Garlic story and an early harvest for long storage
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- See the signs of readiness, and it's not to do do with leaves still green. Then you can peel it clean, dry it under a roof, and hang to store in the house.
This is softneck garlic, ready up to two weeks before hardneck garlic. See my Growing Guide for more details www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...
Garlic in the polytunnel matures up to three weeks earlier than outside. So you still have time to be ready, if watching before solstice.
Filmed 3rd June by Nicola Smith at Homeacres UK, maritime temperate climate zone 8.
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Knowing when garlic is ready - I demonstrate harvesting in the polytunnel
02:44 Garlic planted outside - more rust
03:08 Having plants ready to go in after garlic harvests, or interplanting between
03:37 Garlic just harvested and from previous year, using a wire method to hang/store
04:31 Cutting off the roots and outer leaves of recently harvested bulbs
04:55 Size difference between recently harvested and year-old garlic
05:29 A less mature bulb
05:42 More advice on when to harvest, colour of leaves and stem
05:56 Keeping harvested bulbs under cover after harvesting before wiring up
06:49 Allium leaf miner, less of a problem under cover
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Nice garlic harvest, congrats. Like the wire idea for drying.
Thank you for the last details for storage preparation, and all. 72, just retired and have five beds started just from one year ago last fall. Finding out that I can still garden is such a joy. The gene skipped a generation and last spring my granddaughter followed me around to drop plugs into the dibbed holes. Next week we will get to see our strawberries, she’s just about lost hope.
Cheers Terry nice to hear. We are just about to film the small garden where strawberries are excellent this year, thank goodness! That video will come out in about 10 days.
Interesting. So you suggest digging down a bit and looking at the size rather than waiting for the leaves to change. And when you harvest you remove the outer skin and then let cure. I'm still learning about garlic. This will be my third year growing it. Thanks Charles!
Was going to ask the same question 😊
Yes exactly
Yay! New video 🥰
The wire thing is a great idea
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
What i just thought: gardeners are the true super heroes of our time 😅
Garlic harvest looks fantastic, and last years Garlic has held up well after a year😁
Well, the wire idea is marvellous....& for a moment I thought that you had plaited them ! Everyone I know dries their garlic in the sun....."because thats how the Spanish & French do it", but I have always dried mine in the shed - laid down. Also I used to leave mine in the ground until yellow but I learned from you a year or two ago to harvest it around July.....it has been so wet I wonder if mine has rotted. Lastly, I love to eat "wet Garlic" so much of mine is used as soon as I take it from the garden !
Thanks, and I love wet garlic too, eating loads just now!
Just started watching you , Well done 💚
I love garlic and onion's
Steve
Thanks and welcome Steve
Garlic was the very first thing I got in the ground when I first got my allotment. Really looking forward to harvesting it very soon! So much to look forward to. Thank you for these videos.
Great to hear and you are very welcome
Yes! I was looking for another CD video, and this is very timely too! Our garlic is coming close to harvest soon.
Thank you Charles
I like that storage idea of threading them on a wire
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Beautiful garlic Charles! Love the hanging wire as well. Thank you for sharing
You are welcome
I have a different take on garlic: Wait till the plants die down naturally. The idea is that all that leafy goodness goes into the bulb. People who like tight cloves and long storage may squeal, but to me, garlic is a seasonal and perennial crop. The plant does what the plant does. Let it do its thing the way it wants to, and just take some as you need it. Have a large clump area, let it develop its mycorrhizae companions, and just take as you need. Take wild garlic as your model
I went all out this year on sowing garlic, but its nothing like yours - you are an inspiration!
Cheers Nick
Aha. Mon dieu I lost half of my garlic in store last year. Im sure it was drying it in a conservatory in the hot sun. Great tip Charles thank you
Like you I still have garlic from last year. It's kept well. The garlic here won't be harvested until mid-June at the earliest, rain for the last 3 weeks so the skin isn't dry enough to be harvested.
The flavour is quite different, less 'acidic' tasting..
Same here in NE Spain.
Thank you Charles. I really did not know what to expect.
Thank you Charles! Great idea Adam! Cheers from So Cal.
Just in time. Thank you!
You are welcome Mike
Great garlic tips... thank you! Really appreciate the wire idea... will definitely be trying this one! Blessings on your growing season kind sir! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚
Great to hear and thank you Carolyn
Beautiful. Your dried Garlic is the first crop I ever harvested after your course I attended last year. Now I'm excited to see how my first ever grown crop will turn out in a few weeks.
