2024 Garden and HARVEST Tour Week 7: HUGE Elephant Garlic Cluster!

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Ай бұрын

Hello! My name is Heather and we grow a lot of our own food here in southwestern KY, zone 7! Our greenhouse conversion is well underway and the tomatoes and peppers are getting bigger by the day!! I cannot wait to show you! I'll post all the 2024 garden tours in one place so you'll be able to catch up or look back on the season here: • 2024 Spring-Summer Gar...
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@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I forgot to visit the pumpkin patch in this tour! More have germinated, we will start there next week! ♥

@darcysimental5299 Ай бұрын

Aww your son filming his own garden tour, so sweet. Like his momma So much growing!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

It was so sweet to see while editing!!

@ourhomesteadclassroom Ай бұрын

Every year, I let a few of my leeks go to flower because the bees just adore them. 🐝 Last year, when I pulled the spent blooms + stalks, I noticed that they had grown little corms, so I decided to replant them. And this spring, I was treated to a free leek harvest, plus a few more to let bloom again. So, now, I essentially have perpetual leeks... Who knew?! I just 💚 when a lil' impulsive garden experiment works out like that!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Wow I didn't know leeks set corms!! I have yet to grow leeks but I love a good Potato Leek soup!!

@ourhomesteadclassroom Ай бұрын

And I didn't know that Elephant Garlic set corms because I have yet to get my hands on some to grow myself. But I guess it kind of makes sense since I've always heard that Elephant Garlic is more closely related to leeks than to actual garlic... Look at us ol' gardeners teaching each other new tricks! 😁

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I love it!!

@deltorres2100 Ай бұрын

I love that you take us along with you and your Garden. They’re kind of quite long videos but I enjoy them and you give out such good information. Think you’ve been gardening quite many years. I’m only three years at it but I watch y’all constantly. I learn I read I go online.

@deltorres2100 Ай бұрын

I got out into my garden this morning and I popped in seeds all over for some new jalapeño peppers. You never can have enough. I overwinter a lot of my peppers. 🌶️ 🫑

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Very cool!!

@mistycherie Ай бұрын

Your bright shiny happy face at the beginning made me smile so much and brightened my day, I already knew this tour was going to be good! Lots of wonderful stuff coming up, beautiful flower blooms, and those dill heads look fantastic! Havarti with Dill is a big favorite of mine, so yummy. So cute seeing your son mimicking his mama! Thanks for the goatie goat ending, Foxy eating her little treat was so cute. 💚💚

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I'd love to try and wiggle a little goat content into the garden tours every week!! ♥

@jenmag0313 Ай бұрын

Thanks for another fantastic garden tour!! Everything is looking great! Elephant garlic=WOW. The 2 new goats are so cute. I loved watching them when they met the others. Have a great weekend!!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

You have a great weekend too! ♥

@jaytoney3007 Ай бұрын

Nice harvest! I planted elephant garlic as an experiment last October. They did great growing through the winter, but when the warmth of spring hit, the grocery store mystery garlic surpassed them. Yesterday I harvested my garlic. I got some very impressive bulbs, and some small bulbs thanks to Angel. My cat felt the need to rearrange my planting space, closer is better. She is a digger, and demands digging space. Something came up missing-my elephant garlic. Every one of them was gone, from stem to bulb. The only thing I can think of is a two legged garlic loving critter, knew what they were, and beat me to the harvest. My nearest neighbor is a half mile walk, figure that. This was my last year growing kohlrabi. I managed to get three plants to form bulbs, two small and one large. However, they were rock hard. I might grow them for a decorative plant, but they are off the list as a food crop. There are a lot of other plants that I can grow in their place, or experiment with new varieties.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I'm so sorry about the hard kholrabi AND the garlic thief!! Sounds like a trail camera is in order!!!

@jaytoney3007 Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead The elephant garlic wasn't a big loss, five plants. They would have been smaller than my smallest garlic. They don't do well in Alabama heat. It was an experiment to see how well they grow before planting a production crop. The garlic I purchased fom the grocery store did impresivly well. I'll plant three times as much this fall. The rest of my garden is exploding with goodness. I've harseted peppers twice, and I've already harvested my first slicer tomato of the season, a Thornburn's Terra-Cotta. My determinant tomatoes are still flowering and fuiting, and are already loaded with fruit. The semi-determinant tomatoes are monsters, some nearly eight feet tall, flowering and fruiting. I am also picking a lot of squash and cucumbers.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

AMAZING!! I can imagine all of it and it sounds so wonderful! What a blessing, thanks for sharing!

