Thanks so much Huw! All my garlic this year has developed rust. I was devastated as I’ve been watching it grow since autumn. Going to pick some of it right now and make a lovely pasta butter chilli flake situation :)
@@georgiepowell6432 I didn't know garlic can have rust. But you still can let it keep growing and eat it? I'm curious to learn. I will have to check on my garlic in the morning. Do you know how we can prevent rust on garlic? Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Terrific information about garlic and tonight I´m gonna check out Sam´s instagram! Have been a little sad because only one of my varietes have started to sprouting (we´re having had a very cold and windy May) but now I now what to do with the rest if they don´t bulb up later on!
It's almost time to enjoy the green garlic. I saw this last year and though "damn, next year I have to plant extra cloves for green garlic". And now here we are. Wishing everyone abundant green garlic harvests.
I really love the direction you're taking the channel... branching off into experimental techniques... garden to table recipes... VERY helpful tips like storing the garlic in butter in the freezer!!!... keep it up brother!!
@@HuwRichards ~I am growing a big amount of Russian Giant "Hardneck" Marbled Purple Stripe garlic variety in my garden now, it is the best variety with very large cloves that are very easy to peel. ~Yes I know "Softneck" garlic varieties would work by harvesting them early to eat, 'BUT' I am wondering if also the "Hardneck" garlic varieties with the >stem< through the middle all the way to the root, can be pick early for eating before it turns into bulbs?? Because on "Hardneck" garlic the >lower stem< that connects to the root is not edible from my experience. I have never done it before but I could pick one of my "Hardneck" garlic early and find out. ~I really enjoy your tips and a great video, but you're wrongly pronouncing it as g'o'lic, h'o'vest, G'o'den, and winta. The right pronunciation is g'ar'lic, h'ar'vest, g'ar'den, and winter as correctly said in Scotland and also Ireland. Don't forget to pronounce all and every "R" clearly as done in Scotland and Ireland, it takes a little practice but it makes the pronunciation more clear.
Have I got a hot tip for you! You can eat the stem of green garlic of course but the real bonus are the roots! They have a supercharged garlic flavour. Wash them off, chop finely and sprinkle over almost anything or they can also be preserved. Dry the roots on a piece of paper towel on a radiator then sprinkle them on dishes until your hearts content 👍 The dried, delicate, wispy, white roots also make a very nice visual (and tasty) garnish when arranged on a dish that I’m sure your chef friend would appreciate. It’s a real conversation starter. Trust me, have a taste! Cheers
@@wheebke Thanks! I'm sure you could also pickle them. `chop them up when fresh and add to your jars of pickled beetroot, carrot etc It's surprising how many roots you can get off a single plant if you loosen the ground with a garden fork.
Now I wish I’d planted a lot more garlic. The dozen or so in the bed are doomed to the chopping block. Thanks Huw and Sam, oh and baby sheep with the big lungs. Please don’t ever edit out all the bits where you crack up.
Hahahahaha I love that you left the sheep sounds and your reactions in!! Great laugh this morning, alongside a great video ☺️ I'll definitely try this!
I do this with small cloves. I plant the large fat cloves to grow into bulbs but the smaller cloves I wouldn't normally plant for bulbs, I instead plant to use as green garlic. The might not grow into good bulbs due to being the small cloves but they do grow in to good green garlic plants to harvest.
A few years ago when we pulled the green garlic, on some of them the stems broke of, and the bulbs stayed in the ground. Next year, there were clomps of garlic there. So we just left some of them on the side of our garden and they remain there the whole year. Each year the clomps get larger. Usually we harvest some of them in spring and leave the rest for next year.
I've had garlic scattered around the garden, so usually miss some! I usually gently break clumps up in the spring, and replant them. I've also got a big batch of topset leeks, which I cut at the base to use, and they regrow - was thinking of doing that with some of my garlic!
Some of my garlic did not do well last year and I forgot it. This year it has grown and clumped . I am looking forward to making some green garlic butter.😊
Cracking us up this morning! So fun to start the day with a laugh. Definitely going to try your idea with planting garlic close and pulling every other one green. Thanks for the tips and the laugh:)
Huw this is literally brilliant, we didn't manage to sell any of our garlic (except in our CSA baskets) and we had to double our production. This means I can add a crop of green garlic to our early baskets when there aren't as many other crops ready. THANK YOU mate! 👌
The sheep 😂😂😂 hilarious 🤣 Never thought of harvesting green garlic, I will give it a try, especially planting the cloves closer and then pulling out every other one in May. Seems to be a good use of the space. Now I‘ll check out the blog and Instagram.
