How to grow HUGE HONKIN' Heads of Garlic

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Gardening Experiments with Mind & Soil

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@moodybikerchic 19 күн бұрын

I plant my whole garden in grow bags. Do you think I should change anything to do that?

@Terri_Stauffer Ай бұрын

Been growing garlic for 5 years. I save my biggest bulbs to plant, plus I go to a local farm who sells a quart of garlic cloves for $9. Some nice huge cloves to plant, the smaller ones we eat. Works great since not sprayed with grow inhibitor’s, have done the same for potatoes. The seed garlic I see in stores is so tiny for over $4 a bulb now. I started by buying seed garlic from local stores and was always disappointed in the small bulbs. Then I was in the fingerlakes for the grape festival and found a guy selling seed garlic, huge bulbs. He took his time and explained to me how to grow big bulbs. That was when I started to grow huge bulbs of garlic, basically using biggest cloves, planting 4 inches deep and cover with mulch.

@patmiller7045 Ай бұрын

Hey Terri this might sound like a dumb question but wear are you measuring your 4 inch planting depth from. The bottom of the hole or 4 inches from the top of the clove?

@Terri_Stauffer Ай бұрын

@@patmiller7045 not a stupid question. It’s four inches from bottom of hole. You don’t want to plant the clove too deep as it will stunt growth. A good rule is no more then inch of soil above garlic clove.

@patmiller7045 Ай бұрын

@@Terri_Stauffer Thank you very much. Have a great weekend!

@sharonellis1251 Ай бұрын

Just bought Sproutbox Garlic kit. First time growing.

@Scuba451 Ай бұрын

Love growing garlic last year was first year,we put it in everything and planted rest already, made powder with small cloves

@LabCookr Ай бұрын

So the 7 inch off center spacing is pretty much the same as 3.5 inch spacing just staggered and not in a grid pattern. You could probably drop down to 3 inch spacing for even more weight, or go up to 4 inch spacing for bigger heads

@LabCookr Ай бұрын

3.5 is a good middle ground between the 2. When i started growing garlic and saw 6 inch spacing it didnt make any sense to me when they only get half that in diameter

@BobbyFinger-vz2uo Ай бұрын

How about containers?

@laddieokelley6095 Ай бұрын

My experience is only with heirloom elephant garlic, a stand I inherited in 2011 when I bought properly. Frankly, I am as much interested in it as a landscape plant and source of scapes for floral arrangements. But I have plenty of mild-tasting large cloves for cooking if I bother to harvest. Some of what I dig are not clove pods but very large single bulbs that I call "mothers." I like to plant them because they produce huge plants. Thanks . . . I can use some of your information. I prepare with 2-3 inches of compost and a moderate serving of chicken litter organic fertilizer.

@janericvelure6883 Ай бұрын

for other poor buggers like me, bullbiles are quicer then 5 growing sesons to get nice garlic,the rice sized bulbilles thakes longer time, 3-4 sesons but i grew 5 cm wide rokambole in two grow sesons. planted the bullbiles in pots, spring 2023 and the rounds in the ground at atum 2023, harwested end juli 2024. i guess the bigger bulbilles the quicker result, and it migth be more tricks to growing the smallest rounds\bulbilles then i got around to learn yet:)

@taiye1211 Ай бұрын

Hi Gardeners, Should i plant my garlic in planter or on the ground. ( direct soil)

@barbaramix1683 Ай бұрын

Gresham, OR Thank you for the walk through. It is my first season growing garlic.

@BobbyFinger-vz2uo Ай бұрын

Let’s grow

@Wes_Comeaux Ай бұрын

Hello N.E. ohio 45 min. S. of youngstown. 10 years growing garlic

@BobbyFinger-vz2uo Ай бұрын

Satisfied

@relaxationmeditation5291 Ай бұрын

When do you pick the scape How long does the scape need to be before snipping it Thank you

@pinehurstguy Ай бұрын

Can I use the soil from my potatoes?

@CathyKercheval Ай бұрын

Sooo grounded

@loveofit6498 Ай бұрын

Vancouver Island!

@debbyhelton3805 Ай бұрын

Idaho

@IanGrant-z7g Ай бұрын

Good yield this year, but no papery outer skin . . Very wet winter . . Was that the cause

@eileentenenbaum1613 Ай бұрын

What should I do if my garlic sprouts in the fall?

@Terri_Stauffer Ай бұрын

Leave it alone. It will still grow nice heads of garlic. Last year it got unusually warm after I planted it and it sprouted, still had nice large heads of garlic. 🧄 This was hard neck garlic.