The good thing about saving your own bulbs and re-planting them is that each new generation develops a stronger and stronger acclimation to your soil and environment. And, there is nothing wrong with eating a clove of garlic on camera. 😃
Just planted 180 cloves of Music hardneck yesterday. Seed was saved from this year's harvest. Garlic is one of our favorite things to grow! I have been planting from saved seed for the last 5 years, and selecting for large cloves. They are getting very large now! Thanks for another great video, Charles!
@@Ontheriver389 If you only plant your biggest cloves, eat the small ones, provide fertile well draining soil, you max out the size of the bulbs. I live in an area where we get freeze thaw cycles so I plant them deep (5 inches at the base of the clove) and I think that helps too because they get even moisture levels at the roots even if the top 2 inches of soil dries out. I stick my finger into the soil of each bed down two inches to decide if the plants need watering. If it's moist at 2 inches, no watering.
Last October I bought 5 organically grown garlic bulbs of different varieties from our local cooperative garden store. Planted and harvested in July and have a massive amount that I’m now dividing and replanting, setting aside what our family will eat this next year. A tremendous crop and one of the few things the deer won’t disturb!
Charles Dowding, please keep on! Your videos and instagram are inspiring to so many of us. To do more, to try more and to enjoy the variability of our efforts. You are a gem that we all need in this current age. I hope that you are happy and well and will continue to be!
I do something similar Charles :) I buy organic garlic from the supermarket and use it in the normal way, then when I get down to the tiny bulbs in the middle that are too small to do anything with, I plant them and they send up lovely new green shoots, which I then use on salads like chives :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Same with Spring onions :) and they all behave like cut & come again lettuces :) just keep on sending out lots of lovely new young shoots :) I grow them in window boxes outside of my kitchen :)
Thank you for actually showing the results of how those garlics did. There are many garlic comparisons showing the planting part and never follow up on the results in other videos. I was quite frustrated however your video showed what I exactly was looking for.
Last year I had a few cloves of garlic which started growing. Instead of throwing it away I put them into the soil, without much expectations, rather of curiosity. And in 8-9 months I had a nice harvest. Much better than from garden supplier this year. It is worth experimenting.
I grew supermarket bought garlic last year, it was imported from France so I wasn't too optimistic when growing it here in Ireland! I ended up with 20 small bulbs that are full of flavour and had none of the issues your lidl garlic had thankfully.
Thank you for sharing this! I was at our local grocery in February and found lovely bulbs of garlic for $5.95 per pound. I bought some and it had such good flavor I planted some out then when I set out my onion plants. We did get a nice harvest, although they were smaller than if I'd planted them in the fall. This fall, I bought more of the same from the same grocer. The seed companies are asking such high prices (up to $36 for a half pound of bulbs!) for garlic that it makes good sense to me to just purchase it from my grocer. It grows fine for us. The kind I found is a reddish-pink hardneck type. I've also planted the white softneck from the store, with very good results. Save money where we can! Blessings to you!
I was considering trying out a few new varieties but when the shipping cost was added, it doubled the cost. So ridiculously expensive. I'll keep growing my Music, Red Korean, and Red Russian.
I tried this many years ago...and albeit the cloves are small I just allow them to regrow and self seed. It helps keep some 'tinkers'at bay🥳...but I also use the cloves, leaves and scapes in cooking. (I continue to buy cooks garlic too). I do the same with leeks, they are only pencil width but by jimminy taste SO good. Usable, carefree foragable food. It's all good. Thanks Charles. Peace. 😊
I've just done the same, cheap garlic from lidl. I soaked it first until it sprouted so fingers crossed as first time trying. You given me confidence to do some more today.
I love your reaction when you pull something out of the ground and it's not quite what you expected! Fab page, I'm binge watchin, thank you for sharing so much information, I hope to have my own no dig beds in 2023, alot to do before I can start, but I have a plan. Keep up the good work :)
That elephant garlic was absolutely massive! I have some store bought garlic in the ground now, and I am interested to see how it turns out. It certainly sprouted quickly. Oh and by the way, munch on camera all you want. I eat in my garden, too.
I got terrible rust on my garlic but, because it was the first time I’d grown it I thought it must be something I’d done. I didn’t think to water it when it was dry, thinking it was a Mediterranean plant then it wouldn’t need too much water. Now I see you got rust too, sorry, but I feel better now. I’m intending to grow it elsewhere next year, and water it more, in the hope that I don’t get rust on my next crop 🤞
Great showing! Last year I planted 300 garlic seeds no-till. I used my old Texas tiller with wheels and just a tine to make a slot in the ground. Popped them in with 10cm distance and closed the slot with a fork. In March they were up all of them 😊 Just harvested the last ones, a little late, but they are fine.
2 years ago I bought organic garlic from Asda and next year I had pretty good crop. Last year I bought organic garlic from Sainsbury's and my harvest was like yours, spliting , small. I asking myself maybe some shops sell veg as an organic but they are not or mayby I was very unlucky this year? Who knows. Have a lovely autumn dear friends
Might be that the Sainsbury one was from e.g. Mediterranean grower, and as such a variety suited to their climate rather than growing in UK. Personally I think that's the risk of starting with unknown variety; fine if trying something for fun, but for a crop I prefer to start with a named variety that will perform well in my climate and then I can choose a variety for high yield, good flavour or disease resistance etc.
Great video! And so applicable. I tried two different garlics over the summer, one from supermarket cloves (kroger, im in the south west US) and one from a friend's house in Ohio that were seeds. I definitely left some in too long trying to get more seeds. The ones I harvested early all came out looking swell, and the ones I left in for seeds almost all split. Some had this funny shape that makes it look more like an onion and doesn't have differentiated cloves if cut into. It was a very fun, weird little experiment.
