Don't Harvest Garlic Until These 2 Things Happen!
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- After nearly 9 months our garlic babies are just about all set to be harvested! Green, lush, and girthy, they have had an amazing growing season! BUT, if they're harvested too soon the results can be quite underwhelming as the majority. of the garlic head development happens in the final weeks. So how do you know when to harvest your garlic? Well, fortunately there are 2 very distinct signs to keep your eyes peeled for in the final 6 weeks of growth and I show you exactly what they are in today's video!
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Garlic has literally changed my life! I eat aged cloves stored in honey daily and I no longer need statin or high blood pressure meds!
That's nuts I hope you have enough space to grow the garlic you need for your heart health. Reusing old tubs and containers for growing indoors can help.
Thank u. I will share this information with my Dad. Very helpful ❤
If I'm being real, very very very few people actually need blood pressure meds. My last doctor trip my resting heart rate was 150 something, and with just a few minor lifestyle changes, my heart rate after biking for 5 hours wouldn't even be that high, and if I'm extremely active that week my resting heart rate will be 60 or below.
How is this done?
How is this done to avoid botulism?
FYI, there was a study conducted by the University of Guelph, ON, Canada, which showed removing garlic scapes as soon as they appear will significantly improve the size of your garlic bulbs. Depending on the type of garlic you're growing, the bulb size can increase as much as 35%.
cool! amd that makes sense
But then you don’t get any pickled garlic scapes! Or garlic scape pesto or all of the other yummy bonus treats from the scapes.
@@Greengirljmt True but I don't use scapes.
I found they regrew when cut too soon. I had to cut again. The scapes are like asparagus so why not use that second crop.
@@6648rome Like I said: I don't use scapes. I prefer larger bulbs. I haven't experienced them regrowing when I cut them too soon but if they did, I'd just cut them again. No problem.
When harvesting crops like garlic, onions, carrots; first push down, then pull up. Works every time.
Great tip..Thank you!!👍🏻
Do you harvest without a tool? I use a shovel for my garlic and it ends up destroying mounds I plant the garlic in. I'd like to plant into the mounds again so I'll be experimenting with less disturbing harvest methods
Yes on the recipes with garlic scapes
WOW! What a timely tip...I'll need to harvest my garlic nearly 6 weeks early, and will try this. Thank you!
I harvest garlic like I harvest potatoes ... with my hands. I can get as messy, or not so messy, as I want. Lol!
my 3 beds of garlic are just starting to scape....this is my signal to begin more broccoli, cabbage, and Yod Fah seedlings, which will be planted in the beds now occupied by garlic after they're pulled. Last year it was a bit later....every year is different. So nice that the garlic tells me when to start to prepare the next occupants of their beds!
WOW!..you have no idea how much i appreciate this video!..Excellent information that I badly needed!. I live in northern Michigan along the coast of lake Michigan. Last fall my wife and I were inland and doing some fall color tours and such, when we came Apon a winery that had a shelf with some Ukrainian garlic. Me, being a garlic lover, eat on almost everything. Bought some cloves to consume. I asked the lady where it was from and she said her family brought it over from the Ukraine almost 100yrs ago, so it's from the same strain. I've never grown garlic before so I took a shot at it and planted it when she told me too. So now, to my surprise,, i have 4 big, tall garlic plants'. And NOW I see what you were talking about!. The main curl is starting. I was so close to harvesting these 4 plants thinking they were ready. Now I know I have another month to go. i really really appreciate this video. and yes, im a Toronto blue jays' fan! cheers mate.
Gardening is interesting and important, but the last thing is calming. The first time a wood rat eats all your crop, the deer get over a fence, the gophers eat your plants, Wild Turkeys take mud bath and rest in the middle of your planting, hose burst, plumbing failure of many varieties, hot temperatures, cold temperatures, tree grows blocking the sun, tree fails ending protection, hail... it is endless, you realize its a battle.
