Garlic is amazing for Respiratory health, as well as red onions. I cured my diagnosed late onset asthma with it, that was developed after a horrible flu season! (It may have been covid, it was a few months before the shutdown) quick pickle sliced garlic with thin red onion and a little panela cane sugar, and eat it with everything, just like koreans eat kimchi with everything. First you might smell the difference... But I found eventually I stopped using my inhaler :)
You two are a wonderful resource for us all. Thank you for all your free content for those people who are struggling. And thank you for your reasonably priced workshops. I’m an Ayurvedic practitioner who has been teaching fermentation/sourdough/herbal medicinal healing for over a decade and I still learn a tidbit or two (or more!), from the two of you. All the best to your beautiful family.
For years I've been regrowing garlic I bought at the grocery store. Plant in the Fall, harvest in the Summer, then repurpose some of those cloves for the next year's crop...lather, rinse, repeat. I also plant garlic and basil in the Spring as companion plants around my peppers and tomatoes. Do this and you'll have the tastiest peppers & tomatoes ever!
City girl here...I’m very much enjoying your videos. My husband is from Colorado so he’s used to living in an area where farming communities are the norm not the exception. I’m from the concrete jungle of SoCal and we are planning to move to a remote area of Wyoming once my husband is out of the marines-a bit anxiety inducing for me. We are looking at buying some land, building a house and living a little more off-grid so I find your videos a helpful guide and they are instilling great confidence within me that I can actually be successful with gardening, canning, egg preserving etc. thank you and keep the content coming!
Thanks for inspiring me to try to grow garlic! I'm in New England and my yard is tiny, the soil is terrible, so I'm going to try some cloves in a container.
I heard from another expert gardener that it’s okay for the shoots to come up a little as long as they don’t get more than 3-5 inches tall. I tend to cut mine back but leave some shoots for photosynthesis. It’s my first time growing garlic we will see how it goes. Wonderful video
I to, grow garlic, We love our garlic we plant it every year, I live in MO, moved hear from NC a few years ago, and last year I planted in late Oct and I did have to amend this soil we got clay soil! I hait it in some things! So this year We are going with containers, not a raised bed but, big containers with GOOD soil NOT clay! Thank you for sharing, God bless.
Here in western Oregon I planted garlic for the first time this year. I planted it in three of those plastic _'Waste Management'_ recycling bins. A dozen bulbs in each container. Here in Oregon, they'll get plenty of water! lol Fingers crossed!
Perfect timing...planting garlic again today!😃 We’re only a family of 4...so only doing about 100 cloves...500-600 sounds daunting, but it looks like you had some really good help😉 happy gardening!
We are a family of 5 but if I let dad eat garlic he will eat 4, 5 cloves in one sitting....luckly he only eats once a day. I have to hide the garlic and let him eat when we are all eating it otherwise I can't stand the smell even though I love garlic.
First time viewer as well as my first time planting garlic my wife and I have a very small Homestead. I subscribed can’t wait to watch more videos you post. God bless
You should definitely try it! Its super easy! 🧄 It comes up really early in the spring - it's so nice having lush green growth so early in the growing season 🌱💕
@@zarahsgarden2097 well I am planning on redoing my garden. Moving it away from my newly built shed that casts a shadow for several hours in the morning. I don’t think that my veggies liked that this year. If I get that started soon, maybe I can get some garlic in when I transplant my herbs.
@@axlent123 Yes you should try it! You still have time. I am probably North of you and still haven't planted mine yet. I will definitely do it this week though. 🧄
@@zarahsgarden2097 I just might. It’s actually staying in the 40-60s here. No sign of frost in the near future… which shouldn’t be an issue with garlic anyway, I suppose..
Great video, i watch Charles Dowding and he says theres no need to braoad fork in no dig beds as it breaks the fungal hyphae. Ive just planted my garlic with mychorizal fungi powder for the first time in my no dig bed, excited to see if the mychorizal fungi makes a difference.👍🤠
Our garlic came without being broken up. I already planted it, yesterday. I will go out and fix them. I know it's late. I hope it won't be too bad. We just moved and this is my first garden as an adult. My stepmother only had a garden once and she only grew peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers, if I remember correctly.
I just purchased some and I will plant tomorrow! You have a beautiful garden! You mentioned about tinctures....will you be sharing how to make that with garlic? Thank you!
