This ONE Tip Will DOUBLE The Size of Your Garlic Heads!

[@RickMcFarlane-l2m]

Nice video, and a great tip. But there is something to watch out for when doing this that I learned the hard way after planting only the largest cloves for 15 years or more. By only using the largest cloves for seed, you are inadvertently selecting for heads with fewer cloves. If you have two bulbs the same size, the one with fewer cloves will have larger cloves, which you will choose for seed. After 10-15 years of doing this most of my garlic only had three massive cloves per plant. The problem with that is that to keep the same number of plants each year, you have to use 1/3 of your harvest for next year's seed! Since I figured this out, I've been planting the largest cloves from the bulbs that contained the largest number of cloves. My stock now gives me bulbs with 4-6 large cloves, so I only have to use 1/5 of my harvest for seed.

[@carmenortiz5294]

Thank for posting this. I was wondering about what you mention. I have had that issue come up.

[@whome9936]

This is really interesting. Good thinking.

[@marthaanne3263]

Thanks for the expert advice! I'm really curious about long term selection and land races.

[@josephnadrignola1951]

Great tip. I wondered about that. Like you, I’m more interested in number of cloves than size alone.

[@tailmask4886]

this is an excellent selective breeding tip

[@nicolasbertin8552]

I've been growing garlic for about 5 years now, and the advice we give in Europe is that you don't feed them ANYTHING. THey don't need anything, just like onions and shallots. But for some reason many American gardening channels claim that they're nitrogen heavy and need a lot of fertilizer, it couldn't be further from the truth. These few things will increase your yield more than any fertilizer : 1) Don't plant them that deep. The tip of the clove should poke out in the air. It helps with big bulbs, as it grows outwards easier, especially in my clay soil. 2) Instead of fertilizer, you just need humus. And for that, you only need mulch. I put 15-20 cm of wood chips on my garlics when I plant them. And that's all I do. In March, there's usually a weeding chore I Have to do coz some weeds have come through usually, and in May there's usually a lack of rain in France with global warming, so they need one good soaking in May. That's it. Also, for garlic, it's useless to have ginormous heads. You want big heads ? Grow elephant garlic. But bigger heads means less flavor. Because for giant heads with normal garlic you need nitrogen, which makes the cells expand, soak up water, and dilute the taste. Of course, the heads you harvested from small cloves were too small, but the other ones are fine, and I usually get mostly this caliber. Again, just with woodchips, nothing else.

[@patrickkirwan3353]

Cheers nic. I put my garlic in a bed which i had just cleared of beetroot, did not feed the soil but my garlic is looking terrific. Another few weeks to go before harvest yet, but will keep your comment in mind come october. Peace and love from Wales.

[@fantastictoad8853]

I had a garlic sprout wild in my yard this year. I've been getting onions growing wild for the past two years. I don't do anything, and it seems nature just knows what to do.

[@rastamon5969]

I agree except for the global warming part

[@Piper7cub]

I agree (we just use good compost / soil) except for the part of global warming unless you mean that our planet is ever changing when it comes to temperature with or without man. We should care for our planet & environment and be mindful and not pollute our rivers, oceans, conserving water, energy, etc.where we can and so on, but we, nor cows, are changing the temperature or the amount of rain or snow we get. I don't understand why when people are talking about one subject, other people have to interject "global warming" into their comment. Same with movies....the last four movies we watched, they all said something about global warming. Changing everything over to electric and putting up thousands of giant windmills all over the planet is definitely not an improvement.

[@nicolasbertin8552]

@@Piper7cub then you should go read on the actual science that proves man changed the Earth's climate. That myth about global warming just being a natural cycle has been disproved like 25 years ago... It is 100% mankind's doing. It's happening too rapidly, too intensely, we are the cause.

[@JefeBoss]

What we've done here in Spain for literally centuries is just tie off the plant to stop sending nutrients to the top green part and fatten up the garlic head in the ground, and it works very well. Also works with onions.

[@billhill4929]

Should I just snip the stems back?