When we moved into our place in the country, I planted a garden. Corn, carrots, zucchini and a few others. There was a sense of satisfaction watching them emerge, and seeing the ears develop day by day. Until I went out and found every ear of young corn gone, and deer tracks everywhere in the garden. Ditto for the other crops I’d planted. Literally, the only thing that I grew in that garden that made it to our table, was venison.
Don't forget the Never ending grasshopper, earwig, and flea beetles getting everything the deer left.
Companion planting help with bug :)
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING when he said that. This spring has been a nightmare with slugs and deer. So discouraged but not quitting. It's a good work, but it's certainly not calming. Maybe short bursts of calm while looking at a flower but not generally calming.
If you plant items like garlic, the critters and pests leave it alone. All the benefits, without the headaches. Also, perennial veggies, like asparagus are usually left alone and it’s pretty low-maintenance. Add compost and a good layer of mulch and you won’t even have to weed.
What you pulled out is commonly used in some Asian food, it's "green garlic" which is usually milder but very delicious.
Thank you for the heads up 🍁73+ new garlic grower Hunter Yorkshire expat
Green garlic was a very exciting discovery for our household. It's some of the reason we grow two 4x8 beds of just garlic this year. I love to use them just like green onions in fried rice and stir fries.
Yeah green garlic is delicious and is a legitimate crop in its own right, can be quite expensive to grow large amounts of it unless you're also growing garlic bulbs to maturity though.
I only grow garlic for the ready available greens
I intentionally plant my garlic too densely with the intention of pulling out green garlic from between the plants I am planning to allow to ripen to full bulb garlic. That way I double up on a harvest in the same plot. It does mean I must ensure that my soil is super rich with compost in the spring. Great channel, glad I found you!! Cheers and happy gardening
I just made garlic butter and garlic hummus with my garlic scapes. Both so good.
@margaretwhite, question how do you make humus
A couple of things: 1) I think you're up in Canada. In Northern California I'm about a week from pulling my soft neck garlic. About 1/3 of the vegetation has already "browned". Pulled a couple as a test and they're looking good; 2) Us soft neck growers don't get "scapes" (think only hard neck and elephant garlic growers get them). So, if you're growing soft-neck garlic, you may want to monitor the browning of the plant vs. looking for scapes.......and, depending on your location, consider late May as a potential harvest time (I left a few until July last year and they seemed to rot a bit).
Yes that's good info that should've been included in his video. Yes seems like he's growing the hard-neck types that more northern areas can grow well. Soft-necks in SC are ready in May- early June
I’m near Pittsburgh growing hardneck. It’s Memorial Day weekend and I just cut all the scapes-so garlic heads are probably no more than a couple weeks off!
Thanks! I'm also growing softneck garlic in Northern CA and it looks almost ready to harvest in late May. Some of the leaves are already browning, maybe a few weeks to go at the most. 🤞
@@nbarbettini Just pulled 105 the day before yesterday (May 25). Looks pretty good. Have it tied in bundles of four and curing in a shaded area in the backyard.
Another way to know when it's time to harvest garlic is to leave the scape on a few plants. When the scape uncurls and stands straight up it's harvest time.
As a first-time garlic grower this well-illustrated video has been incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!!!!!!
My father would plant garlic in the fall (in Western New York). It was the first thing up in the spring, and produced large, tender, sweet bulbs with no sharpness. He would harvest as needed throughout the year. He would leave them in place and as the season progressed, the bulbs would become stronger and sharper until he stopped their growth by harvesting the remainder and drying as mentioned. We had sweet garlic in the spring and large bulbs as big as my fist at the end. IMHO, try planting a little more than you think you'll need and harvest weekly. (Keep notes! LOL) You'll not only have FRESH garlic all season, but you'll be able to choose the level of flavor and sharpness that's right for you.
Great advice! Thanks.
Thanks. That is helpful.