Amazing and beautiful work charles... Thank you
Cheers Alistair nice to hear, hope you are keeping well 💚
I leave mine in for a year plant 31st October harvest 31st October
Legend Charles, thanks as always
You are welcome
Hi Charles, Garlic harvest looks beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you and you are welcome
Great tips as always. I think you'll be mentioning allium leaf miner more in the future. You were lucky this year but we've had them destroy entire crops on our allotments. Grew under insect mesh this year and it has kept them off the garlic.
Thanks Charles, i was just wondering if I should harvest mine. I will check a few bulbs.
GRAZIE di tutto!
Looking forward to harvesting my outdoor garlic later this month!
Great to hear Tim
Garlic. Waiting so many months is worth it. Hubby needs room for Zucchini. I've got garlic everywhere. lol. I don't mind sharing garden space honey. Pull the garlic as Zucchini grows. Thanks for sharing your Garlic wisdom Charles. This year I've got success I can see already thanks to you. Zone 6b.
Great to hear of your success 🙂
Had to pull up mine today in Suffolk due to fast-acting rust. Still great bulbs fortunately.
I'll be cutting off my scapes soon and imagine waiting another few weeks before harvest. I'll make sure to harvest before the leaves start to turn yellow (like last year). Looking forward to the results!
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Here in Australia when it’s time to dry the garlic. I hang it on hooks tied up with just in bundles of 7 bulbs with the leaves still on. I brush off any dirt before hanging. The first year I grew it I planted 150 and even had a professional grower say it was as good as theirs. And I hang it in a shed with no sun but ventilation
Brilliant work Caroline
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you 😊
I keep checking the garlic to see if its ready. First time growing it and not entirely confident. Thanks for all the information.
You can do it!
Planted a new variety this year plus two saved varieties from the previous year, all going well. No rust this year compared to quite a bit in 2023. Onions are bolting but garlic holding fast. I have radishes between rows which seems to work well. Thanks for all the great knowledge Charles, I may switch to wire this year instead of twine.
Good stuff! Nice tips
What an absolute joy harvesting that wonderful garlic iv got some very rusty hardneck drying have some very rusty softneck still just about green enough to keep in going undercover in oct nr cheddar so not far from you
Nothing quite like fresh garlic 🥲 I’m afraid I didn’t grow enough to last til winter. We cook 2-3 meals a day, and like lots of garlic. Next time, I’ll have to dedicate 2 entire beds to Garlic!
I enjoyed watching your video showing how you check the state of the head of garlic by digging around it. I did that for the first time and many years after watching your video to check and see how big the head of the garlic was in my raised bed. I had to chuckle when I saw how you pulled the leaves off the garlic head expose a nice white head of garlic that was very clean. I’ve been doing that for many years, but I find it easier if I cut the roots off using a Swiss Army knife and I always break that rule of never cut towards yourself because I always cut towards myself when I’m taking the roots off. It makes it easier to pull the leaves over when the roots are gone. Instead of using a wire to store the garlic, I use a zip tie or cable tie. I get seven heads of garlic and I wrapped the cable tie around the stems and pull it tight and hang it over rope in my garage. The only issue is they loosen as the stems dry and my mom said it’s raining garlic in the garage and I think I knew what she meant as a garlic dries the stems get looser and you have to tighten the cable ties. It works awesome and it saves a lot of time. I agree with you I’m not waiting till all the leaves are yellow or dead. I pulled mine this year with only the bottom one or two leaves yellowed and I’ve been doing that for years. I just don’t want to take a chance on damage to the garlic if you leave it any longer. Like yourself I did notice leaf miner damage to some garlic. I live in Northern Ontario in Sault Ste. Marie and the leaf miner is here as well. Enjoy watching your episodes there’s a lot to learn. Thank you very much from Northern Ontario.
Nice to see this. Yes it's an advantage to push the stocks down onto wire because as they dry, they stay there! Such a pity that insect has arrived in your area too
It would be awesome if we could post photos of our garlic in the comments. I forgot to include that this is the first year ever that I had I believe onion fly maggot attack my scapes. I had to cut all the affected scapes off and I even cut further down hoping to salvage the garlic. I disposed of the maggot infested scapes in the trash.
