First Big GARLIC Harvest on our Homestead in Portugal

We harvest and cure enough garlic to keep us self sufficient in at least one vegetable this year.
Garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow and store.
Our hard neck garlic was planted in October and harvested in late May the following spring.
We take a look back at when we planted the cloves from our saved bulbs, harvest and show how we cure the garlic to store for the coming year.
When is the right time to harvest?
Eating scapes.
How many do we need?

[@kerryparkin7734]

That video was fantastic. The production was so professional, could have been gardeners world!!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Now, Kerry, you’re making me blush ☺️ Thank you. It’s a bit more difficult filming alone. 🤗

[@paisley293]

@@NearbyVeggies : Mareid! 🤗You did such a lovely job all around, digging, putting in lovely shots of flora and fauna as well as explaining about the garlic and your plans. You're doing great!! I'm farming vicariouly through you! 👍🧄🧄X10 +50 👏👏👏

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you. That’s really lovely to read. Much appreciated. 😊

[@Coyotehello]

Hahaha, the inset at 2.08!! You can make delicious avocado (and other type) garlic oil and garlic in vinegar will keep for ever. What a bountiful harvest! Congrats!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you, Alain. We’ll certainly do that. 👍

[@ruthmay8446]

I love that you don't paint a perfect picture. I've learned so much from this video.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you so much 😊. We do try and show reality because gardening is rarely perfect. Always something new to learn when things don’t grow as expected.

[@moirasimmerson929]

I love your bench in a beautiful flowering garden.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks Moira. 😊

[@clionamm]

That was a great video. Lots of hard work, not only pulling the garlic, but setting the camera up in various places as you left the garlic patch to walk back to the shed. It's a beautiful day here in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, not as warm as you have but warm for us! Have a lovely weekend. 🙂 PS: Love the orange poppies, so pretty!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks Cliona. Nice to know the weather’s warming up in Ireland. My dad (in Donegal) says it’s Baltic up there. 😊

[@valentinaestacio6693]

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[@tisaninhacerveiraesteves7579]

Que lugar lindo e tranquilo só se ouvem passarinhos a cantar! Os seus alhos são grandes a vossa horta está cada vez mais bonita parabéns.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Obrigada 🤩

[@NearbyVeggies]

👍

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I enjoyed that! I have been growing garlic for many years. If you cut the scapes soon after they form, when they are looping, the resulting bulbs will be much much larger and cut early, the scapes will be succulent! The remaining green leaves represent the intact cover over your bulbs, so it’s a good idea to harvest when you have three or four green leaves remaining.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks for the tips! 😊

[@farmyourbackyard2023]

250 is a decent planting! My garlic are still a few weeks away from harvest here in Northeast Oklahoma. I was only able to plant about 150 last year, but hopefully I'll get some good cloves for eating and some for replanting.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks. Good luck with your harvest 😊

[@poosmate]

Can't believe I missed your videos for 3 weeks! That looked like hard work, bet you were exhausted after all that. At least it's done now and a job to be ticked off the list. Take care, Poo

[@NearbyVeggies]

I think the hardest part was doing all the filming of the harvest on my own 😊

[@Aotruba]

Thank you for sharing such interesting garlic video. ❤ Again, I love your location! Your garden looks beautiful!! ❤💗❣️🌟

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@justoneacre7873]

Your garden is looking beautiful!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@angiemoore6518]

Well done with the garlic! I am just about to harvest mine, here in West France.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Hope you get a great harvest. 😊

[@kathleenpitt1981]

One of my other favorite channels, Simple Living Alaska, harvest the scapes earlier and makes pesto with them. Looks delicious! 250 bulbs would last me two years.

[@NearbyVeggies]

That’s delicious 😋

[@ninemoonplanet]

I noticed the area around the garden seat, it looks lovely. When you started I wasn't sure what it would look like, but it's so well done. 🇨🇦

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks so much. I wasn’t quite sure how that area would turn out either but it’s starting to look great now.

[@ninemoonplanet]

It definitely is. Great place to just breathe, drink coffee or tea and relax.

[@valentinaestacio6693]

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[@NearbyVeggies]

It’s such a nice place to sit. In a few years it will hopefully have a bit of shade from the trees 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@MargieMistretta-c9m]

My favorites

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@blakegust907]

Kneeling pads for gardening could be a lifesaver. I think they're rather inexpensive online. I only discovered your channel a couple months ago but i look for updates every day!

[@NearbyVeggies]

True, but I rarely kneel.

[@elisabethraastad2070]

It’s so nice watching your videos🤩🙏🏻🍀

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@maggiemorgan8422]

Lovely video. Wish I could pop round to help! And great to see Barney’s Bench obvs ❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks, Maggie. Looking forward to your next visit 🥰

[@paulettebarber7219]

Lovely video. Garlic one of my favorite things. I haven’t grown it yet but hope to plant some things s fall.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Best of luck with your planting plans. 😊

[@AntoniEmanuel7328]

I’m new to your channel and I absolutely love it. Beautifully filmed and edited, you must have a lot of knowledge and patience. The KZbin algorithms brought me to your channel while searching ideas for Portuguese garden plants, trying to create a memory of my childhood home here in Wales. Muito Obrigado .