Good video. I will say though that "tilling" is just a fancy word, what you're doing is to that soil by loosening it is basically pulverizing it and is the same thing. Tilling it with a mechanized tiller is much faster and easier Through the ages in antiquity farmers had manual ways of pulverizing the soil to make it produce better. Machines just made it easier.
For sure! As a cancer patient I can attest to the "making it easier" part. You don't have to dump a quart of oil in the middle of the garden to till it with a machine. Gas and oil are our friends. It's what makes fertilizer after all. That is now why we are going to have food shortages next year. Lack of fertilizer because the oil industry has been destroyed.
Hi. I'm in zone 7b and planted garlic in October last year. Our warm weather caused it to grow too much and I lost all but three plants out of 80 planted. This year I'm planting closer to our frost date of November 15. It's hard to hold off, lol, but I don't want to lose another crop. Thoughts?
Hey, I'm 7b too. We had our first frost about 3 weeks ago. It's recommended to plant after first frost but before ground freezes. Millennial Gardner, in zone 8a waits until December to plant his. I would wait until you've had your first frost.
Dang it, I just planted my garlic here in Payette, and I didnt know about the clay and loose soil. Everywhere I looked didnt have that info! So I may have failed myself already. Also, I have been looking for a broad fork, do you have a connection?
It's my first time growing garlic. I planted the garlic in mid Oct 2023 and some are going up out of the ground now, I did cover them up with dry leaves and pine shavings because there was a freeze coming. But, now they are growing through the dry leaves and pine shaving. what do i need to do now?
We are in Savannah GA and getting ready to plant garlic in raised beds. Can I use mushroom compost? Do I add anything else like sand or peat? Thanks a bunch.
Thank you. Do you have anything to say about organic black aphid control or rotating your garlic planting site (how many years?). I had a bad black aphid attack last year, which I overcame just by squishing them and sometimes hosing them off (trying not to overwater my garlic). It seems to be a local problem for me in Zone 9b.
Hey so I've planted my garlic a few weeks ago and they are sprouting like crazy. The green on them are about 8 to 10 inches tall already. Do I still wait until June?
I planted hardneck garlic (middle TN) about October 10th. It is now the 20th and I have green shoots about 3 inches tall.. Isn't this too early and what should I do now?
The sprouts will simply stop growing when truly cold weather hits and will stay dormant until spring finally does arrive, then will continue their growth. You will want to mulch them really well.
My garlic, which I planted a week ago (16 Oct 21) has a nicely developed roots and some green shoots emerging from the soil (here and there). Garlic does grow before the winter, but then it stays dormant throughout the winter and starts growing again in a early spring. I’m in zone 5b. Last year I planted the same way and all garlic survived the winter. It was a store bought, Sam’s Club , originally came from Spain. Good luck !
Steve's account with the recipe has been suspended! I can't find the receipt. Can you please list it here? Please. I know your super busy and I would be so grateful.
Thanks for the great information. Question planted garlic in a large container at beginning of October. It's already coming up! Covered the container soil with straw. Will it be okay till spring? It's a long way off to spring here on Long Island, ny
Given where he had the string on that row he put in, I bet he did do at least 2 rows per bed. He said a 66 ft row. Garlic at every 4 inches would be 198 per row. He said they were trying to get in 600, but only had 5.
How far apart do you plant your rows? You mentioned that you have 66' rows and you are planting them 4-6" apart but I wasn't sure how many rows you get in each bed.
If my calculations are correct, if he planted at least 500 in a 66’ row and they were 6 inches apart, then he planted 4 rows in what looks like a standard 30” bed.
so basically stick it in the ground?...I picked your video because it was 11mins long, others wanted 25 mins of my day to tell me to do exactly as stated, this apparently is not a complicated veg!
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Garlic is amazing for Respiratory health, as well as red onions. I cured my diagnosed late onset asthma with it, that was developed after a horrible flu season! (It may have been covid, it was a few months before the shutdown) quick pickle sliced garlic with thin red onion and a little panela cane sugar, and eat it with everything, just like koreans eat kimchi with everything. First you might smell the difference... But I found eventually I stopped using my inhaler :)
Kimchi is fermented though. Was yours fermented?
Fermentation in honey is amazing
@@bethstaggs2369fermenting garlic in honey?
@daylight9114 yes with honey is delish and good for anything that is wrong with you
@@geniajacobs789 Thank you, I shall have to try that!
I've been gardening for two years now, haven't tried the garlic yet. I'll give it a try. Thank you and God bless.