It's great that you shared the variation and experimenting! It's not always success, but it can always be fun and learning! I've learned a lot playing in my first no dig space this year. Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting results, those three planted together did great. I just harvested my first lot of garloc here in Australia, will definitely be saving seeds from it for next year
This is such a great video. Geoff Hamilton would’ve been so proud of you, had he still been alive. He loved doing things for no money at all and showing people how they could grow their own vegetables cheaply. Interestingly though how yours came out, they all look a bit freakish don’t they? I’m wondering whether the Aldi grows just grow them from seed each year and don’t grow from the bulbils like we all do. Thank you for sharing this it was lovely to watch and made me smile 😊👍🏻
I planted store bought garlic and they turned out beautifully. I saved some for seed and replanted and they came out even better. I skipped planting last year and the bulbs I kept still are good. I plan to plant them out even after storing them for 2 years and then I'm going to see how they turn out.
Agreed, it was lovely seeing the soil in the polytunnel and pulling of the rusty garlic. If the Lidl garlic seed came from a large farm, then the variety might be early maturing to meet the demands of high production agriculture
You were very naughty at the end there weren't you, you had that mischievous look about you. 😜 I have to admit, my husband and I have eaten fresh garlic just like that, more than once. I had and interesting thing happen to about half of my garlic this year. Instead of cloves, many were one solid bulb, which I have been trying to induce for years. I will have to look back on my notes and see what was so different about this winter, spring and growing season that finally made it happen. A silver lining from the restrictions of the past year is that local garlic growers provided the local groceries stores with an amazing variety of heritage garlic types. I have bought 5 different types to start building up a yearly home crop with them. Very exciting! I always love an excuse to make another garden space.😁
Raining buckets today, so here I am! Planted 177 cloves Oct 4 & 5 in zone 4 Canada. Been growing for years so I grow my own seed. Four cultivars. Three porcelains : Majestic, Great Northern, Susan Delafield and one glazed purple stripe: Red Rezan. The Rezan doesn't grow as large or store as well as the porcelains but it is rare and beautiful. The skin actually shimmers silver and gold over the red/purple undertones.
Interesting to see this. Last week I noticed a full bulb sprouting in the back of the fridge that I'd bought from the supermarket this spring. I've planted it out so we'll see how it does compared to my proper seed garlic. Always fun to try these things and it seemed a shame to compost it when I could potentially grow 7 new heads from it!
For organic fertilizer, you can soak greens (grass clippings/ weeds) in a bucket of water for six weeks. It'll reek like hell, but the liquid is a super awesome feed for your plants.
The re sprouting bulbs is a condition called "Witches Broom" or just "Brooming". Thought to be caused by weather conditions and possibly excessive N in the soil.
I would have loved to have this condition. A few years back I planted this garlic clove that I forgot about and each year I would have a single garlic stem come up in the same spot. This year I digged it out and planning to plant some more in more amended places.
Thankyou Charles and Edward especially because I was just thinking about this and wondered whether to plant shop bought garlic this week. And I'm with Edward on that, can't believe you ate a raw clove...arrh so hot!
Great explanation. I am planting garlic from seed purchased at our coop and harvested this summer. It did fairly well. Not sure I dried it properly though.
What you saw in that store bought, planted garlic, is a condition called “witches brooming”. When the individual cloves forming in the bulb, begin to sprout. The top leaves of the garlic become all bushy looking, like a “witches broom”. It’s a bit of a mystery, but one reason is thought to be, that it’s caused by cloves planted from bulbs that have been kept in cold storage. And this would explain why it didn’t happen to your garlic grown from home saved seed, but only in the garlic you purchased from the store. I’ve had the exact same experience! Witches broom in my store bought “experimental” garlic, but not my home saved variety. Thank you for making such wonderful videos
@@CharlesDowding1nodig if you cure them well, they will still be fine for eating and re-planting come autumn. Nature is fascinating! PS I love your channel! ❤️
Charles Ive tried supermarket garlic before and its never been the same size or quality (though acceptable) as bought seed bulbs- and cloves saved from the best of crop.Worth a try though perhaps its my compost! Always enjoy your vids and always learn something new
It's always brilliant seeing CD harvest like this, and showing what his own experiments turn out like. It make me feel bolder in just trying something out, and also that it's not always going to come out 100% but still good enough to eat. We grew garlic last year from some locally grown organic we were given, after much research and encouragement from CDs various books and YT posts. It was very successful, in no small part due to the excellent advice, and will be replanting this year too.
I've grown garlic from the store for a few years now. My best harvest was this year with bulbs 3 inches wide. I grew them in a no dig bed of half compost, half used potting mix over a hard silty clay loam with a thick leaf mulch. The bulbs formed in the compost mix, and the roots dug well into the clay.
That's gas, with Covid last year I couldn't get seed and did exactly the same thing with very similar results. I planted pink and white varieties though and had thought that the pink varieties only lost their outer skins and had matured much faster. Mine were all grown outside though so I was delighted with the results. Those pinky ones with no outer skin cured really well and tasted delicious. I have ready planted some home grown seed this year and will top up with Aldi's best again. Weather and soil seem to be the more important factor! Happy growing all and thank you Mr Douding as always for your great videos👍
I started growing garlic last year with bulbs bought from the local farmers market. They did fairly well, with some small ones but mostly larger. I’ve replanted some of the larger ones this year along with a couple of purchased seed garlic. The great thing about growing garlic in this area is that the little animals don’t dig them up, so no competition.
