She would be awesome. I just love that Aaron and her can do whatever they feel like doing with their own brand power. I just love watching the videos they produce and their personalities.
Nice video. I have found that it's very important to remove the scapes from the hardneck as soon as possible as it will suck energy from the bulbs and continue to grow even after harvest which degrades the storage life of the bulbs. Softneck will not do that.
You can braid hard neck garlic it just takes a little for prep work. You have to make a slit in the stalk lengh wise and cut out the scape or whats left of the scape from the inside of the green leaf folage. Then it will be like the soft neck garlic to where you can then braid the garlic. Thus you would have a hard braided garlic that lasts longer. Hope this help you next year when you are harvesting you hard neck garlic variety.
You can braid hard necks just use a wood or rubber mallet or even a rolling pin and gently pound the hard stem of the scape to split it and make it more pliable. Pre softening the stem with a warm damp towel wrap (only the stems !) I was told also works.
I had the joy of growing up with 3 sets of great grandparents still living up until my early 20's. Two of them had gardens and braided garlic. This took me back to a simpler time when everyone had braided garlic in their kitchen or barn. Wish more people did that today...I'm sure you've inspired a few dozen today. Thanks for the great videos!! I really appreciate them and you.
Goooodmorning!!! This video took me back when I was little. My grandmother and mother always harvested their own garlic and used to braid it. I always remember passing by our kitchen back door and seeing the braided garlic. Wish I would had learned back then. Thank you so much for showing us how to do this process. 💚💚💚💚💚💚
How kool !!! Im learning so much about gardening! ☺ thank you for this video! your videos are such a true blessing to my heart. They bring back wonderful blessed memories of my kids grandparents arnold&loretta willis who are now in heaven. Loretta 10/2002 leukemia Arnold August 13,2020 he was in a senior home
Better than Martha Stewart!...You are such a natural and genuine in front of the camera! I’ve learned so much from you. Love, Love watching you and Erin and your precious baby boy, and your sweet cat! You seriously need your own TV show!!🌸🌼🌷🌻🌹🍂🍁🌾🌿🍀🌲🌻💐🌺🌳🥀🌵💗💞💗💞💗
Love your hair, love the different camera angles, love the music while you're braiding the garlic, love all the great growing and after-care info of the garlic and love that you are carrying on your sweet Momma's "romancing the ordinary"!
I didn't realize how many times I say "these ones" too until someone pointed it out on a previous video that you say it and now I'm noticing that I also say it a lot.
Great tips! I also want to say, the background music while you're braiding is awesome, perfect! Enjoy your harvest. Personally, I've never grown garlic, and now know there's more to it, such as different types like the hard neck and soft neck. Till next time . . . :)
Hi Laura, thanks for teaching me about garlic....growing, harvesting, etc...I found the braiding very cool. I always wondered how it was done. Tfs. Have a wonderful day! 😉🦋🌸🐝
Watching this video about garlic makes me think about the Garlic festival in Gilroy CA. You can fix garlic in all different kinds of recipes. Interesting about the braiding I enjoyed watching
My garlic was so small. I harvested it yesterday and each bulb is no bigger than a nickel. I'm sure they will taste good they smelled wonderful and I will try again in the fall. Not sure what went wrong except that maybe they need more water during the whole growing process or maybe the ground was too rocky because when I dug the holes I came across a lot of gravel that was put in below the dirt for the patio.
Laura you are amazing! I absolutely love watching your channel and then applying what you teach. Question, when you take a head of garlic off of the braid do you remove it from the top of the braid or the bottom?
We grow shallots and we do have some problems with them rotting even though my husband puts them in the dry basement in a mesh bag. Can shallots be braided? Laura you always look so fresh and pretty. Aaron does a wonderful job editing these videos. I take videos of trains for a production company and they do the editing so I know how much work goes into that specialty.
Hello!!! I always wonder how you use all the produce in the kitchen would you ever make an episode where you show the recipes you make with so much amazing veggies?:)
Ok I found my new obsession! I’m not into gardening but you made me so from now on, I’m a gardener in my dreams Hahaha love your videos! I’m your new subscriber 💕
The reason you can’t braid your hard neck garlic is because you cut off your scapes you need to pull them out pull them gently and they break off down inside the stem later after harvest let them dry bulb down i usually put them in a 5 gallon bucket bulb down when they have dried for a few days I braid them . Give each stem a bit of a twest make them a bit softer. Then pour a nice glass of wine and start braiding. I wish I could post a picture.
@ Erika R. I would think that logically, cutting from the top would be the best, since those are the last ones braided in. That way the entire braid wouldn’t unravel the way it would if you were cutting from the bottom. although since Laura used a tie to secure the first three pods, the tie might be enough to secure the rest.
Did anyone else see Russell playing with a hanging branch when Laura looked down?😂 Too cute
You are a garden fairy 🌱🍄🌺🍅
You are the Martha Stewart of Gardening and home. You guys are the Best! Waiting for HGTV to come a knockin at your door - wouldn't miss an episode!