You two are a wonderful resource for us all. Thank you for all your free content for those people who are struggling. And thank you for your reasonably priced workshops. I’m an Ayurvedic practitioner who has been teaching fermentation/sourdough/herbal medicinal healing for over a decade and I still learn a tidbit or two (or more!), from the two of you. All the best to your beautiful family.
Onions have querecetin (not sure about garlic) but querecetin is like zinc and prevents viral growth.
For years I've been regrowing garlic I bought at the grocery store. Plant in the Fall, harvest in the Summer, then repurpose some of those cloves for the next year's crop...lather, rinse, repeat.
I also plant garlic and basil in the Spring as companion plants around my peppers and tomatoes. Do this and you'll have the tastiest peppers & tomatoes ever!
Can you plant grocery store garlic right after purchase, or do you have to wait on it to sprout or something?
@@lisamyers876 Yes. It’s already cured and ready to go.
I'd suggest you do the Organic garlic from grocery store if ur going to use it as a seed garlic.
Great idea, thanks Jeff!
Same here! We just posted a video about this. We replant garlic from grocery store also !
City girl here...I’m very much enjoying your videos. My husband is from Colorado so he’s used to living in an area where farming communities are the norm not the exception. I’m from the concrete jungle of SoCal and we are planning to move to a remote area of Wyoming once my husband is out of the marines-a bit anxiety inducing for me. We are looking at buying some land, building a house and living a little more off-grid so I find your videos a helpful guide and they are instilling great confidence within me that I can actually be successful with gardening, canning, egg preserving etc. thank you and keep the content coming!
Perfect time to revisit this video! Thank you bunches! 💚🌞
Thankyou and may God bless you and all your family brother.
Thanks for inspiring me to try to grow garlic! I'm in New England and my yard is tiny, the soil is terrible, so I'm going to try some cloves in a container.
Same here. A farmer in CT told me it’s very easy to grow. How deep of a container are you using?
One of the best videos I’ve seen on hardneck garlic, only thing I’d add is that rows should be 10 to 12 inches apart.
Conner is a great helper and learning a lot.Lots to learn for me too.
I heard from another expert gardener that it’s okay for the shoots to come up a little as long as they don’t get more than 3-5 inches tall. I tend to cut mine back but leave some shoots for photosynthesis. It’s my first time growing garlic we will see how it goes. Wonderful video
I to, grow garlic, We love our garlic we plant it every year, I live in MO, moved hear from NC a few years ago, and last year I planted in late Oct and I did have to amend this soil we got clay soil! I hait it in some things! So this year We are going with containers, not a raised bed but, big containers with GOOD soil NOT clay! Thank you for sharing, God bless.
s I do not have a back garden to do a no till I am going to try in a container. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from the UK.
I prefer hard neck simply because my husband really loves the scapes fresh.
Thank you kind people
Here in western Oregon I planted garlic for the first time this year.
I planted it in three of those plastic _'Waste Management'_ recycling bins. A dozen bulbs in each container.
Here in Oregon, they'll get plenty of water! lol
Fingers crossed!
you are so lucky to have a good son help
Perfect timing...planting garlic again today!😃 We’re only a family of 4...so only doing about 100 cloves...500-600 sounds daunting, but it looks like you had some really good help😉 happy gardening!
We are a family of 5 but if I let dad eat garlic he will eat 4, 5 cloves in one sitting....luckly he only eats once a day. I have to hide the garlic and let him eat when we are all eating it otherwise I can't stand the smell even though I love garlic.
Thank You🌸
Thanks for the lesson
Super video...thanks!
Great info and relevant for this time of the year!
Hello Johs, thank you for the tip, I live in the Netherlands I am going today my garlic planets, God bless you and your family
Thank you for your quick concise information.
First time viewer as well as my first time planting garlic my wife and I have a very small Homestead. I subscribed can’t wait to watch more videos you post. God bless
Really interesting and informative. Love your homestead. I live in a city in Europe, which couldn't be more different!
I might have to plant up some garlic... hoping for a garlic and salsa garden next year... thanks for the inspiration!
You should definitely try it! Its super easy! 🧄 It comes up really early in the spring - it's so nice having lush green growth so early in the growing season 🌱💕
@@zarahsgarden2097 well I am planning on redoing my garden. Moving it away from my newly built shed that casts a shadow for several hours in the morning. I don’t think that my veggies liked that this year.