Fascinating! Loved hearing about the garlic story and getting insights on how to achieve an early harvest for long-term storage. Definitely going to apply these techniques in my own garden. Thanks for sharing! I have a NEW TH-cam Channel where I'm also sharing gardening insights, and I'm learning a lot from you! Keep it up.
Glad you enjoyed it and best of luck with your channel
Just caught mine in time, a few had wet skin, about to start rotting. I planted some at the start of October, middle and end of October. Definitely got better results from those planted at the beginning
Good you caught it :) and interesting re dates
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Hi Charles, I hope you're well! I helped with the garlic when I was there last year.. I have a few photos. I think you kept back the largest bulbs for planting. Then we boxed some for selling and wired some up.. I can't quite remember but I suspect the ones hung up have shrunk a little.
Hi James nice to hear. Yes they shrunk more than I realised!!
I've had decent crops of garlic on your good advice the past 3 years in my small London garden. However this year was a total disaster. All of my 16 plants attacked by an unknown black fly/mite. No matter how much I rubbed them off with my fingers or with sprayed them off with a hose they came back as quick and the garlic finally succumbed to them in early May. I can only imagine it had something to do with the odd spring weather. Hasn't put me off though and look forward to planting in October
Oh wow, how strange. Try some dried seaweed as plant booster
My Garlic did not go in until the end of February as my no-dig beds were not ready until then it has however grown very well indeed and looks very strong although I doubt if the cloves will be very big I am so pleased with how all the vegetables have performed they look so healthy in fact we have already had so much to pick and use already. Thank you for your inspiration. 😀
Wonderful to hear and they may surprise you!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I do hope so
I completely forgot this year about how early it is that we harvest. I have such bad rust. I'm going to pull mine today
Thankyou Charles, maybe you could make a short video on the wiring technique
Will do
Thank you, it looks so neat. My plaits aren't as attractive
Allium leaf miner is a big problem in NJ now. All those bulb with holes will have pupae in them. My bulbs were smaller the first year I had the miners. Now I cover my crop with insect netting starting April 1st until harvest to prevent it.
Wow in NJ too, where does this stuff come from?!!
Hi Charles my garlic has rust but its on the lower leaves and the garlic is looking big and fat 😊, im going to harvest it soon. Great video and inspiration.🙏😁💪👍👌
Great!
I am harvesting garlic only when the plants are turning yellow, for saving. The green ones are good for immediate use....
Great tip on the wire for storing Charles and Adam, thank you! I just realised the hashtag nodig, if you read it as one word in Dutch it translates to 'necessary'. Funny coincidence, or is it...
Interesting! And good to hear 😀
This video was perfectly timed! That garlic wire is fantastic! And taking the leaves off like that to expose a beautiful head!!!My third year of garlic and these got some rust and seemed to be ready way too early compared to other years. I feel like maybe I planted it too late and too deep? Not sure if that’s possible. Still got a crop so I’m happy about that. Thank you for your education videos but mostly your inspiration!
Glad it was helpful Paula and go you!
Yes rust makes for early harvest, and smaller :(
Thank you for your kind words I am glad you enjoyed it Paula
Bom dia Charles sempre dando o melhor que pena que não tem mais a tradução um grande abraço amigo 👦 ❤
Obrigado Luís. Haverá uma tradução mas ainda não tivemos tempo de fazê-la e transcrevê-la. Este é um vídeo muito urgente e eu não queria esperar que isso acontecesse porque então a maioria do público inglês sairia perdendo. Deve chegar até sexta-feira.
So this year for the first time I’ve had enviromesh over my garlic because I had allium leaf miner on my leeks late summer last year, interestingly I’ve not had any rust so far and I’m normally plagued like everyone else. The only other variable is they were planted after Christmas rather than autumn which I’ve never done before, but they look like they’re thriving - no bulbs yet though 🤷♀️
That's so interesting Vicky. Maybe if the mesh can filter out most of the spores in the air.
That's exactly how I hang my garlic, threaded on a wire and store hanging i my basement. But I wa stold to wait until long after the scapes are cut off and some of the leaves have gone yellow, don't clean off until after they've dried for 2 weeks in a shaded well ventilated area.
I always have to wait untill the garlic green has wilted, with enough fertilizer they get big and dry in July, takes a whole year if your lacking fertilizer.
