GGC - 71 - Planting Garlic in a Modified Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden

[@mrstn123]

I love it!! I do a modified Ruth Stout also. I add the leaves into my growing mounds.I go around my neighborhood and take bags of leaves left for the trash to pick up. I use straw instead of hay. I also add Goat poo- which I have found to be brown gold!! Sometimes I just lay a mound of Goat poo and plant in that. My squash was unbelievable with this Goat poo mound method last year. What I especially like about learning this permaculture Ruth Stout method is that it really blocks out the Bermuda grass which is the devil around here. If a sprig of Bermuda does make it to the top of the growing layers, it can be easily pulled up because it can't make itself twisted and glued in to the area-the way it does into plain soil.

[@BackToReality]

I really love the idea of collecting other peoples' yard "waste", and putting it to good use in the garden. One person's trash really is another person's treasure! :) I'm also really glad to hear that you've had success with this method in dealing with Bermuda grass. From what I gather, if you can smother out that stuff, you can smother out anything! lol

[@contactjoy4140]

:bm B.

[@secondyaya]

It's like a work of art, watching the two of you work together, so beautifully. Truly, it is a blessing. Can't wait to see the garlic pop up in the spring. I absolutely love, love garlic. It's actually a natural antibiotic, which I'm pretty sure you know.

[@aryan1956]

Love it! I must be tired. Looked like a freshly dug cemetery there at the end.

[@the_earthway]

we planted in raised beds here at 60 degrees north...been having great results for 5 years now...good video!!!

[@rustyshackleford1910]

Planting garlic in the fall like that should also give you a nice and curly garlic scape! They are yummy too, enjoy!

[@RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

Ahhh I got it! I will just plant where I piled up all the old hay! It's broken down and composted and I like the boxes idea! Great idea!!!!

[@valfrez3786]

Just stumbled upon your channel and enjoyed it, great combination of graphics videos. Looking forward to digging into the rest of your posts

[@catharinemarjorie8182]

Your narration is just fantastic!

[@rainydaylady6596]

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[@Cheapers-Vac]

Trying this method with Elephant Garlic. Planted them last November 5th, 2018. It is May 21st and they are almost 22 inches tall . Potatoes are huge too and were planted in April 4th this year , 2019. So far , so good. Just palnted a single Lemongrass plant that was already about 18 inches tall. In a short time ..it has become the "Queen " of the Garden Growing and spreading fast !

[@Cheapers-Vac]

The Garlic was awesome and has been incorporated into bone broth ...mmmmgood ! The Zuchinni...over 200 lbs and still growng tastes best chilled and sliced into small wedges ..not cooked. . The potatoes are in and HUGE . The Peppers struggled , yet we have green and jalapeno and a sweet hot chili pepper . Tomatoes we just left to themselves to see how it would do without any interference ...Interesting...but no fruit picking yet. So far so good. 2 "doubting Thomases " have got their own Raised Huglekulture/Ruth Stout gardens going after seeing ours. Too few weeds and no work !! They loved it as did we ! Thank you for keeping it real ! Peace !

[@DodgeVendetta]

SWEEEEET METHODS. Thank you guys for putting this knowledge on the internet.

[@shepherdbook]

I like your illustrations. they really help :D thanks for your videos!

[@BackToReality]

Thanks Jonathan!

[@grayeagleswolves]

Hey Derek and Paula Great video

[@BackToReality]

Thanks David! :)

[@grayeagleswolves]

yw

[@CrankyBubushka]

I love you guys say that you are not like "most people" lol!! My family is like that too lol I always use cardboard for my gardens. Good idea and you don't have to dig up sod.

[@mrstn123]

I go to Walmart toy dept around 7 pm. They always have someone putting cardboard boxes into a cart all neat and folded up. Just put some in your own basket and keep shopping!! Also, the Dollar Tree always has lots of boxes.

[@tovaritchboy]

WOW cant wait to see how things develop, DEF going to try couple different things here now that have seen YOU guys getting brave and doing it.

[@Edzardjeroendeboer]

Nice. Cannot wait for spring!

[@LostOnLandAgain]

Another fabulous and informative video! Awesome! (going to go plant some garlic now)

[@sjniles]

I tried this last fall, most of them have come up already and growing well.

[@I_Am_Michael]

awesome. just think of all the garlic infused food you can have in the future. and, also how many vampires you can keep away. can hardly wait to see how the garlic does. is there a way to speed up time?

[@guyfriedman295]

Will you try to plant elephant garlic?

