Why I'm Never Buying Onions and Garlic Again...
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00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Growing Garlic
03:45 - Curing Garlic
06:25 - Growing Onions
08:25 - Curing Onions
09:02 - Why You Should Grow These At Home
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True story. As a kid, I got into gardening. Planted some onions and garlic. I forgot about them. To this day, nearly 45 years later, I still have volunteer plants that come up from that patch.
wow epic
@@ProHomeCooks yeah epic... you have garlic and onions for a couple months out of the year, you can just fast the rest of the year.
@@thomgizziz You do realize that the appeal of onions and garlic is that they are incredibly easy to store, so you can have them all year?
@@thomgizziz Yes, because "having garlic and onions till next harvest" means he will be starving three quarters of the year. Epic math you have there.
@@thomgizziz What makes you think his diet consists entirely of garlic and onions? lolol
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Hey folks! If you want to grow onions, make sure you grow the varieties that are compatible with the amount of DAYLIGHT you receive. For example, do not try to grow walla walla onions (a long day/northern onion) in Texas(a short day/southern state). It will not bulb! And yes they do sell the seeds in your local area despite them being almost useless (if you are a southerner). Don't play yourself. If your latitude is low, grow short day varieties.
Onions bulb based on the amount of hours of daylight.
I would've never guessed the day length differences between Washington and Texas would be enough to affect something like that! It's not like you're trying to grow them in Peru.
Homegrown taste so much better 😀 Thank You for all your information ❤
Photothermoperiodic or photoperiodism :)
How do I know which would be appropriate for me in the UK ?
I would just google what is popular in your area, but I imagine, what with the whole UK being so high in latitude that you would have no problem with your onions bulbing and you would grow some type of long day onion. Charles Dowding is a grower in the UK and he has great TH-cam content. I'm sure you could get a lot of info off of his channel. @@FahadAyaz
if you want a REALLY easy and prolific plant, grow Egyptian walking onions. They're kind of like spicier shallots. And they seed themselves, so if you forget about them, they just plant themselves. They won't grow really big like a yellow onion, but they're useful and so easy.
Great video!!
Shallots are already very spicy, so I'll take that as a recommendation against Allium x proliferum.
They’re also very drought tolerant and heat resistant
Thanks for the advice
I’ve been growing garlic and onions for years. Plus a lot of fruits and vegetables. It’s extremely rewarding. More people should learn to garden just in general. Grow your own food lol. It’s delicious! ❤
It makes you appreciate what you eat by a lot as well
I'll stick to watching it's more entertaining to me
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One thing worth knowing about growing garlic is that if you want it to have multiple cloves, you actually NEED to plant it before first frost. Not that you 'can' store it underground in the winter, that it actually *requires* getting frosted in order to go through the stratification process, which is what triggers the planted clove to know that once it wakes up, it should split into multiple cloves within an full head. Otherwise, if you just plant your garlic clove any ol' time, it'll essentially stay as a spring onion and only have the one clove at the base, with green shoots as normal. There is no wrong time to plant garlic, but there is a right time for what your intended outcome is!
Also, for braiding garlic, you can really only do it with softneck varieties, since there's no flex to the neck of the hard neck kind, in order to weave. You can use a string and tie them up together to use the string as a sort of netting, but that's a whole other deal. Hardneck varieties are the only kind that produce scapes, and they tend to have larger cloves as well as a shorter shelf life. Softneck-which is pretty much the ONLY kind sold in 'normal' grocery stores-can be braided, and has a longer shelf life, but the cloves are smaller and there aren't any scapes. For what it's worth as well, by the way, the larger the clove you use to plant, the overall larger the size of the cloves in the resulting garlic. If you continually save the largest cloves from your garlic bulb to re plant, even the soft neck varieties will eventually have decently-sized cloves. But as a person who loves garlic and wants to peel as little of it as possible, I'm a fan of hard neck all the way.
So if you were to plant the garlic late winter, does it mean that you will grow solo garlic?
Hi, you seem knowledgeable. Is there any chance you made a video on do’s and dont’s of garlic braiding and storage?
Bang on :) ...(A whole different plant genus ) blueberries are another seed that has to be "frozen" (stratified) for the seed to germinate.
Soo interesting! Thank you for sharing!
