Harvesting, Curing and Storing Your Homegrown Garlic
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- Harvesting, curing and storing your garden-fresh garlic in the proper way will allow you to enjoy those tasty cloves for months to come! See the visual cues which will indicate your garlic is ready for harvesting, learn proper techniques for curing, and the best conditions for storing your garlic.
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Concise, informative and not verbally superfluous. Thanks!
Thank you, Mary anne- I'm glad to hear this, as I aim for my videos to be as such!
Is verbally superfluous verbally superfluous?
@@ConcreteLand the irony! Lol well spotted
Your neighbors from Ontario say Thank You! Great suggestions...I had just harvested my first batch, and as they were drying in the hot sun (ten mins) I literally ran 🏃♂️ out and now they rest in the shed with their fan :)😅
seeing you be upset about the noodles but then immediately going to improve them is amazing and inspiring to me! i would've given up but you didn't and i really respect that! I love your videos. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
Great video, Thank You!
Great video ❤
Rescued some garlic from my neighbors yard who passed 2 years ago. The idiots working on the property just mowed down the garlic, so I went over and dug up as much as I could.
Planted in grow bags last fall, no where else to put it. Harvested about 10 days ago, turned out pretty good, in hind sight I should have amended the bags, had cucumbers growing all summer. I do not know the varieties of garlic, some are kinda purple, just naming it all Martin.
So many videos on harvesting and curing garlic, yours was the most clear and precise. Why I did not seek this video out sooner is beyond me.
Garlic is still curing, gave some away and will find a better home for it this fall.
Enjoy your videos! Stay Well!!!!
I'm so glad you rescued that garlic!
You answered all of my questions. Thank you. I was so impressed with the clear and helpful advice that I liked and subscribed. This was my first visit to your channel.
Thank you so much, Becky! I'm so glad to hear this!
That Ohio River Valley humidity down here in Cincinnati. Ours will, literally, never cure unless be bring inside with a dehumidifier.
I have been growing garlic 🧄 for nearly three decades now. In my opinion that was really good sound advice!
I'm glad to hear it!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you, Jenna. Your video has the best information and pictures that I have found. Simple and to the point. I am a senior woman living in a senior community that I am fortunate enough to be able to garden. My challenge is the drying space. I have around 100 plants and I think I found a place to dry them. HAPPY ME.
I'm so glad to hear this- thank you! And I'm very glad you've found a place to dry them- 100 plants is a lot!
You are such a good teacher! Thank you so much for making these videos!!
Just harvested my first time growing garlic. Am very happy with my harvest. Your curing tips are precious. Thank you 🙏
I'm so glad to hear this!
Jenna, thanks for the Ohio zone 6 video on garlic. I live in NE Stark County and it is mostly in 6B.
late October in '23 I planted hard neck garlic in a raised bed. It's now 6/24/24 and not ready yet.
I feel that I should wait until around mid July to harvest. I cut off the scapes 2 weeks ago.
Well done on your video, one of the very best among the numerous garlic blogs.
So happy to hear from an experienced garlic grower in Ohio.
Thank you Jenna ❤
You’re welcome!
Thanks Jenna. Getting ready for first harvest. This video was very helpful.
You answered all my questions and on top of that you’re beautiful and your garden is beautiful! Thank you.
Glad to hear it- thank you so much!
Thanks !! No messing around. Right to the nitty gritty. And good info !!
U are just amazing! So much knowledge!! Thank u for sharing!!!!
Garden videos are seasoned but how to preserve, cook and storage are amazing as well!!!! Please keep doing them!:) thank u
Thank you!
Thank You Jenna. Clear, concise and so informative. Awesome. Namaste
Thank YOU, Corinne!
Jenna, Thank you!
You are beautiful! Another great video....
This is my first year growing garlic and I'll be harvesting soon.
Again thx for the info!
Best wishes for a great harvest!
Excellent lessons. Thank you!
Thanks Jules!
Very well done video. First year garlic grower and about to remove the scapes this weekend. Thanks for the information.
Well and clearly informed so easy to listen to. Thanks
boonskyler thank you so much for the kind words, I appreciate you taking the time to let me know what you think! Have a wonderful week!
Gorgeous. And the garlics are nice as well.
Thanks
nice presentation. Very good job!
Thank you for sharing this! My first year growing garlic, also here in Ohio. I grew it in a 4’x8’ raised bed and now have ~150 bulbs of garlic hanging and curing in our garage with about 80 shallots planted in a similar bed at the same time last fall. Checking this as refresher to make sure I remember when curing is done and what comes next. Very helpful, thank you!
That is awesome!
You are my favorite go to person for gardening. :). thank you ! I live in Miamisburg OH
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
@@GrowfullywithJenna Do you use comfrey at all?
What a great informative video, thank you Jenna!
I'm glad you found it informative!
This video was PERFECT for me!!
Thank you so much 😊
Sure appreciate the still photos inserted, they were awesome 👍🏻
And tytyty for being succinct !!
God bless 🙏🏻
Rich from Boise ID. 🌲
I’m so glad to hear this!
Excellent video, thanks!
You are welcome!
