What You Need To Know About Growing Garlic | Part 1: Seed

Jacque, how does one eat that much garlic? Lol. I like garlic but that's a lot of garlic brotha. Lol

That sounds like a plan! Since you have a couple of fruit trees, wouldn't it be advantageous to plant some of the garlic around the base to help avoid any fungal issues the trees can get? All my garlic suffered from rust this year; it was my first time growing. So, I will definitely try again next year. I did notice the ones I used the winter sowing jug plant technique faired better than the ones I planted in grow bags.

🤔 No such thing as to much garlic. If you think you need 200 more, you better plant 300 more. You'll use them.

I put mine in the fridge and it started to sprout is that normal should I plant them now I’m in zone 8b

Just planted my garlic today October 14th, zone 3b, Manitoba Canada. 8 degrees Celsius here, 46 F. Hands were frozen when finished, but happy it’s done. Now to wait. 😊

It takes 46 months to grow garlic ? I thought it was only 9 months 🤔

Thank you for this vid. My seed garlic is currently in the fridge. Getting ready to plant soon. 😊

What I want to know is how on earth do you eat that much garlic?! 😂 I thought I loved garlic way more than most people but apparently not.

So you use around 50 heads of garlic in a month??? 😂🤯🤯🤯

I make my own spaghetti sauce so I live for garlic and tomato videos! Keene is literally 2 hours from me. The best thing is that it being close means that it's already in my area. And living in SE Wisconsin means I get that winter season. Keene also had fantastic customer service!! All of that being said, please do a video on crop rotation - why and how please. Any reading materials would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Just got 133 cloves in the ground. Hoping to get another 130ish in, and maybe next year I won't have to order any. Had a harvest of around 110 this year. All hardneck. Love the scapes.

Bro it's 30 fuckin years sorry about language me here in idaho we have no diseases for garlic except people backyards because they bought non local or used store garlic mushy garlic

Maine here! I store my garlic successfully for a year. I use my seed from year to year and haven’t had to buy more in years. We grow enough to eat all year and grow for the next year about 2-300 planted in the fall

Our garlic goes in the ground in August!

Hi Jacques. I love planting garlic. Such an easy crop! I'm super lucky in my part of Québec that there's a farm that I can order garlic from called Ferme Tournesol. There's even a garlic festival nearby at the end of August! Music is a very popular variety here. I bought that plus Chesnok Red this year. Have also planted the Rocambole in the past. Can't wait to see what your garden looks like next year! Thanks for all the great tips!!

You are definitely planting a lot of garlic!!! Here in Missouri, the best time to plant garlic is on Indigenous People Day (Columbus Day). So I planted my 90 cloves yesterday. Harvest will be around late May/early June. I have reached the point that in the last few years, I am able to plant my own grown garlic. My favorite variety is Music, which has always done well for me. Adding fertilizer with more Phosphorous helps grow large bulbs. Cheers to garlic lovers everywhere!!

Also, LOVE your videos 🥰😍🤩😘

Inpressive! How do you like to consume garlic? I’m curious in learning more about different ways of using garlic! 🙂 thank you!

Still too late for me by about 3 hours! I planted mine on Sunday. Just did 18 cloves in about 6 square feet, then planted crimson clover over it. Next year while it's developing, I'll be putting marigolds and dill in the same area. Last year I planted 16 cloves and the chipmunks dug up every last one. This year I put mesh trash cans over them that will remain for a bit. Chipmunks don't eat garlic, they just are curious. They think that stealing my neighbor's tomatoes and putting them on my steps makes up for digging up my bulbs.

I live in zone 6 and have been planting hardnecks. If I want to try softneck, do I wait till spring to plant and will Botanical still have seed garlic then?

Wow! 2-300 bulbs of garlic. That’s a lotta garlic😂.
If our hardneck dries out in spring I have dehydrated powdered to carry through. We now have enough to replant so no need to purchase and thankful because it’s expensive.
I have learned to wait later to plant and pile on the mulch to prevent early growth before spring.

For several years, I've bought the largest heads I could find from the grocery store. No disease at all - please don't worry about that. A commercial grower isn't growing and selling disease-prone varieties. It wouldn't be financially beneficial for them to do so.
Sure, I don't know the particular variety I'm growing, but they are always delicious!

I need to find a variety that can grow in Florida, so far, I just got a few tiny cloves. I can't find a variety of bulbing onions that grow well either.

I have not grown garlic successfully since I first started trying to grow it three years ago. This year, one of the other gardeners at the community garden gave me two garlic bulbs from her garden. I asked her if I could try growing them and she said that I could certainly try. After the bulbs dried out, separated the cloves and used the biggest ones to put in the garden. I don't remember how many I planted, 6, 8, or 10. It was about two weeks before the expected first frost, which did not happen when it was expected. I used chopped up plant stems as mulch since that is all I had. This time of the year, it's not possible to find garlic bulbs for sale anywhere in town; except, maybe in the produce section at the supermarket.