We live in a temperature climate where frost is rare and many winters does not occur at all. Our garlic (we grow about 2000/yr) has no trouble forming heads. Plant mid autumn, harvest mid spring. @meowMeowKapow
Don't under estimate the value of growing onions and galic for your local food pantry. Deliver them cleaned off and whole. Watching how various communities wanted the different parts was a learning experience. Our whole garden was for the food pantry❤
I agree. Now i’m working on garden to table meal service by preorder only. I grow so much produce there’s no way to eat them all ourselves. Here in Indonesia there are times when onion’s price sky rocket or garlic or chilies. Having grown my own i could careless how high or low the price go, i simply pick some from the back garden😂😂😂😂😂.
@@ima7333
You're lucky to have the space! Here in Oregon the climate is good for everything except tropical fruit, but my yard is pretty small. My 'in ground' area is about 12 foot square, and I mostly plant garlic there. Using 'grow bags' helps me get a more diverse harvest (usually tomatoes and cucumbers).
Still not enough to share with anyone except family an neighbors.
@@oregonpatriot1570 the difference between where u live & where i live is my produce constantly growing & bearing fruits like tomatoes, zucchini & cucumbers. I use pots & planters for herbs like basil, lemon basil & thai basil. I also got ginger, galangal & lemon grass in the front yard and backyard. My mom loves her fruits so we gotta have guava, papaya & mango trees. Used to have star fruit tree too that bear fruit incessantly large & sweet. Remembering those star fruits always make me wanna cry when i saw them on promo for $1 each in my college days in AZ. But yes, i am lucky that my mom decides to keep front & backyards and i could grow all the food i want. I don’t know how long your growing season is, but out here is all year round. We also got pumpkin patch too.
@@ima7333mbaaaakkk tinggal di manaaa? Mau liat kebunnya dooong..
Galic?
I live in an apartment, no balcony or space outside. Garlic scapes are grown easily from that bulb that has shoots. Just put them in a pot, 1" deep, and in ten days you will have a beautiful plant to trim ... YUM. And they do grow more. You're not gonna get a 'crop', but it's an easy thing to do with that sprouted bulb. :)
Love your channel; it's the best for learning all kinds of home cook stuff. x
One thing you didn’t mention which is SO COOL about growing your own food- variety! You can really hone in on the exact varieties you want to grow, because you love the flavor or because they work well in your climate or they store really well, etc. I live in a bit of a tricky area to garden in and one of my favorite parts of growing food is finding varieties that I love and can perform well in my region. It’s just a rewarding hobby to get into.
that sounds amazing.
Vine ripe tomatoes! Strawberries from stem to mouth! Hundreds of fresh sweet blueberries! Endless potatoes!! I should really start a garden sometime
Growing garlic is next level. Plant and forget over the winter and you have the most wonderful produce in spring. Honestly spring garlic has changed my life, or at the very least leveled up my cooking tremendously.
QUESTION: For those of us in apartments, we need help with growing onions and garlic on our patio. What is the minimum depth a pot should be, and what is the minimum spacing in a pot before it’s too crowded.
Also, what kind of watering regiment is optimum? How much sun exposure?
depth, anything you can get, crowding is the same as in ground
I had a 92-year-old home health client once who grew Egyptian walking onions. She had been growing the same onions for at least 25-30 years. When I helped her in her garden, pulling the bulbs, I fell in love with this onion type. I like perennials, so I'm going to try this fall to get some started, along with garlic and ginger.
I love this video so much. It's super informative and really shows the whole process and different things you can do throughout the process. Would love to see a whole series on this with all the different vegetables you grow in your garden.
Not forgetting the feel good factor. Harvesting and cooking with food you've grown is so satisfying. Chickens are so entertaining to watch. Home laid eggs are amazing and even after 20 years, I still thank them for the eggs as I leave the coop.
I’ve been waiting for someone to do a garden to kitchen show. Thank you for this great episode! 😊🎉
Loved this video! I have been considering starting a small garden and this has definitely inspired me to DO IT! Looks like a bit of work, but so worth it & more appreciation when growing yourself.
Hi Mike, I just wanted to say thank you.
Brothers Green inspired me to cook. You and Josh made cooking seem so easy and fun and I started cooking, to the point that I actually got semi-decent at it.
I'm moving out in a couple of weeks and will definitely be looking forward to starting my own little kitchen garden.
Bro made an infinite garlic glitch without spending any money
I grew 30 beautiful bulbs from farmer's market garlic this year and it's hanging braided in my kitchen where I just cut one off as needed. So cool! I'll grow more this year for sure, my current harvest won't get me through the year.