@jaytoney3007 Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead A few minor setbacks, but a lot of positives!

@cathydiggs6409 Ай бұрын

This is why I watch your channel. I have never heard of toxic squash from possible cross breed volunteers. Good to know the garden looks great.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Yes I've never experienced it but it's a thing!! Kinda crazy!

@elainehinton2860 Ай бұрын

From what I understand it isn’t super common but def possible. And like Heather mentioned, the bitterness should make them non palatable. Always good to be aware!

@robinjean5925 Ай бұрын

Great tour! I love a good volunteer in the garden! 😊

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Me too!!

@elainehinton2860 Ай бұрын

Hi Heather ❤ I’ve been out mowing and came in for a break … perfect for watching a garden tour! I can’t wait to have raised beds to try my hand at garlic! It’s a beautiful day here today! Wishing you all well, farm fam!!!

@elainehinton2860 Ай бұрын

Also, we grew kohlrabi a few years again and loved it! Depending on when we picked it, it fell somewhere between cabbage and radishes. We are trying some this season again.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

It's a gorgeous day!! Not too hot which is really appreciated!

@GrandmaSandy Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful garden with us. You’re doing a great job on it. Wonderful video hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Hugs!! Thanks so much for being here ! ♥

@deltorres2100 Ай бұрын

I totally love your garden. I don’t have a lot of space and I’m a backyard garden, but I do container gardening so I don’t also have no grass. It’s all asphalt in the back, but I have flowers everywhere and I companion plant a lot and it looks just like yours and I love it.🌱🌱💚

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I love that you have been able to create a living space on the asphalt!! ♥

@caitlinhoward0903 Ай бұрын

Super sweet 100 tomatoes gives plenty of volunteers!!!!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Do they?! I would love that!

@caitlinhoward0903 Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead yes, ours from last year caused hundreds of tomato plants to bloom in our rocked landscaping behind the raised bed they were planted In. Quite honestly I’m still finding tomatoes popping up all over the place 😅

@rebeccazody1278 Ай бұрын

The ground cherries I’ve grown are ripe when the husk is light and papery and the fruit drops to the “ground”. Mine are about at the same stage as yours but it will be quite a while before the fruit is mature. Your garden is so exciting to see.

@sparkleflair Ай бұрын

That elephant garlic is awesome!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

So excited for the full harvest!

@iwanttobelieve5970 Ай бұрын

I have the Yellow Alpine and the Regina Alpine 🍓seeds planted. I’m hoping they come up. 🤞🤞

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Fingers crossed!! I bought some "Berried Treasure" Pink-blossomed strawberry seeds recently. They are in the fridge per package instructions for the next couple of weeks!

@JackiesOasis Ай бұрын

Good morning, Love your long videos. Love seeing the garden and learning new things. Love seeing the animals as well.

@deltorres2100 Ай бұрын

I’m growing Dale for the first time and I totally totally love it. It spreads easy and I’ve been pickling so I’ve been using it. I was trying years back to try to grow it but this year I’ve been more successful than ever.

@Ms.SheriT Ай бұрын

I'm a first time gardener and I'm growing in containers. I had to move the dill to a more shady area.. it didn't like the sun exposure it was getting ... but I want to also use it as an insect repellent around what I'm growing. I may make a small shade cloth for it. I've also heard of people growing okra to provide shade for plants. I may try that next year.

@cdavid2486 Ай бұрын

Love the info on the garlic! TY. My kohlrabi is bulbing out also. I have some that are bulbing in my vert planter. I put 2 seeds in each pocket to see if they mature. Promising!! Bugs here in IN are bad also. Garden looks beautiful and first harvests are so exciting.

@hollyu48 Ай бұрын

Heather you can freeze the dill heads, I don’t wash them and carefully bag them and freeze them

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

How about the fronds?

@rschroeder6460 Ай бұрын

Deff get the frencher. Takes some time but wow, so worth it!!!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Glad to hear you love it!!