I have planted garlics bought from 2 different markets. Their size and shape were also very beautiful. They are still intact in the soil :) Still no green shoots. :))
I planted some grocery store garlic in my strawberry bed as a pest deterrent and left it there for 3 years. (Pulled it this year when I refreshed the bed) It grew into a big mass of garlic bulbs. 😆 I will break apart some of the blubs and replant them with the strawberries again in a few weeks.
Great encouragement as I've just bought 4 large bulbs from Aldi which I will plant soon. You know you have a problem, when every recipe that requires 2 cloves is automatically adjusted to 4, and a thumb-sized piece of ginger is the size of a baby's leg!
Lovely, Charles. Thank you! I know we can grow good garlic, even here in zone 4 in southeast Alberta. We both love it. Will do this next spring. You're an inspiration to all of of us.
Thank you Charles! Compare results. Of lots of gardens..powerful. I was gifted real seed garlic last season and it grew like a dream (German Hardneck $25/lb). My first serious attempt. Planted in November 2020 in a no dig manner in an established strawberry bed...topped with homemade worm castings (key for me) and covered with collected pine needle mulch. I had 2 small rows with great success. I had shop garlic (softneck from Chile) and it disappeared. The bed was covered most of the winter by 4 to 5 foot snow drifts! I will try organic from the shops (elephant and softneck) this year in addition to my saved German Hardneck!
@@CharlesDowding1nodigthank you. Price creeping up to $32.00 / pound if you can find it. German Hardneck absolutely delicious. I hope to keep it going.
Its always good to test out these things, but in my experience, as with Charles here, its always very variable. Ive tried, fruits, tomatoes, garlic, potatoes and plenty of herbs. If you can source something locally grown you often get pretty decent result, but anything from a supermarket is a bit of a lottery. Fun to try but rarely value for money when you consider the difference in price between supermarket bulbs and proper seed bulbs balanced against the yield.
I use shop garlic cloves, plus i use potatos from the shop that are not up to sunday lunch standard, chat them and plant them , I get quite good results.
My ‘proper’ bought seed garlic grew huge in my polytunnel but rapidly went soft and brown with a peculiar smell. I had to dump it. Home saved garlic was champion. I did plant supermarket bought shallots last year with really good results. I’ll replant some but also will invest 89 pence on more from the supermarket to plant this year…
Last year a mystery garlic grew in a bed where I'd never had garlic. I let the scape grow and I ended up with a decent sized bulb with reddish-purple wrappers and about 30 bulbils. I planted the cloves and the bulbils and ended up with 6 decent sized bulbs and lots of roundels. Some of them I harvested and some I've left in the ground. The roundels are now just over 1 cm in diameter. I think I'll just add some compost and mulch on top when the weather gets cold and see what happens next year. I'm forever experimenting and following your no dig method. My plants grow enormous! I'm going to replant the cloves from 5 of the bulbs whenever we get some frost. This year October has been very warm so I have no idea when we'll finally have frost. Nothing is in the forecast for the next two weeks and the Nasturtiums are taking over the universe. Maybe a squirrel planted the clove in 2019 because it's not a variety I ever grow. Although I can't think what a squirrel would want with garlic. However, some creature ate the greens off the wild leeks this year in the spring which has never happened before. I thought alliums were not attractive to rodents. Rabbits can't come in.
The grocery store garlic I planted in September 2020 gave me a very nice harvest last June. Much like the garlic you grew for this video, the size was unpredictable (ranging from the size of a marble to larger than my fist!) and the flavor was relatively mild. I just finished it off about a month ago.
I actually can smell garlic breath very well, as I eat my garlic with my mouth, not my nose :) It doesn't bother me one bit, and I don't understand why it bothers others...
I bought garlic in the supermarket couple times and it always worked. The only rule applied was to avoid garlic from China and buy local one (Chinese treat it with chemicals). I still keep growing garlic from those days and it gives me nice big cloves. Although for this year I've got proper seed garlic to compare.
В начале видео был показан отличный чеснок, а в теплице ему как мне показалось ему совсем не понравилось расти, поэтому и не те размеры. У меня в этом году так же отличный урожай чеснока. Сегодня посадила чеснок как зубчиками на грядки обычные, так и целыми головками в теплые "грядки Розума". Результат меня радует два года в подряд. Советую попробовать👍👍👍 удачи вам!!!
great vid charles one of the best things to share is food,and how to grow it, i love garlic,but i always have the rust problem ! does anyone know of a "heritage"variety garlic ? apparently, in medieval times,there was as much garlic grown here in the UK as in France hard neck scapes are delicious to eat,treat them as a spring onion...
Last year we grew from supermarket garlic. Had a good crop. But didn't save any. This year bought seed garlic. Most didn't split. I think I planted too deep. Last week I bought seed again but from garden center. And planted not as deep. This time a squiral get through the netting and dug a fair few cloves up... I have replanted these but not a great start.
This fall my chicks kept getting into the garden and they ate all my seedling plants for winter greens so I got some small turnips from the grocery store and planted them and they're growing me turnip greens to eat so at least we'll have that. I've bought green onions before and planted them and some turned out to be walking onions that set a lot of small bulbs at the top mid-summer. People say you can keep green onions in the garden for a long time if you just harvest some of the tops and let the plant recover and grow more.
I wonder if it had been treated to improve shelf life and that has some how affected the growth so by saving and sowing in subsequent years it will 'normalise' itself like your own strain?
I grew this year's garlic from garlic I grew the previous year, the biggest cloves from the biggest bulbs. Just sorting out this year's to grow again. It's the best garlic I've ever grown! we've not even eaten all of 2020's harvest yet! (I don't eat them raw for breakfast, though!)
By sheer coincidence, a couple of weeks ago, I split up & planted a shop bought bulb of garlic which had begun sprouting to see if it's productive. Buying seed company garlic is just too flipping expensive.