Love it! I’m growing garlic for the first time this year. Onions next spring. I’ve been growing all of the basics for the last few years ever since I got into gardening during Covid where I had unintended time off. My focus has always been varieties that I can’t easily find at the store or things I use a lot. Excited to get into the alliums a bit more!
If you're looking for something new to try, horseradish grows like gangbusters almost anywhere. I had a plant in a 5 gal bucket that eventually busted out of it like Audrey 2 lol
@@tompadfoot3065 --yes, it will spread everywhere, of you don't keep it contained! I rememher my Dad growing it when I was a child. If you threw a chunk of the root down on the ground, it would root right there & grow. Also, if you grate up your horseradish in a prcessor or blender, do not put these appliances to close to your face!!(I did this once to see if it was grated fine enough and I couldn't breathe! The odor was so pungent & strong, it nearly caused me to pass out!! So, be very carfull when or if you do this!). Never tried to grow it in a container, though. We had to be careful when we dug it up. Any little piece left in the ground, would then grow into new plants.
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I'm in zone 7b, also. Great to know about garlic storing itself over the winter. I love garlic & onions. Definitely want to grow a ton. Thanks for making this video.
Loved this video. I've been a small home gardener for more than 30 years. You're featuring two of the easiest crops to grow.
One thing I've learned about garlic is that if you aren't planning to use the scapes, remove them as soon as they appear. You will increase the size of your bulbs by as much as 40%. As well, save your largest cloves for sowing. There's a significant difference in the size of bulb produced from a large clove and a small clove.
As for onions, I've had the best success with sowing onion seedlings. I grow my own seedlings. I choose varieties that are best for storage. Sometimes I will grow a small amount of some well-known varieties that don't store well - Walla Walla and Vidalia are two of these varieties.
Cheers.
So for onion you are buying the seedling everytime you are planting a new batch?
@@-dash. What I meant is that I germinate my own seeds for seedlings.
@priayief Ah so like the flower he shown in the video? you pluck them off and germinate them in small pots?
@@-dash. Nope. I purchase my onion seeds. The varieties I grow are hybrids, which means that if I save seeds and grow seedlings from them, I won't get the genetic traits of the plant.
I'm not much of a seed saver, as I grow mostly hybrid types of vegetables.
I think you just persuaded me to give gardening a try. Been wanting to give it a go & garlic seems like my starting place. Thanks for sharing this
Thank you for this video. I loved your garden last video I watched. I am going to try to refer back to this and plant garlic this fall.
This was so exciting to learn about! You are very organized in your gardening. It's empowering to know that many of us can grow these beautiful ingredients at home! Thank you for the detailed and entertaining video 👌
I think Potatoes could also go in this list. They are just as easy and abundant. They'll start growing on their own / going to seed like onion and garlic and all you really need to do is plant them and they'll replicate! Though, hilling is a bit of a process but it's not too hard.
Learned from a British fellow who just uses buckets. Every fall he just dumps them and harvests the potatoes, and replants 3 small ones in each bucket and repeats the process. First year you might get no potatoes but the second year you definitely will. Seems that way with many plants. If you build a box framework above the buckets it assists the leaves if they vine. Common potatoes stalk.
This has been my 4th year growing both onion and garlic. Once you know the right type to grow and the timing, they are incredibly easy to grow.
Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals
Gardening is really good for yourself it teaches you how to provide for yourself even if it's just a little. Not to mention saving you the environmental impact of trucks driving your stores produce around.
Also as he said you can get some nice variety, stores usually only have the same stuff over and over again. But there's tons of different types and flavor profiles outside of the types that are mass produced. It also feels nice to see exactly where your food comes from cause there's no changing hands and locations. Can also save you issues if a mass farm has a failure with certain crops like losing it to disease or pests which results in a shortage, whereas you have your own to get through it.
It really is so good to garden.
One more important point is that you know what kind of fertilizer you used. Not full of unhealthy chemicals. I plant 300 bulbs every year and give most of it away to family and friends and yes, keep some to plant again in the fall. Just did onions for the first time this year! So fun to be able to provide for yourself. Thanks for another great video.
Excellent video and advice! As a keen relatively new gardener who has grown onions & garlic for 2 years now, I completely agree ❤
I agree!
My community garden plot came with a healthy crop of garlic chives (look it up). I love it in eggs and potatoes... But it grows year round and it's even easier than the bulb plants. The biggest issue is controlling it!
