Common Garlic Growing Mistakes - And How To Fix Them!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

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[@carmenlamanna5391]

Nice video. One thing I learned from planting garlic for the past 40 years is plant the biggest cloves. My Father used to tell me that but I didn't listen. Too busy working etc. Since I've been retired I have been planting the biggest cloves and I noticed the difference. BTW, I am still planting the same garlic from 40 years ago. Thanks for the great advice and videos.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

You're soooooo right Carmen. Bigger the cloves, bigger the bulbs! Eat all the small ones and save the biggie-sized ones for planting. Smart! :-)

[@Jeff_PNW]

Perfect timing, Jeff. I'm just now planting garlic, but not for the garlic. My main garlic crop was planted last Fall. I'll harvest in mid-late Summer, then start again next Fall. Lather, rinse, repeat for endless garlic. The cloves I'm planting right now...I don't care if I get heads of garlic...they're simply companion plants for my tomatoes & peppers. If you haven't tried this, give it a go. The flavor & texture of my tomatoes & peppers have been off the charts since I started stuffing garlic cloves around them.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

So awesome.....I gotta try this! Plus, the green shoots of Garlic are amazing in stir fry! Win-win! :-)

[@DAVESGIRL830]

Definitely will try this as well next season!

[@juliemcgugan1244]

Love, love, love the garlic scapes, too!

[@GreenLove1]

Ha ha have made every single one of those mistakes over the course of the years, and suffered the consequences!! Thanks for putting them all together in one video so the new garlic grower does not make these mistakes - or at least does it with full awareness. Oh, and thank you for doing the whole bulb planting experiment so I don't have to!!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Oh yeah...we all have! Trial and error, ha ha! Cheers! :-)

[@sticks385]

I was about to plant an entire bulb in mid June. I'm so glad I found this video 😅 Thank you so much! 😊

[@TesHome]

Now, I learned from this video that I should plant my garlic one month before the first frost. Thank you and God speed.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers, best of luck!

[@markho5627]

Good advise. My wife is making the first 3 mistakes in her two 4x8 raised beds. She planted about 2 to 3 inches apart all around, let other plants and weeds grow, and don't fertilize much. Fingers cross that she will have a good harvest in about a month. My only issue is the two raised beds should be planted with something else by now. I have too many seedlings ready in trays and no real estate.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Mark, you are now talking my language buddy! Welcome to multi-cropping....love it! Its such a tight-rope of waiting to harvest one crop to plant another......but once you get the nuances down its soooo productive! Garlic is a bit of a hog...taking up a bed for 8-9 months....but thankfully a chunk of that is over winter! Best of luck, keep me updated on the progress! :-)

[@CelticRootsFarm]

Great tips- thanks for sharing. We planted 750 garlic this year. 3 varieties… music, Red German and Elephant, which actually isn’t a garlic, but still tastes really good. LOL We found that using blood meal works really well since garlic thrives with higher nitrogen levels. We used bone meal recently because we ran out of the blood meal, but it isn’t quite as high in nitrogen levels. (Will be adding more blood meal later) Keep up the good work! 👍

[@jillzy1182]

Adding a nitrogen emitter like a cover crop of oats in between your garlic growing or even planting a few oat seeds in the bed can give the garlic the constant nitrogen it needs. Then you can save the oat seeds for next time and turn the tall oat plant into compost. Win win.

[@Gr8fullyDeadHead]

Bone meal at time of planting for roots then in spring blood meal for green growth

[@MichaelRei99]

Jeff , I’m excited to see how my garlic is going to turn out! I’ve followed all of your advice and it’s looking really good and healthy!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right on Mike! They part that kills me is that to actually see it, we have to dig the darn things up! I'm so curious....every year..even after thousands and thousands of bulbs!

[@ginagibson8600]

Thank you for sharing this info. I now know why when planting garlic for the first time last year, it was a failure. I never knew it had to be started in the fall! 🤦‍♀️Lol

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Gina...you are not alone, ha ha! Its such a weird concept planting so close to winter....but indeed, that's how it grows! Best of luck! :-)

[@adamkrasneski3679]

From what I understand, blueberries also require a winter dormancy period. It seems way more common than I wouldve ever though previously.

[@SpiceyKy]

I always wondered why my spring planted garlic was so crappy last year. Thanks! I'll keep planting them as companion plants. But now I know what to expect and why.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Totally Spicey! Gotta plant in the fall for big bulbs!