[@Iloveorganicgardening]

Looks like another fun project! someone told me black garlic is very nutritious...or healthy. I keep forgetting to look it up though. you guys are fun to watch!!

[@joansmith3492]

Wow you guys are precise! I just slap garlic in the ground. I don't think you used enough cardboard and it didn't appear overlapped in your video. My understanding is that cardboard smothers out the grass because it cuts off the light. If there are cracks between the cardboard, the grass will live and you will have to start over again next year. You will know if you did enough next summer. I have to use 2 - 3 layers of overlapping cardboard to smother bermuda grass in Texas.

[@TheAndroid3k]

I didn't use enough hay. So my soil is still clay-y. Gonna have to either raise the beds or go to soil bag gardening in order to use my large plot.

[@TheNetymags]

Great video!

[@BackToReality]

Thanks Neta!

[@ruthhoy6290]

enjoy your channel

[@leostrazsa5440]

I know that lady was thinking. (hey asshole wait until I place the cardboard to water it)

[@billbye1432]

Ok! kids since you are gonna play around wid de garlic bulb; don't forget to wear one around your neck; gotta keep the vampires and werewolves away! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

[@Talisman730]

Happy Halloween (on Halloween night)

[@marcusbeck1269]

You could plant all 260 cloves in two of those rows. Garlic beds don't need to take up much space. I have done it and had great success.

[@marthasundquist4903]

there ya go! I found Leav s tend to control the weeds better! lookin good and tasty!

[@ryandavis4689]

Do you have a video on onions

[@Thanny2000]

Hey wheres the van now?! i hope you still have it!

[@gac914]

Hate to be morbid, but it looks like you have ancient burial grounds!!! The whole thing looks interesting, and it will be interesting to see what happens!

[@davidgurrola9370]

Are u two ever going out in your camper

[@BloodstarDE]

Can I use regular garlic, or do I need special seeding garlic as I do for potatoes?

[@stevevinas]

Cool video but doesn't cardboard have a ton of chemicals in it that will transfer to your crop?

[@cynthiataylor2305]

What kind of hose are you using? It looked really thin and not round but couldn't tell for sure. Thanks. Great video!

[@junkdna9093]

amazing / but is this organic grow it w'll be ?

[@cathylake9072]

How do you get the hay not to blow away? And would the hay have the same effect as a green house? thx

[@Breal191]

What do you do about sprouting hay seeds??

[@bikinggal1]

the little parts of the garlic are also called Toes. :)

[@lpmoron6258]

We call them cloves.

[@robertorion6559]

That is a LOT of garlic!

[@timothymorrison1235]

Will straw work instead of hay?

[@PoSmm]

hey guys, just stumbled upon this video in my recommended list. Good job! If you have follow-up videos, you may want to put the link in the description or as a button in the video itself. This might generate even more clicks ;) keep up the good work!

[@BackToReality]

Great tip! Thanks Peter! We did do a follow-up video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5nTp4Cdaslkha8

[@pinjarela]

+A Guy. A Girl. And a Campervan keep us up to date :)

[@alexandrasmith4393]

Don't you get plagues of mice and rats over winter?

[@MylesNicholas]

Onions and garlic like some lime.

[@ryandavis4689]

Can you use hydrated lime? I got some frome a masonry shop for preserving eggs...not the same stuff exactly as lime from most garden stores which is crushed up shells and stuff I think

[@sherthom5672]

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[@BackToReality]

Awesome! I'll check it out! Thanks!

[@francvancanvas]

To get a square: pythagorus theorem.

[@RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

Humm we have palm fronds instead of leaves

[@HarshJain-it2bg]

if only you had planted directly over the soil and covered the close with composed and then a layer of hey you have got twice the the yield

[@pradhumansharma9770]

The leaves just blew away :/

[@davidgurrola9370]

I have a 87 bounder I'm thinking about travel in the state I have a home my wife and I are truckers but I'm thinking about retired

[@ikongod]

Jesus. I thought I loved cardboard. You sir, may have a problem lol

[@UpcycleEngineer]

I told my wife to use the Ruth Stout method to bury me.....I laughed.......she didn’t.

[@williamjones6053]

Yo yo Lil homey ..don't be spend dat money on a fences for Dem dears ..shoot Dem dears den eat em up

[@middleway1885]

Boop

[@janjanzen9718]

First

[@scifitoilet]

this is pretty cool. i think the measuring stick goes against Ruth's mantra tho. it seems like too much work for her haha.