[@cindys.w.8566]

@@billhill4929 NO. TIE the top they wrote... NOT CUT IT OFF! SMH!!!

[@calmblueocean7243]

​@@cindys.w.8566 it was a fair enough question, no need to be so rude!🙄

[@RedNicole22]

When would we want to tie them off?

[@stanheeres3218]

@@cindys.w.8566 no, they did NOT say tie the top. Which gets to my question. WHERE do you tie them off? top, halfway or bottom.

[@jonwalker5050]

Your giggling enthusiasm is totally infectious, i love that you love what you are doing

[@MindandSoil]

Gee! Thanks Jon :) Sure right about that, definitely love what I am doing! Thanks for watching

[@georgekusz4221]

I've saved the flower seeds once and wife said to trow them on the compost. Well, I've plant them instead and harvested the biggest and healthiest crop ever. :-)

[@georgekusz4221]

Listen to your wife, Adam did.

[@MindandSoil]

So glad to hear! Good luck this gardening season and thanks for watching :)

[@lc1102]

I threw mine in the compost and grew in the edge of the compost without planting! Awesome

[@hogue3666]

Nice. So let's just took two years?

[@americangrit7759]

I use the flower seeds in salads ❤

[@shawnmoriere4086]

I love that you were amazed by the size of the garlics, when I was actually amazed by the quality of your soil. 👏🏼

[@bthyme]

That is why I plant small cloves half-way between properly-spaced large cloves. In the spring I have an early harvest of the small ones to use as scallions or spring onions. That restores the space for larger bulbs but makes more efficient use of my beds.

[@vaclavhanusekv1717]

Nice idea of treating smaller cloves as green garlic, nice. Too late for me to try, tho, welp, I'll try it your way in 6,5 months.Although I hope for all my heads to be huge, I chose the best straings of garlic from my last years' test.

[@GoAwayNow-iz3du]

Nice. There's room & a use for everyone. =)

[@MichaelRei99]

Why not just plant spring onions in between . The garlic.

[@bthyme]

@@MichaelRei99 I could - might try that. Then I would just keep the small cloves for cooking instead of planting.

[@vaclavhanusekv1717]

@@MichaelRei99 Green garlic is not the same as spring onion (btw I never buy specific spring onion variety, I always have bulbing varieties but I just sometimes choose to use them for leaves. About garlic - people choose to use it as green garlic for its taste and its milder qualities, but Im not sure about putting it in between, because I need to move in there sometimes. Well I need to make my beds thinner so I can get in there from both sided... Probably yeah, but I wouldnt like to steel much space from my regular garlic. I was already thinking about putting some lettuce in between. It could act as a cover crop plus garlic just feels like too much space unsused.

[@davegreig8933]

Try planting some small cloves close together about 2” apart in a 9” pot. Keep moist don’t feed and let them grow through the winter into summer. Let them die back and leave in the pot till autumn. Remove from pot when your planting your garlic. They won’t have divided and will be spherical fat cloves. Plant as you would any garlic clove and harvest really big bulbs next year. It’s a phaff the first year but pays dividends if done well.

[@apotatosapling5698]

I love how you giggle during harvesting! That's the reason why I want to do gardening too. I want to feel the same way.

[@gabec2494]

I couldn't find good seed garlic from the local co-op, so I just used store bought, softneck Chinese garlic (smaller bulbs). I added homemade compost, horse manure, leaf mold and mulched with pine needles. The necks are thick as broom handles right now, and I won't harvest for another month or so from now. Can't wait to see the bulb sizes this year

[@tombolo4120]

Sounds like there might be other tips. I remember hearing there're dozens of varities though, so . . .

[@gabec2494]

@@tombolo4120 tricks?