[@B247E]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Probably a stupid question but does that apply completely the same to the UK? First time planting garlic and didn't know but still want to attempt it. Any recommendations for growing in the spring despite it not being optimal? Thanks

[@adamkrasneski3679]

@@B247E im no expert but from what ive read, they wont produce bulbs properly w out a winter dormancy. Project diaries posted a trick to use ur fridge and freezer. Hes in europe somewhere. I tried it and it didnt work for me tho. Sorry if thats not terribly helpful.

[@paulfrizzell31]

I think I will grow some garlic in the fall (I was going to grow it in the spring)

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Its the only way Paul....unless you have a crazy-long summer where there's 8-10 months for it to grow and bulb out. Cheers man. :-)

[@operationumbrella230]

I like you teaching us all the negatives. People say only what is easy on ears and when we actually try based on the information , we fail. Thank you.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks for that! I hate dwelling on the mistakes, but sometimes that's the best way to learn! :-)

[@operationumbrella230]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I just remembered My teachers at elementary and jr high schools always saying that you can only learn from mistakes or other people. So thank you for sharing! I had been thinking about growing veggies in soil in a cup after failing to regrow in water. It was the same week that I watched your video about growing in a container. It gave me guts to finally grow in a container in soil(I am a huge chicken) and I started regrowing a lettuce and an onion in a paper cup(220 ml, same or a bit bigger than dentists') on a window sill at my small studio. I am regrowing salad spinach and mitsuba(I think it is the strongest in water amongst all the herbs that I tried), green oninon, lemon balm in water next to them.

[@JoannaPindelska]

Green garlic is just as useful as regular garlic heads. I am now in my second year and I am delighted. Close proximity can make the heads smaller, but don't say they're useless ...

[@MorroccoM13]

Another great video. This is my 2nd season growing garlic (in containers). My first was difficult due to a fungus gnat infestation. Treatments with mosquito bits and finally planting basil in the container finally did it. I thought I had them beat BUT got some back in 2 containers late winter to early spring. I dumped and entire container and made fresh soil. I wish you sold the soil you have; man does that look super. I think the reason I enjoy growing garlic so much is because you get to grow it twice > fall and spring. I've decided to store my softneck varieties in the fridge until spring and plant it very early. Is this a bad idea? (zone 6 and bring the containers into the garage when it gets really cold. Garage rarely gets below 40F).

[@myfuturepuglife]

Now that's pretty garlic! I'm a newbie and I've started too many things but garlic is one of them because we love fresh garlic! My garlic leaves look nothing like yours. Mine looks more like onion tops and I planted in the spring when I saw them at Lowe's. It's ok I'm learning and I love that. I'll let them grow and baby them very little maybe pull them up in the fall or I could try cutting the tops back before winter and wait and see what we get in the spring! Enjoyed the video! Thank you!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers, thanks for watching! Definitely don't leave them in ground over winter....what's going to happen by planting at the wrong time in the spring is you're going to end up with small bulbs in the late summer. But they will still be fully-formed garlic bulbs, just small. Leaving them in the ground will cause the individual cloves to further sprout into many plants....except now, even though they are planted at the RIGHT time of year, their spacing is all crowded and they'll just die or grow deformed. If you do anything, dig up the small bulbs at the end of summer and SEPARATE them, then plant like you normally would 4-6 weeks before first fall frost. :-)

[@myfuturepuglife]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Ok, I see and that's what I'll do. Your advice makes perfect sense. Thanks so much for helping me out and for saving my garlic!

[@markfrancis9106]

Thanks for great tips Jeff. Keeping an eye on mine👍👍

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Mark, thanks buddy! Appreciate the support! :-)

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Bein Being in such a wet excessive rain climate i plant mine deeper with no mulch. Year 4 doing great!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Awesome!

[@cyann410]

So glad I watched this. I bought garlic bulbs to plant this year. Unfortunately, it is March, so I won’t get a crop of garlic this season. But I got some great info ! Thanks!