So you can let them go until all the leaves go brown and wither? Seems better to pull up as you need them 👍
@@Gos1234567 For myself, I wouldn't wait that long. As I mentioned above, the early garlic is tender and sweet. As the season progresses, the bulbs become stronger and sharper. You'll need to experiment on when to harvest to choose the level of flavor and sharpness that's right for you. By the time the leaves brown and whither, the plant has stopped growing and it will be plenty strong and sharp.
Fascinating, I have always found that as the leaf wrappers all die die the garlic cloves will break through and be exposed.This is fine in the short term but if you want the garlic to store until at least New Years you need a live leaf or two...
Hey Jordan, Glad I found your channel. I bought a way too big bag of garlic from Costco that started sprouting. I separated the cloves and planted them into an empty planter on my condo balcony. Your video tips are going to save me disappointment on my maiden voyage. Keep doing what you're doing.
All our Costco garlic is from China 😒
It doesn’t grow well when planted either…
@@spoolsandbobbins you have to use organic garlic to start with. All other veggies are treated with stuff to keep them from sprouting too soon, lasting longer.
@@lindaswope Most commercial garlic is softneck because it keeps longer. We did an experiment and planted some enormous softneck cloves last autumn along with our usual hardneck. They sprouted too early, got cold and yellow. Then they started to grow but were puny little things. We pulled them all up and ate them.
You can replant that "pulled too early" green garlic. I've done it, and they did get bigger.
You've answered my question 😊. Thank you!
Green garlic is good to eat. Some growers plant a little dense and pull every other one as green garlic.
@@Tree-thingz You're welcome. 😊
@@zone4garlicfarm It is tasty, isn't it? I didn't know aout growing it densely, and harvesting the others like that, but it sounds like a wonderful idea. Thanks for the tip!
This is my first year growing anything through winter and my garlic bed is just ready for harvesting..what a feeling. Almost like when I gave birth..🥹 just not painful 🙃 great video arriving just when I needed it 👍🏼🍀💚
I’ve been growing garlic for 30 years and when I started I got a book for information. No TH-cam then. It recommended cutting the roots off also before storing because they will absorb moisture and could cause problems with mold or spoilage. Any thoughts?
I agree, I do the same..
Yes but not all of you want to plant them.
I'm too lazy. I just make sure they are in cool dry place.
Yesterday, I harvested a few garlic stalks from one of my beds that appeared nearly ready, and believed I had mistakenly planted onions instead! From a viewer comment, I learned I actually have delicious green garlic! Your succinct information and pleasant delivery was very much appreciated and your video came at the perfect time. You have a new subscriber!
This is a really helpful video in that you not only provide tips on what not to as well as what to do, but also demonstrate what you get when you wait to actually do the right thing. Not an easy task with gardening projects, given all the time involved in the process.
1st time watcher. Thank you for sacrificing one of your plants for the growing stage demonstration. I very much like being able to see the process of development of the plant. Now, I am a 1st time subscriber! 🙏
Instant subscribe. Really informative, chill and watchable
Thank you so much for this video. I’m growing my first crop of garlic this year so I’m really looking forward to harvest!
Thanks so much for this. I have been growing garlic for three years now and always find it a mystery to know when to go for it and dig them up. This definitely adds clarity
Glad I found your channel. Garden therapy is real, and it’s my first years with garlics. Thank you.
I love the step by step simplicity, Jordan. I have heirloom garlic on my acreage, I'm told it came from Ireland hundreds of years ago. True or not, I'm sticking with the story. 😉 Now I know what to do to use and keep it! Thank you!
Best video I've seen on this topic - thank you!
I love the short concise vids. You're other how to grow giant garlic was great too!
So helpful! This is my first year trying to grow garlic from cloves.
My first garlic bed is looking great but I had no idea what to look for so I knew it would be ready to harvest. Thank you for the education!
Well done! I have some great looking garlic plants and was wondering today how I was going to know when to harvest. Now I know! Thank you
Thank you so much!! Best helpful and informative video I’ve found!
Nice job Jordan! New viewer here; an easy subscribe, like, notifications on and a comment for the masses. I'm not all the way through your video yet - but I like your style - and your message.