[@enatp6448]

Love the seriously geeky research gardener approach. ❤

[@smitajky]

I had found the same thing. I don't give them great soil. But they still can grow quite large. One thing I found was that the time of planting was critical to getting large garlic. Too early and they go to flower before winter. Too late and they have no size before the cold weather comes. I am in the southern hemisphere but have found that if I plant about the second week of March the plants put on plenty of leaf and can take full advantage of the weaker winter sun and continue to grow during the cooler months. Giving a much bigger yield than plants that are put in during April which don't get enough leaf early enough.

[@katiesvegpatch]

Great to see this much of a difference! The first time (2 years ago) I did garlic, I just used whatever my husband was ignoring when he selected one for cooking. So I ended up with all the teeny tiny ones. This year (or last year, I mean), I stole all the chunkiest ones so I can have a bigger harvest (and then also planted the ones he'd been ignoring in a tub indoors so I can harvest as green garlic earlier). I'll be interested to see the difference - I definitely think my garlic harvest last year was smaller than it could have been thanks to the cloves I used. Can't wait to see the results!

[@plumbummanx]

I take the largest clove from each bulb I harvest. Why plant so late in the season? I plant early, in Oct/Nov and have lots of leaves that mostly survive under the snow, Zone 5!. When the snow melts my garlic patch is already 5-6 inches tall.

[@abjealva]

I cut the green leaves over and over, chopped them (I do the same with my chives), and added them to a variety of foods (stews, bruschetta, cheese spreads, on top of stakes, burgers, mashed potatoes....), while the bulb gets bigger and bigger in the ground; I leave some in the ground and the following year it comes again.

[@emilysandstrom2476]

heat in butter with basil (baby, early) leaves

[@vedamichele1295]

Great video. Every time you uproot a big garlic, I'm grinning from ear to ear. Thanks.

[@jwfans3127]

Wow I was wondering why my garlic head are so tiny and the reason is I planted small garlic cloves and I did that cuz I didn't really want to give my biggest, thanks alot this accually saved me from giving up, I plant about 14 small cloves before

[@heron6462]

I did a very similar experiment, selecting the smallest cloves I could find and replanting the cloves that resulted. After two years they were back up to average size. The garlic variety was Mikulov, an overwintering type.

[@MindandSoil]

Interesting! Thanks for watching :)

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I always say, plant the best and eat the rest! Klaus

[@MindandSoil]

Love that!!

[@lana11111]

Not chwab 😂he would not give you such an advise

[@Growinginontario]

Variety of garlic also makes a big difference in size . From all the varieties that I grow Music had the largest bulbs. I actually planted small to medium size Music garlic last year and they still formed extra large bulbs.

[@MindandSoil]

Music is a great variety! Great to hear about the garlic garden successes! woot!

[@genkiferal7178]

Elephant garlic is easier to grow and has even larger heads. You all should grow both. Elephant garlic isn't great for stir-fry because it requires a lot more oil, but is awesome for wetter dishes such as soups or in boiling rice. The green tops are also delicious. After a few years, you may never need to replant elephant garlic as its "babies" tend to hide in the soil after you harvest the large bulb.

[@richardhoner7842]

lol you answered my exact question! I have grown garlic for decades but I never paid much attention to the size of the cloves I planted. Guess I’ll be planting my biggest cloves from now on.

[@sanjuansteve]

I like to plant the tiny cloves that are too small to be worth the time to peel and eat and then continuously harvest the greens. Delicious.

[@lorettaviecelli359]

I like that idea...think i'll try it..thanks

[@JS-jl1yj]

I grow the hard neck garlic. The bulbs have only 4 - 7 cloves, which are big. No tiny cloves. I may plant a few tiny cloves of the Chinese garlic to use as greens. Thanks for the idea.

[@kevintodd8195]

Incredible man! Great energy Thank-you for weighing out the yield.

[@cwilson6880]

So much joy from pulling garlic from the soil 😅🙌🏻

[@niknik7470]

"Someone ring the honker alarm" had me rollin' 😂 non-gardners just don't understand how happy it genuinely makes people just digging around in plant. Top stuff my guy 😊

[@theMaryAnneR]

For decades I have saved my largest bulbs and used them to replant in Fall. As a result my bulbs are bigger and bigger. I put straw on after planting and leave it on until harvest. Prevent s frost heave in winter and keeps soil moist and cool in the heat of summer.

