Garlic; old wive's tale?

Pull scapes or harvest bubils?
Local garlic is $16.99 a pound! I tested to see what happens if you don't pull the scape.
You get 2 large cloves, and a bunch of bulbils to plant. But overall, less garlic for eating.

[@aarondavidson6409]

Aussie garlic farmer here... Main factor in bulb size is how well you grew'd it.

[@azza-in_this_day_and_age]

as a non garlic farmer i can confirm, you can tell how well its grew'd by the size of the geezeless thing

[@aarondavidson6409]

@@azza-in_this_day_and_age .... this is getting weird... my name is azza...

[@andrewsock1608]

You mean grozed

[@azza-in_this_day_and_age]

@@aarondavidson6409 a sheila from adelaide annointed me with the title azza, she said it was my name in australian. ANYways.. pleasure to meet, you fellow aaron! however, i reckon were now required to battle unto death, if im understanding the rules accurately?

[@aarondavidson6409]

correct indeed. I believe we have to meet exactly half way between our current locations with our choice of weapons. I'm assuming that will be in the ocean so from previous experience I suggest you bring flippers.@@azza-in_this_day_and_age

[@jcpahman77]

Clicked for the garlic, stayed for the potatoes; that little hand and voice are adorable.

[@HubcapPointOutdoors]

Potajos?

[@sumus11]

that little gasp was what done it for me made me miss my own little helper

[@07YellowS2000]

Now AvE needs to teach the young apprentice how to properly machine threads in the badata.

[@HJZ75driver]

@@HubcapPointOutdoorsPertadas!

[@HubcapPointOutdoors]

@@HJZ75driver it's like vijeos but for potatoes.... so no it's potajos 🤣

[@Project337]

Garlic mashed potatoes? Yes please.

[@keithcurrams]

Oh heck yeah,,, that's a GREAT idea....

[@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap]

cook unpeeled clean potatoes in water, hit em with the masher so the break a bit but aren't mashed. Gobs of butter and whole garlic cloves. Into a 200C oven for a bit more than a half hour. Crispy garlic infused buttery bodados.

[@jamessullivan6985]

@@yourdrinkingthat wasn’t garlic juice………

[@Shocker99]

Why stop at potatoes?! Garlic with everything!

[@Project337]

@@Shocker99 focusing on the content, obviously we could do more

[@robertsmith4681]

And just like that barely a week short of my 48tth birthday i find out what garlic seeds look like ... Pretty cool, thank you.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

And they aren't actually seeds! They are genetic clones; bulbils. Tiny garlic bulbs of the original plant.

[@JayFude]

I remember the simple joy of finding botaters as a kid. You mean I can dig, get dirty, and get botatos! Holy crap!

[@keithcurrams]

Gotta get my allotment productive next year. I keep telling the more experienced fellas "I'm establishing the rhizosphere, these weeds, they are free Nitrogen"

[@vintagespeed]

i remember as a kid in ND going thru the fields after harvest pulling up the missed potatoes for winter. was good times. 👍

[@brianbaekgaard8081]

I love how someone with so much technical knowledge is out planting potatoes. It's a sign of the times

[@PenryMMJ]

Great to know that your kids are learning where food comes from. That's an important lesson.

[@johns9652]

We had a fairly large garden plot when I was a kid, I dunno about garlic but my father would have me walk through the garden with instructions to pick off half of the blossoms on the tomato plants. He told me each blossom would be a tomato, and if the plant tried to grow too many, they would all be small.

[@aerogfs]

It does apply to most fruit productions. Specially important for grapes, since they have even less space than usual...

[@MrFriiy]

Thanks Uncle for teaching that boy right how to garden and communicate in proper American English. 🎉

[@PlanetaryThoughts9861]

He's lernin' him to count as well!

[@BooperTee]

Been away for a year.. clicked on your video the second it popped up. LOVE YOU AVE!

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Well, I don't know about love but I thank you regardless.

[@justinkael3255]

Bulbs are a plant's way to store carbohydrates during the growing season. When the growing season starts to taper off in late summer/fall the plant invests some of those carbohydrates into flowers/seeds. Thusly, smaller bulbs if allowed to flower. You can remove the flowers but I would suggest harvesting before flowering and allow the ones that you missed to reseed in the garden for new garlic in the spring.

[@FlukeTog]

Potato’s are just amazing how they work. Magic ground grocery.

[@philcarpenter]

"We're gonna check that!" Sounds like project farm there for a sec lol

[@kendavis8046]

A couple of days ago, I harvested sweet potatoes from a 7 gallon grow bag. One potato to start, many pounds of sweets produced. First year trying this, but I am led to believe by these interwebs that you have to let them age in a dry, covered spot for at least a couple of weeks to get them to sweeten up. I'll know if that is bullshit if I find them rotten instead of sweet in about 12 more days.

