The Benefits Of GROWING GARLIC: How Much GARLIC Do You Need To Grow In Your Home Garden

[@krucydoesgardeningstuff6785]

You can never go wrong with garlic, it's used for so many things. Even if you think that you planted too much at least you should have more than enough to replant for the following year from what you do not use for food/cooking.

[@HickorycroftFarm]

That is very true! garlic is a great crop to grow and really you can't ever have to much lol

[@marciaabbott5370]

This was an excellent teaching on garlic. It grows well here, but I always thought of it as providing good seasoning, but not indispensable. I'd heard it was healthy, but it's good to know the specific benefits. The fact that most is imported is all the more reason to incorporate it as an important part of your gardening plan.

[@starlightengramA]

I often put a minced bunch of garlic in a pot of boiling water. I also put the paper skins into it. After it boiled, I let it cool, and put it in the blender and make garlic milk. Drnk some every day till you make more.

[@daveknight1154]

Garlic math. Good to see Hickory croft producing garden videos in Dec.

[@HickorycroftFarm]

Garlic math, indeed! Garlic can multiply better than almost anything lol. We actually have a few more garden videos planned in the near future as the garden is going to be a big focus in 2024!

[@marcus3457]

Great video, I really enjoy when you go into the numbers. Two thumbs up!

[@HickorycroftFarm]

Thank you! I know for some that's the boring part, but for us (though numbers are not the only thing to consider), it's still really important to know that info. Both on how well something is working for you and on where you should ideally be in terms of how much of something to grow. Really glad to hear you enjoyed the video!

[@MarjorieFlohr]

Thanks for your video. I checked my garlic patch this morning, and there is one growing, even though we covered them with a thick layer of leaves. It’s supposed to get cold next week. I hope that won’t hurt the garlic, especially the one that thinks it’s spring.

[@HickorycroftFarm]

It should be ok; as long as it's not growing too much, it should be able to weather the winter with a good layer of mulch. Garlic is pretty tough stuff! But it's always worth checking on it when the weather is a bit funny, like it's been so far this winter.

[@79PoisonBreaker]

I started with 3 lbs from vessey's 4 years ago and have now figured out to grow 200 for my needs. some dried for powder some put through food processor w a lil oil them frozen in sheets to break off what i need as i go. 150 about get eaten and 50 planted back in fall. I pick the biggest cloves not the biggest bulbs to replant personally. Huge value garlic for life lol, I also grow lots of walking onions and treat them the same way at the same time planting and harvesting, much easyer for me then starting onion seeds each year also huge value onion for life.

[@janew5351]

You need to ferment in raw honey for those days when you have a sore throat or around sniffly people!

[@marlenepopos12]

Where did you find walking onions. Also do they taste as strong flavor as the regular onoins

[@79PoisonBreaker]

I find them very strong flavored infact I prefer them now. I found them locally on kajiji (craigslist or other classifieds)@@marlenepopos12

[@HickorycroftFarm]

That's great! It's amazing how garlic can multiply so quickly from a little bit to a lot! We do it very similarly, picking the bigger cloves to plant, though we do look at the overall bulb a bit at least (we usually end up planting a few extra cloves from bulbs that are maybe not our first pick each year, but the garlic has still been improving). You are ahead of us on the walking onions. We are starting down the same path this year (we have a few plants and planted a bunch more this fall). We are finding the same thing; hopefully, we can get a sizable patch of it going in the next few years as we just find it too hard to keep the normal onions going (and usually a bit disappointing for the space and time though we have tried!).

[@shauncraig2872]

Started growing my own little patch last year and didn’t do so well but did plant significantly more this year after a lot of research into good practices. We do use a lot of garlic and a pile of olive oil so we fill a mason jar with fresh cloves and top it off with olive oil and use that almost daily in making supper through mincing the garlic and incorporating olive oil into our diet, can’t have too much of a good thing. We’ll see how it works out next year, good video.

[@HickorycroftFarm]

Thank you so much for watching. We also have a few jars of garlic in olive oil. It works great and is easy as the garlic is already peeled and ready to go.

[@Chaucerfaux1]

Well i was slow to the game and i was already beaten with these words. Chicken math has now turned into garlic math. just imagin how bad the math would actually be if you were planting elephant garlic. hard neck or soft neck give better yields, however as you said there will be loss or lack there of germination and growth. Currently i have 4 patches of garlic planted, one patch growing, soon to be planting another set of garlic in a slightly larger sector. Be well be safe and happy gardening. Also Happy New Year.

[@mylesfalconer9183]

You should grow more garlic. Just enough to either give away to loved ones, sell or have as a back up in case of emergency. It stores so well its a no brainer

[@HickorycroftFarm]

We probably should grow more garlic! Not sure we need a lot more but I'm curious to see how well we get through it all this year. Do agree growing garlic at home is a valuable plant; it is a total no-brainer for us, too!

[@marlenepopos12]

How many cloves of garlic do you plant and whete did you get your starting stock of garlic from.

[@janew5351]

I have purchased 12 different types from The Cutting veg in Sutton, ontario. Daniel grows 40,000 per year. Initially I bought Music variety at the East york farmers market by the bag.

[@HickorycroftFarm]

We planted 525 cloves this year, which is a bit less than last year. Last year, we did 580, and I think it may have been a bit much. But when you start making garlic powder and things like that, it does go quickly. We bought our music garlic from a local farmer which is a great way to get started as the bulbs were used to our environment, and our Siberia was given to us by a friend in Southern Ontario.

[@OurLifeOffGrid]

If you don't grow your own, it is hard to buy local. Most garlic in the stores is from China and I will not buy that. Garlic is something we use to everyday.

[@HickorycroftFarm]

Agree completely. Garlic is an expensive and not easy-to-find local commodity, leaving it with the imported option as the only option for so many people.