Continued success - and congratulations on 75K subscribers!
This popped up on my feed. So helpful, thank you
Just saw this video and the 4 leaf tip was super helpful! I trimmed off my. Scapes a few days ago and it looks like I may have cut too much. I pulled 4 bulbs and they were beautiful tiny little garlic. I really wish I had kept them in the ground but once I saw the scapes I thought I had left them in ground too long.
So all together a great and timely video!! Thank you so much!!
Recipes indeed! Love your channel!
Short and to the point, great video.
Love your set up
Helpful video. Thank you
Brilliant and informative , thank you.
It’s so funny coming across this video today. I planted my first crop of garlic ever last fall and I thought maybe it was ready to harvest . So today I went out to dig one plant up and nope! I had a green garlic just like what you pulled up. I wish I would have seen this video before I did that. Now I know to wait! I forgot about the scape trick! Thanks for the good info! “Not so sure about this” is pretty much what went through my head too before I dug up the first plant. Thanks for sacrificing one of your plants for the sake of learning for us!
Great video! I’ll use your techniques on my two beds this year. 👍
Great vid. Good explanations. Thanks. I live in an apartment. I've got a little garden in front of my patio window. Just gets a few hours of morning, easter exposure sunshine. Doing tomatoes, parsley, bell peppers and I just stuck a clove of garlic that had sprouted, into some dirt. We'll see. I'm in DSM, btw. This is the best I can do. Quite an experiment.
I am growing my first crop of garlic in Southern Ontario, thanks for the tips. I cut the scapes last week except one. The lady in the next plot to me who gave me the seed cloves said to leave one and when it stands up straight, you are nearly ready to harvest. I like the 4 leaf trick though.
Gardening is very peaceful indeed
This was very helpful it's my first year growing garlic planted last fall here in Ohio so exciting to see them growing definitely planting more next year. Anna In Ohio
Thanks for sharing Jordon.🙏
Thank you.
Great information and first year ever growing garlic 😊
Thank you
Good stuff ... I enjoy growing garlic and some helpful tips were given here ... Many thanks :)
Wish I’d planted some garlic when I had the chance. I’ll get some in this fall. Thanks for video. Happy gardening, Jordan!
Ah not to worry! It goes back into the ground in the Fall (Late October) so you're only a few months away from being able to plant your first crop!! 🥳🥳
thank you!! I am growing garlic for the first time this year... some hard neck by request of a friend and some elephant garlic as well...now you have me ready for the next step this summer....!!!
It's early March and I'm looking at a dozen buckets of garlic I planted last autumn and I will be so happy to get them harvested, considering how little space I'm working with overall. Same with onions.
Recipes should be great! Thanks !
Great video. Very thorough. Thank you. New sub.
Thanks for this! I’ve been eyeing my garlic too, I’ll be patient!
Glad to hear it was helpful!!
Thank you for the information. I have my first garlic with nice, green leaves now and I wondered about exactly what you talked about 😂👍
Last season, I had some garlic that had started to split (it was technically overripe) and some that were a bit small that probably were pulled a bit too early. I just "pruned" my scapes last week and the tops are starting to die off a bit, so I knew it was getting close to harvest time, but I still wasn't certain. The tip of the "4 leaves" was ABSOLUTELY what I needed! :) (I also learned last season that just trying to pull them up out of the ground by hand is a BAD idea!) Thanks for sharing! :D ---Gwendy from zone 6a mid-Missouri
Oh man thanks so much for sharing this with me Gwendy!! So happy to hear that these were useful for you! Can't wait to hear how your harvest goes! How many heads do you have planted?
@@MindandSoil I had 19 that survived the winter, but there were 2 that were too small and died early. I've already harvested those. So, I'm left with 17 at the moment. I'm super excited because some of the stalks are almost as big as leeks! :D I'll keep you posted. ;)
@@gwendyrose8905 Yesssss, love to hear this Gwendy!! Keep me posted on how the harvest goes!!