If I get that started soon, maybe I can get some garlic in when I transplant my herbs.
@@axlent123 Yes you should try it! You still have time. I am probably North of you and still haven't planted mine yet. I will definitely do it this week though. 🧄
@@zarahsgarden2097 I just might. It’s actually staying in the 40-60s here. No sign of frost in the near future… which shouldn’t be an issue with garlic anyway, I suppose..
Very Nice!!!!!!
Great video, i watch Charles Dowding and he says theres no need to braoad fork in no dig beds as it breaks the fungal hyphae. Ive just planted my garlic with mychorizal fungi powder for the first time in my no dig bed, excited to see if the mychorizal fungi makes a difference.👍🤠
Our garlic came without being broken up. I already planted it, yesterday. I will go out and fix them. I know it's late. I hope it won't be too bad. We just moved and this is my first garden as an adult. My stepmother only had a garden once and she only grew peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers, if I remember correctly.
Garlic generally always comes as a whole head. You have to break it up into individual cloves before planting. Good luck 👍!
Nice garden🎉
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Perfect timing!!!!!!
My knees are killing me watching you.... ugh. I planted garlic last year. Was wonderful.
😂😭
I feel that knee pain 🤣 and the groan as you stand up
@@sabicat3337 getting older is a bitch. 😁🤭
Thanks for sharing this information with us!
Going to try this.
Can you plant the garlic you can buy from the grocery store ? Break apart and plant ?
Great tips thanks
You never mentioned anything about fertilizing do you fertilize it all
“Broad fork” what a genius tool! Did I make or purchase it?
The bulb is three sided , I plant pointed side in the direction of the row , that way all the plants grow the same way,, looks a lot better..
Curious: what do you do with the produce you reap from 600 cloves of planted garlic? Love this video!
I just purchased some and I will plant tomorrow! You have a beautiful garden! You mentioned about tinctures....will you be sharing how to make that with garlic? Thank you!
Just in time for Halloween Garlic keeps the vampires away my Dad used to say.
Thanks 👍👍😁😁
can I use leaves for mulching cover ?? like your Videos very much lots of Info
Good video. I will say though that "tilling" is just a fancy word, what you're doing is to that soil by loosening it is basically pulverizing it and is the same thing. Tilling it with a mechanized tiller is much faster and easier Through the ages in antiquity farmers had manual ways of pulverizing the soil to make it produce better. Machines just made it easier.
For sure! As a cancer patient I can attest to the "making it easier" part. You don't have to dump a quart of oil in the middle of the garden to till it with a machine. Gas and oil are our friends. It's what makes fertilizer after all. That is now why we are going to have food shortages next year. Lack of fertilizer because the oil industry has been destroyed.
Love your videos! 💕
How do you know the right time to harvest? And if you do harvest in mid-Summer, is there a good vegetable to plant to get a 2nd crop in the same bed?
When the shoots are bowing back towards the soil, usually early summer. They are ready to harvest.
Extremely helpful I'm terrible with timing LOL
Can I grow garlic in a container?
Did I hear you right? You put compost on top before broadforking a few weeks later. So you didn’t “mix in” the compost?
did you make the tool to loosen the soil ? I like it
Here it is: homesteadingfamily.com/Johnnys-broadfork-b
Does anyone have a good recommendation of where to order garlic from?
I just ordered some softneck Transylvania Garlic from Baker Creek. They arrived in great condition and i planted them today.
Hi. I'm in zone 7b and planted garlic in October last year. Our warm weather caused it to grow too much and I lost all but three plants out of 80 planted. This year I'm planting closer to our frost date of November 15. It's hard to hold off, lol, but I don't want to lose another crop. Thoughts?
Hey, I'm 7b too. We had our first frost about 3 weeks ago. It's recommended to plant after first frost but before ground freezes. Millennial Gardner, in zone 8a waits until December to plant his. I would wait until you've had your first frost.
I'm planting my garlic tomorrow.
Plus...how do you get so much compost to use??
Good question
We made a deal with the local horse training center. We pay for the transport and the center gets rid of the manure for free.
They also raise chickens and livestock so they probably use that manure.
Looks like a commercial compost to me. I buy the same kind, truckload from a local supplier.
Do you plant 2 rows of garlic on each of those top soil rows?
How do you shape your beds?
