My garlic growing tips to help you grow bigger garlic bulbs
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2023
- You can just plant garlic or you can plant garlic deliberately with the intention of growing bigger, fatter, tastier bulbs and a bigger harvest. I'm sharing some of the tips I've learned over the years to help you grow your best garlic ever. No more small bulbs and disappointing harvests.
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#garlic #gardeningtips #vegetablegarden Welcome to our garden, I'm Eli and I'm the main face on this channel along with my wife Kate who pops in and out as the mood takes her, usually to laugh at me or make some one-liner quip. We have a medium-sized garden on the east Coast of Scotland comprising of multiple flower beds, containers and veg beds as well as my beloved rhino greenhouse.
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I learned a little trick. About a month before you want to plant your garlic put it in the fridge until you see green stems coming out of the top. Then plant it. It jump starts it into wanting to root. Then it will go dormant when it gets cold. It will be sleeping until the ground starts to warm up. Then it has a good head start towards making bigger bulbs.
Oh , wish I had read this earlier. I planted mine this afternoon. (Now have a sore back.) Will try and remember tip for next year. Thanks
Have been watching about those storms hitting there in Scotland. Hoping you two are OK!!!
We’re both fine…. It’s not too bad in our area 😍😍😍
Love growing garlic every year, the only thing that hasn't failed yet! Love the tips
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Don’t jinx it!!!!!
I saved my wee ones Im putting them in with the brassica's hoping they keep bugs off and using the green for salads in the summer.
New viewer - at last found folk who are successfully growing allsorts in their garden. I have been doing similar recently using polysterine fish boxes from Grimsby docks on plastic garden tables. A tip here for peeling Garlic. Wrap loads in a pillowcase - tie the end tight shut. Put in dryer - cool setting -around ten minutes. Helps loosen the garlic paper skin. Angela Lincolnshie. 🤔
So many CZcams gardeners have huge plots, I find your channel so refreshing and proves I can grow some food in my little space of heaven, thank you. Isle of Man!
You absolutely can.
Yeah it would be lovely to have more space and a massive greenhouse etc, but you can do a lot with what you have 😍
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Haven’t tried planting garlic (yet). Yesterday I spent the day building a raised bed, taking my mini tiller and tilling the ground,mixed in play sand to help with drainage, tilled again,brought over a bunch ton of composted horse-goat and chicken manure,tilled again. Then I planted purple asparagus crowns I found in a local store. I got done late afternoon and last night and today several inches of snow in upstate New York. You know the feeling,this will let me feeling ( I haven’t tried this and I want to get my hands dirty) time to play in the dirt!
Playing in the dirt is the BEST thing 😁😁😁
YES! Garlic is a great use of a quiet winter garden with delicious harvest just in time for tomatoes to go in beds!
Wow… for me I’m not harvesting garlic till the tomatoes are also producing 😍
How different our situations all are
After my mixed success with Garlic this year (some may have had white rot)... I'm looking forward to next season to see if I can have more success (I still managed to harvest quite a few so there are some to grow on with).
Is it somewhat blasphemous to say despite being in the end of summer and getting crops now... I'm kind of looking forward to next season because I have some new ideas for how to set up my garden (including moving some fruit trees... one of which was a peach tree that only just started fruiting this year)?
Fantastic video as always Eli... hope you and Kate are doing splendidly!
Nah I totally understand that feeling… I usually find that by September I’m ready for the new year too 😃
Greetings
I just heard of the rainfall there in Scotland. I hope you two are doing well?
Cheer,
Rachel 🍷
Heya Rachel
Yeah quite serious wind and rain at the minute. We’re lucky though we’re in an area that isn’t getting it too bad
@eliandkate
Good morning/evening,
Good to hear...my thoughts are with your neighbors.
Stay well.
Cheers,
Rachel
Perfect timing! I’m planting my garlic tomorrow. In all honesty, I was waiting for you to do this video because I knew it would give me more confidence when growing it for the first time. That’s just one of the many perks of being on your Patreon! :)
Yay, perfect timing then!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
Excellent video and tips for growing garlic.
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Are you growing the vigor Pammie was offering?
@@eliandkateI will have to grow what is available to me here in AZ.
I planted my garlic yesterday. I plant hardneck for the scapes.........and size.
Hurrah for scapes
I'm out prepping my needs for garlic today. Thanks for the tips. Ans next year, some ideas for what to plant after garlic harvest would be great!
I do that every year…. Go look at the autumn winter sowing winter (usually aug or sept)
Great video Eli! There's going to be a bit of an experiment going on in my beds this year into next. I bought only Softneck this year after finding two large bulbs of Hardneck garlic that somehow I'd missed harvesting and were already sprouting. Already broken into cloves, planted last week, and growing well, fingers crossed now. I've so much garlic from last year I think it should last through until next years harvest, and we use a lot of garlic. As an aside you have done a brilliant job keeping those petunias going in the last shot. Mine didn't survive the expert watering of my son when we went on holiday for a fortnight in the summer hahaha
oh no.... it's always nerve wracking when you have to leave someone else to tend the garden😬
Thank you Eli- as always very comprehensive. I’ve just planted my garlic today. Hopefully they will be bigger then this years bulbs which were tiny but very strongly flavoured. Just so happens I’ve planted them the way you suggest. Fingers crossed
Bring it on!!!!!!!