Loved the tip about green garlic. The heckling sheep was hysterical. Thank you for keeping that in the video, I must have watched that part at least 6 or 7 times.
A very nice video Huw! Made me hungry😘. There is a 4th crop you forgot to mention: garlic scapes, the flower buds are delicious in stir fries and give one of the best pestos, both easy to freeze for cold winter days. Greetings from Germany.
I usually forgot to plant garlic in autumn, so I end up planting it in spring and rarely I have anything left until the autumn. It‘s use up as green garlic. My garden is very small, so I have to always make space for other crops. Green garlic can be nicely chopped and freeze for cooking. It goes so nice in a stir-fry. Some other gorgeous mix is to crash green garlic with lovage, salt and vinegar. Just sprinkle that on your chippies. That‘s unbelievably delicious.
Here in southeast Spain I usually plant garlics to get green garlics every month, but I think summer is the worst time to do this. I always put the whole garlic bulb 20-25 centimeters down below the surface, and they grow 10-12 green garlics in the same place, you don't really need to split the bulb and plan them separately. Also here we get them smaller, 1cm or less width. It works really great with eggs as scrambled tortilla for example.
@@andreabelli6589 the more deep you plant it, more white part you will get. That is the part you can use for the kitchen. The green part (the one receiving sun light) is good too but with different flavor. You can also plant it closer to the surface and add more compost when you see the leaves coming out, but you have to work twice.
@@andreabelli6589 exactly, it's the same way to do it! After 6-8 weeks you can just get all of them by pulling out from its leaves and you get a 8-12 (as many as garlic cloves the bulb had). If you plan the bulb so deep, keep in mind that you will see it getting out of the surface after a month, so put something there to mark where they are! ☺️
Thank you so much for inviting the chef onto the video. It’s all fun and good to grow food but it’s invaluable to actually know how to cook, eat it and enjoy it
I just found your site; you are an incredible teacher! Thank you for deepening my knowledge in gardening (and instilling confidence) with all your special tips! I am very excited about growing garlic!!
Thank you so much! I discovered I wasn’t getting a lot of bulging action in my garlic (first time growing) but knowing I can use it anyway is very helpful.
Oh yeah. I always eat some Early Green Garlic. It is Superb in flavour. Great in Soups and chopped in salads. Try this salad=cooked Potatoes, Olive oil, Lemon juice and chopped green garlic & onions, salt & pepper...YUM
I accidentally left a few really small bulbs in the garden bed last fall. They sprouted and look like green onions!! They are so freaking good! I’m calling them forgotten garlic shoots and wow! I love them!
That's actually funny, I harvested one green garlic a few day ago and thought like I just want to use it like leak, but never saw this somewhere! And now you're coming and telling me, it was a good idea 😉
i love the scapes that grow from the tops of the garlic. we even allow it to flower and freeze the flower heads and use the small flowers to season soups and stews.
Oh MY! I have always thought you were a handsome young man but when you were laughing your inner beauty just shined! Love your garden and all your tips. Even though I have been gardening for over 50 years I still learn a few new things from you. Green garlic will be added to that list. Thank you .
Yes! Been harvesting green garlic for a while already, I basically treat it like i would leeks, spring onions or basil really. They're great as a pesto, or just as finely chopped leaves on top of a soup or as flavourful greens in a salad. As said in the video, they're also great as a basis for so ups, like a creamy onion or leek soup, but with garlic greens is always amazing. I also have a specific patch where I had planted a single clove of garlic a few years back, and just let it sit there, as if it's a wild garlic. and I just keep harvesting the leaves of it, and use it like i would chives. Just treating it as a perennial really and sure, it won't grow nice big fat bulbs, but it's really just a plant and forget type of herb, if you grow it like that. and it keeps on multiplying.
I was forced to harvest my garlic early this year, because I have been moving & need to be out of my residence by the end of May. I pulled up 2 beds at the stage you're pulling your young garlic. I cooked with some but dehydrated the remainder, stems, leaves & all. I got 18 trays total of dehydrated garlic, giving me a very nice amount for the kitchen. Was able to share some with friends as well. It really does have a nice sweetness, as mentioned. I have even been snacking on the dehydrated bits from time to time. Really very nice 🙂
Try picking the garlic stems much earlier, 1 cm or less, thus you'll be able to eat all the leaves too. They make an incredible combination with green salad and sliced radishes or cucumbers.