@@MindandSoil UPDATE: Just harvested my garlic this morning. We got over an inch of rain this morning, so I knew it would be a good time to get things done before the heat hit (we've been in the high 90s consistently and had 3 or 4 days in triple digits last week). I ended up harvesting 14 bulbs! (There are 3 that are missing.....I'm not certain what happened.) The largest of the bulbs was just starting to split and 2 others had necks that were limp, so I got to them just in time! Your tip let me know that things were where they needed to be and I wasn't disappointed as I harvested. I only had 2 "small" bulbs (supermarket sized at least) and the rest were between golf ball and baseball sized. :) I also dehydrated my garlic scape harvest, ran them through the grinder and got about 2oz of garlic scape powder! SUPER excited about that!! :D
Now, I have to make certain they cure and are stored properly so I can plant more again in the fall. I don't think I'll ever NOT grow garlic again! ;) Thanks again for the tips. :)
@@gwendyrose8905 The way you "preserved" the scapes is interesting, we never seem to be able to use them all. How did you dehydrate them? I/m assuming you used a dehydrator, but maybe dried them naturally?
Wow that’s a lot of garlic ! Great informative video
Thank you!
Perfect timing! Just started getting the scapes and wasnt sure of my next step….. very detailed info. Thanks for sharing…. Cant wait for garlic breath!!!😂
Great video! Thx!
Thank you for these great details! I have some growing now and was wondering when would be the best time to harvest. I put some cloves around to deter pests last year, not thinking they would take root, but they have and I can't wait to enjoy some fresh garlic this year!
This is very helpful
I plant garlic close together around all of my raised beds and this has definitely reduced slug damage
Thanks for the great tips.
My pleasure Rudi! Where abouts are you gardening?
THANK YOU!! JUST what I needed to know right now. Harvesting scapes today.
Thank you so much. I wish to see how you grew it. Dorry if I have missed it.
Great video!
Just found you! the Algorithm sent you to me. Love this video!!! just started growing garlic for the first time and got the bulb from the store, had meant to eat, but it was already sprouting from each clove!!! So now I have them all in soil, and just keep trimming back the leaves coming in to keep it short and always pushing to grow fatter and taller. i would definitely love more garlic scape recipes - i got it for the first time at a local asian store and really had no idea how to prepare them. I accidentally included the woodier/tougher bits in with the jambalaya I tossed it into. Probably gonna try making it like asparagus with bacon wrapped around it or roasted in the oven, because it did not work well in the jambalaya.
Thank you, brother, thank you.
I have the same hori hori knife looks like. It's excellent. Just yesterday I watch a new Charles Dowding video, and his approach is quite different and it works too. If it was soft neck, that explains the lack of scapes. He relied on only one leaf turning, peeled it off and then cured the garlic. I'm going to harvest incrementally as soon as I see big bulbs by rooting around randomly to see their development.
Thanks
Growing Nookta rose can’t wait to harvest ❤
Thks.
Good topic.
3:18 i did not know this, thank you, this is my first time growing garlic and i needed to watch one more video on the signs of harvest time, this i did not know! Thanks- Nina, Central coast of California zone 10A
This is my 1st season to have what looks like a successful harlic bed. I have no idea what's under the ground though. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will wait another month befor even trying to dig any of it. My leaves are just now turning.
Invaluable information and I'm a seasoned gardener of 40 years. Thank-you!!
cool tips man .
Yes Recipes, please
I experimented with growing garlic in an inside text over the winter and I'm excited to see how they turn out
Thanks for sharing! Excited for you!
Thankyou
Thoroughly enjoyable video. I've never tried growing garlic, but I will now.
Woo hoo! Love to hear it :) Thanks for watching 🧄
Cool video thank you
Just made my first garlic Basil pesto earlier today! My son noticed the "loop-de-do's" (haha!) and asked me to find a recipe. YUM!! :D
Yessss your son has a gardeners eye spotting those loop de doos! How was the pesto?!?
i might make a horizontal cut across my bulbs and make garlic/oil paste with the tops then grow new shoots from the bottom part
Subscribed 3 min in because it looks like you know what you're doing! So I plant hard neck every fall, amd harvest about when you said, never counted dead leaves tho, what about soft neck garlic? Planted my first soft neck garlic this spring for first time !