Hello Jenna, harvested the garlic today and I am very thankful for your classroom education knowledge. The garlic looks amazing and the wife is very happy as we are garlic lovers. Will continue to follow your information on drying and storing. Once again, thank you.
I'm so glad to hear you had a great garlic harvest!
Just watched your video, I have to say it was very helpful. Thank you
Greetings from Ireland
Greetings! I'm glad it was helpful!
That’s some huge garlic
LOVE your videos! 😍😍😍😍👍👍👍
Thank you!
Excellent, to the point video! Thank you!
Thanks!
That was a good video. Thank you. Alot of useful information. Thanks.
Thanks!
Very clear in to the point good video.
Thanks!
Nice video I have often thought of growing garlic. This may be the year.
Chicken Johnny thank you! You absolutely should try some garlic this year! I love it because it’s an ‘off-season’ crop and overall is fairly easy to grow. I hope you try it!
Thank you
You’re welcome
Thanks,and thanks for not word salading!
Very helpful for 1st time garlic grower. I didn't know you could store them in mesh bags, saves on braiding them. Best of luck this season 🍀👍
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck to you too!
Great Info! - nice thing is now I have the info to get started - Thanks for the great video!
David Tester thanks so much for the feedback, I’m glad you found it helpful!
Ok, you did it now. Ordered garlic today for sept\oct delivery so I can try out my first attempt at garlic. Ha
David Tester that’s awesome! I’m so glad you’re going to give it a try!
Thanks going to harvest my garlic today thanks for your tips
Happy harvesting!
@@GrowfullywithJenna i harvest one from 3 different containers and they were tiny but I’m confused bc the leaf/ stalk has dead leaves in the bottom and they are fallen over not straight up anymore like before.
Definitely helpful content for me. I recently harvested my Hardneck Garlic (1st time). I washed off the dirt before putting to dry. I saw a video that stated that you should never wash or get the garlic wet 😞. I am in Zone 6b, planted my garlic in early November and harvested in mid July.
I have dipped my harneck bulbs quickly to remove most soil before drying indoors on an upstairs railing & haven't had any problems with storing through the winter👍🧄Planted in Nov & will harvest in early August 🧄👍
Good to know. Next year I will not wash as much. I Will be planting a lot more this year.
Thank you for this video!!! I harvested my garlic too early!! 😢 this was very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
Hello Jenna, Thank you for the information concerning garlic. The last time I wrote I shared the idea of electrical fence to keep critters out of the garden. It still works for me and if you tried it I hope it worked for you. Also we spoke of growing potatoes in a container. I used a 55 gal plastic barrel cut to 1/3. It appears to be working. Also planted in extended garden area just in case. This process is never ending when it comes to learning, but I love it and thanks to people like you sharing your knowledge has made it doable.
You are spot on! The process is indeed neverending, but I also love it! I'm glad to hear the potato planter appears to be working. I hope you have a great harvest!
Great video. The first video I watched which came up higher on youtube, the person clearly has never done it before but she thinks putting out a how-to video is perfectly acceptable.
Thanks!
Awesome information Mrs. Jenna. There is no doubt you are one heck of a gardener my friend. Stay safe and have a wonderful rest of the week!
CB's Greenhouse and Garden thanks so much! Have you all grown garlic in the straw bales? I’m curious if that would work.
Yes Mam we have in the past using the old spent straw. Never tried it in a new bale.
@@CBsGreenhouseandGarden how did the garlic do for you when grown that way?
Done really well. Seen that everything we put in old spent straw grows awesome!
@@CBsGreenhouseandGarden Good to know, thank you! I may have to give that a try. Have a great day!
Yes our garlic is early this year. It fell over and I picked a few The cloves aren't very big yet. Kept garlic all last winter and still have a little left from last year. The extreme heat must have made it bolt. Going to hold off picking until beginning of July.
I was wondering if it had to do with the heat.
New sub here. Excellent content and presentation. Professional communicator.
Thank you and welcome to the channel!
I have much more garlic to harvest this year but I got kinda ahead of myself and pulled half of it a little early. I had planted raspberries in that bed, (it was the best bed for it) and I noticed that the raspberry near the garlic wasn't growing as well as the others so I pulled some. I probably shouldn't have pulled as much as I did however. AND of course the weather (15% chance of rain) turned into 70 % chance since this morning and it rained on the garlic I had laid out outside. It's hanging up on my porch now, dry warm and with air flow.
Lets see how different the rest I am leaving in will be in a few weeks.
Just watched your video on harvesting garlic, excellent presentation, even I was able to understand the process and that can be hard sometimes! I have my garlic in my basement in Michigan next to a humidifier, in a veggie cardboard box from Costco all spread out! Will that be okay or should I spread them out more? Thanks again for your help!
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My garlic has seemed strange. I was thinking that I should be harvesting it, but it wasn't ready when I checked, but that has been a few weeks. I kinda forgot about it. We just got a soaker of a rain today, but I may try digging around one tomorrow to see how things are going.
YOU have a LOT of garlic! 😍 My dozen garlic won't be much to deal with. lol
I’m a bit behind on replying to comments! Curious if you’ve dug that garlic yet?