I'm so glad I got watched this as I pulled one up and it looked like the green garlic. It smelt amazing. We crushed it and put it in ice cube trays with butter
I forgot to put down plant labels and couldn’t remember where I planted leeks vs garlic. I ended up pulling my garlic early and ❤️’d it!! Very potent and easy to slice / chop and put in freezer bags.
Potato leek soup is a weekly staple in my house and I love subbing/cutting the leeks with whatever alliums I have growing. Last week's was green garlic and a few spring onions.
On my road to self-sufficiency I realized that growing your own food is only the beginning. You need to know how to cook what you've sown! I am delighted with your collaboration with Sam. I've saved the link to Farmer and Chef, pre-ordered your new book and brilliant on the idea to sow garlic closer to thin them later and voila, two crops!
Ive been doing this for over a decade. I just plant the cloves more thickly and thin-out the plants by pulling-up the smaller ones and using them for Spring Garlic.
Beginner gardener here and growing garlic seemed daunting but the green garlic has given me the confidence to try, so thank you. Going to use the green garlic for spanakopita, should be an interesting flavour profile.
The recipes on the blog all look amazing. I’ve been wanting to try making a green garlic aioli. I’ll be pulling a row of green garlic along the back my garlic bed to put in some pole beans or other vining crop.
I grew garlic in a regimented way...but then let it go wild years ago. I use it 'scallion' size in just about everything savoury. It is sweet and beneficial. A good old leek pudding is scrumdiddlyumptious made with 'garlic greens'👍 That sheep !!🙈🤣🤣
I just found your channel recently and am looking forward to diving in. I have been slowly building my garden over the last 8 years and have some good soil and a decent garden plan. I really appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your thoughts, ideas and techniques. (and friends. Shout out to Sam)
You answered a question for me for sure! I didn’t get all of my spring garlic harvested last spring…..well those bulbs grew up a ton of foliage this spring again and I’m going to harvest some now and see what I’ve got!!
Brilliant idea of doubling up on spacing to harvest both green Garlic and bulb Garlic! Definitely going to give that a go for next season. 🙏🏼🤗 Lol the Sheep🤣🐑
Nice! I'll try it next year (or maybe this year with spring garlic) although I don't use my garden beds to grow garlic. I plant it around the trees, even pine trees. Just mark a little circle around each tree I can find on my property. It's quite fun! :)
Ah what a timely video for me. I'm about to plant out my garlic cloves as we're in autumn in South Africa - so I'm going to try the 2.5 inch spacing. Thank you Huw! And thanks for the laughs...
I did experimented with cooking green garlic, and this one recipe turn out yummy for me:- I chopped them fine fry them for sometime, after that I add the sardines in brine, salt and lots of chilli powder, cook it for a min or so and it's ready! Do try it out
Thank you, a very timely video. I work with growers at the Husbandry School and we harvested green garlic today for veg bags in the hungry gap. I've never tried it before, had mine pan fried in butter with wilted spinach. Delicious! I may be harvesting my own garlic early this year! 😊
Hi Huw! I'm sure this has been asked before, but do you and Sam have any plans to start a cooking channel featuring the food you grow (ie what you have on the blog but video form)? I'd subscribe in an instant.
I've only recently started gardening (finally have a place of my own with the space to do so), and your videos have been a great resource. But as a vegetarian with a vegan partner, I was thrilled to stumble across your blog today! I can't wait to try those recipes. Such clever uses of whatever's in the garden! Thanks so much for putting these resources together
Your garlic is very good health and you can harvest in may , my garlic is smaller and not good health like yours, thanks so much for sharing gardening tip
I‘ve been harvesting my garlic prematurely and using it to cook all kinds of things. It‘s really delicious, have you tried it in white wine risotto😋 Also, slicing and freezing it just like leeks is another way to preserve it fresh.
Thanks Huw and Sam what a wonderful video 🤗🤗🤗☘️ I think I may plant extra garlic this year and use half as green garlic - it’s the easiest thing to grow with no pests unlike the crop of tiny leeks I have just lost outside 😟 give that sheep a hug from me your reactions were hilarious - good call for leaving it in 🙏🏻😊
I grow Babbington leeks... a perennial Leek that's got a wonderful garlicky flavour ..and they come up every year..I am now planning a bed for only perennial veg for the hungry gap 🙂
As a novice gardener I grew garlic for the first time last year. I used supermarket garlic. Around this time last year I decided it hadn't worked as what I had looked like baby leeks. I pulled them up and started using them in stir frys and stews etc and they were delicious. I was about halfway through them before I discovered that that's the way garlic grows. I left the rest and they grew fine if a little small.
Thx Huw you’ve answered a question for me! I’ll remove the volunteer garlic from the bed where tomatoes will be planted and construct a poly tunnel over top. Potato spring garlic soup tonight!