Last october I planted some Sainsbury extra large garlic(60p I think) it was hardneck, from spain. I had a fantastic harvest, large bulbs and uniform. Cumbria UK. I also planted seed garlic Marco, and that did very well, but not as well as the Sainsbury ones!
I have done this and seems to work, however I bought some shallots from Aldis and they didn't sprout. I am of the opinion that they must have sprayed a growth inhibitor on them for storage purposes.
Charles when you want to save garlic to replant never clean or cut the stem,roots.I wait about 3 weeks then leave a inch of stem,cut almost all the roots.Leave just alittle at the basal plate.
Thank you for the video. Made me get up and clean up my pots, gather the lettuce seeds from the flowers that were still standing and seeded some true garlic seeds that I got from the cloves I grew last year. Hopefully they grow, they will be the "first generation". I also have some elephant garlic plants!
The year before last I planted real seed garlic and my harvest was pretty terrible. Tiny little bulbs, maybe 3 to a head. Last year, I planted grocery store garlic and I actually got some really nice results.
Thanks for the video, Charles. What a coincidence: I bought a three-pack of organic garlic bulbs (grown in .... erm ... China) from the supermarket two days ago for planting tomorrow in my no-dig raised beds filled with my own non-contaminated compost. I'm hoping that since they're organic, they may be less subject to any strange growth phenonema. Time will tell.
My Lidl hardnecks did great last winter and I still have 3 bulbs left for replanting today. The soft necks didn't multiply but gave a single bulb. I heard the need good frost to divide. Maybe hardnecks don't need frost? I was surprised seeing them in your greenhouse.
We have a huge problem in New Zealand with people buying chinese garlic in supermarkets (which is very cheap) and planting it in their own gardens. Although the garlic is dipped before leaving China in anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-sprouting solutions (and often a bleach) it still introduces disease to the country. Now the rust situation is so bad it's nearly impossible to grow any garlic organically for the rust and disease. Please buy seed garlic from where you live and be sure it is healthy and not dipped in chemicals.
I planted organic garlic from the shop and it's still going strong now 4th yr running, really healthy looking. I also tried a non organic garlic that year and the results were really bad. So, obviously, my conclusion was that shop bought garlic for sowing has to be organic. I guess you're more likely to have a conscientious grower with the organic stuff, and they would be themselves using a good stock. But I don't want to put garlic bulb suppliers out of a gig either!!! Maybe they might have some cool varieties to try I'm thinking of going for that next year.
i will never grow garlic from the store...ive tried before.. so disapointed after 8..9 months lolll buy good garlic heads and have it for life after :-) love your video.. you are a legend
Here in Australia, the really cheap garlic comes from China (usually white skinned) or Mexico (red skin) The Chinese ones I usually get varied results as you showed but the Mexican stuff grows perfectly. I guess it likes the local conditions better? Nice information as always 👍
The good thing about saving your own bulbs and re-planting them is that each new generation develops a stronger and stronger acclimation to your soil and environment. And, there is nothing wrong with eating a clove of garlic on camera. 😃
I stand with Charles, garlic is health and should be munched on whenever!!
Just planted 180 cloves of Music hardneck yesterday. Seed was saved from this year's harvest. Garlic is one of our favorite things to grow! I have been planting from saved seed for the last 5 years, and selecting for large cloves. They are getting very large now!
Thanks for another great video, Charles!
That is awesome Holly!
Hi holly
Do they really get bigger?
@@Ontheriver389 If you only plant your biggest cloves, eat the small ones, provide
fertile well draining soil, you max out the size of the bulbs. I live in an area where we get freeze thaw cycles so I plant them deep (5 inches at the base of the clove) and I think that helps too because they get even moisture levels at the roots even if the top 2 inches of soil dries out. I stick my finger into the soil of each bed down
two inches to decide if the plants need watering. If it's moist at 2 inches, no watering.
Last October I bought 5 organically grown garlic bulbs of different varieties from our local cooperative garden store. Planted and harvested in July and have a massive amount that I’m now dividing and replanting, setting aside what our family will eat this next year. A tremendous crop and one of the few things the deer won’t disturb!
How wonderful!
Excellent video Charles. I just love how you break all the 'rules' and give ideas for making the most of what we have. Thank you.
I love how excited you get with the unexpected surprises🤩
Charles Dowding, please keep on! Your videos and instagram are inspiring to so many of us. To do more, to try more and to enjoy the variability of our efforts. You are a gem that we all need in this current age. I hope that you are happy and well and will continue to be!
That is nice of you, I am keeping at it 😀
I do something similar Charles :) I buy organic garlic from the supermarket and use it in the normal way, then when I get down to the tiny bulbs in the middle that are too small to do anything with, I plant them and they send up lovely new green shoots, which I then use on salads like chives :)
Great tip!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Same with Spring onions :) and they all behave like cut & come again lettuces :) just keep on sending out lots of lovely new young shoots :) I grow them in window boxes outside of my kitchen :)
@@gaiasoundandvision Good point!
Thank you for actually showing the results of how those garlics did. There are many garlic comparisons showing the planting part and never follow up on the results in other videos. I was quite frustrated however your video showed what I exactly was looking for.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sharing your experiment, I love garlic 🧄🍯🐝 And what a handsome son you have! 🐾
Last year I had a few cloves of garlic which started growing. Instead of throwing it away I put them into the soil, without much expectations, rather of curiosity. And in 8-9 months I had a nice harvest. Much better than from garden supplier this year. It is worth experimenting.
Well done! We had our first crop from store bought as well.
Same with potatoes...
@@doinacampean9132 Yes, this works very well with organic store bought potatoes.
Our first garlic crop was from store bought garlic, they did great in containers! Thanks for sharing.
