It’s been quite wet here Mags but I hope to get my garlic in tomorrow 🤞. I am giving elephant garlic one more try (it went to mush last year in pots). But I may keep it inside the poly. Great to get a harvest too, have a great week, Ali ☔️🥶🇨🇦
Hi Ali. I hope keeping it under cover helps. I had one batch go to mush last Winter but that was an exception. Thankfully, I usually manage to get some form of harvest. All the best. Mags
Hello Mags, I do love planting garlic in the fall as it is the last thing I get to do in the garden before the winter and 2-3 feet of snow come and cover everything for a few months and then it is the first thing I see in the spring all green and bright. Nice video today the peppers looked great even if they were all very different looking. Good luck with your garlic will be watching in July to see how it comes out.
Got my garlics from Grown Local too so I got elephant garlic and a hard neck called carcassonne which gave me about 20 cloves from two bulbs. I use the biggest half for bulbs and the smaller ones to grown as green garlic for the spring time. And like you, I’ve put mine into one of those metal beds but I must have a different spacing from you as I got all of my garlic in the bed and still had room for onion sets and shallots too. I use 4-5 inches between normal garlic and about 8 inches between elephants with a row of red, white or golden onions separating each garlic grouping and three shallots at each end. Worked for me this year so switched beds for this planting so these will be closer to the house which will mean more shade so time will tell if that affects my harvest. But then, I only have these two beds so I tend to cram them in as best I can fit. My allium bed from this year will be two asparagus crowns and some brassicas and I hope to get another bed or two set up by spring for strawberries and beans and salad stuff. But like you, filling up these raised beds is an issue with so much compost needed. Unfortunately I don’t have logs to do as a bottom layer so I tend to use homemade compost that’s not quite ready to about half filled and then bought composts on top of that. Fortunately I started three compost bins when I moved in last year so I’m quite happy with what I got built in my first year here. At least I never had the weedy jungle that was the top part of your garden to deal with. I also had a load of teeny tiny bulblets from my elephant garlic (think crocus size corms) so I’m going to grow those in pots for at least a year to get them to mono bulbs in 2025 and then hopefully big elephant garlic in 2026. Now that is what I call long term planning. Think it will work?
Hi Donna. You are going great guns. Sadly my carcassonne rotted last Winter so I didn't get any - I had them in pots rather than in the ground. Elephant garlic bulblets are a bit of a long term strategy but worth it I think. I don't have an asparagus bed yet. Unsure whether I want to commit to one. We'll see. All the best. Mags
I did a soft neck variety for the first time called Red Toch. I bought it from a purveyor in Northern Indiana either the same climate as mine Nad much harsher than yours. It did beautifully, and I'm hoping they will store longer than my hardnecks do. I also hope it works for you. I grow in a raised bed covered with crushed leaves and chicken wire to keep the squirrels from digging them up. Using saved garlic, so I'm doing all the same as last year variety wise. Sprout envy...it's real.
what variety of sprouts did you grow, mags?. i'm trying to grow garlic 4 wways next year. outdoors in the deep bed. in a bed in the polytunnel, and pots. one indoors and one outside...................................brian
It’s been quite wet here Mags but I hope to get my garlic in tomorrow 🤞. I am giving elephant garlic one more try (it went to mush last year in pots). But I may keep it inside the poly. Great to get a harvest too, have a great week, Ali ☔️🥶🇨🇦
Hi Ali. I hope keeping it under cover helps. I had one batch go to mush last Winter but that was an exception. Thankfully, I usually manage to get some form of harvest. All the best. Mags
Really enjoyed your video. I love gardening too.
Thanks for visiting. There’s so many positives in gardening. I love love love it. 😁
Hello Mags, I do love planting garlic in the fall as it is the last thing I get to do in the garden before the winter and 2-3 feet of snow come and cover everything for a few months and then it is the first thing I see in the spring all green and bright. Nice video today the peppers looked great even if they were all very different looking. Good luck with your garlic will be watching in July to see how it comes out.
@@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm goodness that’s a lot of snow. You shouldn’t have a problem getting the garlic to split with that happening. 😆
Excellent video. Nice to see harvests stil coming.
Thanks Jason. The sprouts were a really nice surprise.
Got my garlics from Grown Local too so I got elephant garlic and a hard neck called carcassonne which gave me about 20 cloves from two bulbs. I use the biggest half for bulbs and the smaller ones to grown as green garlic for the spring time. And like you, I’ve put mine into one of those metal beds but I must have a different spacing from you as I got all of my garlic in the bed and still had room for onion sets and shallots too. I use 4-5 inches between normal garlic and about 8 inches between elephants with a row of red, white or golden onions separating each garlic grouping and three shallots at each end. Worked for me this year so switched beds for this planting so these will be closer to the house which will mean more shade so time will tell if that affects my harvest. But then, I only have these two beds so I tend to cram them in as best I can fit. My allium bed from this year will be two asparagus crowns and some brassicas and I hope to get another bed or two set up by spring for strawberries and beans and salad stuff. But like you, filling up these raised beds is an issue with so much compost needed. Unfortunately I don’t have logs to do as a bottom layer so I tend to use homemade compost that’s not quite ready to about half filled and then bought composts on top of that. Fortunately I started three compost bins when I moved in last year so I’m quite happy with what I got built in my first year here. At least I never had the weedy jungle that was the top part of your garden to deal with.
I also had a load of teeny tiny bulblets from my elephant garlic (think crocus size corms) so I’m going to grow those in pots for at least a year to get them to mono bulbs in 2025 and then hopefully big elephant garlic in 2026. Now that is what I call long term planning. Think it will work?
Hi Donna. You are going great guns. Sadly my carcassonne rotted last Winter so I didn't get any - I had them in pots rather than in the ground. Elephant garlic bulblets are a bit of a long term strategy but worth it I think. I don't have an asparagus bed yet. Unsure whether I want to commit to one. We'll see. All the best. Mags
I did a soft neck variety for the first time called Red Toch. I bought it from a purveyor in Northern Indiana either the same climate as mine Nad much harsher than yours. It did beautifully, and I'm hoping they will store longer than my hardnecks do. I also hope it works for you. I grow in a raised bed covered with crushed leaves and chicken wire to keep the squirrels from digging them up. Using saved garlic, so I'm doing all the same as last year variety wise.
Sprout envy...it's real.
Hiya Robin. Yeah - my sprouts are doing well. Glad the squirrel protection works :) Here's to lots of gorgeous garlic next year. Mags
what variety of sprouts did you grow, mags?. i'm trying to grow garlic 4 wways next year. outdoors in the deep bed. in a bed in the polytunnel, and pots. one indoors and one outside...................................brian
@@briansgardenandpolytunnel8172 they are Evesham. Cant fault them really. Good luck with the garlic experiment. Take care. Mags.
Could you do pickled baby beatroot with the small beatroot ?
@@mags9536 hi. Yes I could have but to be fair there were only five or six so not really enough. Half of them were teeny too.
@@mygardenanddinosaurs fair enough. Lol