[@magdalenoybarra2793]

Amigo Jeff , Thank you so much for the awsm info now I see my mistakes (under nourishment). Greetings from Texas the lower Rio grande valley.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right on Magdaleno! Don't go tomato-crazy with the nutrients....but definitely more than we normally give Garlic! :-)

[@kingkha5672]

Glad I didn't made any of these mistakes! And I'm finally back, I just had a break from all that studying and growing! Had my older sis covered for watering and like c'mon who can study for all week I mean I do study but even I deserve a break from all of it! phew warm weather coming it snowed last week so ye and bruh it's 2 but feel like -4... Anyways Happy Gardening!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right on! I hope you get an epic harvest this year.....and some spring weather soon, LOL!

[@kingkha5672]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thanks bro! And yea I'm longing for spring weather... hope you have a bountiful harvest aswell!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@kingkha5672 We skipped spring and went straight to summer (20C)...it's crazy! Hope your school projects went well!

[@seantemple8794]

Hey, I've started growing garlic in spring and I now know it was a mistake. I was wondering if I could leave it around a year then harvest it or should I remover the garlic and plant something else. Any help appreciated

[@bevvennik1661]

Garlic MUST have good drainage, so raised beds and generously add sand. You need to get varieties suitable for your latitude. If you're semitropical you need varieties that are not daylength sensitive. Otherwise, accept the fact they do better further from the equator (latitude) than 30° Use the biggest bulbs for planting. varieties that get a flower are mostly larger bulbs (hard neck) and the softnecks have an inner ring of smaller bulbs. Best keep them for eating 😉

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Love the scapes!

[@Landengrady]

I just love watching your videos. And thanks for commenting back with my question last week.

[@Pubgfetiz]

Hi Jeff, amazing nice and informative videos, unfortunately for garlic, I lost all mine indoors and outdoors (container gardening) ... also angrily mad 😠 at myself several weeks now losing all my tomatoes plants and most of my peppers by spider mites (exhausting running like a headless chicken to get any kind of organic ways to deal with that menace (still struggling with it) Fortunately, I did replant a few, so I have back up but moving them around to avoid them from dying off too. I just have me so disappointed, honestly. Thanks for the videos Jeff. 🙏🇨🇦

[@clairwilliams4093]

So glad I found this video..going into autumn in the southern hemisphere so now is the right time for me to plant some garlic! I bought some Egyptian pink garlic online, apparently it's quite pungent, so lets see how it goes. A question please...I will be planting in containers and I feed my containers well and often. Can I grow thyme around the garlic as a living mulch? I saw that on another video, but am not sure if it will work as you say garlic does not like to compete? Please help! Thanks for another great video!

[@mac11music29]

Very informing thank you!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey thanks for that, and thanks for watching! :-)

[@griffenstochmal3100]

I like your hat guy! Good to see garlic growing close to home.

[@judithroque4009]

I planted my garlic. Next year I’ll be able to have enough to eat and replant. Just wondering, do you have a video about planting brussel sprouts? Thanks.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right on Judith, hope you get a jumbo harvest! For Brussels Sprouts, I have a current crop growing in the Community Garden Bed Project. I plant it out in video #3 and the next video will be the harvest. Ideally, I'll extract a Brussels Sprouts video specifically from all that footage as well...likely later this fall: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJjdpHmAl8eab6c

[@bc24roxy4]

too funny. I just got garlic today to get it in my garden!!! oops. Guess I will get some more come this fall. New gardener here Thanks so much for the info.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ha ha, good timing Beth! You can still plant it for the green shoots though...they are quite tasty. Almost like Green Onions. :-)

[@EnglishLearnersHere]

Would also like to grow garlic soon! Thanks a lot! ❤

[@homernextdoor5950]

Another Awesome vid!! I didn't realize I should plant it a month b4 frost. I've been planting them right near frost but still seems to work lol . Will be different this fall! My Carolina Reapers,ghost peppers are about 7-8 inches tall and I usually would transplant now into 3-5 gallon pots. Is there any benefit to adding another transplant in there now to a say 1 gallon and then on may long weekend go to the 3-5 gallon? May long is when I can leave them out 24/7 Cheers from the Kootenays!😁🇨🇦

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

That's the beauty homer....tons of room for error. They are quite cold hardy so they can take the late planting....its more of a fail safe in case a hard winter hits right on the frost date.

[@shineyrocks390]

It's also potato season And that goes good with garlic 😁

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Totally agree! :-)

[@StormofTruthPrepping]

nice job

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks man!