I like your video what part of Idaho are you all in. Nice river next to your property. Blessings Matthew
Dang it, I just planted my garlic here in Payette, and I didnt know about the clay and loose soil. Everywhere I looked didnt have that info! So I may have failed myself already. Also, I have been looking for a broad fork, do you have a connection?
Do you have to broad the spil
If you mulch heavily in the fall, do you need to clear some or all of that mulch in the spring so the garlic can sprout?
I'm in north Texas and planted my garlic mid October. I'm seeing sprouts! I don't want to see that, right? What should be my plan of action?
Im in North Texas too, don't worry about it. Mine does that every year and it always turns out great!!
Cindy - leave it alone. It will be fine.
It's my first time growing garlic. I planted the garlic in mid Oct 2023 and some are going up out of the ground now, I did cover them up with dry leaves and pine shavings because there was a freeze coming. But, now they are growing through the dry leaves and pine shaving. what do i need to do now?
Can I do the same in a pot?
Are you using the bcs tractor to reshape the beds or are you doing it by hand
Do you need to cover it with net so birds will not eat the garlic shoots? Thanks in advance.
We are in Savannah GA and getting ready to plant garlic in raised beds. Can I use mushroom compost? Do I add anything else like sand or peat? Thanks a bunch.
Thank you. Do you have anything to say about organic black aphid control or rotating your garlic planting site (how many years?). I had a bad black aphid attack last year, which I overcame just by squishing them and sometimes hosing them off (trying not to overwater my garlic). It seems to be a local problem for me in Zone 9b.
Two questions
1) the pile of soil, is that from a compost?
2) how do we know if soil is depleted?
Yes that was a pile of compost they will filling the wheel barrel with. You can send soil samples off to be tested.
Can I plant garlic now in the spring or will it go bad
Hey so I've planted my garlic a few weeks ago and they are sprouting like crazy. The green on them are about 8 to 10 inches tall already. Do I still wait until June?
Hi, just watching one of your videos for the first time. Where are you located and what zone are you in?
I'm in RI, along the coast, zone 6b
I planted hardneck garlic (middle TN) about October 10th. It is now the 20th and I have green shoots about 3 inches tall.. Isn't this too early and what should I do now?
The sprouts will simply stop growing when truly cold weather hits and will stay dormant until spring finally does arrive, then will continue their growth. You will want to mulch them really well.
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I just want to keep the deer away from my tiger lilies lol!
So when you plant that in the fall it doesn't grow until the spring?
My garlic, which I planted a week ago (16 Oct 21) has a nicely developed roots and some green shoots emerging from the soil (here and there).
Garlic does grow before the winter, but then it stays dormant throughout the winter and starts growing again in a early spring. I’m in zone 5b.
Last year I planted the same way and all garlic survived the winter.
It was a store bought, Sam’s Club , originally came from Spain.
Good luck !
Steve's account with the recipe has been suspended! I can't find the receipt. Can you please list it here? Please. I know your super busy and I would be so grateful.
Yes, a google search didn't turn up that formula either?
Do you harvest your seeds from the year before?
When you harvest your garlic, save some for re-planting a new crop.
Thanks for the great information. Question planted garlic in a large container at beginning of October. It's already coming up! Covered the container soil with straw. Will it be okay till spring? It's a long way off to spring here on Long Island, ny
Yes Kathy - it will be ok until next year. Make sure the container is well insulated and not exposed to wind.
Good luck !
Is chicken manure good for garlic?
Yes if it is well composted and do not use too much
How do you “cure” garlic?
More on that here: homesteadingfamily.com/how-to-plant-garlic/
Can you use mulched leaves for covering the garden?
I do, and it works just fine...alder, birch, maple & various fruit tree leaves. Steer clear of black walnut as it's toxic to many common garden crops.
What else is everybody planting?
you really should conserve on space and do two rows to that Bed
Given where he had the string on that row he put in, I bet he did do at least 2 rows per bed. He said a 66 ft row. Garlic at every 4 inches would be 198 per row. He said they were trying to get in 600, but only had 5.
How far apart do you plant your rows? You mentioned that you have 66' rows and you are planting them 4-6" apart but I wasn't sure how many rows you get in each bed.
If my calculations are correct, if he planted at least 500 in a 66’ row and they were 6 inches apart, then he planted 4 rows in what looks like a standard 30” bed.
so basically stick it in the ground?...I picked your video because it was 11mins long, others wanted 25 mins of my day to tell me to do exactly as stated, this apparently is not a complicated veg!
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