@@GrowfullywithJenna
Yes I did and it was perfect. It's been curing for the last week or so. It's not much compared to what those of you with established gardens have, but it was what I could get in the ground fast before winter last year.
On another note, my tomato trellis collapsed today. 😞 I'm amazed at how many huge tomatoes are on these plants, the the top pole just bent and then it eventually fell over. I'll try to prop it up tomorrow when it's not 90 out.
I can't drive a stake in my ground here because of too many rocks.
Thanks for the video! I am in Ohio too growing garlic for the first time and wondering when to pick it.
You're welcome- I hope you found and helpful & best wishes for an awesome garlic harvest!
Thanks Regina! The wife and I live on the side of a hill near Athens. So, rock and clay. I've dug literally tons of rock out of my garden beds, added some sand (not too much) and I cover everything in the fall with leaves except for the beds that I plant clover in (green mulch). Just getting serious about gardening which is why I subscribed to your channel. You are a very good teacher who doesn't assume that I know too much. What part of Ohio do you live in?
Thank you and great to hear from a fellow Ohioan! I am in midwestern Ohio.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Steph just asked if you're Dayton or Lima? If you're near Dayton I'd like to see your farm the next time I go to the Air Force Museum. Once again, I think you present gardening information better than any of the other people I found on CZcams. Keep up the great work!
Thank you. I washed them prior to hanging them, I hope that's ok....
Great video indeed. A question for all you garlic growers. Some of the garlic in this video are purple in colour and some are just well the normal garlic colour. Is the purple drying or more cured than the garlic that is as I’m saying garlic colour ? I’ve been told the purple has been dried longer. Thanks in advance for any and all answers
Great question! The reason you're seeing variance in color is due to the different varieties I grow. Some do have a tinge of rosy or purple color and some actually have purple stripes (examples include Deerfield Purple, Chesnok Red, Purple Glazer and others). It has nothing to do with the length of drying time.
Hi Jenna, do you use your barn mostly for harvest storage? Sounds silly but I would love to see a tour of your lovely barn 😊And thanks again for such an informative lesson on garlic!
Hi Lorrie, I use it a lot for curing my crops that need it, but I don't actually store any crops out there long term (I use my basement for that). The barn is primarily used for storing gardening supplies, hay, equipment etc. And I promise you do NOT want a tour... this is what it looks like right now czcams.com/video/KvjeOv4E5GI/video.html 😩.
@@GrowfullywithJenna Looks like a happy place to me!
Thanks for this great video, Jenna...very informative and helpful. I have a question regarding some of the bulbs I harvested...some of the outer cloves were individually exposed, while the inner layer was fully covered. What would cause that to happen? I would attach photos but can't figure out how! Thanks in advance for your help.
Now that is a mystey to me, Anne! If you'd like, send photos to growfullywithjenna@gmail.com
How do isave garlic to plant next seasons? How do i know which one to saved to plant again? Thank you in advance
You would treat garlic you want to save for planting exactly the same way as that you want to eat. And generally, folks select the largest, healthiest bulbs for replanting.
I’d like to add… check for ground bees… just got stung 9x
I’m sorry to hear that!
Jenna. In 7b. Too early? Just received some bulbs. Whatcha think?
I'd definitely wait, late October to early-November would be your best bet. You want to give the bulbs just enough time to get some roots established before they go into the cold, semi-dormant period of winter. If you plant too early you end up with too much tender, green top growth going into winter, making them susceptible to cold damage & stunted bulb growth.
what about a basement?
Question: can you use the garlic after it has cured the same fall to regrow?
Yes you can. For optimal results, select your largest bulbs for replanting!
i live in the greater Cincinnati ohio area, when should we plant it here?
You're only about an hour south of me, and I plant anytime from late October to mid-December (just get it planted before the ground freezes).
Question, do you grow cabbage?
Yes- every spring & fall!
Two sites state different opinions on when to cut o ff the stems. One states before currying, one states after. Another issue sites offer opposing opinions is planting: with skin or without skins on. Either is correct but which is better and why?
I always leave stems on when curing and skins on when planting. My gut is this offers more protection from potential pathogens entering (particularly the stem thing), but I've not done any testing to prove this.
Can they be laid out on newspaper in a room inside a house during the curing time?
I've not personally tried this, Michele, but as long as they are in a single layer, with good air circulation and in a warm, dry room, I suspect this should work.
Where do we buy seed from?
Andrea Robinson I got the majority of my garlic for planting from Filaree Garlic Farm and Gurney’s Seed & Nursery.
I have only one beef against growing garlic - it drives all the worms out of the garden.
I'm sorry you are experiencing this. I've not found in my own experience that growing garlic repels worms-- there plenty of earthworms here- in my garlic beds and throughout the rest of the garden. I have heard there is a product in the works which utilizes concentrated garlic product to repel worms, but concentrate acts quite differently in an ecosystem than living, growing garlic.
I grew a wheelbarrow full of garlic think I pickle mine
Nice!
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for the concise info! Gotta get mine out of the ground 🤠