[@jamesliew9224]

Hi, love watching your videos. As I live in tropical climate zone, have use your method of putting the garlic in the fridge for a month. After that I planted them but after growing for about 2 month, it died on me. Rotten bulbs. What have I done wrong? **I use store bought garlic.

[@chyeahmusic]

Does comfrey make a good mulch or bottom-layer compost for garlic?

[@ZSchrink]

Hope I remember this come fall!

[@thatjerseyb]

I did my garlic halloween. Our first frost date here in NC... is Nov 5. this is my first year doing garlic. I've fertilized about twice and fertilized the bed with slow release before I put it in. The greens are at chest level to me with no signs of 'failing' or 'dying off'. with it now being middle of may... I'm dying to rip them out of the ground, but trying so hard to be patient. everyone else says their greens don't get large. and we did have snow and stuff in january, then got warm in february and froze again in march. so hopefully I didn't just waste time and space leaving 30 cloves of garlic in the ground for 8+ months. at least I'm pretty sure they arent rotten. but they may be tiny heads.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Garlic greens get huge....you can see the ones in my video are over 6 feet tall. Harvest when the foliage begins to brown and fail, but if you're curious how the Garlic is doing, it grows right at the surface. Just peek at it....it won't kill it.

[@lcostantino7931]

Best wishes. We r waiting... N waiting ... N waiting.... LOL

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ha ha ha ha I knowwwww! Didn't upload it until like 4am too...zzzzzz......

[@josephwirth3892]

love your channel thanks brother

[@richardmacdonald3196]

Any suggestions for dealing with "rust"? I have been using the same bed for a couple of years (I only have 2) and now have a rust so moved to other bed for this year. Also where we are in Vancouver we don't get much in the way of cold winters and instead LOTS of rain. I have had mixed results planting in fall - sometimes cloves rot even in well draining soil.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Richard, yeah, I'm in Victoria and to combat the rot, I went raised beds or container Garlic for the most part. The issue is the end of fall and beginning of water is so warm, so our Garlic almost always sprouts. Couple the giant green wick (the shoot) with the amount of precipitation we get and the cloves are very susceptible to rotting. Plant later, mulch heavily, and go raised beds is usually the answer. For the rust, go bigger spacing and air flow to prevent it, and drastic pruning and removal to deal with it if you have it. And mulch with dry straw instead of leaves or grass or stuff that tends to "clump". Best of luck!

[@Dicofol1]

Great video. What fertilizer formula would you recommend, is a high nitrogen fertilizer a good choice? thanks.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks! For fertilizer, if going chemical I would go balanced. Like a 10-10-10 or something close to that. Seaweed or kelp extract is the best. Compost is awesome as well. Nothing too crazy like tomatoes or peppers....just more nutrients than people usually give them.

[@deeEFG1]

My garlic specifically says to plant in spring.. 😟 is it a fib?! I love your Facebook group. Although I’m in England so many differences, it’s ever so inspiring.

[@averykleon]

What is your recommended planting distance?

[@breeguh2854]

Florida does not get a fall frost can I grow it in Florida’s fall?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Bree....yep, people do it all the time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHOqpHtplLCqrZI

[@Yunusm1]

This is my third year planting garlic. the first year i planted softneck garlic but i did not do any research and my second year i did some research and my garlic was hardneck garlic and it was medium size but this year im doing alot of research

[@locomojoboy2]

I live in Hawaii where it’s relatively warm all year round. With this said, can I plant in the spring, or any other time since it’s way warmer here than it is in the mainland? I also am planting them in plastic pots and water them every day. Is that ok?

[@TheBBQKEEPER]

Can garlic be planted in a previous potato bed? Having issues with yellow leaves and slow growth. Thanks!

[@rosanneciccia7918]

Planted 9 cloves in November here in texas. They sprouted tall green stems in Dec and contined growing. Never died in winter despite cold weather. Now in spring the bottom leaves are yelliw and brown. I decided to pick a few and nothing!!! No head of garlic. Only one big bulbous end that looks like an onion. Decided to wait a bit longer into spring to see what happens. Stalks are so thick too. Can I use the one I picked for anything g or just toss them? How long should I wait before trying to dig up again? Thanks

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Garlic is ready when 2/3's is the foliage has died off and turned brown. All parts of the plant are actually edible!

[@rosanneciccia7918]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thank you. Can these be eaten now or do the need to be dried first?