This year with all the rain and cool weather we had in California my garlic got rust which made for tiny bulbs and no more garlic in that spot for 3 years. The red onions were smaller than expected but perfect for pickled onions.
Add shallots to your garden! They grow exactly the same as onions, spaced a little closer. Would love to see what you do with an abundance of those - I'm swimming in them this year 😊
Alison Roman has a good caramelized shallot pasta recipe
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Love the gardening content and hope to see more of it. It is interesting that you included therapy in a video with gardening content. I started a small garden, for the first time, back in 2013. Since then I have found myself more centered and balanced and I believe gardening is a great form of therapy in it's own unique way. It definitely connects you to the land...i.e...the soil, soil microbes, insects, weather, seasonal changes. I now have a much deeper appreciation for farmers and where food comes from and the work it takes to bring it to our tables. Great video Mike, and thank you for the wonderful content.
Great Video, I planted some onions a couple weeks ago here in Florida, and will start my first Garlic crop this Fall when it gets cold enough!
Longtime follower here-you just inspired me to go plant some of both! I was a bit put off from gardening after my everglades tomato seedlings failed once actually outside, but these look so hardy that I feel they may actually survive. Thanks a ton for both the inspiration and the instructions! :)
They’re growing!!!!!
add carrots and radishes to your mix. both easy and tasty also many varieties. We used to grow potatoes as a kid and all I remember was planting, forgetting and harvesting; they are more work to harvest but again, if you like a specific hard to find type, they are easy. And for fun, plant sunflowers for awesome looks :) Local birds will love you.
They will get even better over the years. There's something about the ground man, the big symbiosis of the ground and the vegetables that will develop over the years. My grandparents had a food garden that was more than twenthy years old and it was the best I've ever tasted.
I overdid it as well when I first attempted a backyard garden. I ended up with a little of everything but not enough for a meal. This year I am only focusing on a few items in bulk. Green beans, tomato, peas, spinach, green onion. I tried broccoli and the plants have grown well since last winter but aren't producing the flowerettes we know and love so looks like failed on that.
Thanks for your video, def leaning into onions and garlic this year along with all the wonderful fresh spices that are super easy to grow.
Growing up my Pops always gardened and I honestly did not enjoy getting drug out every weekend to tend to the gardens. Now I totally get it and why Pops loved gardening so much. It truly is good for the soul even when you fail miserably. You get better for the next go.
Thanks for sharing.
I just finished curing and cleaning my hardneck garlic. I had a whole plot this year and got a nice crop for the winter and to share with friends. I am very bless to have a garden, orchard and lake property to enjoy. Is really a joy to garden and grow as much vegies, herbs, flower and fruits. Sometimes, I get some birds too. My experience is that growing your own veggies and eating fresh from garden is the best and you can get so much from a few seeds.
What a luxury it must be to have space to grow your own food that’s amazing thank for sharing I miss my garden.
Imho potatoes are the easiest to grow. It just takes a lot of space
I use a growing bag for all of these under ground storage. I started out with sprouted potatoes, then sweet potatoes, then onions & garlics. They’re great to grow. Then practically free food for as long as you keep growing them. Within a year i got a full garden of veggies that i eat, ferment, cook, give away & sold. I live in the middle of a bustling city in Indonesia. The only thing i gave up growing is kale.
So far potatoes have been pretty easy in grow bags. I started with 2 this year to try it and they did fantastic. Might up it to 3 next year.
As you work more in the garden, I wonder if you’ll dabble in composting too. I LOVE how detailed this video that covers the whole life cycle of the onions and garlic. I would love to see you cover composting options i.e. compost devices vs best low cost(cash, time, equipment etc) option with high value.
Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals 😋 💜
What kind of recommendations do you have for people who live in apartments without lawn space to grow some of these? Would love to see a video for that limitation for growing food--I'm sure you have a lot of ideas!
Do you have balcony access? For someone lacking space, you can grow on your balcony especially if it's a glass type since it essentially works like a greenhouse. You won't have the ability to grow as much as in the video, but even growing a couple of bulbs can be satisfying and save you some extra grocery trips I'm sure. Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of sun and have a poor angle of my balcony so I think growing vegetables on it is going to be difficult, the tomato plant I was gifted by a coworker has been struggling a lot, so I will just look into plants that benefit more from being in the shade.