Hilarious ending; his smug look at the end :)
I grew supermarket bought garlic last year, it was imported from France so I wasn't too optimistic when growing it here in Ireland! I ended up with 20 small bulbs that are full of flavour and had none of the issues your lidl garlic had thankfully.
Thank you for sharing this! I was at our local grocery in February and found lovely bulbs of garlic for $5.95 per pound. I bought some and it had such good flavor I planted some out then when I set out my onion plants. We did get a nice harvest, although they were smaller than if I'd planted them in the fall. This fall, I bought more of the same from the same grocer. The seed companies are asking such high prices (up to $36 for a half pound of bulbs!) for garlic that it makes good sense to me to just purchase it from my grocer. It grows fine for us. The kind I found is a reddish-pink hardneck type. I've also planted the white softneck from the store, with very good results. Save money where we can! Blessings to you!
Lovely to hear this Janet
I was considering trying out a few new varieties but when the shipping cost was added,
it doubled the cost. So ridiculously expensive. I'll keep growing my Music, Red Korean, and Red Russian.
great video Charles, love the experimentation.
I tried this many years ago...and albeit the cloves are small I just allow them to regrow and self seed. It helps keep some 'tinkers'at bay🥳...but I also use the cloves, leaves and scapes in cooking. (I continue to buy cooks garlic too). I do the same with leeks, they are only pencil width but by jimminy taste SO good. Usable, carefree foragable food. It's all good. Thanks Charles. Peace. 😊
I've just done the same, cheap garlic from lidl. I soaked it first until it sprouted so fingers crossed as first time trying. You given me confidence to do some more today.
You should not soak them. There is adequate moisture in the ground.
Hi Deborah
@@eb1684 - I agree, there's winter coming and sprouting is not - exactly - needed...
thanks for subtitling the videos, they are very good. Very inspiring , Love from Argentina
Glad you like them!
I love your reaction when you pull something out of the ground and it's not quite what you expected! Fab page, I'm binge watchin, thank you for sharing so much information, I hope to have my own no dig beds in 2023, alot to do before I can start, but I have a plan. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks so much Sally! 😊
That elephant garlic was absolutely massive! I have some store bought garlic in the ground now, and I am interested to see how it turns out. It certainly sprouted quickly. Oh and by the way, munch on camera all you want. I eat in my garden, too.
I got terrible rust on my garlic but, because it was the first time I’d grown it I thought it must be something I’d done. I didn’t think to water it when it was dry, thinking it was a Mediterranean plant then it wouldn’t need too much water. Now I see you got rust too, sorry, but I feel better now. I’m intending to grow it elsewhere next year, and water it more, in the hope that I don’t get rust on my next crop 🤞
Yum-yum... I'll be planting my Aldi bought cloves this weekend!👍😁
Great showing! Last year I planted 300 garlic seeds no-till. I used my old Texas tiller with wheels and just a tine to make a slot in the ground. Popped them in with 10cm distance and closed the slot with a fork. In March they were up all of them 😊
Just harvested the last ones, a little late, but they are fine.
Wonderful use of a tiller!!
2 years ago I bought organic garlic from Asda and next year I had pretty good crop. Last year I bought organic garlic from Sainsbury's and my harvest was like yours, spliting , small. I asking myself maybe some shops sell veg as an organic but they are not or mayby I was very unlucky this year? Who knows. Have a lovely autumn dear friends
Might be that the Sainsbury one was from e.g. Mediterranean grower, and as such a variety suited to their climate rather than growing in UK. Personally I think that's the risk of starting with unknown variety; fine if trying something for fun, but for a crop I prefer to start with a named variety that will perform well in my climate and then I can choose a variety for high yield, good flavour or disease resistance etc.
Thanks for the interesting experiment. Great photo of Edward and the garlic!
Great video! And so applicable. I tried two different garlics over the summer, one from supermarket cloves (kroger, im in the south west US) and one from a friend's house in Ohio that were seeds. I definitely left some in too long trying to get more seeds. The ones I harvested early all came out looking swell, and the ones I left in for seeds almost all split. Some had this funny shape that makes it look more like an onion and doesn't have differentiated cloves if cut into.
It was a very fun, weird little experiment.
It's great that you shared the variation and experimenting! It's not always success, but it can always be fun and learning!
I've learned a lot playing in my first no dig space this year. Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting results, those three planted together did great. I just harvested my first lot of garloc here in Australia, will definitely be saving seeds from it for next year
Good morning and Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
I love watching your enthusiasm season after season.
I hope you enjoy a long Autumn
Good morning Peggy and thanks
Even the sounds of gardening are therapeutic. Especially hearing roots being pulled.
This is such a great video. Geoff Hamilton would’ve been so proud of you, had he still been alive. He loved doing things for no money at all and showing people how they could grow their own vegetables cheaply. Interestingly though how yours came out, they all look a bit freakish don’t they? I’m wondering whether the Aldi grows just grow them from seed each year and don’t grow from the bulbils like we all do. Thank you for sharing this it was lovely to watch and made me smile 😊👍🏻
Oh please Tina you’re giving me a lump in my throat remembering the late great Geoff Hamilton.
Couldn't agree more Tina, wish Geoff was around
Hi Tina
Possibly the variety of garlic suits a different climate, would be good to see next years experiment of the kept bulbs for next years growing test.
Haha quite a look you shot at the camera as you popped that clove of garlic in your mouth while mentioning it is a great breakfast!
Yes thanks and it was pungent!!
I planted store bought garlic and they turned out beautifully. I saved some for seed and replanted and they came out even better. I skipped planting last year and the bulbs I kept still are good. I plan to plant them out even after storing them for 2 years and then I'm going to see how they turn out.