[@deannamcnamara3393]

Great video 🙂 Just wondering if garlic like a lot of water or just a sprinkle every couple of days? Thankyou

[@ncinteriorsplus3520]

Well drained soil. Lots of sun. Water only if drought exists.

[@karenheider4138]

My store only sales gardening garlic in the spring, I bought a package and was saving it for fall but it all dried out. My question is can I buy garlic from the produce section of my grocery store and plant that?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yes Karen, 100%. Store-bought Garlic sprouts nearly every time! :-)

[@hannahcma]

Quesrion for all the garlic veterans. It is May I'm in zone 5a and my garlic is looking incredible. Should I keep the mulch around it and uncover at the base? should I fertilize? this is my first time growing

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hi Hannah...its all here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaGwcnuuZqaaY5Y Keep the mulch on, harvest time is when the leaves turn brown....usually mid June.

[@hannahcma]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thank you!

[@markstevenson9080]

Do you ever use the garlic seeds or do you use them for something else? One year I didn't get all the seeds and or bulbs so now I have a small patch of garlic growing in one corner of one of my beds. Should I just cook with them or plant them? Thanks!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Mark... Garlic doesn't normally produce seed... Not in the traditional sense of a flower, a fruiting body, and then seed. Occasionally you can get little black garlic seeds.. In that case, just plant them about a month before you'd normally plant garlic cloves. In your case, if you truly had seeds that set and sprouted, separate all the little plants, put them in a cool spot, and try to grow them over winter for next year!

[@markstevenson9080]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thanks! They are probably those little bulbettes on the end of the scape, whatever those are called. Love your videos!

[@silverlining_1995]

The greens it grows... can you eat that? Is it like green onion or something like that? Just curious cause I think I seen someone eat those. Also if you stick the garlic in the freezer for a couple weeks and are still not too late, I heard it grows alright

[@saturdaysun5724]

Lovely kids. ❤️

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks! :-)

[@mllokie9075]

Can you cure garlic in more tropical locations is it time or the cold it needs

[@SHRI_the_DIY_Warrior]

Good job budd 😊

[@jessicag3986]

I’m so guilty of planting my garlic in April because I was too excited... I put the bulbs in water and they grew incredible roots (just from my kitchen within 2 weeks) and now I planted them, it’s still cold during the night, I have no idea what I will get in 3 months... but I’m still hopeful. They look good 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m very inexperienced... and Italian, in love with garlic... Question: should I not use the same soil to plant garlic again in November? I heard garlic doesn’t like soil that had previous garlic in it and it can cause disease? Perhaps I’ll use that soil for sweet potatoes?

[@valkyrie9553]

What you can do next time if you’re planting in the spring is toss your garlic into a crisper drawer in the fridge for 6-8 weeks. That’s enough time for it to go through its vermiculation process (so it can properly split)

[@MrStrongbox]

If anyone could give me some advice I'd appreciate it. I live in the South suburban Chicago. A friend of mine gave me some garlic that he pulled out of the ground in mid may of this year. They were small bulbs clumped together with about a foot long of green foliage. Not knowing, I just planted the whole clump which if i had to estimate, contains around a dozen single, small immature bulbs. Its now been close to 2 weeks and I know I messed up. 1) Should I dig them up and properly separate them and replant? 2) Should I just leave them, chalk it up as a mistake and allow them to naturally grow and replant in the fall? 3) If I go with option 2, would the bulbs even be viable for fall replanting? Thanks for any feedback!

[@wendyburston3132]

Thank you for the info. I didn't realize they needed fertilizer because they've always grown well against the South wall of the house. Probably because we've always dumped out our expired plants there?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right you are Wendy....they definitely are moderate feeders....but they aren't picky about the source! I've fed a bed with seaweed the last 2 years and the Garlic has grown amazing! :-)

[@adamkrasneski3679]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms ...... where are u getting seaweed?? Lol. Are u buying it specifially for gardening? That would make more sense.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@adamkrasneski3679 the beach?

[@adamkrasneski3679]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms welp. That makes me a little dumb lol. I just dont think of beaches when I think of canada. But yeah u guys do have 3 giant gulfs.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@adamkrasneski3679 and seaweed everywhere!! :-)

[@mikefarrar1761]

I planted my first garlic last fall. Obviously now, I had incorrect information and planted the entire bulb. It did not sprout each clove individually, but had one long sprout that grew. So, my question is, can I still cure the garlic and eat it? Will it be flavorful?