A reason you don't mention: better varieties. I never had Russian red garlic (a hard-neck variety) until moving here, where it's grown locally: enormous, almost sweet cloves, still with pungency AND (big one) *extremely* easy to peel. That stuff from Gilroy - soft-neck small garlic with tightly clinging papery covering - is a pain to peel, with small cloves that lack flavor beyond pungency. The focus of commercial crops is being easy to harvest (thus those tough-skinning tomatoes that are strip-mined somewhere in Texas), withstand long storage, hold up under shipping, etc. - that is, the focus is NOT on taste and flavor and how easy to prepare. Onions, too, have variety beyond just yellow and red. I love sweet onions, apple-like in mildness. However, I think those require low-sulfur soil, so they not be possible in one's own garden but do best in (e.g.) Vidalia, Walla Walla, and Maui, which apparently enjoy low-sulfur soil.
Fabulous video, thank you for sharing. One thing that I find curious about store bought garlic is the tendency for the garlic to rot if not used for a few weeks yet I see garlic braids that seem to last for months.
Another point, you can also grow onions from the bottom scraps from whence the roots pop out!
I tried to grow too many things in my first garden this year. I'm getting ready to plan raised beds for next year, and I'm definitely going to include onions and garclic. This was SOOOOOOO helpful ! Much appreciated!
pro tip: planting in raised beds is like planting giant pots, not like planting in the ground. (I'd guess) If you're zone 5 or less, you can't overwinter garlic (or other biennials/perennials) in a raised bed, they'll freeze and die. The ground doesn't freeze though (even in zone 3 where I am, hence the guess).
I think my number one reason is saving money. Yes these products are not expensive in a store but you can grow these cheap and anywhere in an outdoor area or a single pot in an apartment or a patio very easily
You're forgetting to factor in your labor into the equation. Pay yourself your hourly rate earned at your full time job and I guarantee those vegetables become exorbitantly expensive compared to buying them at the grocery store. Economies of scale always result in a cheaper manufacturing process in mass quantities. When you factor in your time, labor, and water, you're spending more money for the same quantity of vegetables. Yes, you'll get a fresher product and it's self-sufficient, but it would take a market meltdown like a country-wide wipeout of crops or a trucking strike for a home grower's total investment to reach that of the mass-produced produce of today.
You have enough garlic for the fall/winter!
You’re also very protected against vampires.
It’s a win win!
this video is absolutely perfect, i can't wait to try all of it when i finally have my own garden!!💖
Great video and lots of great points made! The homegrown and store bought comparison doesn’t really touch on the impact of varietal difference also - commercial crops are often selected for storage and shipping capability, while many of the heirloom varieties you can buy seeds for are typically selected for flavor and culinary value! So of course they taste better!
I've been seeing onions from New Zealand in Czech stores which made me so mad. The idea that it's worth it to transfer a vegetable that can be grown in the final destination literally all around the globe is ridiculous. One of the many reasons I've been motivated to learn how to grow it. Great video!
It brings me to wonder what might be the socioeconomic pressures at play that are making it more affordable to import food from so far away. And a it simply un-beneficial for locals to grow garlic as there are more profitable resources to allocate efforts to, or is there some sort of disruption that has impacted the food chain in some way, or has local cultures changed, focusing so far less on agriculture that such foods must be imported? Or is it political?
transporting stuff is actually absurdly cheap, both in dollars and in carbon, container ships simply are not a big source of emissions. comparative advantage should be taken advantage of where possible, gardening is fun and can be nice, but our food supply system is remarkable and I don’t think it should be disparaged.
First. Love onions and garlic in my vegan cooking. Thanks for the vid.
How can you tell if someone is vegan? 😅
@@JeremySpidle Oh! I know this one!
I am absolutely focusing more on growing staples in my garden next year! I'll still be growing fun things like kohlrabi, romanesco, heirloom tomatoes, snap peas, eggplant, etc., but I'm dedicating far more space to onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and potatoes. And I'm lucky enough to live in an area where I can grow Walla Walla onions, can't wait to see how they turn out!
My man just discovered gardening.
Not enough garlic 😀
I planted garlic last fall for the first time and I will do it for the rest of my life!! You are so right it tastes great and was so easy. One thing that was recommended to me was to cure them in a dark place as the sunlight will chance the flavor of the garlic. I can't wait to do onions this year.
Thanks for this!! We just started major onion and garlic planting this past year. OMG so glad we did because having such a bad harvest of tomatoes.