I’ve been saying the same thing for over a year! She would be great on HGTV
She would be awesome. I just love that Aaron and her can do whatever they feel like doing with their own brand power. I just love watching the videos they produce and their personalities.
If you snip the scape on the hard necks the plant will focus more energy on the bulb. So you'll get a 30% bigger bulb at harvest!
I loved the kitty playing with the plant off to the right. I mean I appreciate the garlic tips, but that was cute... 😺
Please make a few videos of you cooking the products from your garden.💙
I'm SO glad you are a visual teacher. It helps to actually see things done rather than telling or reading.
Just harvested my garlic today and this was super helpful! Setting the garlic to dry today and hopefully I’ll be able to braid them soon.
Your videos are very informative! So lovely! Sharing this knowledge is so important!
2:54 The cat on the corner is brushing as well!
Nice video. I have found that it's very important to remove the scapes from the hardneck as soon as possible as it will suck energy from the bulbs and continue to grow even after harvest which degrades the storage life of the bulbs. Softneck will not do that.
👍 agree
Just learned how to braid garlic , another great video
You can braid hard neck garlic it just takes a little for prep work. You have to make a slit in the stalk lengh wise and cut out the scape or whats left of the scape from the inside of the green leaf folage. Then it will be like the soft neck garlic to where you can then braid the garlic. Thus you would have a hard braided garlic that lasts longer. Hope this help you next year when you are harvesting you hard neck garlic variety.
Wish me luck for the first time in my life I planted Garlic so now it’s time to harvest.
Thank you Laura, I will try your way to braid my garlic this year. ❤
You can braid hard necks just use a wood or rubber mallet or even a rolling pin and gently pound the hard stem of the scape to split it and make it more pliable. Pre softening the stem with a warm damp towel wrap (only the stems !) I was told also works.
I had the joy of growing up with 3 sets of great grandparents still living up until my early 20's. Two of them had gardens and braided garlic. This took me back to a simpler time when everyone had braided garlic in their kitchen or barn. Wish more people did that today...I'm sure you've inspired a few dozen today. Thanks for the great videos!! I really appreciate them and you.
When. can l plant garlic in Gauteng
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“These ones” 😆 I love that you flashed your own call out
Great video! The music is so appropriate!
Excellent! Aaron, your choice of music is FABULOUS!
Excellent presentation and very informative. Thank you!
2:55 wild kitty appears! He wants to help!
I’m 19 years old and I want this braided garlic as a gift for Christmas
Goooodmorning!!! This video took me back when I was little. My grandmother and mother always harvested their own garlic and used to braid it. I always remember passing by our kitchen back door and seeing the braided garlic. Wish I would had learned back then. Thank you so much for showing us how to do this process. 💚💚💚💚💚💚
You really inspired me to plant garlic, and I don't even have a garden 🤣🤣🤣. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍.
Love the ginger kitty in the background playing!
Beautiful, what a great gift❤️inspired 👌
How kool !!! Im learning so much about gardening! ☺ thank you for this video! your videos are such a true blessing to my heart. They bring back wonderful blessed memories of my kids grandparents arnold&loretta willis who are now in heaven. Loretta 10/2002 leukemia Arnold August 13,2020 he was in a senior home
Bravo! Well done. I tried to imagine tying a bow upside down. Nope.
Better than Martha Stewart!...You are such a natural and genuine in front of the camera! I’ve learned so much from you. Love, Love watching you and Erin and your precious baby boy, and your sweet cat! You seriously need your own TV show!!🌸🌼🌷🌻🌹🍂🍁🌾🌿🍀🌲🌻💐🌺🌳🥀🌵💗💞💗💞💗
2:55 we love a helpful kitty 🥰🥰🥰
Great video, Thank you so much, 😘
Love your hair, love the different camera angles, love the music while you're braiding the garlic, love all the great growing and after-care info of the garlic and love that you are carrying on your sweet Momma's "romancing the ordinary"!
I am really missing monthly garden updates that you did last year. Anxious to see how everything you have planted are doing!
Laura you are a woman of many talents! So fun to watch
I have always wondered how garlic was braided. Thanks for making this video.
Best example of braiding garlic thank you so much
I didn't realize how many times I say "these ones" too until someone pointed it out on a previous video that you say it and now I'm noticing that I also say it a lot.
Thank you!! Now I want to grow and harvest garlic. I just Love the braid.
I LOVED this video; so informative! I can't wait for next fall. It would be great to see how you replant the bulbs.
You have definitely inspired me to grow garlic! Thanks for showing us how to braid - that is just so cool and such a lovely decoration! THANK YOU!
I planted garlic for the first time in October 2021 and am ready to harvest -- thank you for your videos! They have been very helpful.
U R a great presenter, for once I like the music, very beautiful all around and so are YOU!
What a fun video, love Russell sneaking in there to bat at the tree. Your garlic looks awesome, we may have to try some this fall with the children .
Thanks for pointing that out, missed the first time. Russell rocks. Aprox 2:51
Braiding garlic! and brand new beautiful haircut. I see the theme here. Great job!