Great job. I shall be surprised if they grow successfully after this extra year, but you are pushing the boundaries!
Agreed, it was lovely seeing the soil in the polytunnel and pulling of the rusty garlic.
If the Lidl garlic seed came from a large farm, then the variety might be early maturing to meet the demands of high production agriculture
Yes maybe :)
Last year I planted seed garlic and store garlic and they both preformed comparably aside from being a month apart in planting.
You were very naughty at the end there weren't you, you had that mischievous look about you. 😜 I have to admit, my husband and I have eaten fresh garlic just like that, more than once.
I had and interesting thing happen to about half of my garlic this year. Instead of cloves, many were one solid bulb, which I have been trying to induce for years. I will have to look back on my notes and see what was so different about this winter, spring and growing season that finally made it happen. A silver lining from the restrictions of the past year is that local garlic growers provided the local groceries stores with an amazing variety of heritage garlic types. I have bought 5 different types to start building up a yearly home crop with them. Very exciting! I always love an excuse to make another garden space.😁
Hello friend, how are you doing
Raining buckets today, so here I am! Planted 177 cloves Oct 4 & 5 in zone 4 Canada. Been growing for years so I grow my own seed. Four cultivars. Three porcelains : Majestic, Great Northern, Susan Delafield and one glazed purple stripe: Red Rezan. The Rezan doesn't grow as large or store as well as the porcelains but it is rare and beautiful. The skin actually shimmers silver and gold over the red/purple undertones.
Sounds great!
Interesting to see this. Last week I noticed a full bulb sprouting in the back of the fridge that I'd bought from the supermarket this spring. I've planted it out so we'll see how it does compared to my proper seed garlic. Always fun to try these things and it seemed a shame to compost it when I could potentially grow 7 new heads from it!
Thanks for sharing, hope it's good
For organic fertilizer, you can soak greens (grass clippings/ weeds) in a bucket of water for six weeks. It'll reek like hell, but the liquid is a super awesome feed for your plants.
I love the videos. They almost follow a harvest rhythm. Steady through the year and then a nice crop over the summer.
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I peel and freeze my garlic so it is easy to deal with when I cook. You could do that with your garlic that has the peels gone.
The re sprouting bulbs is a condition called "Witches Broom" or just "Brooming". Thought to be caused by weather conditions and possibly excessive N in the soil.
I would have loved to have this condition. A few years back I planted this garlic clove that I forgot about and each year I would have a single garlic stem come up in the same spot. This year I digged it out and planning to plant some more in more amended places.
Never heard of witches broom...tfs!
Thankyou Charles and Edward especially because I was just thinking about this and wondered whether to plant shop bought garlic this week.
And I'm with Edward on that, can't believe you ate a raw clove...arrh so hot!
Our pleasure. Actually it was hotter than I had expected!
Charles is the man!
Great explanation. I am planting garlic from seed purchased at our coop and harvested this summer. It did fairly well. Not sure I dried it properly though.
Best of luck and it does not need drying
Thanks for sharing this,I had similar result but it's ok,and im gone grow some of them which I kept ,let's hope they do BETTER
looks great
Garlic should be eaten when ever you can, even if it is in front of a camera.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
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What you saw in that store bought, planted garlic, is a condition called “witches brooming”. When the individual cloves forming in the bulb, begin to sprout. The top leaves of the garlic become all bushy looking, like a “witches broom”. It’s a bit of a mystery, but one reason is thought to be, that it’s caused by cloves planted from bulbs that have been kept in cold storage. And this would explain why it didn’t happen to your garlic grown from home saved seed, but only in the garlic you purchased from the store. I’ve had the exact same experience! Witches broom in my store bought “experimental” garlic, but not my home saved variety. Thank you for making such wonderful videos
Thanks Suzanne and I learnt something here, really interesting!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig if you cure them well, they will still be fine for eating and re-planting come autumn. Nature is fascinating!
PS I love your channel! ❤️
I saw that massive garlic last time and I’m still mind blown by the size of it!
It tastes like leek, but it's an interesting talking point
I already bought elephant garlic from the grocery store to try this year!
It tastes much like leek and nothing like garlic, but it's nice.
Nice to see you Edward.😉
so easy and relaxing to watch
Excellent video. Using supermarket garlic is something I've done for years. Always had pretty good results
Thanks Charles, you made me smile with your video end, enjoy your garlic breakfast 😂
It's strong!!
Charles Ive tried supermarket garlic before and its never been the same size or quality (though acceptable) as bought seed bulbs- and cloves saved from the best of crop.Worth a try though perhaps its my compost!
Always enjoy your vids and always learn something new
Interesting Lil, guess you were unlucky
It's always brilliant seeing CD harvest like this, and showing what his own experiments turn out like. It make me feel bolder in just trying something out, and also that it's not always going to come out 100% but still good enough to eat. We grew garlic last year from some locally grown organic we were given, after much research and encouragement from CDs various books and YT posts. It was very successful, in no small part due to the excellent advice, and will be replanting this year too.
Great to hear thanks
I've grown garlic from the store for a few years now. My best harvest was this year with bulbs 3 inches wide. I grew them in a no dig bed of half compost, half used potting mix over a hard silty clay loam with a thick leaf mulch. The bulbs formed in the compost mix, and the roots dug well into the clay.
3in is impressive. So many great growing methods here.
That's gas, with Covid last year I couldn't get seed and did exactly the same thing with very similar results. I planted pink and white varieties though and had thought that the pink varieties only lost their outer skins and had matured much faster. Mine were all grown outside though so I was delighted with the results. Those pinky ones with no outer skin cured really well and tasted delicious. I have ready planted some home grown seed this year and will top up with Aldi's best again. Weather and soil seem to be the more important factor! Happy growing all and thank you Mr Douding as always for your great videos👍
Cheers Ciara nice to hear
I started growing garlic last year with bulbs bought from the local farmers market. They did fairly well, with some small ones but mostly larger. I’ve replanted some of the larger ones this year along with a couple of purchased seed garlic. The great thing about growing garlic in this area is that the little animals don’t dig them up, so no competition.
