backyard where i grow garlic. 4x20 feet. I dont have access to what you get to fertilize with. Can I use chicken manure? Thanks so much.
I would not fertilize with chicken manure directly before planting, its going to be much too high in Nitrogen, I would fertilize with it in spring, prior to planting, and sow a crop of buckwheat into it and then incorporate in late summer prior to planting garlic. While garlic enjoys N it has a tendency to do some funky things with excess N.
It's a delicious food
Does it matter if you hang them bulbs up leaves down, or leaves up, bulbs down?
Makes no difference. Most important thing is to have good airflow. In fact we no longer hang at all, we lay on long wire mesh racks.
Thank You
i've been pulling the scape completely out for years and I have never seen a plant have any issue.... if I do ever get one that has issues I will let you know.
Glad that you have an approach that works well for you. As they say, there’s more than one way to skin a skunk.
It’s very important to get Garlic that is easy to peel and the "paper type skin" comes off very easy. We bought German Red Garlic and Giant Russia garlic because it was so easy to peel all of it. Our first year we just bought Garlic from a grocery store. Our fingers burned trying to peel the garlic we planted from the grocery store.Now we plant heritage garlic only.
Darn wish I seen this before I cut all mine!! 😳 I cute right at the stem! 🥲😫
Ok, I feel good as I did my first scaping today with shears and while I took the top leaf I left a nub before the next leaf and then peeled the top leaf plus outer layer back. I feel that's a good compromise going in blind
Just keep in mind every leaf you remove prior to harvest reduces bulb size between 10-15% depending on variety and timing of removal.
@@thegarlicgrower1443 huh, very good to know lol
Your details and videos are the best I’ve seen as I research the steps for my varieties. I’m surprised your so low in subscription. More need to know about you. Also, why not more videos? Was all accomplished?
We do what we can to help and what time allows. We don’t chase views or subscribers, simply trying to provide information and solutions that have worked for us that might be helpful to others.
Thanks 👍... Did you have plenty of garlic in stock for bulk sales last August?
We don’t start selling until Sept and while we don’t limit quantities someone can order we don’t really do bulk/wholesale volumes
@@thegarlicgrower1443 I'm just a backyard grower.. I couldn't find any last season so I used store bought.. I know they are sprayed with something.. these were elephant ? Something.. but I wanted to try so it's in the ground from last October.. stalks not really big.. but I tried
Wow that's so cool. Pp
Appreciate the video. Are you able to share why you were not satisfied with the results from the Allganic fertilizer?
We thought it contributed to more rough bulbs and uneven growth. We prefer to use a more balanced amendment and apply the majority prior to planting.
Good to see you! Thanks for the info
Thank you for sharing this insightful and detailed planting clove pre-treatment process. Invaluable and well thought through for the range of pest and disease protection that is common.
I have bein growing great grandfathers garlic for 20 yrs..its dated back from 1940s..i think its california type..or silverskin..never grew hardneck..exicted to grow this fall
Thank you for the info about your ohio friend..i will be looking into buying around 30 lbs of seed in late summer..good to finally meet some garlic lovers like myself..once again..very impressed
Again...very impressive..looking for experts to guide me down the right path into small scale farming..s.w. pa here..any suggestions?
Depends on what you plan to grow. You should check out Michael Kilpatrick and Growing Farmers. He’s out of Ohio, good guy, lots of valuable insight and produces a ton of content all while running his farm, The Farm on Central. Known Michael for many years now and recommend him highly.
How many do you plant on your farm?
We are now farming in Northern Vermont. The last two years we pulled back to about 40-50,000 because of Covid impacts with festivals and other family priorities. We planned to go back up to normal 100,000 this year but decided to maintain and increase when we plant in fall of 2022.
100k..holy moly..you are the godfather of garlic..thats how its done...
Iam wondering how i can sell 10000 in 2023..let alone 100k..
Very impressive..also from p.a..
Hello, friend🥰🥰 I'm lucky to know this beautiful channel Hope to see you more often
Selling garlic by mail this year? What is the average cost for seed hardnecks. Thanks!
We grade and sell by 1/4” size increments. As size increases so does price.
Thank you for sharing info..... Just found your channel 2021. Harvested our garlic 3rd week July here in southern NH.
We just finished harvesting yesterday in Northern VT, Greensboro.
Excellent and detailed. Thank you!
Can I transplant the whole plant in July?
Garlic in general does not like to have its roots disturbed. Transplanting at anytime is not really a great option but if you have too it’s better to do so when the plant is very young. If more than 4-5 leaves it’s going to set the plant way back. We’ve done some spring planting experiments where we transplanted from cell trays that were about 5 weeks old vs direct seeding cloves and the direct seeded cloves in every variety outperformed the transplants.
Can plants that have leaf miner larvae but good bulb formation still be cured?
Yes. In our experience we’ve never seen ALM in the bulb, it always seems to stop in the stem at the soil line. We believe this is due to ideal temps for ALM. Depending on severe the infestation will determine the impact to bulb size, up to and including lose of plant/bulb if the infestation is high enough to cause the plants to lodge (fall over) early in the season prior to scaping in hardnecks. When ALM first appeared in our area we would see one or two in a plant and there was no noticeable difference in yield. In year 3 or 4 it became very apparent.