[@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap]

If you store normal potatoes in the fridge for about a month they will sweeten up. The starch turns into sugars, horrible texture because the starch is mostly gone but far sweeter. (Potatoes are best stored a hair above 5c or else this happens)

[@kendavis8046]

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap I grow potatoes every year, and always store them at room temp, well ventilated.

[@LonneLpp]

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap This is good to know thank you for the knowledge!

[@upinarms79]

Grandad grew a lot of sweet potatoes and that's what he did. He used to lay them out in the basement and cover them in burlap. No idea if it did anything special, but they were always good when granny baked them up. Just don't leave them too long of they'll start to get soft spots.

[@StanErvin-yo9vl]

LEAVE THE DIRT ON THEM! It's a natural rot barrier! Space them out uncovered well ventilated with no visible muddy clumps. When they are turned up in the fields they're left for three days before picking up.

[@digger105337]

Didn't know old Wives got Tails, good thing I divorced her before it grew in.😂😂🐊

[@dharmi44]

Understand the theme here, AVE is showing us all what is required for what is coming!!!! THANKS AVE, you are the man that saves humanity!

[@wanjockey]

You are the best my friend

[@cabincreekzeke6257]

Oh my that poor child is rummaging through the dirty. Oh my that has to be some form of midevil punishment. I'm just pullin your chain. It is good to see kids learning to live off of the land and grow foods. I followed my father around all my wee life then when I became a growed up I knew things like magic it was I knew how to do stuff. Great vidjayo!

[@davidgroomes404]

hey AvE, I want to quickly thank you for making videos over the years. I've grown in the light of your shared personality and enjoyed joining in on your own want for wisdom. - sincerely James

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

That's very kind of you to write James. Thank you for sharing in our collective bumblefuckery!

[@codemiesterbeats]

I had a garlic clove that sprouted just laying around in the kitchen so I planted it and it wasn't long and it grew to be about a foot-and-a-half tall... Not even sure when to harvest it but I will snatch it up before it freezes😅

[@BelligerentWoW]

When the lower half of the garlic leaves have turned brown, that's when to pull. Each leaf is wrapping around the bulb so if you wait for them all to brown you risk the outer most layers decomposing. So the middle ground is half to 2/3 of brown leaves, dig and pull. Also, if ya wanna try it for next year, depending where you live garlic overwinters! I'm up in the north east and I usually plant my garlic batch in mid October to early November so they set a root before the ground completely freezes. They will take off in the spring and by June/July you're ready for a garlic harvesting! Honestly my favorite crop to grow because as long as you give it some good soil and a 2-4in light leaf mulch overtop, it's set and forget! Such an easy plant!

[@jello1977]

Would happily watch more vids of your gardening.

[@cheyco21]

Digging spuds with younglings has to be one of the greatest joys in life.

[@megad00die]

Everything up there in Canada is expensive. They haven’t figured out a way to tax your people yet to breathe but I’m sure it’s coming.

[@SeanBZA]

Those large single bulb garlic cloves are the best tasting though, you can just eat them plain, and they taste great. Or slice like an onion and fry with the breakfast bacon, and get the best of both worlds as flavour. Nice how the little hand is helping, she is getting bigger and bigger every year, soon will be doing work at the healing bench with you.

[@JB-vk8jk]

Only thing that survived the wrath of my chickens this year are my carrots.

[@mattsharpe3989]

My Soviet era Slovak grandfather would always say, to make dinner ‘you start cooking the garlic and onions, then decide what’s for dinner’

[@eastportorganic]

Using bulbils also breaks up the soil borne disease / fungus that a below ground head carries. Since they're up in the air they do not transfer the fungal issues into the next planting area. Rotate your crop and keep your soil clean of the fungus :)

[@KHALABEEB]

Even though it will always be amongus?

[@eastportorganic]

Keeps the fungus down to a dull roar...@@KHALABEEB

[@thingamujigger1585]

The food is wonderful. The grandkids out helping gather the harvest is priceless.

[@iamblaineful]

grandkids.....yeah, okay. LOL

[@DjSubstain]

Thingamujigger, are you talking about yourself? AvE ain't that old. It's his kids.

[@VomitYou]

Society garlic is the way to go. Hassle free. Also Egyptian walking onions a great addition.

[@nobody8717]

Mmmm... garlic... Mmmm... potatoes...

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Love your out n about talks

[@charlesmitz5239]

Yes they're definitely smaller with the scape not removed. Still usable though.