In Europe we don't have the hard neck/soft neck distinction. We have a color distinction. Purple and white garlic are planted in october/november, while pink garlic is planted in january/february. And all have a soft neck with 15-30 cloves per head. The only hard neck I know of and plant, is Egyptian garlic, also known as elephant garlic. And it doesn't need the cold. I think cold tolerance has nothing to do with having a hard neck or not. Our purple and white garlic can handle freezing temperatures with no problem.

What are you doing with all that garlic? 200 - 300 bulbs at your minimum 6 cloves per bulb is 1200 to 1800 cloves of garlic. You used roughly 1500 cloves of garlic in 4 months (120 days)? That's about 12 cloves of garlic every day.

I will be planting my garlic tomorrow. Was not planning on buying seed garlic anyway. Saved some bulbes to replant. Found a pungent, tasty hardneck garlic that works well in my climate on my first try growing garlic. Too bad I forgot the variety 😅
And tomorrow evening I will be eating homemade/homegrown pumpkin-chili soup 😁

We grow Music in Zone 6b. We bought seed garlic and each year we keep enough to replant, so we have not bought garlic for 4 or 5 years. We made garlic powder of the scapes this year. I think I might used the scapes for garlicky pickles next year.

Thank you for this - timing was perfect since my garlic arrived yesterday afternoon

Some of my papers have come off the hardneck cloves when breaking them apart, are they ok to plant?

I’ve seen dozens of garlic planting videos, but no one ever mentions how often we have to water them? Can you explain the watering instructions? Thank you!

Thanks for this video! Just reminded me to order some bulbs from botanical interest. Can’t wait to try the elephant garlic 🧄

Part 2 of this video cannot come soon enough!!

Thank You❤!

I live in utah zone 6a and i plant soft neck garlic every year in October and harvest in july next year and it grows great,,, i never tried hard neck garlic....

I bought my garlic cloves from a farmers market here in Gilroy California(garlic capital) 2 weeks ago. Some of the garlic have started sprouting already.

Jacque I have a question can I plant all garlic’s together in one grow bag bed? And garlic with squash and pumpkin together in the same grow bag bed together? Plz answer me in my comment Ty so much 💕🐾!

Thank you , Jacques, for the video. I ordered some garlic from Keene Organics and received my order a couple of days ago and they’re in the fridge now. This will be my first time growing garlic, I hope I’m successful.🤞Greetings from Sacramento.

I buy my garlic from the local farmers market. I can talk to the farmer face to face, it's local to my area, and it's $1 a head

I really appreciate your calculation. That made it so much simpler to plan out my garlic beds. I'm planting over 200 cloves and it's my first time planting garlic. Yes, I went a little crazy but wanted to try different varieties and soft and hard neck so that I could figure out what I want for next year.

May I ask you to talk about grow a garden vegetables in south Florida? Thank you

I am new to your channel and love it. I am in s e Texas I believe zone 8b. I wished you had a calendar that told me for my planting zone what I need to do month month in advance

There is no rational reason for seed garlic to run $20-$30 per pound - that is outrageous. Garlic costs less than $4/lb at my local grocery store. Tomatoes and hot peppers are much more varied and tasty when home grown. That’s not really the case with garlic.

I’ve discovered there are a several plants that make no sense to grow in my garden - broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers all perform poorly, and are not worth the effort, garden space, or financial cost compared to how cheaply they may be bought in the local grocery store. Same with garlic and that is even more the case, considering the price gouging that seed sources engage in with seed garlic.

I grow soft neck garlic (Inchelium Red), in zone 6b Eastern Washington State... and I plant in the fall and harvest in July

We had root knot nematodes several years ago. We bought a bucket of crab shell from somewhere to mix in the soil. We haven't seen root know now for maybe 10 years.

What happens if my clove has been in the fridge for a few months

HI, I enjoyed your video! This is the second year that I bought my garlic seeds from Keene and I use their method of preparing the cloves. They sanitize the cloves in a jar for 10 minutes in hydrogen peroxide. Drain that and fill jar with liquid fertilizer...a tablespoon each of fish base and a T of seaweed liquid in a gallon jar. LEAVE in fertilizer for 24 hours. plant. Best garlic I have ever grown.

I’m watching this a second time! And commenting a second time too. I’m planting my garlic this weekend. 7b in Alexandria, VA. It was 75-80 today (11/7). Susan Delafield, Montana Giant, and Inchilium garlic from Mountain Valley Garlic plus some elephant garlic from my last years crop and some I got from the local farmers market.

Did you know you were gonna watch a video about growing garlic? Me neither, but still cool.