Thanks for sharing
I have planted garlics bought from 2 different markets. Their size and shape were also very beautiful. They are still intact in the soil :) Still no green shoots. :))
Ah wow. I wonder if they had been treated to prevent them sprouting, for a longer shelf life.
I planted some grocery store garlic in my strawberry bed as a pest deterrent and left it there for 3 years. (Pulled it this year when I refreshed the bed) It grew into a big mass of garlic bulbs. 😆 I will break apart some of the blubs and replant them with the strawberries again in a few weeks.
Great encouragement as I've just bought 4 large bulbs from Aldi which I will plant soon. You know you have a problem, when every recipe that requires 2 cloves is automatically adjusted to 4, and a thumb-sized piece of ginger is the size of a baby's leg!
Same here Tee! My garlic is disappearing fast
Lovely, Charles. Thank you! I know we can grow good garlic, even here in zone 4 in southeast Alberta. We both love it. Will do this next spring. You're an inspiration to all of of us.
Cheers Joe
Thank you Charles! Compare results. Of lots of gardens..powerful. I was gifted real seed garlic last season and it grew like a dream (German Hardneck $25/lb). My first serious attempt. Planted in November 2020 in a no dig manner in an established strawberry bed...topped with homemade worm castings (key for me) and covered with collected pine needle mulch. I had 2 small rows with great success. I had shop garlic (softneck from Chile) and it disappeared. The bed was covered most of the winter by 4 to 5 foot snow drifts! I will try organic from the shops (elephant and softneck) this year in addition to my saved German Hardneck!
Great value for you!
@@CharlesDowding1nodigthank you. Price creeping up to $32.00 / pound if you can find it. German Hardneck absolutely delicious. I hope to keep it going.
I bought some seed garlic and they did the same as you showed at the end ,home saved did way better
Its always good to test out these things, but in my experience, as with Charles here, its always very variable. Ive tried, fruits, tomatoes, garlic, potatoes and plenty of herbs. If you can source something locally grown you often get pretty decent result, but anything from a supermarket is a bit of a lottery. Fun to try but rarely value for money when you consider the difference in price between supermarket bulbs and proper seed bulbs balanced against the yield.
Tomatoes are definetly the worst offender for this
I use shop garlic cloves, plus i use potatos from the shop that are not up to sunday lunch standard, chat them and plant them , I get quite good results.
Sounds great!
My ‘proper’ bought seed garlic grew huge in my polytunnel but rapidly went soft and brown with a peculiar smell. I had to dump it. Home saved garlic was champion. I did plant supermarket bought shallots last year with really good results. I’ll replant some but also will invest 89 pence on more from the supermarket to plant this year…
Hello Gail, how are you doing today
Last year a mystery garlic grew in a bed where I'd never had garlic. I let the scape grow and I ended up with a decent sized bulb with reddish-purple wrappers and about 30 bulbils. I planted the cloves and the bulbils and ended up with 6 decent sized bulbs and lots of roundels. Some of them I harvested and some I've left in the ground. The roundels are now just over 1 cm in diameter. I think I'll just add some compost and mulch on top when the weather gets cold and see what happens next year. I'm forever experimenting and following your no dig method. My plants grow enormous!
I'm going to replant the cloves from 5 of the bulbs whenever we get some frost. This year October has been very warm so I have no idea when we'll finally have frost. Nothing is in the forecast for the next two weeks and the Nasturtiums are taking over the universe.
Maybe a squirrel planted the clove in 2019 because it's not a variety I ever grow. Although I can't think what a squirrel would want with garlic. However, some creature ate the greens off the wild leeks this year in the spring which has never happened before. I thought alliums were not attractive to rodents.
Rabbits can't come in.
Nice to hear Gabriella, and that is a mystery!
Animals were hungry in the cold spring this year, here it would be rabbit, I don't know :)
Great video. Very interesting!
The grocery store garlic I planted in September 2020 gave me a very nice harvest last June. Much like the garlic you grew for this video, the size was unpredictable (ranging from the size of a marble to larger than my fist!) and the flavor was relatively mild. I just finished it off about a month ago.
Sounds great! And softneck I think for such large ones, I'm impressed.
Garlic breath is ok if everyone has eaten it and so therefore nobody can smell it on others breath which must be a win in my book! 😂🤣
I actually can smell garlic breath very well, as I eat my garlic with my mouth, not my nose :) It doesn't bother me one bit, and I don't understand why it bothers others...
Que gran vídeo,. Muchas gracias y saludos desde Romeral, Chile 🇨🇱💚
Saludos desde Tenerife !!🥦🥬🥕
I bought garlic in the supermarket couple times and it always worked. The only rule applied was to avoid garlic from China and buy local one (Chinese treat it with chemicals). I still keep growing garlic from those days and it gives me nice big cloves. Although for this year I've got proper seed garlic to compare.
Thanks for sharing your tips, nice results
В начале видео был показан отличный чеснок, а в теплице ему как мне показалось ему совсем не понравилось расти, поэтому и не те размеры. У меня в этом году так же отличный урожай чеснока. Сегодня посадила чеснок как зубчиками на грядки обычные, так и целыми головками в теплые "грядки Розума". Результат меня радует два года в подряд. Советую попробовать👍👍👍 удачи вам!!!