[@SunfireWoods]

Is there any noticeable difference in the flavor profiles of the small vs large bulbs? Does smaller = more intense flavor and larger = milder flavor? Or vice versa?

[@MindandSoil]

I'm not 100% sure - but think I might have to do a taste test to find out! haha

[@SunfireWoods]

@@MindandSoil Please do, it'd be a good follow up video. 😀

[@DaisyIdes]

This would be my question too.

[@sheilasydneynotyerbizniz2933]

Yes when they stay smaller, the taste is more intense so you need less. I bet nutritionwise there will be a higher concentration in the smaller ones as well.

[@moodshorts3359]

@@MindandSoil how the taste

[@aldekoning5329]

Hello from Ontario! You like to experiment. Try leaving a few garlic bulbs to over winter a second year. I've tried it last fall and now (April) there are multiple shoots, as expected. Looking forward to seeing the harvest this summer. I read that the bulb should be much bigger. Al in Canada.

[@laurenecarter246]

I accidentally missed some garlic bulbs, and they started sprouting the following autumn. I dug them up, separated them, and they grew really well. I'm keen to experiment and leave them in again. Maybe 2 times more, and see if I get even bigger cloves 😊

[@donaldduck830]

Funny. I always miss a few that come back by themselves.

[@donaldduck830]

@@laurenecarter246 Actually not really. I did some mixed planting to prevent pests in my strawberries. I did not harvest the garlic because I wanted the strawberries, but they don't grow bigger, they only split and you get multiple smaller shoots.

[@laurenecarter246]

@@donaldduck830 oh very interesting. Thank you for letting me know 😊

[@gabriellakadar]

@@donaldduck830 But you do get multiple bulbs all together in a cluster. I've got a few of them this year.

[@LouisEmery]

An offsetting aspect is the amount of leaves produced. If you plant small cloves, they will make smaller leaves and use less area. My hypothesis is that the sunlight is the limiting aspect. with small cloves you could get the same yield per unit area of plot from a larger number of plantings. The choice is then how big do you want your garlic?

[@MindandSoil]

I was super happy with my clove sizes and found them perfect for the dishes I was regularly making at home :)

[@johnsheppard4428]

We took our small cloves and planted them in our garden as perennials. They grow crowded but we eat the greens in spring, chop them in the summer and eat them again in the fall, and use the large cloves for bulb garlic.

[@MindandSoil]

Great idea! Thanks for sharing :) I love the scapes on the top!

[@ritademetzer807]

Interesting. I planted garlic for the first time last fall. My friend gave me large bulbs with super large cloves. I harvested bulbs a third of the size she gave me. Haven’t actually checked the clove size yet as they’re still drying. Regardless, I’ll be more than pleased with my homegrown garlic. Thanks for the tips.

[@ienekevanhouten4559]

I clicked on this all excited, then my reaction went to: DUH, of course! I have always planted the biggest cloves of the biggest bulbs. This reminds me of a Psychology Today study, years ago. It ‘proved’ that rich people have less stress because they do not have to worry about money.

[@MichaelRei99]

Yeah I like how he is pretending he discovered something. This has been a well known fact for a long time.

[@snazzyd8866]

@@MichaelRei99 No need for the snark....people come on youtube to learn new things and this will be new to many

[@soulspaces]

@@snazzyd8866yep

[@ethankolodny8654]

Larger cloves have weaker flavor. Selecting for larger cloves is good if youre selling by the lb. Larger cloves are also a bit easier to work with, but for home culinary use smaller has more flavorful. Also, a little hori hori trick: instead of using the tip as your starting point, measuring 6", pressing your fingers at 6" then moving the hori hori, put the 6" mark at the starting point of your measure, then your tip is exactly where you want to press it into the soil. Really speeds up planting

[@bethgracehallmark2219]

My #1 question. Thank you for answering that!