[@stevencats7137]

What do you do with the straw on top after you harvest? Do you remove it by hand? Then u lose the carbon. Do u leave it? Then how do u plant your next crops?

[@Still-Learning]

Does organic over conventional make a difference? Is conventional sprayed with a growth/sprout inhibitor?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

It often is yes.... And it really affects sprouting plus isn't good for you. The best is literally local garlic from a father's market. Normally not sprayed and usually the best varieties for your area.

[@Still-Learning]

@TheRipeTomatoFarms Got it... thanks. I planted cloves last fall, and they sprouted this spring but are floppy, spotted, and just look weak. I'm considering pulling out the plants and calling it a loss. I can use that grow bag and soil for another plant. I'll try again this fall to grow some garlic. That's why I enjoy growing. There's always something to learn from the wisdom in the soil.

[@anica6931]

How often should garlic be watered?, what is the best fertilizer?

[@chris-edward2264]

Question. What will happen if you plant it in the spring, then leave it through the following winter and into next summer?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

It will grow to a bulb in the first year (small bulbs, but still bulbs made up of many cloves), then, those cloves will sprout and grow into new individual Garlic plants that will be stunted and tiny and even worse off the following year. It the same as planting a whole Garlic bulb....check out this video here for what that does: kzbin.info/www/bejne/inbCm6iMmruYmdU

[@dannyleonidas4328]

What indicators do you use to know when to harvest them?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Daniel, its actually quite easy with Garlic. The shoots begin to turn yellow/brown and fail. Once that happens, I'll dig around one bulb to check it out, then if we're good to go I'll bend all the stalks in half 90 degrees and wait another week, then harvest. That alone can make the bulbs swell another 10-15%! :-)

[@TANK_Lowden]

the comment section is always a treasure trove! recap timing spacing weeding feeding tasty nugget for the group: growing garlic, basil, *oregano, *rosemary, carrots and i believe parsley near tomatoes enhance their flavor (of all) * note- plant these in containers or they will invade. papi57@gab

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@TANK_Lowden :-)

[@neelasupersad5462]

My young garlic leaves melted with excessive rain, but there is a small bulb below with roots. Can I replant them?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Once the plant has bulbed up, you cannot replant it to make the bulb bigger. Each clove in that bulb, even though they are tiny, will try to sprout and become it's own plant. The results will not be good.

[@xfilesfan6593]

Question: my garlic is covered with straw and it has already starting to sprout, do I keep the straw or do I remove it to allow the sun in?.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I keep my mulch on. Unless you've laid it on a foot thick, the mulch doesn't have to be removed.

[@xfilesfan6593]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thank you !!.

[@Scuba451]

Planted my garlic in fall(musik) some is splitting which I pulled early and dehydrating for powder, any idea what went wrong with these?

[@Scuba451]

Siberian reds are looking amazing same type of soil

[@colleenbellscanadiangarden9180]

I planted my garlic in the fall in containers some sprouted before winter and I heavily mulched but this spring I look off the heavy mulch as to much rain and I think my garlic has rotted out no signs of garlic yet , here is hoping

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Did the containers have good drainage Colleen?

[@colleenbellscanadiangarden9180]

@The Ripe Tomato Farms yes but just too much rain and mulch, I believe

[@suz4keeps]

Great advice thanks. I came here from the Growing, Better group. First time garlic grower here in South Australia, planting now because it's fall down under. Here in our stores there is only imported garlic to buy for cooking. The imported garlic has been sprayed with something to stop it sprouting and so grocery store garlic will fail in the garden. I got my garlic bulbs from friends here and there are viable bulbs available at plant nurseries at a considerable cost (like $50/kg or USD17/lb). So; are garlic bulbs for planting more readily available there in the US? Also, what is an average price there for grocery store garlic?

[@bevvennik1661]

I'm in SE SA - plenty of garlic available from local growers, just make sure you're on Ozzie FB sites.

[@B247E]

"Resist the urge to plant garlic in the spring" *me just about to plant and watch this video*

[@KristiContemplates]

In Australia April is Allium month 🇦🇺👍❤️💛🖤

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yesssssssssssssss!