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This was great info.I'm definitely gonna plant garlic this fall.Thank you
We started our first vegetable garden this year and we planted garlic and onions in spring
still great to have fresh produce and we are going to go hard in fall and fill as much of our empty beds with garlic and onions
I have a problem growing onions & garlic in my area of Michigan. I live on an old river flood plain. My soil contains alot of heavy clay. And in the Spring or in very wet weather, it holds alot of water.(The water table is very high in the Spring!) The one time I tried to grow both onions & garlic, they were very small so, if I want to grow them again, I'll have to use raised beds or grow sacks I guess. Thanks for all the tips, though.
I live in Newport RI (zone 7b), plant every November, 6” deep + mulch with fall leaves, grass clippings or washed seaweed. I harvest around every July 15th + I snip the scapes approx. a month before I harvest! During the Spring I fertilize, water when v dry + stop watering after I remove the scapes- I always get great 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄!
I’d love to see your ideas on what to plant first to get started with a garden and how to work up to the large one you have now
We have A LOT of things in the garden,but I love the garlic and different onions,they last sooo long if you store them right and taste so much more aromatic😊
Every year my friends get a little paperbag full of things from my garden and they love it!!
I already garden and do the tomatoes and eggplant, but haven't really done garlic yet, and my onions from last season just didn't get that big for some reason. New garden bed might be to blame, but IDK. Thanks for making this vid!
Also, it gets you off the sofa and outside! It's monsoon season here in Malaysia but I'm starting some zucchini on the patio and now I want to grow some garlic and onions. In the local dialect onion and garlic are both called bawah but garlic is bawah putih, white onion.😊
7:08... wow what a camera trick. you look so different planting the onions than on your regular shot... amazing! LOL... great video.
We've been growing garlic for a few years now. This year harvested approximately 300. I cut the scapes off in June and make pesto to freeze. July here is when the garlic is ready. We've not yet managed to grow onions very well though we'll keep trying.
Yes! Make sure you know if you need short day, long day, or intermediate day onions. Leeks are ash to grow, or chives easy peasy! I love planting garlic in Mid October.
I am awaiting my first onion harvest. My garlic was a big fail this year. Just rotted with the deep freezes we had this winter. I'll try again this fall.
Yes! Garlic! I grow lots of it every year & I haven't had to buy any for as long as I can remember. I cook a lot & grow all of the alliums...garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, chives.
For onions & shallots I recommend buying the seed you want and starting them in pots (like what you would buy as starts at a nursery). Sets, which you get in a bag of small bulbs are less desirable IMO because the plants often don't know if they're in their 1st or 2nd year...many will think they're in the 2nd year and thus won't form a bulb and will simply make a flower.
I'm finding brussel sprouts have been nice to me. Totally going to keep growing them. Brasicas in general are easy. Especially if you're in a gentle winter place. (Except broccoli)
The previous owner of the house I live in grew vegetables in their garden. When I was clearing some plants to plant sunflowers and zucchini I found garlic, some small onions and lots of carrots. I was suprised to find it since I started gardening 2 years after I moved in and had no idea these were still in the soil, I thought it was mostly weeds
I also had a garlic from the kitchen sprout and put it in a small flower pot and kept watering it, it kept growing for months indoors until I forgot to water it
I grow these 2 crops and love them. I let the onion sit in the soil until the green part is dried up, then theyre ready for fall harvest.
I picked about 35 garlic heads this summer. Definitely leaving space for it in my garden. Such a high value crop for the place it takes
THANK YOU!
As the noob I am, I was thinking about growing tomatoes, some sort of sallad and maybe some peppers now that we moved to a place where we have land, however, I think now, after watching this, I´m going with garlic and onions! they are actually pretty expensive here, I was a bit worried about the drying process, but I think I have a good place for them :)
I´m still prepping the land and dealing with the chaotic mess the last owner left, but with a little luck I might be able to plant before the winter comes :D
You can use the onion seeds in cooking as well.
You want to plant the seeds from your largest onion.
And save the 3-5 biggest garlic bulbs to replant the cloves year on year
I've always pickled a portion of my garlic as a precaution against future crop failures. It happens from time to time. When my kids were still in school, they used to take the garlic and decorate the house with it😊.
I don't do onions because of allergies. Living in a onion producing area, after being pulled from the ground, the tops are cut and put into a bin. When it arrives at the packing house, it goes through various machine to be peeled and sorted according to size.