I'm going to try green garlic mash this week. I can't eat dairy products so my husband uses olive oil in mash. Also if you are growing in a garden and you have roses, plant some under your roses. It keeps pests at bay. Just don't forget to harvest it. My mum did and within a few years her roses smelt of garlic.
Long time subscriber, first time commenter! Love this video, and the collab with Sam! Would love to see more recipe suggestions for what’s in season! You rock bud, keep it up!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Sam and myself are really keen to showcase the relationship between the garden and kitchen. You can see lots of seasonal recipes on our blog farmerandchef.co.uk/blog :)
Being a good gardener doesn’t mean that you also know what to do with yr harvest. I am really looking forward to more videos like this. I tried the humus with green garlic from yr blog … delicious 😋- gardener and chef melting to a new creation- very clever ❤️ I have loads of garlic around the fruit trees in my foodforest…. so I will plant even more next year. This year I got elephant garlic for the first time… love to hear suggestions what to do with those.. in any stage 😊
Nice one - for me one of the joys of growing your own is that you can have things you can't buy in the shops - yesterday I had onion scapes (with a romesco sauce - bostin') , chive flowers, and pea shoots; today it'll be green garlic . I'll be doing the close planting/intermittent harvesting too next season. Thanks Huw
I love the idea for using the space efficiently by planting the garlic closer and harvesting some early to give the others space to grow! For this year though I have one large curved bed of garlic + one pallet collar where the left over ones went in. I might harvest those earlier and then have time to sow some lamb's lettuce there afterwards (no pun intended! ;) ) Here in the north of Sweden harvesting green garlic is still something I will have to wait for quite a bit.
Or if you always plant too much garlic, this looks like a great way to trim it down. That garlic butter looks delicious. I think I'll try it. I always plant too much hard neck garlic and it ends up going bad before we use it up which is always sad.
excited to try growing the garlic bulbs I just recieved... growing in tropical Australia and a bit late getting them in the ground but keen to try the greens !
Thanks so much for watching! :) Don't forget to say hello and follow my colleague Sam over on instagram! instagram.com/chef.sam.black/ 🌱
The little outtakes.... the bleating sheep, your face when eating new aparagus.....totally crack me up. Gardening and laughter. What could be better?
Thanks so much Huw! All my garlic this year has developed rust. I was devastated as I’ve been watching it grow since autumn. Going to pick some of it right now and make a lovely pasta butter chilli flake situation :)
I enjoyed seeing the other side of you, laughing and “breaking character”. Thanks for being…you!
@@georgiepowell6432 I didn't know garlic can have rust. But you still can let it keep growing and eat it? I'm curious to learn. I will have to check on my garlic in the morning. Do you know how we can prevent rust on garlic? Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Terrific information about garlic and tonight I´m gonna check out Sam´s instagram! Have been a little sad because only one of my varietes have started to sprouting (we´re having had a very cold and windy May) but now I now what to do with the rest if they don´t bulb up later on!
Thank you for leaving in the sheep bloopers. Made my day!
It's almost time to enjoy the green garlic. I saw this last year and though "damn, next year I have to plant extra cloves for green garlic". And now here we are. Wishing everyone abundant green garlic harvests.
I really love the direction you're taking the channel... branching off into experimental techniques... garden to table recipes... VERY helpful tips like storing the garlic in butter in the freezer!!!... keep it up brother!!
Awh thank you so much I'm really happy to hear!!:)
why table? garden to mouth is where it's at.
@@HuwRichards ~I am growing a big amount of Russian Giant "Hardneck" Marbled Purple Stripe garlic variety in my garden now, it is the best variety with very large cloves that are very easy to peel.
~Yes I know "Softneck" garlic varieties would work by harvesting them early to eat, 'BUT' I am wondering if also the "Hardneck" garlic varieties with the >stem< through the middle all the way to the root, can be pick early for eating before it turns into bulbs?? Because on "Hardneck" garlic the >lower stem< that connects to the root is not edible from my experience. I have never done it before but I could pick one of my "Hardneck" garlic early and find out.
~I really enjoy your tips and a great video, but you're wrongly pronouncing it as g'o'lic, h'o'vest, G'o'den, and winta. The right pronunciation is g'ar'lic, h'ar'vest, g'ar'den, and winter as correctly said in Scotland and also Ireland. Don't forget to pronounce all and every "R" clearly as done in Scotland and Ireland, it takes a little practice but it makes the pronunciation more clear.
Have I got a hot tip for you!