[@susanlisson7066]

This video comes in handy. I’ve never grown garlic before but I already have some large cloves put aside for planting because I figured bigger cloves might mean bigger bulbs. It’s autumn now so I’m looking forward to my first garlic harvest.

[@stanlevox2291]

Just my 2 cents, I added quite a few expired methylated b-complex capsules to water jugs every time I watered the garlic and also when prepping the soil it made a huge difference from previous years. Next year I'll have to try your trick out.

[@MichaelRei99]

It’s not his trick . That’s been well known for a long time.

[@molochsorcery4357]

@@MichaelRei99 Oh BFD. AS IF anything is NEW on YT. You talk as if you expect to find some unexpected 'trick' hidden somewhere. There's nothing new under the Sun. If you believe there is then you're a bloody fool.

[@suzannesutton5636]

Sounds expensive

[@lufe8773]

Great video explains a lot and it also depends upon the type of garlic you grow. There is one variety called Elephant garlic that is naturally very large but it is closer to the leek than true garlic. It is a bit milder and sweeter than normal somewhere between garlic and onion

[@dispmonk]

It’s not like a leek it is absolutely a leek.

[@marionmoore665]

I planted two this year first time ever.😂😊

[@denisekalt3390]

I’ve been growing elephant garlic successfully for years in the Phoenix area, 9b. I now plant them around my roses to offer more insect protection as well as in my raised beds. You can also replant the little seed garlic or tiny cloves that the bulbs produce. It takes 2 years for them to produce cloves but it’s very easy to grow here and tasty too! Use the greens in soup.

[@dougreynolds2813]

i can affirm that everything you said in this video is true, i proved it to myself; now all my wife gets to use are small cloves. soon there will be no small cloves. i planted corms last summer, not seeing any success yet; but it's been a real cold spring. i'm going to learn some more from you as a new subscriber. thanks

[@gabriellakadar]

That's what I tell my allotment buddies: eat the small ones, plant the big ones. Eventually you should have only big ones. But it also depends on irrigation. Last year was super dry and the irrigated ones grew enormous. The ones that didn't underperformed. Some people claim that garlic doesn't need irrigating but that's incorrect when we are having drought conditions. So far this year it's been rain and rain and more rain. Good thing to grow garlic in well drained super high organic soil because with all this rain, anything less will end up with rotten garlic.

[@seaman1446]

I l admire how gleeful you were harvesting your garlic! i was inspired to plant some in start pots after I notice a head starting to grow in my kitchen.

[@domcrotty5784]

When performing selection, there's always pros and cons. Keeping good records each year is very helpful.

[@maggs470]

Got the giggles from your reaction 👍🏽 Congrats on those beautiful garlic!!

[@anniegaddis5240]

QUESTION: How can you tell which is a flower, and which is actually GARLIC? When I moved to TN there is a "wild flower" that looks exactly like a garlic scape! How do I know in this new garden growing wild, which is which, without just yanking them out?

[@FishingForLife28]

I harvested my garlic today. Had the same reaction with my big bulbs too 😁

[@Justanotherwolf77]

I grew garlic regularly and always tried to use the biggest cloves and tried a mix of different types especially organic . Apparently the Chinese ' wash' Thier commercial garlic in Sodium Benzoate 😮😐 ....not what anyone should ever do !!! I usually grew around 60 to 80 each time . I once tried growing almost 300 bulbs but noticed the more I grew ....the weaker the flavour !! Always planted it late August /early September and harvested the following July/August. Great video and very interesting...thank you 😀👍🇬🇧

[@carriesmith-th9et]

Well done from Ireland

[@MrLove11590]

Love your joy and passion in and for the garden! Good stuff.

[@rahelapanzariu1528]

There is a trick my grandmother use to do twisting the green part of the garlic, so doing that the feed goes to the bulb and not to the leaves, making the garlic bulb bigger. I'm in proces to do like that to, see how it goes 😜

[@single_use_planet_]

Twisting? Can u explain more? 🤔

[@MichaelRei99]

I’ve heard that too. It’s a couple of weeks before you harvest.