You had me at fresh...the onions at our grocery store is iffy at best but usually gone soft and starting to rot.
it would be very interesting to see videos on each crop that you grow and how you store them
I am an onion and garlic growing wizard and concur that it is super easy to grow either and both. Fall is time to plant the garlic, i like to wait until spring to plant onion. you can do it! BTW you skipped garlic bulbils and corms...they are the little tiny cloves that are in the garlic flower, in the stalk or hanging off the head itself. I can tell you more about them if interested. The home grown is more pleasant and will increase in strength as it ages, of course it also depends on the variety you planted :) I also rarely tear up when chopping home grown onion...they rock! I've been saving my onion seeds for years and years. I planted up a large pot with onions which I never harvest and just let them go to seed each year...so I have my own onion seed farm...hasn't failed yet!
Onions and garlic are staples in my house. I learned years ago from horticulturist that the garlic likes to grow in
same bed every year. So, you don't need to rotate to somewhere else. Love your video, you taught me something new about harvesting garlic early if you need it. I just have trouble storing onions in "cool, dry place". I need a root
cellar. Projects !!!!!
You're right on the onion thing. I've been having so much fun buying weird stages of onions at the market (in France), I live in a shared flat, so I can't do gardening, but they are great. I'll try and remember it in a few years (hopefully).
I had my seed garlic all set to go for fall planting last fall,, when a major family emergency happened. So in early December when it was too late to plant it. .....I found another way. I filled some gallon zip top bags with soil and put my garlic starts in. I let them sit out in the soil bags for a few days until they sprouted and started tiny roots. then I transferred them to the freezer for the winter so they could go dormant just like it they were outside.
I took them out a few days ago and set them out at room temp in the house and let the soil thaw.
the seed cloves immediately began to sprout green shoots. I prepared the bed today and they will be planted tomorrow.
I see no reason why they won't grow just the same as if they were planted outside last fall.
just a little trick in case life prevents you from getting your garlic in!
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I don't have a garden unfortunately, but I am now keen to use more garlic. Thank you for the video!
Thanks for sharing.These are exactly what I will plant this year 2024 as these are quiet expensive in my country - top imported foods.
I love how you include cooking tip along with the growing guide. I'm absolutely fed up of paying an arm and a leg for organic onions at the store. Maybe they had a reputation for being cheap in the past but that really isn't the case anymore. I paid about $1 per onion the other day and we use them with every meal multiple times a day..
One thing I will point out about buying vegetables and spices from the grocery store is that depending on where they are grown they can pick up heavy metals from the soil. If you grow your own food you can build quality soil to help curb this. You can make your own onion & garlic powder (chili powder too if you grow chilis). Many name-brand spices are very high in heavy metal content not just from where the vegetables are grown, but they pick up a lot during processing. The health perspective is a great case to grow your own as well as avoid any chemical fertilizers & pesticides that have a residual presence.
We garden on our farm in central Ontario. Our son also has a market garden here. 43 years ago, we bought a basket of garlic from my parents' next door neighbor, a wonderful Ukrainian guy named Nick Pocsje. He had smuggled it from Poland. It s the most flavorful variety that we have ever tried. We have sold or given bulbs to people that have won local agricultural fairs. Several years ago the University of Guelph DNA tested our variety as "Polish White" If you are looking for a variety to try, that is the one.
We've been growing tomatoes for a couple years, this year I've planted garlic, spring onions, red onion, yellow onion, bok choy and shallots oh some potatoes as well all from bulbs or just cut offs. Surprisingly everything seems to be doing well thus far. I've tried garlic a couple other times with no luck, planting during summer not during cooler weather
I did not know that garlic could be harvested before it was ripe like onions can. Thank you; that is very good information to have and probably tipped me into deciding to grow garlic this fall.
I love the garden + cooking content! Keep it coming!
Love love roasted garlic in olive oil on top of my grill steak💯%😋😋😋
thanks for the encouragement! I only grow flowers bc we have a great farmers market but honestly, why not plant garlic? We love it
Hi. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is great to know. I use a lot of garlic. I just used my food processor to mince a big bag of purchased garlic and put in ice cube trays and froze them. I take out of the tray and put in a freezer bag and just take out how many frozen garlic cube I need. I am going to try your growing fresh and curing. Fantastic. Have a nice day.
I needed this video. I'd recommend potato/sweet potato next, because I as a non-gardener, have managed to overrun my back garden with sweet potato. It even outcompetes the weeds.
Sounds like a good problem to have