You can eat the stem of green garlic of course but the real bonus are the roots!
They have a supercharged garlic flavour.
Wash them off, chop finely and sprinkle over almost anything or they can also be preserved.
Dry the roots on a piece of paper towel on a radiator then sprinkle them on dishes until your hearts content 👍
The dried, delicate, wispy, white roots also make a very nice visual (and tasty) garnish when arranged on a dish that I’m sure your chef friend would appreciate.
It’s a real conversation starter.
Trust me, have a taste!
Cheers
Great tip!
@@wheebke Thanks!
I'm sure you could also pickle them. `chop them up when fresh and add to your jars of pickled beetroot, carrot etc
It's surprising how many roots you can get off a single plant if you loosen the ground with a garden fork.
Try garlic root tempura, so good
Great tip - thanks!
Wonderful!
I love the green garlic butter idea!! And the sheep heckling laughter was the BEST. 😂 I'm so glad you didn't edit that out!
Now I wish I’d planted a lot more garlic. The dozen or so in the bed are doomed to the chopping block. Thanks Huw and Sam, oh and baby sheep with the big lungs. Please don’t ever edit out all the bits where you crack up.
Hahahahaha I love that you left the sheep sounds and your reactions in!! Great laugh this morning, alongside a great video ☺️ I'll definitely try this!
We had to! The sheep was keen to have her voice heard :)
We've been feasting on green garlic for years now - we especially love it sauteed in butter with fresh broad beans and sugar snap peas!
I do this with small cloves. I plant the large fat cloves to grow into bulbs but the smaller cloves I wouldn't normally plant for bulbs, I instead plant to use as green garlic. The might not grow into good bulbs due to being the small cloves but they do grow in to good green garlic plants to harvest.
What a great idea! Thanks.
I plant my in a shady spot just for green garlic too.
I start harvesting my green garlic even earlier to use as garlic spring onions/scallions
A few years ago when we pulled the green garlic, on some of them the stems broke of, and the bulbs stayed in the ground. Next year, there were clomps of garlic there. So we just left some of them on the side of our garden and they remain there the whole year. Each year the clomps get larger. Usually we harvest some of them in spring and leave the rest for next year.
I've had garlic scattered around the garden, so usually miss some! I usually gently break clumps up in the spring, and replant them.
I've also got a big batch of topset leeks, which I cut at the base to use, and they regrow - was thinking of doing that with some of my garlic!
Some of my garlic did not do well last year and I forgot it. This year it has grown and clumped . I am looking forward to making some green garlic butter.😊
Hilarious,cannot believe you guys got upstaged by the sheep 🤣🤣 love it when you get Sam involved you work so well together. 👍
Cracking us up this morning! So fun to start the day with a laugh. Definitely going to try your idea with planting garlic close and pulling every other one green. Thanks for the tips and the laugh:)
My sentiments exactly.
Huw this is literally brilliant, we didn't manage to sell any of our garlic (except in our CSA baskets) and we had to double our production. This means I can add a crop of green garlic to our early baskets when there aren't as many other crops ready. THANK YOU mate! 👌
your sheep is mighty plucky 😂
The sheep 😂😂😂 hilarious 🤣
Never thought of harvesting green garlic, I will give it a try, especially planting the cloves closer and then pulling out every other one in May. Seems to be a good use of the space. Now I‘ll check out the blog and Instagram.
Loved the tip about green garlic. The heckling sheep was hysterical. Thank you for keeping that in the video, I must have watched that part at least 6 or 7 times.
A very nice video Huw! Made me hungry😘. There is a 4th crop you forgot to mention: garlic scapes, the flower buds are delicious in stir fries and give one of the best pestos, both easy to freeze for cold winter days. Greetings from Germany.
Sometimes I wish I could like a video twice.
I usually forgot to plant garlic in autumn, so I end up planting it in spring and rarely I have anything left until the autumn. It‘s use up as green garlic. My garden is very small, so I have to always make space for other crops. Green garlic can be nicely chopped and freeze for cooking. It goes so nice in a stir-fry. Some other gorgeous mix is to crash green garlic with lovage, salt and vinegar. Just sprinkle that on your chippies. That‘s unbelievably delicious.
Here in southeast Spain I usually plant garlics to get green garlics every month, but I think summer is the worst time to do this. I always put the whole garlic bulb 20-25 centimeters down below the surface, and they grow 10-12 green garlics in the same place, you don't really need to split the bulb and plan them separately. Also here we get them smaller, 1cm or less width. It works really great with eggs as scrambled tortilla for example.