@OrganicMommaGA Ай бұрын

These Garden Tours of yours are so wonderful! Thank you for bringing us along. I do wonder what it was growing up the trellis near the dill, though? It looks so familiar to me and I just can't quite place it. Also, at the end with Foxy munching on an animal cracker - that's so stinking cute! Don't know if you'd even want to, but if you wanted to add a pop of color to salads, zinnia petals are edible - though the flowers are pretty spectacular in the garden, too.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I didn't know that!! Thank you!! That is our Carlos Muscadine grape growing up the trellis near the dill! :) ♥

@redlanternhomesteadcathym105 Ай бұрын

The curly kale and the kohlrabi made me drool. And the husk will split on the tomatillos. We LOVE THEM.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Great, thank you!!!

@elainehinton2860 Ай бұрын

We did tomatillos for the first time last year and they went crazy!! My hubby made awesome salsa verde with it… unfortunately, for him, it gets to join okra … fresh veggies that work a little to well activating his gut.

@doriskuhberger8559 Ай бұрын

Awesome garden tour. I have to put my strawberries to sleep before the frost arrives. What I do with my dill. I chop it up and put in a container and freeze it. I feel that it is holding the flavour. Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings. Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Thanks Doris!!

@doriskuhberger8559 Ай бұрын

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@JamCamel Ай бұрын

Dill butter! Great way to use butter (not sure if your family eats fish, but it's also great on veggies and mashed potatoes) and you can freeze it. Add in a bit of lemon zest and lemon juice for extra flavour.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Great idea!! Thank you!

@heatheroester6817 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the tour!I would love to start my own garlic patch!❤

@thenodiggardener Ай бұрын

I've grown several different varieties of tomatillos and found that there is a difference between mature, and ripe, just as with tomatoes. However, some definitely do not taste good ripe. The big round ones are usually definitely better picked green, or there is a purple, so when the husk splits. Fair warning, they are usually super sticky too. I find they are more crisp and sharp this way. Where as if you pick them 'ripe' they tend to get pappy, like an over ripe apple, with sometimes a weird back taste on them. You can always test them out for yourself though by leaving some to get that far, and see what you think.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Very good information!! Thank you!

@farmstrong5434 Ай бұрын

Yay! I missed watching your videos so much fun and aways so inspiring. Keep up the great work love from Morocco!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Hello and welcome back!!

@zinnialoveci6634 Ай бұрын

I have never had aphids on my tomatoes before but I have them now 😢. I’m going to try DE dissolved in water and spray it on them. ❤❤❤

@tdleitch Ай бұрын

So the tomato tape tool thingy is my new favorite toy. I want to use it on everything! I’m curious how moving the skunks went without being sprayed! Love the tour, I look forward to it every week. Your tomatillo husk will split and yellow when they are ripe. Almost like the tomatillo is busting out.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

You walk up to them with a tarp and keep eye contact with them until you get the tarp over the trap. You can then pick them up and walk away with them. We place the trap in a deep bin of water to take care of it.

@anitakenepp2675 Ай бұрын

Love your videos!!!! Beautiful garden! I am growing tomatillos for the first time as well. I however didn’t realize how big they get 🥴. Mine are like a jungle 😂. I believe they are ready when the husks start turning a bit brown and slightly cracked 👍🏻

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I might have to prune mine so it doesn't get too wild and overtake my Barry's Crazy cherry!

@ericcawith2cs11 Ай бұрын

For the aphids, maybe you could look into Surround WP Kaolin Clay. James Prigioni just did a video all about it. We have some for our apple trees and sqaush.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I'll look that one up! Thank you! So far they have not come back in large numbers!

@serresaschrock2359 Ай бұрын

The tomatillo is exactly like the ground cherry as far as harvesting

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@lms3847 Ай бұрын

I made some garlic powder out of my garlic. It is so delicious

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I bet!! ♥

@kathyreier9269 Ай бұрын

Amazing garden and greenhouse. All the food looks good 🥬🍅🫘🌱🥗🥔🥕🥒🫒

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Thank you!! ❤️

@GWPHomestead Ай бұрын

That garlic!! 😍

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

It's giant!!