[@billmilligan7272]

Garlic is an old wives' tale for sure. It doesn't actually exist, much like "birds", "Australia", and "inflation slowing down".

[@colindewolfe3647]

And England is a conspiracy of cartographers.

[@aarondavidson6409]

I'm an aussie garlic farmer with a pet bird and hope in the economy... who is also now questioning his reality...

[@ianmason.]

If'n Australia doesn't exist, where do all those Aussie bartenders in London really come from?

[@Dreddy72]

@@ianmason. hollywood, where everyone is livin' the lie.

[@bonnienichalson5151]

LoL from reality:) it all in your head

[@PFab]

Interesting.... I live very close to the garlic capital of the world. Gilroy, CA USA!!!

[@ExcuseTheSaltImLearning]

That last bit is just friggin magic; magic that food can come from dirt and magic because you can pass that on to the little ones. [insert lion king circle of life song]

[@azza-in_this_day_and_age]

😂 that last clip put a smile on my face! thanks for including that

[@05a4love]

Can I suggest a revival of the 2 minute manly man skill vidjeos? After sharpening my Briggs and scrap-iron stone flinger and reviving a borrowed press-sure warsher, I'm running out of things to do with my lubricated lawn and mortgage.

[@oaw117]

The only wives tale about garlic I hear is mashing them up in your socks when you are sick.

[@JarrodZerr]

I kinda like the idea of a super bulb.

[@ShedTV]

My old wife has got a tail.

[@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap]

Does she have hoofs too?

[@ShedTV]

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap Neigh.

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

Ouuu dandy good garden there bii, granny be proud

[@84westy55]

When we think of AvE, it's only natural to think "bulbous".

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

There are a few farms that have managed to get some real flowers and cross pollination to make true garlic seed. Not on a level for selling the seed, but enough to develop new cultivars. I found one such breeder in Oregon.

[@TheUncleRuckus]

It makes sense that the bulb would be smaller bc the plant is using its energy to grow seeds whereas if you top them the plant uses the energy into growing the bulb. Same principle with growing Bonsai where you clip the new shoots/growth in spring to force the tree to "bud back" or with growing Cannabis where you either top the plant and remove the Cola completely or you can break the stem to force the plant to divert the plants energy into growing lower canopy flowers.

[@raymondmucklow3793]

Was that chickadee or baby bear, man time flies. Cheers sir and family.

[@pabo8080]

Whenever I need to get some good vitamins in after eating bad for for a few days I always reach for the Garlic, onions, Ginger. Always feel better after.

[@Kalenman47]

I tried this a few weeks ago (also weary of the wives tale). Had 10-20 with removed scapes, and about the same with scapes. Washed and weighed the heads - behold, on average garlics with scapes removed had 57% more mass compared to the incumbent! Will always remove my scapes now

[@MauricesExoticPets]

Scapes are good eats, and an efficient way to grow more garlic, very much a have your cake and eat it too sort of situation.

[@gregorythomas333]

I could never be a vampire...I just love garlic too damn much :)

[@Diggnuts]

Perhaps you are a masochistic vampire with impeccable taste?

[@djscottdog1]

When i was a kid i used to get so excited about finding potatos

[@silvenshadow]

We're going to test that! Very impressive! 😂 maybe this year we'll take a run at our own garlic. Being in Hills and all I feel behind the curve buying garlic

[@PlanetaryThoughts9861]

Fun and games on the garlic collective!

[@chase7914]

0:19 an old ecology teach would show us these and they tasted so good

[@nealk6387]

Oh chickadee sounds like she’s growing up fast!!

[@GravelGutz]

The Irish in me loves digging for taters.

[@vex6559]

aye...too bad the whiskey never roots...damn shame...

[@kilroy07]

Digging "taters"... one of the best parts of gardening!

[@SeanBZA]

Sweet potatoes are better though, even if they might take over the entire garden with time.

[@dutch1800]

Need to bury a fake hand in there and let your kids dig it up 🤣

[@kazzxtrismus]

im gonna do that with a beer

[@jamessullivan6985]

U can grow beer?

[@kazzxtrismus]

"if you can grow beer why do we buy it at the store?" "if they can print money why dont they print enough to not need mine for taxes?" @@jamessullivan6985

[@sandy7299]

There is something about watching a childs hand lift potatoes...... Maybe it reminds me of myself at that age

[@GeneCash]

Man, looks like I'd be standing in a complete patch of food and I'd starve to death. I have no idea what a potato plant even looks like.

[@MrPossumeyes]

Thanks daddy!. Nice..

[@Leroys_Stuff]

Staving off the vampires in your garden.

[@psuu1]

Few channels bold enough to use a semicolon in the title. Elite punctuation and best comments section. Yay ave!