[@rahelapanzariu1528]

Practically you grab the green leaves twisting and laing down on the ground

[@carriesmith-th9et]

What type of soil shift u use and fo u fertilise please

[@tinkertailorgardenermagpie]

wondering if you left the little guys in the ground a few more weeks (or so), would they catch up?

[@OuttaDisWorldGamer]

I’m so happy for you ❤

[@MindandSoil]

Thank you so much for watching :)

[@StarLand-gl9qj]

OMG I've wondered about this. Thanks for showing us results!

[@MindandSoil]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching :)

[@priayief]

That's an interesting and informative trial. Here's another one for you (from a trial conducted by the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada). You can increase the size of your bulbs by as much as 40% if you remove the scapes as soon as they appear.

[@MindandSoil]

Oh also very interesting! Thanks for watching :)

[@marathon1951]

I will do that this year, missed it last year and they had already curled around, result.....smaller bulbs...

[@christoperspeer2300]

Great job. Thanks for the teaching. Bravo

[@jeffmeyer9319]

Did you weigh the small and larger cloves before planting? Also, it may be with the smaller cloves you could have planted them on the 4" mark, something to consider. That way the final mass might have been closer to each other.

[@i1bike]

Hi, im from croatia, mediterranean. I planted 5 kilos and got only 1 kilo haha. We call it, right hand, left pocket haha

[@stanleygarland5164]

IN the fall, when the green garlic tops are still tender and have not dried out, you should cut them or bash them. This causes the growth to go to the roots and bulbs instead of the tops. This will make you harvest a larger bulb of garlic or onion, too.

[@christajennings3828]

The leaves are where the photosynthesis is happening. Without leaves, the plant can't make energy to grow. For bigger bulbs, you need more leaves, not less.

[@lesliekarl3594]

Great experiment!

[@MindandSoil]

Thanks so much Leslie!

[@Lucia-mc4zw]

Excellent information! Many thanks

[@jamesewanchook2276]

mine are significantly larger... Russian Red in Vancouver,, 140 heads last year. So easy to grow!

[@CC-lv1ox]

Great experiment. Thank you

[@MindandSoil]

Thanks so much! Keep your eyes peeled for more over the next few weeks!!

[@nickyang1143]

Thank you for doing this, I wanted to do this growing season myself. Saved me mate👍

[@russellmoffatt1049]

I just found you and started following you. I have always wanted to grow garlic. After seeing your video, I am so excited to try growing my own garlic.

[@MindandSoil]

Great! So glad to hear :) Wishing you a great gardening season and thanks for watching!

[@Shadowlan2082]

Timestamp 2:55 I had to subscribe when you said "Somebody ring the 'Honker' alarm" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@fannybuster]

Garlic is one of the only plants that clones itself.. nice presentation

Last Autumn I've planted 200 "air-cloves" (dunno how are called the minicloves that form from the blossom) which I've got form a guy that grew them from seeds (yes, actual garlic seeds). I'll definitely pick the strongest and biggest cloves that will grow from this to make myself a good start for strong and big garlic.

[@nerfherder4284]

I've always heard them called pips.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

@@nerfherder4284 They are also called topsets. Egytian bunching onions produce these like crazy. I have a perrennial bed of them that I never have to replant, I just let the tops fall over, they self plant.

[@gabriellakadar]

Are you referring to what forms if scapes are left to mature on hardneck garlic? Those are then bulbils and each plant can produce at least 30 of them. When you plant these at the same time as garlic cloves, the first year they produce a roundel. Just one ball. Leave them in the ground because the next year the roundels split and produce garlic bulbs. Using bulbils is actually a good way to not introduce disease into your garlic growing area. I've got a number of garlic bulbs that I started as bulbils three years ago. Last year I had garlic bulbs but I left a few in the ground over the winter and now I have a cluster of garlic shoots from each clove of the bulbs. I also have about 60 bulbils growing plus maybe 180 garlic plants for bulbs. I like to experiment.