Thank you for sharing. How to prevent garlic bulb rot? Thank you ☺️
No simple remedy. Grow in a different place, it's usually endemic in soil for a few years so if you can find a fresh piece of soil that should be good.
Thank you Charles for share your videos with us . How did you store you garlic.
Easy, in the conservatory and kitchen
Excellent video on harvesting your garlic. I do have a couple questions... In your cold neck garlic are you cutting off that top part when it curls over? Secondly could you show exactly how you are putting the garlic on The wire? Yours look just perfect and so big and full and I would really like to emulate that!
Thanks, and yes, I cut the stem of hardnecks when about 20 cm long, and you just push the neck of garlic onto the end of high tensile wire is best
I pulled up one of my garlics the other day (rusty for a while) and it’s just one big bulb! So sections, so I haven’t a clue what’s happened, it tasted fine though 😊
Usually, that happens if it's been planted after any cold weather. Temperatures close to freezing or below are necessary for initiation of clove formation. That's why many of us plant in October.
I wish he had mentioned, and I assume he is still cutting off the scapes a while before digging them up.
No because these are softneck, so no scapes, I should have explained that
Wow what fantastic garlic! I planted 120 cloves and loads have come up already. I did them a month earlier then I use to hopefully get a great crop to come summer 😊
Best of luck!
Roly polies decimated my garlic this year. We had so much rain and cold in the past couple of weeks.
Those and the earwigs have been horrible for me. And onion maggots
Oh flip! Hope summer arrives
Awesome video! I will try planting some garlic after watching this. What are those beautiful bright orange flowers you are growing in the background please? 😍
Thanks for visiting, and they are Escholzia or Californian poppies
@@CharlesDowding1nodig wow 🤩 they are very beautiful! Thank you, I will try and get some seeds to try them here in Denmark 🇩🇰 💙😍
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Zone 4a. Hard neck only here. Oh well. I might try the wire trick because there are a lot of loose ends of fencing available.
Good luck with that, good point about the cold
I am also 4a in the adirandacks. We grow hardneck and softneck. Try inchelium red.
Thanks Charles! Could use some help with peppers, seem to always manage to grow them to around 15cm before they become stunted every time, either turn yellow or too hot or god strikes down upon them! Some fail safe beginner tips would be much appreciated! Also I'm a new subscriber!
Thanks and yes they are not easy if summers are cool - see my video th-cam.com/video/SiU2_0d_JkA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Charles. I love all your videos and I have your No Dig book which has become my go to. I wonder if you have evEr seen it when the garlic stalks wither and fall off and the garlic bulb is small without any outer layer. Just very small cluster of bulbs. No rot or anything on the bulbs. They have been in since last October. I can't work out what is going wrong! thanks Jo (Bristol UK).
Yes I have, on a garlic we planted as a trial in October 2022, from a shop bought bulb. It was not a good grower.
I'm not sure what your seed garlic was, but if you have good bulbs yourself, their cloves are the best thing to plant in October.
Ok great I will see what the rest of them do.
Thanks, I enjoyed watching. I've never grown garlic but would love too. When would I start Oct ? Manythanks
Plant cloves October, not too deep, a little compost on top say 3cm
Thank you. Your garlic looks beautiful. I like how you saved garlic for so many years and never had to buy it again to plant. Do we have to dry the entire garlic plant or can we cut the top a couple inches above to use the tasty white garlic part right away?
Thanks so much and yes eat from now!!
My Garlic here in NE Spain has grown very well this year. It's been quite mild and we've had decent rains this spring. The problem I'm having is the ground is still quite damp and although the individual garlic heads have formed the cloves, they are still quite small and tender. Tops are starting to dry off. I've harvested a few but am waiting a little longer for the rest... Difficult decision...
Interesting, sounds like waiting is worthwhile for maybe 10-12 days
Dear Charles, any guesses why almost all of our garlic (outside, planted in December) fell over about a week ago? There were no strong winds. It never looked too healthy; quite a few mice in the raised bed digging tunnels, but I don't think they're the main reason, since they`ve been there all along. Thank you for any help.
Best wishes from Bremen.
Oh dear, and I don't know. I would certainly lift one or 2 to check how the bulb is formed or swollen, it might be worth harvesting them all now. I think you have had a lot of rain, possibly that's to do with it, maybe something in the rain!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you!
Verry nice Your garlic.
I want to now the variété please.
Thank you and good luck.
Greetings from Jan out Holland
Cheers Jan and thanks.
