GARLIC: HOW to GROW this Ancient MEDICINAL ABUNDANTLY in Your GARDEN & Your PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Good evening and Welcome to Willows Green Permaculture! I'll be here during the premiere to chat with you and answer any questions you might have! Thank you for being here and for watching! Enjoy the video!

[@LindyAlberts]

You are a good teacher and don’t rush. I am very interested in your lessons

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you so much Lindy! This means a great deal to me!

[@coletupling5008]

We like big bulbs, and we cannot lie.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You made me laugh! I had no idea!! 😊

[@ssstults999]

I always find myself smiling while watching WillowsGreenPermaculture 💙

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!!!😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you to everyone for hanging out and watching and chatting with me!

[@charlenequinilty7252]

Thanks for the video. Hope it also works for soft neck garlic also.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

If should. You can ignore the part about cutting the scape, as soft neck doesn't grow a scape, I have read. Though, I have never grown soft neck. I'd like to try, though it may be too cold here for soft neck.

[@barbsoddznendz1896]

I planted garlic for the first time a couple days ago. Since my garden doesn't get sun in the winter, I had my husband make me some planter boxes and I put them in the front of the house since it gets sun all year. I planted the garlic in them and a few days later we had 6" of rain in 2 days. The garlic is already sprouting. We should have our first frost in 2 weeks.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It sounds like your timing is very good! What a great idea to start out a garden in an optimal position! You’re going to love your homegrown garlic!

[@janew5351]

So glad to find an amazing gardner near me in Warkworth! I use garlic around my 2 new baby fruit trees. Ever tried a dibbler board to assist in time and distance between bulbs?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you so much! Actually, just before moving here, we bought most of our seeds from Urban Harvest in Warkworth! We bought them elsewhere from them, however! I’ve actually made a couple of dribblers. However, because our soil has so much hummus, we don’t really need them.

[@sangha1486]

Another benefit from perrenializing garlic is if your annual crop fails, you can use the wild garlic as seed stock

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Absolutely! 😊

[@happyhobbit8450]

I planted 300 this year and 200 last year except last year we ate the large cloves and planted the smaller ones so this year I planted the biggest. I planted 7" apart and 4" deep using a bulb planter -- I put compost in the hole and then the clove and more compost on top. I zigzagged the rows. I had potatoes in that area previously. I'll put potatoes where the garlic was previously. I munched them with leaves but perhaps the leaves are too thick as you say Thank you for your lessons ... you're an excellent teacher!!!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

When the ground is completely frozen in the winter, you could loosen up or thin out your leaves without harming your garlic, especially with the depth you’ve planted them. Let me know how your spacing works. With your depth, hopefully your soil isn’t too hard when you harvest so it’s not too much work. And thank you for your feedback, it’s very appreciated! 😊

[@ab-3897]

Thank you! Very informative!❤❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It’s a pleasure!

[@AlsFoodForest]

actually, garlic is most potent medicinally, when aged. that process greatly enhances the medicinal properties. this is why the pharmaceuticals have spent millions of $ and half century of research to try to synthesize the sulfur compounds. i will have to do a vid when i make my next batch 🙂

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Yes. I definitely want to try aging our garlic. I didn’t talk about it because I haven’t tried it. I look forward to your video!

[@janew5351]

Ever tried the fish fertiliser bath and hydrogen peroxide rinse before planting?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

I do nothing to my seeds before planting. I think the best prep is biodiverse soil life. Anything I do need for my gardening, I prefer to get from the land here, as much as possible, using permaculture techniques.

[@calebbrazeau4597]

I had no idea you could make garlic perennials! I planted my in october, will not pick them next year, thanks

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Yes, it works very well and is very cold hardy!

[@calebbrazeau4597]

Good because I am in canada!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@calebbrazeau4597 Yes, I think even in zone 4. What zone are you in?

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@13:40 that looks like fusarium. My garlic has been affected in the 10-20% range. I'd never thought of using peels like that. The Blendtec just got volunteered for another job. I go by weight for total planted. I went from the intended 20 Kg to 14 to 12, although I could have planted another 3-4 Kg but life and so on. I'd rather keep more and sort for quality for folks who'd like some and those I give some to. Alliums are allelopathic. Best to consult lists and first hand accounts however +/- scientific. In my experience there's a margin of error.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

When we cut them in the kitchen they were quite perfect. When there’s no skin, it’s normal for the flesh to yellow. A bit like when cooking it. There was no indication of fungal activity. What’s a Blendtec? And yes, the whole onion family is allelopathic to the whole legume family - beans, peas, soya, peanuts, etc. But beneficial for pretty much everything else.

[@janew5351]

​@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Blendtec is a food processor brand.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@janew5351 thank you!

[@222mmax]

How much garlic do you consume a year? Thank you God bless you MARANATHA

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

There are 4 of us in the family. We eat between 400 and 500 bulbs per year between us. That’s of course because we grow it. It would be much fewer if we were buying it.

[@kathyg0517]

My dirt has a lot of red clay, it’s getting better between the chicken, duck and Turkey poop and me adding compost and leaves, but the ground gets so hard quick.. do I need to build raised beds I can’t get my onions or garlic to grow.. my potatoes the ground gets so hard I can’t even get them out the ground..

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You could do raised beds, or something a little less complicated is hugelkultur. If you have logs, make a pile of logs (like 2 side by side with one on top in the depression between the two). Pile a bunch of sticks and branches on top of the logs, then lots of organic matter and compost, enough that you have a good 30cm or 12” of soil on top of everything. The logs and branches will provide drainage over the short term and they will decompose over the long term, so you will have a very fertile mound of rich soil that everything g will grow well in!

[@kathyg0517]

@ thank you I have never heard of that, that sounds better and cheaper to build.. love the videos..

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@kathyg0517 Thank you!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

When I say 'We need to update the calendar,' about our growing zone, I meant to say, we need to update the map. It hasn't been updated in Ontario yet.

[@michellehughes8661]

ummm...what calendar? 🤔 I looked for a link in your video discription, et al. 🤓

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@ I meant to say map. I guess calendar came out because my head was thinking first and last frost dates….