[@NearbyVeggies]

De nada, Antoni. We’re in the Coimbra district where the local gardens are now filled with fragrant roses. Agapanthus, gladioli and lilies starting to flower. Bougainvillea is blooming in the sheltered areas. jasmine and mock orange scent fills the air. Hydrangeas are in the early stages of flowering (they’re blue here). All the annual flowers like petunias and zinnias and asters are waiting to burst into a riot of colour. Bright colours sit beautifully here in the bright light, they will look a bit different in the Welsh light. I hope this helps remind you of your childhood home. I know that feeling. For me, hydrangeas will always remind me of my mother, and her gardens in Ireland. Saudade. Muito obrigada.

[@lindamoore7207]

I just want to thank you for encouraging me to plant a wide variety and especially this garlic tutorial. I planted garlic last fall and had no idea how to handle it. You saved me wasting most of to error so again thank you so much . I would photo but it won’t let me 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you for letting us know you found this helpful. We’re delighted you’re trying new plants in your garden 😊

[@offgridwanabe]

Even on the internet we could see the difference in size for the garlic that had damp soil so I need more mulch. I tried some Spanish garlic but it looks like it doesn't like Canadian winters. Cheers

[@NearbyVeggies]

More mulch is what helps here. I think you’re right about the Spanish garlic. If you can get a few bulbs from someone local, you’ll probably have better success. 😊

[@owenp65]

Another brilliant episode I've missed a couple of episodes and have been catching up, life tends to get in the way at times hehe. Another week or so i think for my garlick here in the Midlands UK. You've a grand amount of bulbs there that is for sure. I'm so envious of your growing season. Great video, great work as always.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks, Owen. Enjoy your garlic harvest and see you here again soon. 😊👍

[@gerhardtpienaar]

As usual very good schooling video and my God this lady can toil my friends😪

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@pattiwhite9575]

Your gardens are so lovely. You must be impressed too after such a short period of time you have lived there and worked it. Wish more people would mix their food and flowers together. I love to see a pretty garden. May I suggest you plant your garlic into a mounded row instead of on flat land. That way the roots get moisture but the bulb don't.

[@NearbyVeggies]

We love mixing the two together, Patti. Thank you 😊

[@egrainger48]

Great video! Can't wait foe braiding.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@northsidedork_3043]

I'm new to the channel but I love what you're doing. Keep it up and your garden is beautiful

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks and welcome 🤗

[@marilynmcarthur5362]

I admire your hard work. Thank you for sharing. But you dont make things easy for yourselves. I couldnt do it.❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks 😊

[@debgrouette6885]

Wow, your garden is beautiful!!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@bikerbabe4442]

Gardening is hard work. Just spent two hours in the garden replanting. Rabbits eating! I also put up some fencing. Its only 9:10 am. So much more to get done. Its worth it😅

[@NearbyVeggies]

Gardening is a beautiful and rewarding. It’s a never ending always changing activity. 😊

[@ianandresen2326]

Lovely video! Thank you

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@christasmicroflowerfarm2695]

Lovely video and the garden is looking amazing.💚 My garlic was not good, likely too wet, might try growing it in pots next time. 🧄🧄🧄

[@NearbyVeggies]

Everything is worth a try. Good luck 🤞

[@asc3184]

Thank u for sharing another video. It was a lovely video. Ur land looks beautiful!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you so much 😊

[@shirleygraham6229]

Interesting as I know very little about garlic. Good stuff. Best wishes

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@bealbocht63]

That was very educational, have never grown garlic but have a better understanding of the process now. And, of course the garden looks fantastic.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@tammyashburn5080]

Lovely garden!! I do enjoy your channel ❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks, Tammy. That’s lovely to read 😊

[@PensionersinPortugal]

Our garlic didn't divide into cloves, not cold enough at any point in the winter i think!! Still useable and tastes good. Hope you got some rain later, we missed the April rain too, but may seems to be helping out !!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Is it possible your garlic wasn’t quite ready to pick? Garlic doesn’t need to be too cold. Only needs about a month of cool weather here. A bit of rain happening here now. Much more needed.

[@wendygarfagnana4681]

Fabulous , your garden is looking beautiful 😍

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks Wendy 😊

[@ciciliacurt6227]

We are picking up onions too Great day to you

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you and have a great harvest 😊

[@nancyspence2965]

Well done on the garlic. Hard to find decent hardneck in IL,USA.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks, Nancy 😊

[@dallascumming8750]

You guys had me at Garlic! Looking forward to seeing the drying process. Hope all is well in your kingdom!