Is old, lost the name!
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Excellent video. May I ask, what difference does removing the roots at this stage make? I harvested mine a couple of days ago but left them all on. Had heard this increases the flavour, hence why.
Thanks, and I'm not sure about that! My garlic has excellent flavour is all I can say and it's a very practical thing in terms of saving time later. Also dry soil makes a knife blade lose its sharpness very quickly.
Many years ago I grew garlic and never bothered looking up fully how to grow it. Just planted waited until it went dry on top and ended up with a rotten mess and gave up. Then two years ago I had a patch and some bulbs and did it properly and despite the logic dug then up in the same state as yours as green. Logic tells you it is too soon they are green and you don't dig onions up on the green. The result is night and day. This year it has been the best crop. A bit of rust showing on the lower leaves but nothing to affect the crop. They need a bit of processing so I wash them first cut the roots and then clean them like on here pull the outer layer off to leave the nice white outer layer cut some leaves off and string them up straight away. It is when I look at the price in the shop quite a valuable crop as well. A lot of it if you look is grown in China so who knows what the chemicals being used on them are. One last point is I really don't like garlic but my other half loves it so I get nothing from all the effort except the achievement of growing crops much like cucumbers as well.
That's so nice, you realised about harvesting green. And I would say you're getting a lot from it because your other half must be so happy with you! 😀
My garlic has been looking great this year, best I've seen it and still mainly green, but when I tried harvesting one the other day there was just one small bulb. Now not sure whether its worth waiting or just cutting my losses.
That is strange, if the tops are still green, I would leave them another two weeks or so.
Hey Charles! I grow Society Garlic where both the leaves and flowers are edible and as the name suggests is a little milder. I also grow a few other Garlic varieties (like yours) and found them brilliant companions to Tomatoes. Have you tried to smoke your garlic? I mean put it in a cold smoker rather than light one end and inhale ;-) Take care mate and remember that it is socially acceptable only if you and your partner both eat garlic. Cheers!
Sounds great and luckily we all eat garlic here!! Nice tip on Society garlic.
Beautiful garlic! I struggle terribly with black fly when I grow my garlic under cover. Any advice for that?
Thanks, and sorry no, am puzzled by that
I started my very first garden last year and now my first garlic is about to harvest, and it‘s huuuuge! 😊 I wonder if its possible, to cut of the stems directly after the harvest, because I think they are too good to be dried and thrown away. I‘d like to cut them into slices and freeze them, so I can use them like leeks in any dish… I wonder if there’s any reason why the stems should stay on the bulb until it’s dry… 🤔
I'm happy to hear that Kristin. I know growers who do that, but not too close to the bulb, leave a good 7 cm about 3 inches of stem on the bulb, and you can use the rest, although it's quite tough!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Hi Charles, Thank you for your quick response! Ok, that makes sense... I'll give it a try!
Sadly I’ve had some problems with onion maggots in one my bed. The garlic just lays down, here in Hudson Valley another month before harvest.
Sounds very difficult. I have onion maggots / Allium leaf miner for the first time :(
They look nice! Mine are absolutely horrible. Full of rust. Actually all of the garlic on the allotment look like that. First full year there and i really need to take care of the soil. My home grown garlic the last few years looked much better.
EDIT: and then you point out the outside garlic, which is full of rust. I need to end the video first before i start commenting :P
Thanks and yes the outdoor is still ok bulb wise, medium not large
Mmm garlic
Hello Sir Charles, can you please share how long ago were you cutting out garlic scapes from these plants, if at all.
They look like soft neck, without scapes
No scapes, they are softneck
Great Info. How long after the scapes should you pick the garlic. Thanks
Thanks and usually 3-4 weeks
Garlic looks great. When will you harvest the outdoor garlic which has rust. Asking because mine has it too. Cut off the offending leaves and still lots of green but not sure if I should dig it out now or wait (planted mid Oct, South Devon)?
Not yet since it still has green, maybe in 10 days
pulled my garlic up last week as I really wanted to get more plants in. They were grown outside though in a sheltered but sunny location and came up pretty big, probably my biggest garlic yet. Glad I harvested though as one seemed to have tried to split into another plant and that went straight into the next days dinner. Just waiting for the rest to dry out now.
BTW the garlic you have that are a year old, are those soft or hard neck??