@@gabriellakadar Yes, exactly. I've planted them in clusters by 20 so they are more visible. I will harvest them with normal garlic and plant them back in the Autumn to continue their growth.

[@gabriellakadar]

@ That makes sense if the roundels need to be planted deeper than the bulbils. Although the four garlic greens clusters I've got this year were never transplanted for the past 3 years. They are not as deep down as the cloves I planted last year in November. We did have a mild winter so I don't know if the sitution would be different would the garlic bulbs have been adversely affected.

[@timmooney2460]

Do you think you can grow garlic in florida in the summer.

[@kathyyoung1774]

Yes, but plant in October. Use shade cloth in late spring because most bulb growth is in last month, and it quits growing when temps get around 90 degrees. I’ve even used a fan in the garden on the garlic.

[@cbk1232]

A very good video.garlic is easy.I’ve found that large cloves make large bulbs.I’ve been planting garlic for 15 years.some varieties are smaller. I grow a lot of German white. I still get some 3” inch bulbs but no smaller than 2”.the same garlic replanted every year.fertilizer is key at planting in fall and in the spring .

[@MindandSoil]

Thank you for sharing! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@TheTinnman]

I clicked over the kit, but It does not say anything about Jumbo Cloves, just 3 heads of garlic. Should I assume that the jumbo garlic kits are sold out for the season as this video is 8 months old as I write this? And will there be a jumbo garlic clove kit available this 2023 fall season? Thanks in advance.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

There's just nothing like enthusiasm for gardening. Three years ago I bought a selection of Music garlic, 30 years organic, ironically, from a farm 10 minutes from where I used to live. The farm where I help out and planted them was also 30 years organic. I only planted the biggest cloves. The multiplication factor has been about 5, and they've only gotten bigger on average. This fall I'll try planting them a few inches deeper. The soil here is very rich, so I see no need to boost them further. The results speak for themselves.

[@keshlalish5586]

as for the smaller clove, plant them close to each other and harvest the leaf, this make the best garlic butter ive had, not too strong, subtle and perfect as seasonning.

[@flpirate4565]

Wonderful experiment on garlic. Thank you

[@MindandSoil]

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)

[@grassrootsgardening]

Great video! Just planted my garlic!!

[@MindandSoil]

Woo hoo! Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)

[@bryanzogbaum1188]

Would have loved to see what percentage of the cloves in the large heads were considered jumbo.

[@christopherckarkson5605]

Hello, good experiment, i will try that next season here in the U K .

[@canadianloon6433]

Glad to see you know the best medicine on the planet Great video

[@MindandSoil]

You bet! Soul- food. Thanks for watching :)

[@nadaferris5928]

Thanks for sharing!

[@MindandSoil]

Woo! My pleasure!

[@diyhomeandgardening]

What type of garlic is it that you planted? Even by planting larger bulbs you still got a small crop compared to what we normally get in the U.K. Do you think that that is due to where you are based, not getting the long period of cold to initiate bulb development?

[@dragonflyfarm9154]

Was there a difference in flavor? Even though we might want bigger cloves, I’m wondering if the smaller cloves are more pungent

[@tappgrease]

Okay here's my question, do they taste the same or is it like gallops and, whatever's better than scallops?

[@MindandSoil]

I was wondering the same, so I did a taste test - which let's just say was an interesting experience. haha. You can watch it here: kzbin.infoPZkjL38bF0k?feature=share

[@mpdonn317130]

Talk about data-driven results! I did this this year and my garlic is waist high now with very large stalks. Can’t wait for the results. Great video!

[@emiishino5422]

Wow, very interesting results.

[@nancybaumgartner6774]

That is a great fiendish garlic laugh !

[@robertdouglas8895]

I eat my small ones, sell the medium size in market and plant the largest. They get bigger every year. I put in a heaping tablespoon of bonemeal or fish emulsion/ bonemeal when I plant.