You are amazing. Thank you
Thanks sharron!! :D
This is information I found in a book titled 'Growing Great Garlic', by Ron England, who owns Filaree Farm in North Central Washington State. (This is the most informational book I've found about garlic... very well written.) In experiments he conducted on hardneck garlics, he found that, if the scape (flower stalk) is allowed to uncoil and become woody before it is removed, this increases storage life (length of time spent in dormancy) significantly. This is the result he experienced in his zone (USDA zones 6b-7a), although some growers disagree with his findings.
I agree. But I use the scapes so I leave a few 'sentinel' scapes and harvest all of the garlic when these are straight. Kept cool and dry my garlic was fine until we ate the last bulb at the end of April. I left a few garlic bulbs in the ground until the scapes opened and there was no adverse effect on the size of the bulbs. They were just as big as the ones I didn't leave on the scapes or the ones where I harvested when the scapes went up straight. It's all in the timing. Every year is slightly different because of the weather. This year the scapes are just beginning to grow on some of the plants. June 3.
Right now I have the third year of some garlic that I've grown from bulbils. These are very interesting because I have left them in the ground the entire time and they started growing in October. Then they just waited until spring warm up to continue growing. They did not appear to have any damage from the winter conditions. These bulbils produced bulbs and scapes in their first year. I don't know what variety they are but they have red skins and are very hot.
I fertilize with composted hen manure pellets and add quality compost on the soil surface. No dig since 2016. Soil is fluffy.
@@gabriellakadar Thank you, Gabriella, for taking the time to share your knowledge. I've never tried growing from bulbils but your experience has me thinking that maybe I should try this. I also find it really interesting that your garlics weren't smaller simply because you left the scapes on. I suspect that a lot of 'rules' in gardening are repeated without someone checking to see if the rule was accurate in the first place. Thank you, again. God bless.
Hello from Oregon. I am new to your channel. thanks for sharing
what a good man
Thank you for watching :)
Thank you thank you thank you😊
Great video. Just subbed.
What a find! Glad I stumbled into this particular video and your channel. Specific to the garlic, I have a patch of 30 plants coming on here in western (mountainous) North Carolina, planted late 10/2022, sourced from a supplier in Georgia whom I've used before, Music variety. No scapes yet (knew to look for those) and of course, no dying leaves. My question...previously in WA State, a friend advised that we needed to stop watering once the scapes showed up, which was easy because it hardly rained after mid-May. Here, we get a pretty consistent 4 to 5 inches a month. Is that a concern or did my WWA friend provide misleading information?
Thanks for what you appear to be doing. I've checked out your small bulb - large bulb experiment (wow!) and look forward to more.
My first scape of the season is about 10” long today!!! 129 more to come. I can’t wait. So delicious cooked in a pan with butter and spices.
Oh yum!! What kind of spices do you go with!?
@@MindandSoil Salt, pepper, garlic salt, and a bit of orange juice! Sometimes replace the butter with olive oil I infuse with garlic. Yum.
@@GottabKD777 Yummmm! That sounds delicious!
Last year was a disaster for me. I did everything wrong. This year with the help of friends and your video, so far it’s looking great. I just cut my scrapes and waiting for the grand harvest.
Thank you for this video. I started growing garlic after watching your video last fall. I’m curious whether it’s time to dig them out and you answer my questions through this video. Thank you 😊
Woohoo! 🥳🥳
Very nice
Thanks a lot Neil! Where abouts are you gardening?!
I’m so glad you did that cuz I’ve been so curious so Thanku Jordan I didn’t pull one lol
Hahaha that alone makes it worthwhile to have made that video!!
Thank you, nice post✅️ Just educated me about the curly tops. Did not know you could eat them. Opps😊