Nice to hear and softneck
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Great video, thank you! I'd like to please get some opinions on storage following rust and leaf miner issues, worth it or just use asap 🤔
If it helps, in my experience, if the leaf miner damage is this year’s hatch, the pupae is usually nestled inbetween the cloves (rather than when it burrows in leeks and allows the rain in to cause rotting) and won’t affect storage. You just have to be careful and make sure you don’t inadvertently plant the cloves with the pupae attached this autumn when you split them if you’re using them to plant for next year.
I pulled mine 10 days ago because of galloping rust. Earliest I’ve ever pulled them. They were all cloved up nicely but not big and wouldn’t have grown any larger. Some had even started splitting. They were definitely done.
The allium leaf miner fly is still around in my area. Trying to attack my under-mesh onions. I believe the RHS has updated its ALM cycle dates to include May. But this year, it should be updated again to include June, IMO.
Haven’t seen the leek moth yet which arrives in the summer so I’m keeping my onions tucked under covers until harvest.
@@amandar7719 hey, that's really insightful! Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences/ knowledge - that of leeks also 🙏🙏
I check the crop carefully!!
Sir Please! Teach us the magic of DiLL! I love it so much, but my harvests take 10000 years and it is very modest🥺🥺🥺
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How much nutritional value do vegetables in general lose over storage, any answers from people in the comment section, would be greatly appreciated as im planning to start growing about 10 different types in my new back garden, thanks.
I had to cull my entire garlic and onion plantings this spring due to allium leaf miner. Some strategies to deal with them would be welcome.
I have it here! Not too many.
Possibly you need to increase soil fertility with more compost. Probably it's worth covering the whole bed from February to May. Use fleece or mesh www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/enviromesh-ultrafine-netting
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you!
Looks great. Mine's got quite a lot of rust this year, will I be able to store this for re planting?
Yes I do and it does not spread in that way
We plant our garlic in November, zone 8 US. Every year our garlic scapes in early June and we harvest a few weeks after. We vernalized our seed garlic in the refrigerator for 6 weeks last fall before planting and this spring, the garlic scaped in mid April and was all harvested in May, much earlier than this has ever happened. The only thing we did different was the vernalization. I'm still trying to get an answer on this one, how was it so early?
Fascinating. It sounds like your finalisation served as the winter cold, so it just grew seamlessly through what was perhaps a milder winter. I wonder if this might not work if winter was very cold, but it's a great result!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig That seems to be what happened. The garlic was up and through the heavy mulch in about 2 weeks and kept growing all winter, which was very mild. We live in South Carolina along the coast, and everyone says that hard neck garlic doesn't grow in this area, but we had a fantastic harvest, and have already replanted these beds with summer crops before June.
I am thinking ahead for next year could i plant a early harvesting garlic then interplant with some sweet corn ?? just before harvesting the garlic
Sounds possible!
I’m still really struggling with garlic other than Elephant, 4th yr trying. Got horrendous rust this year. I’m contemplating growing in the tunnel next season. My tunnel is 10x15ft just unsure what room it would take around the toms etc…
Go for it! Garlic takes no extra space and I grow it between winter salad plants from October planting. Then it grows large with new tomatoes either side until we harvest it now so it's never competing with anything
nice video charles
Glad you enjoyed it Steven
Do you grow any hard neck garlic? Last year I let a few scapes mature and got tons of bulbils. Planted them alongside the cloves and I've got lots of little plants which I'll set aside for planting this fall. First time trying this so I'm eager to see what comes of it.
Intriguing, I have a few hardnecks growing
Mine have all been hit by rust quite hard. The growth has all but stopped and the scapes are barely out. Do you suggest I just left them (take my chances) and see what I get?
I reckon yes lift them, plant a new vegetable
I had to dig mine up this morning due to the plants starting to bolt! Bulbs sadly were not formed so all has to go on the heap. Not sure why it happened, we've not had drought
I wonder if it was scapes starting to form. A curly tendril that forms a flower? You can just cut that off and leave the garlic to grow on in future.
The bulb is a 'specialised' leaf. The whole of the plant is edible (before curing).
Is it hardneck? Those are scapes, not bolting. Trim the scapes (they're delicious) and leave the bulb to mature. With hardneck some people use that to time the harvest-right around three weeks after you trim the scapes. Take the scapes while still curled, don't let them straighten out or they get too tough.
They were hardneck, these are softneck
Ace
Thank you John