garlic bulbs at nearly year-round crops spanning all the seasons grown from planting the little cloves inside let’s take a journey and cover that entire garlic life cycle in 60 seconds Keen garlic growers separate the cloves out carefully and deliberately from the bulbs of their favorite garlic varieties the individual cloves are planted four inches apart an inch deep in loose rich soil about a month before the first fall Frost if the weather is a bit too warm the garlic will sometimes Sprout up shoots right away but from now through the four to five month through winter dormancy it’s all about that root system come springtime it sprouts with gusto into a tall large bladed grass-like plant nearing the end of summer that lush green foliage starts to turn brown and begins to fail this lets you know that the bulbs are ready for Harvest dried and cured the garlic has now come full circle and the process is ready to be started again for next year’s garlic
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My dad used to plant the garlic seeds that would be at the top of the curled or furled top of the few that he would let go to seed. He would just broadcast them on the ground in the fall before thanksgiving
Rock on! Great video.
Noticed your hat, too. Go Riders!
choose your largest cloves for planting, cut the scapes off when they apperar for larger bulbs, the last month or so is when the bulb divides and paper wrappers form around the cloves which then forms the bulb.
I just harvested my garlic here in zone 9b. They're the largest bulbs I've ever had. They are hanging to cure for now, though it's difficult to find a cool place here .🏜😂.
Would you also be able to harvest them sooner? Like in August? Asking because I wonder if you could harvest 1 or 2 earlier when you need them.
WELP! Science experiment. I rooted a handful of cloves a week or two ago. There are a few strong sprouts hanging out. It's spring, though, so who knows. I did it just to see if they would grow before they were tossed.
What about if I live in Florida?
Is it too hot to grow in south Florida?
"garlic life cycle"
*does not cover the NATURAL life cycle of a garlic bulb
Surely the garlic lifecycle should include making and setting seed. This is more like the garlic farming or growing cycle.
The Adaptation Agriculture people are doing some exciting work trying to develop an annual garlic.
Garlic is an amazing plant! Tasty too!
I'm hoping to do container gardening (easier on me physically), but I'm thinking I wouldn't want to leave the containers out during the Midwest winter? Would I be able to plant them in early Spring?
Trying to get interesting stuff on my fyp
Thanks, I have to keep this in mind, my garlic always died but I planted anytime, I'll try to remember this year. 👍
Farming: the infinite food glitch👏👏
Because of your video I'm not only educated but now prepared for when I can plant garlic which I've thought about but never fully understood. I cook with garlic every day. Thank you. Food for thought, try Garlic Ice cream, it's amazing. It looks like vanilla ice cream with a carmel syrup on it.
Wow amazing ❤new friend watching from japan
For a life cycle, the flower, fruit, ans first seasons would merit mention too 😉
i plant mine too deep…. damn
Something chewed up the leaves on my garlic and I don't know what.
Now do a video on how to dry and cure the garlic 🧄👍
Does your garlic skip the flowering cycle?
Nice. I just pull one out looking awesome 👍👍😎
Forgot to add, harvest your scales for better yields 😊
If I plant them to early and they sprout before winter will they die? Mine did this last fall and they didn't come up this spring, trying to figure out what I did wrong 😢
Will it survive an Ohio winter?
What if it is a raised bed? Still an inch deep?
Im growing garlic now
What about the scapes aka the flowers. Mmmm….!!! Don’t forget to eat them. And they need to be removed on your hard neck variety or they will not properly mature.
You forgot to say to remove the garlic scapes (flower buds) if you want the bulbs to be big. You can eat the scapes.
Can we eat the tops of garlic? Yum!
I'm going to plant garlic for the first time this fall!
Def missed the part of the life cycle where it tries to make scapes and reproduce
What about seed from a head
Sweet that you think I separate the cloves carefully. It's a ripping process. LOL
why not just plant the whole garlic bulb
Excellent video – showed everything I wanted to learn 👌
How do you dry and cure them? Your video shows garlic with green and yellow leaves, saying "dried and cured and then a jump cut to garlic that doesn't have green and yellow leaves
Always so great! 💜
My garlic in my fridge always starts to get too dry after a while, I guess I should plant some of them lol.. but we have such a short winter here, Idk how it will work out. I probably won't get any frost until January if at all, and then it's hot by April 😂