It’s also important to understand the life cycle of ALM. There is a 2nd adult flight every year that occurs in late summer/fall so the larvae/pupae that are found from spring flight in your harvested crop that is curing will hatch long before it’s time to plant in the fall. This is also the reason there is little/no concern about transfer via seed stock.
On a sunny day the last garlic video said a cloudy day to scape harvest....hmmmm
Thank you for your informative videos! I’m in NJ and have a small home garden. I’m excited to have planted garlic on October 25th for the first time. It is now early June’s and I have noticed yellowing on the tips, the first few inches of the tops, of my garlic plants. Yesterday I decided to give them soluble fertilizer of 24-8-16 with a little fish fertilizer. I thought they might need nitrogen. I did side dress them in April and planted them with compost and fertilizer . I see I now have scapes on the hard neck varieties and as per your wonderful information I am going to harvest them and learn to make wonderful things with them. My concern is have I done damage by fertilizing at this late date? Did I do the wrong thing? They don’t seem ready to harvest as I only have maybe one brown leaf at the bottom. The yellowing and browning is at the top. I hope I haven’t damaged my desire for having wonderful garlic bulbs. Please inform? Thank you!
Hi Karen, yellow tips in spring/early summer is typically caused frost/freeze damage on the tips of leaves. Garlic starts growing well before spring frosts end and those early leaves/tips pay the price. The cell walls get damaged from the freezing and when temps warm up and it gets hot the tips dry down. This spring was especially bad due to the unseasonably warm temps in March and April and then a return to cold multiple times. If you look at the pictures on our Facebook page you’ll see a field full of yellow tips. That’s the cause. As far as the fertilizer you applied. Really not ideal for two reasons: 1) way to late in season to apply fertilizer. You should stop fertilizing about 2 weeks prior to scaping. In your location May 15th is a good rule of thumb unless you are in Northern NJ than move to May 22nd. 2). Fertilizer that you used is WAY to high in Nitrogen IMO. In well prepared/composted beds I would be reluctant to use anything higher than 10.x.x. In fact we use 5/3/4 in fall and fertilizer in spring with fish emulsion 3.3.03. What’s going to happen? It’s going to delay your harvest. Plant is going to want to keep growing instead of forming bulb. It could also cause the plant to start “Witches brooming” which is when it grows extra leaves (actually elongated clove wrappers). Nothing you can do now other than wait and see.
As far as harvest, we have a video posted about that but typically harvest is 3-4 weeks after scaping.
@@thegarlicgrower1443 thank you so much for your advice! If only I asked before I did this…ugh…it did rain yesterday afternoon and again today perhaps thst will dilute the fertilizer or carry it away?
Very useful question and response. I'm in NJ, same question about yellowing tips, and same mistake with fertilizing, high nitrogen and too late! Oh, well. I guess we'll see what happens! My garlic was going great, and over the past few weeks it has been looking a bit yellow and wilty (it has really been HOT), but still overall seems healthy. Because the yellow tips were worrying me, I fertilized them with calcium nitrate 8 days ago. Apparently, a big mistake. I have scapes on some varieties, and will soon have more, so at least that's going to be great! It's only my 2nd time growing garlic, and as with all gardening, it's always a learning process. Thank you, The Garlic Grower, for your video and detailed advice!
Nice video. This may seem stupid, but I cannot find a answer anywhere. My wife just brought home the most beautiful purple stripe hard neck garlic I have ever seen. Nice bulbs and half dried flower head still attached. Can I immediately plant these fresh cloves for a fall crop or must they be dried for some time? Thanks for any thoughts.
Really depends on where you are located. Assuming the US you’d be better off waiting until the fall to plant. Make sure to save the bulbils for fall planting as well.
Curious why you don’t start in the fall like I thought was the norm (so you can harvest in early summer)?
We do start in the fall. These were planted in October and November of 2020 and will be harvested in late July. Details are in the video description.
Great to hear from you! Intrested in how to fertilize with the plastic? Wishing you a great harvest. Clint from indiana.
We fertilizer through the drip irrigation lines that are underneath the plastic. Important to point out that our primary fertilizer was applied and incorporated into the beds last fall prior to laying down the plastic. We will also foliar feed a few times, starting in about 10-14 days.
Hi I have like 100 garlic this yr I’m in Vermont in Burlington, my garlic out now and in not uncovered yet ,still hay cover. So you recommended 4-2-4 ?
It really depends on what kind of fertility you started with, but yes, generally two applications of something like 4-2-4 or 5-3-4 is good. You need to remove the hay first and scratch the fertilizer into the soil for best results. I’d apply some in the next 10 days and again the 3rd or 4th week of May. We are about an 1 1/2 hrs from Burlington in Greensboro Bend.
@@thegarlicgrower1443 ty so much
Hi ya. Not to far from ya in NH. How did your crop turn out?
@@MindKontrolleProject hi actually I have very good garlic last yr, I went to garden like 2 days ago,snow all melt,my garlic now size of iPhone +- .Looks very good so far, we have train for 2 days, hope tomorrow better, need put ash in ground.
@@markizanochi65 Do you fertilize with organics? I like Neptune Harvest Kelp Meal 1-0-2 in the Fall. Granulated and 1 tsp under each bulb. Sounds labor intensive if you have 100+ plants going. I only have ~30 Rosé de Lautrec plants.