[@mumblbeebee6546]

I was not instructed to re-subscribe yet but don’t want to miss anything. Apologies if I messed up your scientific speriments!

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

I like your policy: pay local youngsters to pick the rocks from your fields, a penny for 50. Boss Tweed *lives*

[@paulcollins557]

Those look like they would be great for black garlic. If you haven't tried it I highly recommend it.

[@drak0v]

Love garlic. Roasted, smoked, raw. pickeled, black, etc.

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

Nice!

[@Netbug]

I'm always spreading seed and my bulbs are huge. If you're worried about propagation, just stick to the old wife's tail.

[@atmazee]

The real old wive's tale here is the word 'bulbils'. Come on, that ain't no word.

[@knurlgnar24]

It's all about energy storage. The plant uses the energy stored to make seeds so you get smaller cloves. They're still garlic though! No harm done either getting seeds and smaller cloves or larger cloves and no seeds. Depends on what you want. Most people either want seeds, or high quality cloves hence the prevailing habits.

[@akowboyshippielife7405]

Garlic is imperative to healt! They told us that clue in the new BladeRunner” movie 👍💪🙏🏻🤠

[@Corvid-]

I cut the scapes because they are really delicious before the heads are ready.

[@gekolizzard]

Raising them right. Respect

[@HaloHunter2552]

This seems to be common for plants that "bolt". I had carrots I forgot to harvest one year. I tried some next year after they went to seed. They shrunk and had zero flavor.

[@SeanBZA]

Mostly because the natural seeding mixed them closer back to the original wild carrot. The yellow orange carrot is a sport, I see the other colours by me in the supermarket, and they are nice tasting, and a whole set of different tastes over the orange one, which is more or less bred to be canned and cooked without breaking down.

[@FirstLastOne]

Now I'm jonesing for wedge cut fries with garlic butter after seeing those 'taters in the ground.

[@MrZhefish]

nothing beats when you dig out your home grown free range fries out of the mud. also, i don't fuss with the bulb size with garlic, i just double down on the amount to plant. ain't got time for fairy tales

[@Alpha-ro8sc]

Yes. Yes indeed.

[@gertebert]

I grow Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum for ten years now. Always nice to see the reaction when I give some to people visiting my farm. Very healthy and as a bonus it keeps the little white worms in your a$$ at bay.

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

Welcome to the Jungle, we have birds and snakes

[@monkfoobar]

The victory garden!

[@garyb.4080]

Them was some nice looking taters! Have you tried the Yukon gold type, up there in the Great White North?

[@cgokey5491]

i can confirm if you leave scapes on you get smaller garlic, you need to cut them as soon as they pop up for best head size

[@rustyzipperband]

I appreciate any video you provide but I would give both nuts for you to make me laugh right now. Thank you for making me laugh previously.

[@rustyzipperband]

Just lost my pop and my mom got robbed by her house cleaner when she was in the hospital. Didn’t think she would ever make it home.

[@richardmccann4815]

​@@rustyzipperbandSo sorry to hear that. Wish I could crack a joke but life is heading for hell on earth. The little ones deserve better.

[@huzudra]

You can cook and saute the seed heads just as you would garlic and it's delicious, I grab a handful of wild ones in the forest whenever I can, delicious and keep other hikers away from us.

[@StapleCactus]

Those seed nodules look like tiny garlic cloves. Can eat?

[@ashlandgunclub1000]

Ah seems like only yesterday the little man was a wet spot on the bed.🤣

[@VariXx]

Nature is pretty cool sometimes

[@terranaut3314]

Wow, you managed to hand water your whole potatoe patch up to 8 inches deep at least, must have took you forever.

[@twocvbloke]

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it... :P

[@summitlt]

As a self proclaimed farmer. If you want potatoes you're all set, we got more than we know what to do with. If you want dead garlic anything. Im your guy.

[@walkingcontradiction223]

I sure do like them french fried potaters, mmmmhmmm.

[@78trav]

Chickadee is gonna be a helluva farmer before you know it. Probably better than you 😂

[@christophersines8238]

If I feed both my kids they tend to be smaller then if I’m feeding it all to the one. Think this applies here as well. Divided finite resources.

[@Mr_Wh1]

Watch out, one might lose it's gardening rights because of health emergencies.

[@103m95g]

Was that little voice chickadee or brother bear!

[@Dr_V]

Garlic can grow both bulb and seeds at the same time, it's onions that you need to choose one over the other.

[@daviddavidson2357]

Teaching people that blasting out seed makes the bulbs smaller is well timed since it'll soon be nofap November.

[@Angus762]

Living the dream

[@apathtrampledbydeer8446]

It's not the size of the bulb that matters, it's the stink of the pink!