@elizandranara3519 Ай бұрын

Exciting to harvest! I just started my first garden this year and harvested some lettuce (still harvesting) its so fun! I am excited to harvest my carrots at the beginning of July, I planted a rainbow mix and will plant some scarlet Nantes next in their spot

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Love it! I plan to grow carrots in the high tunnel this winter!

@GreenThumbGardener65 Ай бұрын

Holy Moly! The Garlic Gods have blessed you! Have you tried freeze drying the dill?

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Not yet!!

@ChristinaMetcalf-nh1yl Ай бұрын

Heather, your Tomatillo will fill out the husk or busts the husk when its ripe

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

That's so awesome!! Thank you!

@jenyoung1187 Ай бұрын

My white strawberries are apparently june bearing and a skunk came through and ate every single one in a night. Sigh. Next year.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Noooo!! Skunks apparently love strawberries!!

@jessicakarynecoosey7778 Ай бұрын

My beans haven't done great this year. I've planted them 3 times and only have a small number up.my tomatoes and cucumbers, though...!

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Watch for birds and rolly pollies. Sometimes to get beans at all I have to start them inside.

@kimberlyearly8918 Ай бұрын

I planted redbore kale and curly kale. The redbore just keeps getting eaten! I've been using BT some but they are just on the struggle bus. I grew the same varieties last year and not a single thing touched them. I harvested pretty much all the way through the season! Every time I thought they were surely done they just kept on! Glad to see the size of your luffa! Mine are only a couple inches tall and I'm afraid they won't have time to dry on the vine. Our average first frost is the middle of Oct so we'll see.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I was able to harvest and peel/preserve a lot of green luffa last year! It doesn't expressly have to dry on the vine :)

@nolliesteers3083 Ай бұрын

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@carolynmoody9460 Ай бұрын

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@kimmykim4721 Ай бұрын

Great video as always

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Thank you!! ♥

@BigggRoss Ай бұрын

I thought they got white strawberries by bagging them to block the sunlight out

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Not sure about that but there are truly white varieties too!!

@09echols Ай бұрын

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@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

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@katrinalynn6 Ай бұрын

i ordered bush beans they sent me pole beans and they are in my strawberry bean oy vah so im having to manage that

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

WHOOPS!

@katrinalynn6 Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead im trying to grow them up a tomato pole well see how it goes

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

I'm betting they'll climb it!

@katrinalynn6 Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead i hope so

@rachaelwerner4247 Ай бұрын

Do the size of tomato blooms correlate to the size the tomatoes will be? By the way tomatillos papers will burst open and keep growing until they mostly dry. Then you pick them

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Not always are the blooms on large tomatoes super huge but they are definitely bigger than cherry tomato blooms!

@blackrock5749 Ай бұрын

Have you tried to freeze dry your dill? I have done cilantro and it’s amazing

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Not yet but I will !

@girlmamax3 Ай бұрын

You give me the courage to plant all the things my heart dreams of and thanks to the migardener sale and you for giving me courage ill be expanding my horizons to all the things my heart desires even if I fail. lol Question to you that that literally has nothing to do with this video but do you have any videos where you have cooked with ground deer burger. I have been blessed with several pounds and I've never cooked with deer before. I know it's pretty lean. Would it be good mixed half and half with ground beef for a Shepards pie or meat loaf. Or completely alone no other meat added in and be ok for a Shepards pie.

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

We cook it just like you would ground beef but yes it is lean and you'll notice a difference. Would be delicious in shepherds pie!

@girlmamax3 Ай бұрын

Yay I was hoping so! Thank you I will definitely be experimenting soon with it.

@pbkup Ай бұрын

Hello so I planted elephant garlic last year that I bought they gave me mostly separate bulbs I took them and planted them last fall Now do I pull them this year and get a single bulb or if I leave them till 2025 I get separate bulbs?

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

Pull a few this year and see what they look like. If you are unhappy you can always plant them again! It's easier to harvest when you plant individual cloves or mono-bulbs. Thr two year to harvest thing only really applies if you planted from corms :)

@pbkup Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead sorry I meant I planted cloves last year from the bulbs the year before So will I let this years go another year or will I get bulbs with cloves?

@SageandStoneHomestead Ай бұрын

You will get full bulbs if you used cloves!

@pbkup Ай бұрын

@@SageandStoneHomestead thank you ma’am that’s what I wasn’t sure about

@deltorres2100 Ай бұрын