[@GirlMomma]

Thank you so much for this! I guess I did it the wrong way LOL I grew it in water and The Roots got so so long and now I don't know what to do. 😆 Guess I'll start over in the fall! Also, what is the name of that straw? I want to buy some but there's so many different types of straw. I'm so excited to start planting now that the last frost will be over this week! I've never planted anything before, so I'm so nervous to mess it up! Thank you so much!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers, thanks for watching! You can grow in water first, but being a fall crop there usually isn't any point. The straw is awesome! Basically its the small-animal bedding version. Comes compressed in big bags. Many brands and marketing names for it.

[@GirlMomma]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms great! So just any type of straw will work then? We always have hay for our Guinea pigs, would that be the same thing?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@GirlMomma Exactly. As long as its not hay, it'll work just fine! :-)

[@GirlMomma]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thanks so much my friend!!🤗👌

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@GirlMomma Anytime!

[@liamgrows]

I planted them in December When should I harvest them like what month?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Liam, the month changes for every area. You harvest the Garlic when the shoots begin to turn yellow/brown and begin to fail. So watch your plants and they'll tell you when it's time, rather than an arbitrary month.

[@joybrown8644]

I filled one 4 x 8 bed the third week of October with garlic cloves I had gotten online from a reputable company, the variety was music. I fertilized and covered the bed with a good 5 to 6 inches of straw. Nothing happened. I was able to find a couple of 1 inch shoots at one point, but that was it. I noticed in February that there was some white mold underneath the straw, but I thought that was the normal breakdown of nature and wouldn’t hurt the garlic. Is that what caused my garlic to disappear?

[@nobullziggster4070]

I had a couple of spots where Garlic showed up so i pulled the clumps and separated them. I re-planted all these for space to see what they will do about 4 weeks ago. I still have no idea what they will do but they did over winter. lol So your saying be late on planting Garlic just before the first frost in fall. Cool i tryed doing that and couldnt find Garlic to plant? They dont want us to grow garlic or what? I bought organic Garlic at the store to try and froz it a few weeks then the refrigerator for another few but it didnt work. The bulbs turned mush-ee and didnt sprout.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yup, I see that here too.....they don't make it available at the right times. To pre-chill your Garlic (vernalization), you use the fridge, not the freezer. The freezer is just a bit too cold for that.

[@nobullziggster4070]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I will do it the way you say and i will try packing it in saw dust or shavings in a large container and give the freezer another try just for my own curiosity because that sounds like its natural environment of how it over winters in the garden...You got me thinking lol i am falling in Love with my garden...

[@randyneil6161]

My country does not have winter, will the garlic grow?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Randy... Garlic will always grow. In fact, it does most of its growing in the summer (warm weather). Now, whether or not you can get decent sized bulbs without a chilling period is another story. For the best success, stick with softneck varieties, for sure.

[@jordanparijo7995]

I planted garlic 3 to 4weeks ago when i had put them in soil they began to grow roots but now that the plant has grown, 3 leaves died and i dug it up and saw that it has less roots compared to 3 weeks ago Do u know why that happend

[@LisaTrunkenbolz]

Can anyone tell me if they'd do well planted on the north side of a deck. Not stark shadow but definitely not very sunny. It's a great plot and I'd love to find out what I can plant there.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Lisa, like all Alliums (onions, scallions, shallots, etc), they grow best in full sun.

[@iadoreadonai]

S.O.S...Can I grow Garlic in South Florida ??..or do need to move

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yup, you sure can. Plant a month before your coldest month (you have no frost date) and stick to softneck varieties, which should be the only ones offered in your area anyways. Cheers! :-)

[@victoriajohnson3034]

What happens if you remove bottom leaves from your garlic in beginning of summer?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Not much. Don't think it has an effect either way.

[@firemarshaldil]

My garlic I planted last fall, grew small plants over the winter and here in spring, they all died. Is there anything that you can think of that would cause them to all die at once like that? Can I email you?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Did they die in the winter or in the spring? If its the winter, they could have been too shallow and froze. If its the spring they could have got too wet. Also, when Garlic sprouts green shoots before winter dormancy, those green shoots can guide water down to the bulb all winter, causing it to rot. :-(

[@firemarshaldil]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms they died in spring, I don't know how familiar you are with the spring we had here in NY, but it was summer and winter all in the same weeks. I bet it was the early stalks. Maybe next time I'll plant a little later in fall/winter

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@firemarshaldil that had to be it. I'd try to get them in the ground in the fall where they can't send up those green shoots through winter...