Why do you plant it so deep? 20 cm sounds a lot
@@andreabelli6589 the more deep you plant it, more white part you will get. That is the part you can use for the kitchen. The green part (the one receiving sun light) is good too but with different flavor. You can also plant it closer to the surface and add more compost when you see the leaves coming out, but you have to work twice.
@@scerrutti nice idea, it will look like a leek that way! I'll try, thanks!
@@andreabelli6589 exactly, it's the same way to do it! After 6-8 weeks you can just get all of them by pulling out from its leaves and you get a 8-12 (as many as garlic cloves the bulb had). If you plan the bulb so deep, keep in mind that you will see it getting out of the surface after a month, so put something there to mark where they are! ☺️
@@scerrutti nice, fresh garlic whenever I want
I always learn something watching your videos but mostly I watch them because they just make me feel good. Thank you.
Thank you so much for inviting the chef onto the video. It’s all fun and good to grow food but it’s invaluable to actually know how to cook, eat it and enjoy it
I just found your site; you are an incredible teacher! Thank you for deepening my knowledge in gardening (and instilling confidence) with all your special tips! I am very excited about growing garlic!!
Thank you so much! I discovered I wasn’t getting a lot of bulging action in my garlic (first time growing) but knowing I can use it anyway is very helpful.
Oh yeah. I always eat some Early Green Garlic. It is Superb in flavour. Great in Soups and chopped in salads. Try this salad=cooked Potatoes, Olive oil, Lemon juice and chopped green garlic & onions, salt & pepper...YUM
In Italy we harvest green garlic, and to use less space I put three cloves in a hole, so you harvest immediately three at a time.
I accidentally left a few really small bulbs in the garden bed last fall. They sprouted and look like green onions!! They are so freaking good! I’m calling them forgotten garlic shoots and wow! I love them!
That's actually funny, I harvested one green garlic a few day ago and thought like I just want to use it like leak, but never saw this somewhere! And now you're coming and telling me, it was a good idea 😉
i love the scapes that grow from the tops of the garlic. we even allow it to flower and freeze the flower heads and use the small flowers to season soups and stews.
Lol you guys cracking up to the bleating goat was the most Welsh thing ever. Love it!
Oh MY! I have always thought you were a handsome young man but when you were laughing your inner beauty just shined! Love your garden and all your tips. Even though I have been gardening for over 50 years I still learn a few new things from you. Green garlic will be added to that list. Thank you .
Yes! Been harvesting green garlic for a while already, I basically treat it like i would leeks, spring onions or basil really. They're great as a pesto, or just as finely chopped leaves on top of a soup or as flavourful greens in a salad. As said in the video, they're also great as a basis for so ups, like a creamy onion or leek soup, but with garlic greens is always amazing. I also have a specific patch where I had planted a single clove of garlic a few years back, and just let it sit there, as if it's a wild garlic. and I just keep harvesting the leaves of it, and use it like i would chives. Just treating it as a perennial really and sure, it won't grow nice big fat bulbs, but it's really just a plant and forget type of herb, if you grow it like that. and it keeps on multiplying.
Thanks so much for this video! It was really good. Bring back Chef Sam!
Will do! :)
Young garlic!!! What a revelation!
Broad beans (I am London) in butter and young garlic, one of the tastiest meals of spring.
I was forced to harvest my garlic early this year, because I have been moving & need to be out of my residence by the end of May. I pulled up 2 beds at the stage you're pulling your young garlic. I cooked with some but dehydrated the remainder, stems, leaves & all. I got 18 trays total of dehydrated garlic, giving me a very nice amount for the kitchen. Was able to share some with friends as well. It really does have a nice sweetness, as mentioned. I have even been snacking on the dehydrated bits from time to time. Really very nice 🙂
Try picking the garlic stems much earlier, 1 cm or less, thus you'll be able to eat all the leaves too. They make an incredible combination with green salad and sliced radishes or cucumbers.
I'm so glad I got watched this as I pulled one up and it looked like the green garlic. It smelt amazing. We crushed it and put it in ice cube trays with butter
I use green garlic when making fresh pesto . This is some of the best that I have ever made, yum.😋
I forgot to put down plant labels and couldn’t remember where I planted leeks vs garlic. I ended up pulling my garlic early and ❤️’d it!! Very potent and easy to slice / chop and put in freezer bags.
I like the concept of combining gardening and cooking tips
Potato leek soup is a weekly staple in my house and I love subbing/cutting the leeks with whatever alliums I have growing. Last week's was green garlic and a few spring onions.
On my road to self-sufficiency I realized that growing your own food is only the beginning. You need to know how to cook what you've sown! I am delighted with your collaboration with Sam.