[@kurtdowney1489]

Where do you live and when do you plant? How deep?

[@robertdouglas8895]

@@kurtdowney1489 Zone 4. N Idaho. 3 inches deep with 4 inches of hay mulch. First week of October.

[@kurtdowney1489]

@@robertdouglas8895 Thank you I am in Colorado very short growing season and am really struggling.

[@MummaMia5]

New subscriber here. Love your garlic experiment. I’m going to get stuck into the garlic growing. Thanks heaps

[@MindandSoil]

So glad you found it helpful :) Thanks for watching!

[@hetormcneil1240]

As always the small cloves will be the strongest taste ❤️

[@linhnguyen-li6us]

this is so true

[@VIpanfried]

Dang. I’m just getting started raising garlic, so this is going to be helpful.

[@BillHimmel]

Real great scientific approach!

[@priayief]

Credible and helpful! Thanks for posting.

[@cookingonthefarm]

I'm new here. I was actually thinking I needed to look at adding a bit more things on top of the garlic in the spring. Thank you for teaching. God bless

[@serenalee-cultura4085]

Hey Jord! Why did you wait 14 days to process the garlic? Gonna do some research and see if I can grow over winter up here. Would love to keep a garden doing something on winter but it does get mighty cold and snowy and also 24 hrs of dark so it might be a lots cause. Haha

[@MindandSoil]

I wait the 14 days just to let it dry - although come to think of it I'm not 100% sure what exactly is happening during that period! What you will find is that right when you harvest it it isn't papery and sometimes there isn't even the individual wrappings around each clove that you would be used to - but after a few weeks - all of that has established, which I assume makes it better from a storage perspective! And YES - we have to get you growing some garlic! You'll want to go with what's called Hard neck varieties. Red Russian is what we grow across Canada as it is really hardy (like it's good to - 30C). And then you'll want to make sure you bury it at least 4 inches deep, and if you can, put 2-3 layers of leaves over top as a mulch - this will help keep it warm as well! I really really want you to give it a try to see if we can pull it off up your way!!

[@vaclavhanusekv1717]

No, you are not gonna do a research. You are going to read online resources, possibly a paper of someone who actually DID research.

[@MichaelRei99]

@@vaclavhanusekv1717 do you feel better now? Let me get you a tissue to dry up those tears!!

[@vaclavhanusekv1717]

@@MichaelRei99 not having any tears, really.

[@KikiAelita]

@@vaclavhanusekv1717 Reading information or resources is a valid colloquial definition of research, which is clearly what an excited garden newbie is using the word as. Yes find some good sites. No it's not meaningless or fake.

[@hjd832]

Fascinating ! I must try this , thanks ! 😊

[@LawNerdAmber]

My current experiment... tossing the whole head of store bought garlic (that started sprouting in the kitchen) on the ground next to my front door to keep the spideys & ants and other insects out of my house. It's growing, I'm in Western Washington. I hope it works!

[@Paulo37580]

Quite interesting. I was given a variety of garlic that is huge. It looks like an onion. It's time for me to grow some more. Thanks for the video. Greetings from Brazil.

[@MindandSoil]

Woo hoo! Thanks for watching!

[@wendyhannan2454]

I love your enthusiasm,it made me smile 😊 I’m about to grow garlic for the first time. Thank you, I love it.

[@dorothymcintyre4394]

Brilliant!!!!:thank you!

[@adammurdoch1708]

I'm kind of curious are the cloves in large heads big or are there just a lot more of them they are clones so if you can get big cloves from from big cloves stuff planting the small ones but if you get more big cloves from small ones they are your seed stock.

[@bthurmond]

Any difference in taste between the 2 sizes?

[@jthepickle7]

When the plants take off again in the Spring, work a little bone meal ( the P in NPK ) into the garlic bed.

[@naeemameen5696]

Great experiment indeed. Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@cherryblossomprincess9985]

May know when the exact time to plant garlic and when the exact time to harvest thank you very much for the I Imformation