How to grow garlic | Growing fruit and veg | Gardening Australia

[@Jsak666]

Literally planted mine this morning

[@gotagreengardening8387]

I planted 10 garlic today and also going to hang up my tomato plants!!! Great timing!!! Xxxxx

[@rivertam7827]

I planted supermarket garlic last season and I'm just about to harvest the second generation from those bulbs. First generation were big, juicy and full of flavour. Oh, and they were a punnet from the discount bin, so if you're short of money, just chuck some cloves in the dirt and see what happens, I've gotten 2 generations (plus the small cloves from the original punnet) for $3.25.

[@rachelhmua]

My soft necks popped up in a matter of days. Still waiting for hard necks to show some green tips.

[@avanideshpande5134]

Mine did not have flowers last yr and the bulbs were small too. Had tried it for the first time. Will be planting one today.

[@robjacobs5199]

Thanks for the show and the tips Millie. My last garlic planting didn't go as well due to weeds brought in by all the birds who nest in our Palm tree, nightshades were really bad. Just about to plant my garlic today so here we go. Cheers from Adelaide SA.

[@daleglenny8253]

Garlic leaves (scapes) are delicious!

[@matthewfarrell317]

Only a week ago did I pull the tomatoes and put in the garlic, most of them have now popped up. Another trick I have learnt is after you plant your crop put some in a pot to grow, if for some reason some of the ones in the ground fail to start, you can replace them with the potted ones. The next task for me is to prepare the capsicums for overwintering.

[@MMSY]

Thank you for upload naka^^

[@dianemorrall2687]

Is it helpful to add manures to the garlic bed over the growing season? I'm finding I don't get large bulbs and wondering if I am not feeding them enough. I live in a temperate/arid zone.

[@tonyd6821]

friend gave me some garlic to plant and they were already shooting as it was late already ...to my Suprise I did have a great harvest some were very big bulbs ...Last year I planted no far from the first spot ....plenty sun light and cow manure ...Thigs were looking really good till September come when I realized my beautiful garlic were attacked by little insects that destroyed all my garlic ...I looked for advise on internet one said to use home remedy ,which I did but it didn't work .... Next year I am going to grow them again and hope to not get the same bad result of this year ...providing someone will advise me what kind of spray to use -----thank you

[@synapsetimelapse]

So after I harvest do I put them straight back in for the next crop or dry them first?

[@rivertam7827]

Dry them, you don't want to plant them until after summer, the heat will knock them about and they need the cold of winter to divide into cloves.

[@beelover2827]

Can you add subtitle or at least activate the autogenerated subtitle for non-native english speaker like me? It will help a lot. Thank you.

[@zakialiberty8226]

That would be lovely!

[@TheMerrrr]

Yes please do.

[@bumbles3304]

I’m receiving subtitles.

[@candiwallace6605]

Niceeee ❤👊🌱

[@neverlostforwords]

I planted about ten cloves in a pot in February and they have all produced shoots around twenty cms long. I have had to shade them from the hot Melbourne sun. According to what Millie said in the video, they won't produce full bulbs as they are in a pot and I am meant to use the stalks during autumn for cooking. Is that correct? I would like to produce full bulbs in spring. Now that tomatoes and other summer plants are out of a large raised bed, can I transplant the cloves in the pot into the raised bed or will they suffer setback from being transplanted? Anyone have any suggestions?

[@matthewfarrell317]

She was only suggesting that for the smaller bulbs. If you have spaced them correctly and have good bulbs they will grow into full garlic as long as you give them sun and water. Plenty of people grow them in pots etc because they are very shallow rooted and do well in pots.

[@neverlostforwords]

@@matthewfarrell317 Thanks for the clarification. They are growing well in the pot so all good. :)

[@because_helives]

Thanks made that mistake of planting garlic with shoot from the shop hopping they will make it. How can I plant shop garlic since they are treated?

[@susieblossom1337]

I have planted grocery shop garlic to help up my numbers in the past, never had a problem, the grown into large heads. The fact that they might be treated (with what, I don't no) is more the reason to grow your own.

[@matthewfarrell317]

Go to a local farmers market, most there are selling their own produce, they will tell you if they have been treated or not.

[@nathanwooldridge85]

If they sprout, they will grow in the ground. The only main issue you may have is that the variety purchased from the supermarket may not be suited to your climate for growing, and as such you may suffer from the plant "bolting" before the bulb is fully formed. This is also called witches' broom. All this means, though is that the garlic will not store well. This happened to me last year, I purchased garlic from my local greengrocers and planted 50 cloves. Every bulb suffered from witches broom. So I harvested all the bulbs, minced all the garlic and froze them - Worked a treat

[@michelifig6356]

Plant succesive crop- 2nd, 3rd yr harvest, treatments should b diminished..?

[@greenthumbboy690]

cause i have a similar looking plant and i have absolutely no idea what it is

[@greenthumbboy690]

at 1:29 in the vid what is that red plant in the background?

[@introtwerp]

Amaranth

[@greenthumbboy690]

@@introtwerp thanks

[@glen9115]

looks like a celosia

[@greenthumbboy690]

scratch that time cause there all through the vid