If you plant bigger cloves, you get bigger heads. Always save your largest heads from harvest for planting in the fall.
Always wondered what the difference was between the two types of garlic. I just bought some garlic and could remember what type it was. Just about to sow my garlic so perfect timing
It’s one of those great unspoken things 😂😂😂
Another fab video, Eli! I don't have a container to sacrifice for the elephant garlic so I'm very curious to find out how yours comes along. Mine is planted in containers this year, too so will be mobile if I need to move them. Thanks for this! Very helpful 😊
One of the best things with mine in pots is being able to move them.
Makes it much easier
@@eliandkate I will move most of mine at least once, sometimes more. Depends on what I'm planting out and when I plant bigger things to go behind shorter things, etc. Works a treat!
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I’m worried about trying again this year as I went for elephant garlic last year as it’s milder and that’s what I wanted but my bulb was smaller at the end then what I started with disaster!!!
This year I went for garlic from a garlic market and spoke to the chap he said I didn’t water them enough probably because I was scared of over watering them lol. Still messed it up.
So this year I have some more elephant garlic and some other ones I got from him and I had already ordered some online so I’m gonna split them and plant some in my new bed and some in bags like you have. And pray that I do a better job this time around. Lol got more to play with but more too loses too if I make a big mess up again. I wasn’t prepared to give up after one try. So will try again.
At least you have a plan for this year 😍
@@eliandkate got lots of home made compost to add to the beds and bags before I plant.
Should I add any extra blood fish and bone meal or chicken manure pellets? At the time of planting I mean?
I do have worm castings I can make worm tea or add straight castings too.
@cherylhowker1792 you can do if you are worried
@@eliandkate just don’t want to over do it. But wanna make sure it’s enough.
Don't give up! Gardening is a learning process. Try different things. I learned that garlic likes its space, rich soil and plenty of water.
In the interest of saving space can you grow on top of garlic with leafy things as it takes a while to come up?
I wouldn’t recommend it.
Garlic wants lots of nutrition and water and if you grow other stuff nearby (over) then it’s competing. You can always try it, but I’d worry it would just add unnecessary workload of trying to keep the nutrition etc at the right level
I'll give it's own tub I think then just to be safe. Shame as I like to maximise space but guess there are just some times when you can't@@eliandkate
Got my elephant and vigor in today…. Game on ❤
I can’t wait to see how this all does 😍😍😍
@@eliandkate me too!! Be great to see great results with all the extra effort I’ve put in 🥰
Hi buddy, I'm in the South West of England, should I wait until the end of next month or plant my garlic now?
It just depends on your temps Jason.
Think about when it starts to get cold and get planting just as that’s about to kick in
@@eliandkate Thanks buddy :D
Can you tell me why when I plant garlic if I get a bulb the whole thing is a garlic, no individual cloves just all of them fused together.
This year I had a member of cloves but that was all they were tiny grape size. Obviously I’m doing something wrong. I follow everyone’s advice and plant at the right time but 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe you have the answer please 🤞🏻
Ah…. So that’s down the the garlic not getting enough of the good proper cold weather.
It needs at least a month off proper below 10c to make it split.
You could try not planting it so deep…. Let it feel the cold more
Hi Eli, I need some advice, I have brought my peppers into the house for winter, I started them too late so they were just started to become pepper plants but I knew they wouldn't do any more cause they were starting to curl in the cold so I stripped them down ( heartbreaking) to a single Stoke with no leaves and they are in the house. My question finally is; they are showing signs of regrowth already, do I continue to cut them back until springtime or do I let them start growing so they are stronger for next year??? Sorry if this is a daft unction but I've never done this before, I'm a new gardener. Thanks in advance, Ryan not to laugh at my ignorance 😂
If they are indoors you can treat them like a house plant and let them grow.
You might need to prune just to keep them a manageable size but not much
Thank you, I am clueless but keen x appreciate your help 😊
not at all..... :D good luck!!!!!
Correction: question not unction
Can you show us how to braid it after growing though 😉🤣
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@@eliandkate love it ❤️🤣
Can I have a copy of your planner please ?
Which planner Chris?
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttthe one so I can have a good tear. I have taken over a new garden
@@eliandkate
Why has this been written in Gobliousgous?
I have a new garden and need help ? Sorry about what has happened? Don't know what has been going on!
Do you mean the succession planting plant, the spreadsheet I made?
That’s linked in the description of the garden plan video.
You can go make a copy from there
Correction again, try not instead of Ryan, fat fingers is my excuse for errors