[@NearbyVeggies]

All is great here, Dallas. Hope you’re well too. 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

By the way, my little brother was called Dallas. 👍

[@mesutozsen903]

Eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel video için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@maryannnorton9138]

I use garlic scapes to make pesto, and then it doesn't matter if they are a little tough. I generally use pistachios but I imagine almost any nut would do. So yummy.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Hmm, pistachios, that’s a luxurious option 🥰

[@EnriqueLopez-lf8qm]

You can use a knife or needle to break the skins of the garlic stem further down and then you can get a longer scape

[@NearbyVeggies]

That’s good to know 😊

[@hawkmoon1704]

Lovely, and what about those oranges... your garden is really looking great, I'd be proud if it were mine

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊 we are very pleased with all we have done so far.

[@portugal1969]

Very good

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@garyroberts2563]

Portuguese is surprisingly easy to understand.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Once I started going to classes it became a bit easier 😊👍

[@BillyBob-uc9zp]

An interesting thing i read about seeds to heal yourself of all woes is. Before you plant them, pop them under your tongue for 9 minutes for them to read you, then hold them in your palms for 9 minutes to show the universe, expaining your intent with the seeds, then plant them. Each morning when awakening, wash your feet in a bowl of cold water, then use that water to water the plant reminding it daily of it's purpose. I would say tomato or fruit tree seeds would be ideal. But possibly all seeds?. Good video. Thanks 😎

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks for such an interesting comment. Not sure if I’d get anything done with all those seeds in my mouth but it might keep me quiet 🤫

[@BillyBob-uc9zp]

@@NearbyVeggies It works ❤️

[@NearbyVeggies]

Luckily I have no woes. 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

👍

[@Susan.I]

What a job to take garlic out of the bed!!

[@NearbyVeggies]

It sure was. 😊

[@anniemac3075]

Your garden is so productive, you put much effort into it & it shows. Hopefully you have more pollinators than we seem to have here at the moment, hardly any 🦋 🐝 etc despite my 🐝 friendly flower filled garden. The roots on the garlic surprised me, they were really reaching out for moisture & nutrients in the soil weren't they. X 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you, Annie. I’m sure your pollinators 🐝🦋 will arrive soon once the word spreads about how lovely your flowers 🌺 are. 🥰

[@anniemac3075]

@@NearbyVeggies The UK seems to have a problem with bees & butterflies, there's been a lot on twitter about gardens like mine with few bees where in previous years there were a lot. Very worrying.

[@NearbyVeggies]

I’ve read about the decline in pollinators. Let’s hope things improve. You’re doing your best. 👍

[@anniemac3075]

@@NearbyVeggies Thank you 🤗 🦋🐝

[@NearbyVeggies]

👍

[@corrineyoung5934]

The ones that aren't for storing, I put through my mini food processor, put in a jar, top with olive oil and store in fridge, jum!

[@NearbyVeggies]

We make garlic fermented in honey with small ones as well. 👍

[@kathytucker2491]

That garlic will be yummie the brought stuff seems tasteless ? 🌺

[@NearbyVeggies]

It’s got great flavour 😊

[@jeanneleongmitchell1375]

By taking the scapes off, it would help the bulb to bulk up.

[@NearbyVeggies]

You’re absolutely correct. I had already removed most of the scapes a few weeks earlier. The majority of the bulbs were ready and I wanted to get the before the rains came. 😊

[@bluelilly22222]

👌👍❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

😊

[@silvielarischova6137]

pěkný česnek

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@kikoempis]

3 heads per week? wow! You save a lot of money there!

[@NearbyVeggies]

We use a lot of garlic for sure. 😊

[@orlandonascimento669]

O alho em portugal arranca-se no são joão, abraço

[@NearbyVeggies]

Acho é que no São João é mais tarde para mim. 👍

[@vivalaleta]

When will you commence to working on the house?

[@NearbyVeggies]

As soon as the licence comes, Vivaleta. 👍

[@vivalaleta]

@@NearbyVeggies Terrific. I look forward to it.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Us too 😊

[@louiseswart1315]

Are voles the same as mole rats? Please could you show us how you braid the garlic?

[@NearbyVeggies]

I showed braiding the garlic in this video 👍kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWWylJKIi7-Zj9Usi=D2wa7bP3FqsnDI-B

[@NearbyVeggies]

I don’t know if voles are the same as mole rats. I will look and see what a mole rat is 😊

[@louiseswart1315]

Thank you, I saw that video last night after many more entertaining and highly educational videos 🙃🤭

[@NearbyVeggies]

@louiseswart1315 I’m truly enjoying your comments in between house work farm work and preparing for friends to visit 🤩

[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

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[@elsafischer3247]

Are you living in the farm?

[@NearbyVeggies]

We are living in a rental house nearby 👍

[@linara7157]

@@NearbyVeggies why? 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Have you seen the stone house? 😂 It’s not ready to live in.