I've saved the link to Farmer and Chef, pre-ordered your new book and brilliant on the idea to sow garlic closer to thin them later and voila, two crops!
I really learn things from your videos, that I never heard before. I thank you so much for all your work!! Keep it up!
A fantastic video Huw Richard explaining why May is the best time to harvest your Garlic. Thanks 👍 for sharing this video.
Ive been doing this for over a decade. I just plant the cloves more thickly and thin-out the plants by pulling-up the smaller ones and using them for Spring Garlic.
Beginner gardener here and growing garlic seemed daunting but the green garlic has given me the confidence to try, so thank you. Going to use the green garlic for spanakopita, should be an interesting flavour profile.
The recipes on the blog all look amazing. I’ve been wanting to try making a green garlic aioli. I’ll be pulling a row of green garlic along the back my garlic bed to put in some pole beans or other vining crop.
The aioli will be amazing. 😋
Hahahaha that really made my day! Both the sheep, as well as your great info! Thanks so much!🍀
I grew garlic in a regimented way...but then let it go wild years ago. I use it 'scallion' size in just about everything savoury. It is sweet and beneficial. A good old leek pudding is scrumdiddlyumptious made with 'garlic greens'👍 That sheep !!🙈🤣🤣
I just found your channel recently and am looking forward to diving in. I have been slowly building my garden over the last 8 years and have some good soil and a decent garden plan. I really appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your thoughts, ideas and techniques. (and friends. Shout out to Sam)
Thank you for making me smile and straight talking, with your knowledge, inspired x
You answered a question for me for sure! I didn’t get all of my spring garlic harvested last spring…..well those bulbs grew up a ton of foliage this spring again and I’m going to harvest some now and see what I’ve got!!
That sheep was not having it today apparently! LOL Great tips Huw...thanks!
I just used some green garlic for dinner last eve…. Oh yum! Incredible! Thank you for sharing this!
Brilliant idea of doubling up on spacing to harvest both green Garlic and bulb Garlic!
Definitely going to give that a go for next season. 🙏🏼🤗 Lol the Sheep🤣🐑
I planted garlic purely for the green garlic this past season and it's just about ready now so I'm going to check out some of those recipes.
Nothing beats fresh garlic! Well… not much haha!
Nice! I'll try it next year (or maybe this year with spring garlic) although I don't use my garden beds to grow garlic. I plant it around the trees, even pine trees. Just mark a little circle around each tree I can find on my property. It's quite fun! :)
I plant chives all over the place like this!😁
During the "hungry gap" I rely on wild garlic leaves to give me that flavour. Fabulous in soups & pasta dishes...
Ah what a timely video for me. I'm about to plant out my garlic cloves as we're in autumn in South Africa - so I'm going to try the 2.5 inch spacing. Thank you Huw! And thanks for the laughs...
I did experimented with cooking green garlic, and this one recipe turn out yummy for me:-
I chopped them fine fry them for sometime, after that I add the sardines in brine, salt and lots of chilli powder, cook it for a min or so and it's ready! Do try it out
Thank you, a very timely video. I work with growers at the Husbandry School and we harvested green garlic today for veg bags in the hungry gap. I've never tried it before, had mine pan fried in butter with wilted spinach. Delicious! I may be harvesting my own garlic early this year! 😊
I plug extra cloves around my indoor and outdoor gardens and just use some garlic leaves for flavoring dishes. Treat em like a thick chive. 😋
It's so refreshing with a good laugh...thank you Huw.....Thomas, Denmark
Hi Huw! I'm sure this has been asked before, but do you and Sam have any plans to start a cooking channel featuring the food you grow (ie what you have on the blog but video form)? I'd subscribe in an instant.
I've only recently started gardening (finally have a place of my own with the space to do so), and your videos have been a great resource. But as a vegetarian with a vegan partner, I was thrilled to stumble across your blog today! I can't wait to try those recipes. Such clever uses of whatever's in the garden! Thanks so much for putting these resources together
Your garlic is very good health and you can harvest in may , my garlic is smaller and not good health like yours, thanks so much for sharing gardening tip
I‘ve been harvesting my garlic prematurely and using it to cook all kinds of things. It‘s really delicious, have you tried it in white wine risotto😋
Also, slicing and freezing it just like leeks is another way to preserve it fresh.