Great tips! I also want to say, the background music while you're braiding is awesome, perfect! Enjoy your harvest. Personally, I've never grown garlic, and now know there's more to it, such as different types like the hard neck and soft neck. Till next time . . . :)
Hi Laura, thanks for teaching me about garlic....growing, harvesting, etc...I found the braiding very cool. I always wondered how it was done. Tfs.
Have a wonderful day! 😉🦋🌸🐝
So awesome to see it from start to finish. Thanks for all the great tips and info!
2:54 Russell makes his appearance!😺😸😼😽
enjoyed this video so much, makes me want to grow the garlic!!! this fall i guess?
Thank you Laura! Your garlic braids are gorgeous.
That was beautiful!.I love everything you do apparently lol.I just love that you know what you do and you're so nice to boot.Great job.
I love your hair straight !! Awesome info on how to cure and hang the garlic
“I can’t tie a bow upside down”. Too cute.
Watching this video about garlic makes me think about the Garlic festival in Gilroy CA. You can fix garlic in all different kinds of recipes. Interesting about the braiding I enjoyed watching
Good morning Laura! I've got my coffee and I'm ready to learn more about garlic. 💗
Can we please get some cooking videos and update videos and vlogs and .... ? A video a day from Garden Answer keeps the blues away!
Thank you so much for showing us how to braid the garlic! Looks much easier than the way I tried, and failed, to do it.
My garlic was so small. I harvested it yesterday and each bulb is no bigger than a nickel. I'm sure they will taste good they smelled wonderful and I will try again in the fall. Not sure what went wrong except that maybe they need more water during the whole growing process or maybe the ground was too rocky because when I dug the holes I came across a lot of gravel that was put in below the dirt for the patio.
Thank you!❤
I absolutely waking up to a new video from yall! I just can't get enough.
Loved this one!! Braided garlic is so fun!
I love the little sarcastic edits! So cute and funny. “These ones” 😂💜
Your amazing I can tell you enjoy planting, such an art. Thanks for the great tips. We will do. Big hugs from Virginia!
You looked beautiful braiding. So pretty!
I loved this video, Laura. I can't wait to try this! Thanks so much!
Such a lovely video. Thanks, Laura. You make everything an art. 💚
Thank you.
Laura you are amazing! I absolutely love watching your channel and then applying what you teach. Question, when you take a head of garlic off of the braid do you remove it from the top of the braid or the bottom?
I have read from the top
those are so pretty braided
Your hair looks really nice flat ironed!
Very interesting video on garlic. I liked the music in this video too!
Thank you
We grow shallots and we do have some problems with them rotting even though my husband puts them in the dry basement in a mesh bag. Can shallots be braided? Laura you always look so fresh and pretty. Aaron does a wonderful job editing these videos. I take videos of trains for a production company and they do the editing so I know how much work goes into that specialty.
Laura , you did a great job with braiding, am an Indian who braided her hair all my life, so I can give you a huge 👍🏼👏🏻👍🏼😍😘🇮🇳
I loved your video and learned a lot. I wonder how often you water. What is your watering system like. Thank you for sharing
I've never planted garlic before. You got your hair cut, it looks nice.😊
Felco trimmers. Nice
Thank you so much for sharing! Always looking for ways to store garlic!
Love your hair
Hello!!! I always wonder how you use all the produce in the kitchen would you ever make an episode where you show the recipes you make with so much amazing veggies?:)
Yes thank you! Love love love it! ❤️
I really liked the music you picked.
Omg I love Garlic got some going in my Garden all though I snip the green ends off and use them in my cooking they are strong
Ok I found my new obsession! I’m not into gardening but you made me so from now on, I’m a gardener in my dreams Hahaha love your videos! I’m your new subscriber 💕
Great video. It was really helpful. What would you plant in the garden beds that you harvested the garlic from.
The reason you can’t braid your hard neck garlic is because you cut off your scapes you need to pull them out pull them gently and they break off down inside the stem later after harvest let them dry bulb down i usually put them in a 5 gallon bucket bulb down when they have dried for a few days I braid them . Give each stem a bit of a twest make them a bit softer. Then pour a nice glass of wine and start braiding. I wish I could post a picture.
Love it.
Thank you so much!!!❤️🙏🏼🦋
Wow amazing
"Gentle" lol thx for sharing !
you have some nice bulbs yourself would love to see them !
Laura, Your hair looks great!
Pretty 😊
We need a video of just Russell outtakes!!! 😆🤣🐱
You can make anything look so beautiful!!
Once the braid is complete, where do you begin to cut each head so the braid doesn't unravel?
I'm wondering the same thing.
@ Erika R. I would think that logically, cutting from the top would be the best, since those are the last ones braided in. That way the entire braid wouldn’t unravel the way it would if you were cutting from the bottom. although since Laura used a tie to secure the first three pods, the tie might be enough to secure the rest.
Well done! Thanks for the info!
So helpful & so much fun. 👍❤
ilove ur videos laura..and also benjamin is so adorable...
Thank you for the learning experience.