Thankyou this is interesting!
great vid charles
one of the best things to share is food,and how to grow it,
i love garlic,but i always have the rust problem !
does anyone know of a "heritage"variety garlic ?
apparently, in medieval times,there was as much garlic grown here in the UK as in France
hard neck scapes are delicious to eat,treat them as a spring onion...
Thanks for this and I don't know of such a variety. Garlic is becoming more acknowledged in the UK!
Last year we grew from supermarket garlic. Had a good crop. But didn't save any. This year bought seed garlic. Most didn't split. I think I planted too deep. Last week I bought seed again but from garden center. And planted not as deep. This time a squiral get through the netting and dug a fair few cloves up... I have replanted these but not a great start.
Sorry to hear that: squirrels are difficult
This fall my chicks kept getting into the garden and they ate all my seedling plants for winter greens so I got some small turnips from the grocery store and planted them and they're growing me turnip greens to eat so at least we'll have that. I've bought green onions before and planted them and some turned out to be walking onions that set a lot of small bulbs at the top mid-summer. People say you can keep green onions in the garden for a long time if you just harvest some of the tops and let the plant recover and grow more.
Pesky chickens and good ideas!
very interesting experiment, greetings from Argentina Charles
I wonder if it had been treated to improve shelf life and that has some how affected the growth so by saving and sowing in subsequent years it will 'normalise' itself like your own strain?
1. maybe and 2. also maybe.
I grew this year's garlic from garlic I grew the previous year, the biggest cloves from the biggest bulbs. Just sorting out this year's to grow again. It's the best garlic I've ever grown! we've not even eaten all of 2020's harvest yet! (I don't eat them raw for breakfast, though!)
Lovely result Angela
By sheer coincidence, a couple of weeks ago, I split up & planted a shop bought bulb of garlic which had begun sprouting to see if it's productive. Buying seed company garlic is just too flipping expensive.
I agree!!!! 6 CAD for 2 heads of garlic.... no way...
@@doinacampean9132 Cheapest here in the UK is £4.99/2 which is 8.50 CAD...☹️
Hi Charles, I love the video, me hace feliz todo lo que saco de la tierra las maravillas que nos da un saludo afectuoso desde Chile 🇨🇱
Gracias 💚
Last october I planted some Sainsbury extra large garlic(60p I think) it was hardneck, from spain. I had a fantastic harvest, large bulbs and uniform. Cumbria UK. I also planted seed garlic Marco, and that did very well, but not as well as the Sainsbury ones!
So interesting!!
Interesting seeing the two bulbs grown side by side. Have you ever experimented with multisowing them like beets and leeks?
No but in good soil it can work, bulbs smaller but more weight altogether
I have done this and seems to work, however I bought some shallots from Aldis and they didn't sprout. I am of the opinion that they must have sprayed a growth inhibitor on them for storage purposes.
My shallots didn't grow either, tho the bulbs stayed firm until spring so I had hope but then they finally rotted.
Buy them from an organic veg shop. I did it with shallots from France and they’re growing well
Charles when you want to save garlic to replant never clean or cut the stem,roots.I wait about 3 weeks then leave a inch of stem,cut almost all the roots.Leave just alittle at the basal plate.
Sounds good although we often do! Not a tight cut on roots though
Thank you for the video. Made me get up and clean up my pots, gather the lettuce seeds from the flowers that were still standing and seeded some true garlic seeds that I got from the cloves I grew last year. Hopefully they grow, they will be the "first generation". I also have some elephant garlic plants!
The year before last I planted real seed garlic and my harvest was pretty terrible. Tiny little bulbs, maybe 3 to a head.
Last year, I planted grocery store garlic and I actually got some really nice results.
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Thanks for the video, Charles. What a coincidence: I bought a three-pack of organic garlic bulbs (grown in .... erm ... China) from the supermarket two days ago for planting tomorrow in my no-dig raised beds filled with my own non-contaminated compost. I'm hoping that since they're organic, they may be less subject to any strange growth phenonema. Time will tell.
Sounds great!
My Lidl hardnecks did great last winter and I still have 3 bulbs left for replanting today. The soft necks didn't multiply but gave a single bulb. I heard the need good frost to divide. Maybe hardnecks don't need frost? I was surprised seeing them in your greenhouse.
My poly tunnel freezes down to -5 C. I didn't think there is much difference between hard and soft neck in that respect, but maybe there is!
We have a huge problem in New Zealand with people buying chinese garlic in supermarkets (which is very cheap) and planting it in their own gardens. Although the garlic is dipped before leaving China in anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-sprouting solutions (and often a bleach) it still introduces disease to the country. Now the rust situation is so bad it's nearly impossible to grow any garlic organically for the rust and disease. Please buy seed garlic from where you live and be sure it is healthy and not dipped in chemicals.
I planted organic garlic from the shop and it's still going strong now 4th yr running, really healthy looking. I also tried a non organic garlic that year and the results were really bad. So, obviously, my conclusion was that shop bought garlic for sowing has to be organic. I guess you're more likely to have a conscientious grower with the organic stuff, and they would be themselves using a good stock. But I don't want to put garlic bulb suppliers out of a gig either!!! Maybe they might have some cool varieties to try I'm thinking of going for that next year.
i will never grow garlic from the store...ive tried before.. so disapointed after 8..9 months lolll buy good garlic heads and have it for life after :-) love your video.. you are a legend
Hi Annie
Maybe those are artichoke garlic. They grow bulbils on the lower stem. I ended up with some of those one year. They looked really weird.
Here in Australia, the really cheap garlic comes from China (usually white skinned) or Mexico (red skin)
The Chinese ones I usually get varied results as you showed but the Mexican stuff grows perfectly.
I guess it likes the local conditions better?
Nice information as always 👍
Interesting... and could be that the Mexican garlic is grown a little more naturally