I love that you never forget about lack of space 👌
You two boys were hilarious trying not to laugh after the sheep interlude 😂
Thanks Huw and Sam what a wonderful video 🤗🤗🤗☘️ I think I may plant extra garlic this year and use half as green garlic - it’s the easiest thing to grow with no pests unlike the crop of tiny leeks I have just lost outside 😟 give that sheep a hug from me your reactions were hilarious - good call for leaving it in 🙏🏻😊
There is a fourth type of harvest if you grow hardneck types. This is to harvest the flower stalk or scape. Yummy.
Lovely seeing the laughter!
Really enjoyed the sheep participation too :)
I grow Babbington leeks... a perennial Leek that's got a wonderful garlicky flavour ..and they come up every year..I am now planning a bed for only perennial veg for the hungry gap 🙂
As a novice gardener I grew garlic for the first time last year. I used supermarket garlic.
Around this time last year I decided it hadn't worked as what I had looked like baby leeks.
I pulled them up and started using them in stir frys and stews etc and they were delicious.
I was about halfway through them before I discovered that that's the way garlic grows. I left the rest and they grew fine if a little small.
Thanks for this delightful interview - and how fun to check out the blog and recipes - lots of ideas i want to try!!
I'm going to dehydrate my onions whenever they are ready.Thanks
5:52 a great start of the Day.
Thx Huw you’ve answered a question for me! I’ll remove the volunteer garlic from the bed where tomatoes will be planted and construct a poly tunnel over top. Potato spring garlic soup tonight!
I've got some garlic growing, it's the first thing I planted this year, my plan is to make my own garlic butter 😋 can't wait 👍👍
Love Garlic Butter!
@@HuwRichards I was advised by an Indian cook, if you knot the garlic tops, you get bigger bulbs, not sure how true it is but I'm giving it a go 👍👍
My wife and I have nettle and dandelion as some of our earliest harvests. I'll look at planting more garlic to add this as an option
I'm going to try green garlic mash this week. I can't eat dairy products so my husband uses olive oil in mash.
Also if you are growing in a garden and you have roses, plant some under your roses. It keeps pests at bay. Just don't forget to harvest it. My mum did and within a few years her roses smelt of garlic.
Thank you, going to experiment with pulling some garlic early.
Thanks for this video! I planted the cloves too close so I will pull some small green garlics out and prepare something new in my kitchen :)
Long time subscriber, first time commenter! Love this video, and the collab with Sam! Would love to see more recipe suggestions for what’s in season! You rock bud, keep it up!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Sam and myself are really keen to showcase the relationship between the garden and kitchen. You can see lots of seasonal recipes on our blog farmerandchef.co.uk/blog :)
I have wild garlic too in my garden using same way as other happy days
Being a good gardener doesn’t mean that you also know what to do with yr harvest. I am really looking forward to more videos like this. I tried the humus with green garlic from yr blog … delicious 😋- gardener and chef melting to a new creation- very clever ❤️
I have loads of garlic around the fruit trees in my foodforest…. so I will plant even more next year. This year I got elephant garlic for the first time… love to hear suggestions what to do with those.. in any stage 😊
I just learned so much! I've never heard of green garlic or the hunger gap. And that butter sounds incredible for garlic bread...
You have to try it! :)
Nice one - for me one of the joys of growing your own is that you can have things you can't buy in the shops - yesterday I had onion scapes (with a romesco sauce - bostin') , chive flowers, and pea shoots; today it'll be green garlic . I'll be doing the close planting/intermittent harvesting too next season. Thanks Huw
HO my !!! this sheep moment was hilarious ! love to see yo burst out laughing !! and thanks for the wonderful receipes !
I had never heard of green garlic until today and yours is the second video that mentioned it. Thank you for the recipes and explanation.
I love the idea for using the space efficiently by planting the garlic closer and harvesting some early to give the others space to grow!
For this year though I have one large curved bed of garlic + one pallet collar where the left over ones went in. I might harvest those earlier and then have time to sow some lamb's lettuce there afterwards (no pun intended! ;) ) Here in the north of Sweden harvesting green garlic is still something I will have to wait for quite a bit.
Will try the tighter spacing idea this fall.
Or if you always plant too much garlic, this looks like a great way to trim it down. That garlic butter looks delicious. I think I'll try it. I always plant too much hard neck garlic and it ends up going bad before we use it up which is always sad.
Great video! Unique flavour, fresh approach! Keep it up!
I chop whole green garlic plant and freeze them all year around in my cooking and salad.
I use green Garlic and cook it like a leek soup. Delightful
Excellent idea, I think I will try this next year
excited to try growing the garlic bulbs I just recieved... growing in tropical Australia and a bit late getting them in the ground but keen to try the greens !
Great tips on harvesting green garlic Huw thankyou!