[@ncinteriorsplus3520]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms my shoots are 4 inches tall right now. Can the shoots be cut back under the mulch?

[@feliciacarter1962]

What did you feed your garlic?

[@charlesroberts3910]

I planted my garlic too early and the tops are tall should I cut them back

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Some people do... I've always just left mine

[@shashb6519]

What happens if plant without the inner skin on the bulb? Also I live in an area with no winter. I live at the equator in Ecuador. Little change in temperature year round. I've tried putting the bulbs in the frig before planting. My note keeping is not great. However, never yet have gotten really nice size bulbs. Anyone with success in this regard? TIA.

[@babylylia2205]

How to treat the white rot in garlic?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Too much water or poor drainage or both

[@chrisjefferson264]

What about garlic that was growing well but lots of rain causing it to get thin and fall over? Can it be saved?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Depends on how far into its life cycle this happened...

[@chrisjefferson264]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms it was planted in January. I pulled 1 bulb and it was nice size, just the tops are looking really bad, some green still but falling over

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@chrisjefferson264 if one bulb was good I'd not tempt fate and just harvest the rest. :-)

[@stevena3333]

😂 I’m a loner. Don’t touch my small bulbs lol

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ha ha there's a T-shirt! :-)

[@mariecoggins9072]

Can anyone help with garlic not drying? I've just done my first harvest but we've had a really wet summer so far. (Thanks UK!) The garlic had all fallen over so I harvested as soon as we had a dry day but now many of the bulbs are not curing and drying as they should. It's been around four weeks now.

[@Landengrady]

I have started my seeds indoors and I have watched alot of videos that talk about hardening off your seedlings....what does that mean?

[@rosezingleman5007]

It means to gradually get your seedlings used to the outdoors. You want to put them outside in a sort of sheltered area for an hour a day for a few days, then gradually increase the time and exposure to full sunlight so that the outsides of your plants “harden” (and they do get tougher tho sometimes it’s hard to see) up against wind and sun. Otherwise they might just whither up on you. One trick is to put a fan near your seedlings inside first to mimic outside breezes. I did it this year and my stems were sturdier.

[@thegreenmother9]

So my garlic grew amazing greens but no bulbs, I planted in fall and had good spacing, little weeds, Not sure what I did wrong 🙁

[@hmmm..2733]

My garlic fell over. Does anyone have any ideas why? Planted in the fall, and pulled it up a few weeks ago. The bulbs were smaller than they were the year before.

[@jacquiesuper2200]

Will garlic still grow if u take the covering off. I made that mistake on lots of my cloves. I’m afraid that was wrong

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

What kind of covering do you mean Jacquie? Like the mulch? Or the paper covering on the cloves themselves?

[@jacquiesuper2200]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms the paper covering on the cloves themselves

[@ashleyphilbrick573]

I was wanting to join your fb gardening group but asked me where yall were originated from?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Just put down anything ashley...as long as you don't look like a bot or scammer, you'll be accepted!

[@sylviemercier4406]

The only thing that I would had it’s watering garlic……I have sucées by only give it a thirst if there as not been rain so my days ……if there no rain for a week give a bite of water to your garlic over watering will bring worms……and diseases! Good luck…I love garlic growing!

[@halimaali798]

Okay I am slightly worried with my garlic now lol

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Oh no, how come Halima!!?

[@TOEC]

Can Garlic planted too early be salvaged? or should it just be removed?

[@suzanneweary9739]

I planted my garlic November 27th. It really takes 9 months? 🤦🏽‍♀️😂🤷🏽‍♀️ Okay! I put everything you said, so I don't need anymore fertilizer?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Depending on your summer, should be ready for harvest in May/June. So 7-8 months from when you planted. Hard to tell if your plants need nutrients without actually looking at them. Do they look like mine? Are they thick and really green like the ones in the video?

[@suzanneweary9739]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms kinda, sort of....😂 They're green, but also have brownish leaves on the bottom of the stems.

[@propertydolphincoast9927]

Please help. My mum pulled out my garlic instead of my leeks. She washed the roots and left them. When I noticed that she had harvested the wrong crop I replanted the garlic. The roots were still well intact. Do you think they will keep growing? 🤔 ouch 😢.