What You Need To Know About Growing Garlic | Part 2: Planting

By the way! If your soil is not frozen solid then it is NOT too late to plant garlic where you live! Ideally you would want to plant about a month before your ground freezes or within 2 weeks of your first frost. Garlic can technically be planted under frozen soil if you are stubborn and want to try it, just don't forget the mulch! For anyone who doesn't get a ground freeze then also have no fear you can pretty much plant garlic whenever but for best results plant sooner rather than later.

If you don't have garlic or missed your window have no fear! You can always plant garlic in the spring and it will do just fine, it just might be a tad smaller than fall sown garlic!

The 1st year we planted Garlic, we followed the presenter's planting instructions
to a tee. Awesome size and harvest, huge umbrella shaped roots. His were soaked.
Reason for doing it was to keep the cloves from rotting in damp soil waiting for the
ground to freeze. His was a simple mix of 1tbls baking soda, 1tbls of liquid Seafood,
to each quart of water soaked for 2hrs. Does it work? I dunno. Would they grow as
well, if I didn't soak them? I dunno. They've always grown very well every year since,
but not as good as that 1st year.
Differences, virgin soil/bed. All new. Never had anything else grown in it.
And seed supplied from seed supplier, not our own seed set aside cloves.

I have read that year after year, using your own seed will cause bulbs to decrease in
size. This year, we'll find out. We bought 1lb of new and planted those in our 1st rows,
same bed as our saved cloves.
Nice video Jacques

Bring on the vampires...I'm ready! ❤❤❤❤

I’ve been growing garlic for the past four years in zone 5a in Maine. I’ve found over time most of my garlic heads only produce two very large cloves per head. All of our garlic originally came from Johnny’s or another reputable, certified local grower. Do you know what might be causing this to happen?

Jaques, you should contact the seller regarding the evidence of mite damage and the varieties that where affected, so they know to quality check next time or contact their grower.😊

Thanks for the video !

Great video

I missed my garlic planting time here in Michigan, it is now too cold and rainy. It is a real shame because I had purchased all of the garlic to plant but the compost I bought had so many about .5-1inch rocks and I was worried it would affect the growth of my garlic and other root vegetables. Any advice for what I can do?

Thank you sir! Needed this info...am in Houston TX and was pondering Garlic planting

I got about 500 cloves planted last weekend (about the same in flower bulbs this weekend). I got severely teased by all my co-workers, but in my defense, I REALLY love garlic fresh, I dehydrate a ton of it and make an allium powder that is DELISH, and then I use a lot in sauces I freeze. For some reason, I plant the same number of flower bulbs each year, but with garlic, it felt like an accomplishment. But I have a few more cloves from the pantry (and some cheeky ginger), so I am here for it. As much as I love to baby my tomatoes, peppers and dahlias, I love the long and mostly chill process of growing garlic.

I planted my garlic about 2 weeks ago. Most have sprouted but a couple haven’t come up. Should I be worried? So tempted to dig down and check or replant but maybe I should just give it more time?

What fertilizer did you use for the fertilizer soak? You may have said and I just missed it. The red incilium garlic I grew last season tasted like nothing I can get at the grocery, and my husband (the cook) was overwhelmingly happy. He learned to cook during the 26 years we lived in New Orleans.

Just got off work and what do you know…the perfect garlic video pops up! Thanks for the great info! I’m going to try hard neck this year here in Southern California so this was perfect timing!

I've had great success with the hard neck variety "Music" WOW!! 600 garlic plants is massive! No kisses for you!!🤣

Would be interesting to do some test beds with not soaking the cloves. I have never soaked mine in alcohol or fertilizer and I always have a great crop. If I was sure it made a big difference perhaps I would try!

Do you ever tried doing the elephant garlic? Is def big lol 😂 maybe that's what that last one is.. gopher it oh oh. This is very informative ty

Should I continue to fertilize my garlic that I planted (apparently a little too early) that’s already sprouting? Until winter really hits here? I’m in North TX, zone 8. Thank you!!

Soaking is utter nonsense

This was so informative, Jacques! Thank you!

Best would be using Korean farming techniques. Always yields the best quality with any plant and zero chemical bs. No bottles as you have tbere

I was watching another video and saw a new video from Jacques pop up.......I'm watching Jacques. I've never done the soak and have had success. Hmm...

😅 hey it finally snowed in zone 4B Minnesota