We have just a bit of USDA organic seed garlic left this season, grab it while it's still in stock: shop.epicgardening.com/collections/garlic

In the Netherlands we have a beautiful rule of thumb for garlic 10-10-10-10, meaning plant on the tenth of october 10cm deep and 10cm apart from one another

"Everything you need to know?" I need to know what time you're coming over to plant mine.

Thank you sir. Also, thank you to the ones behind the cameras and keyboards. I appreciate all of you. 👍💪🙏

OH NO! I literally spent the day in my garden and planted garlic 😳. I took a shower, made a G&T then sat down and turned on KZfaq to see your video posted 3 hours ago!! 😮

In a garden so smelly, not far from the town, Grew garlic so strong, it could knock you right down! The gardener was proud, with a grin ear to ear, "Come visit my garlic!" he'd shout far and near. People would come, but they'd quickly retreat, The smell of the garlic knocked them off their feet! But the gardener just laughed, "It's the scent of success!" While munching on garlic, in his garlic-pressed dress. He'd dance through his rows, with a garlic bulb crown, Singing, "Garlic's the king, it will never back down!" His garden grew famous, a smelly delight, Even vampires stayed far, flying off in the night! So here's to the garden, where garlic's the star, So potent and pungent, you could smell it from afar. It might not be roses, but to the gardener's part, The smell of strong garlic was the scent of his heart!

I like big bulbs and I cannot lie...

Im in zone 6a. Northeastern PA. Ive tried 3 times with seed garlic and theyve all failed. Last year i stuck a bag of sprouting garlic from sams club in the ground. I got a ton of garlic this past year. Freaking crazy! They were also softneck which is weird to me but it worked. I saved a ton of garlic for planting this year so im hoping these cloves "remember " they were here before and do great again. I left out all of the tiny cloves and only kept the big ones. Im hoping for success again.

I like the hard neck living in pacific northwest Vancouver island. Some of my garlic cloves are the size of a small plum. Keep the best large ones each year for planting in the fall. Been doing this for years!

Instead of digging a hole and plopping the clove in then covering, I find drilling a long trench, spacing the garlic in it then covering all at once is a quicker and more accurate way of planting them 👍

Dang, I must've gotten really lucky when I planted garlic in my backyard - I sort of just barely pushed some bulbs (from the grocery store) into the dirt and walked away. Now, ten years later, it has spread along my fence line and grows prolifically every year. Must be hundreds of plants out there now, but I typically trim off about 1/3 of the garlic scapes, and pull up even fewer bulbs. I also planted wild garlic the same way in a different spot - and the same thing happened with those. Been thinking of digging it all up and planting in a raised bed to better control things, so this video helps.

My mom's been struggling with garlic for years now. This year in May she finally accepted a bit of help (I had to be subtle though, I told her to try to use the garlic that was in the fridge) and I put a big amount of compost on them while planting. And not as close as she used to plant them. She was so surprised when this year she finally had garlic in her garden. I wish she could speak English and I could show her this video. I'm visiting her in November and thank you so much for this video, I will plant some garlic for her, so she can have some already planted in the spring. I will definitely give it a try here as well, although my climate tends to be warmer. Great video and tips as always. 😊

5b here - planting Hardneck at the end of October, early November. The last few years, hard freeze in my area has come later - so I've had major success waiting a bit. If you're into cooking with Hardneck Garlic: The Porcelain and Rocambole varieties are divine!

I figured I'd add my 2 cents. I've always grown softneck in the Sacramento valley with great success (especially Inchelium Red), but I personally prefer hardnecks due to the larger sized and ease of separating the cloves, and the flavor. Not to mention you won't usually get a ton of small cloves with every bulb. With that said, I tried Spanish Roja, and to say they produced is an understatement. While they do produce a scape, they do so very late in the season where they don't seem to effect the harvest if you happen to miss cutting them off. I'm on my fourth year now (I always plant on October 10th) and the cloves keep getting bigger and the bulbs more reliable. Amazing variety I hope people in hotter climates will try.

1. What do you mean by coldest part of the year? Start of winter or peak winter? 2. Can we seperate the Cloves before refrigeration?

In northern climates use the rule 10-10-10; 10th of the 10th month with 10 cm (4 inch) apart.

In central Wisconsin, I've had great success with 4" inch spacing between bulbs for the past 10 years. I tried 6" spacing one year and didn't notice a difference, except that my harvest was smaller.

I still have one hard neck garlic left over from a harvest almost two years ago that is still good and hasn't even sprouted yet. It's just been chilling on the counter, but it's still good. Don't know about the "doesn't store as long" part, lol.

Great tips. I've been growing garlic for some time and like yourself grew Music and several others. My go to garlic now is Red Roja. We just like the flavor. I might add I also soak my garlic before planting. Alcohol for about 5-10 min then liquid kelp or fish emulsion over night. Thought I might share this with you and your viewers as some of the largest garlic growers also soak their cloves. A Google search will bring up links and specifics. I usually grow around 100 plants every year. We dehydrate lots of it and give away small jars of garlic powder as gifts. 😊

As everyone has mentioned, perfect timing for this video! We just bought garlic to plant this morning. Love your channel!

With everything going on in the world - I'm grateful that you're still posting, as happy and cheery as ever. Coming on here to watch your videos is my break from the insanity around us :)

Perfect timing! I’m planting mine tomorrow. The refresher was just the thing!

We had our first frost earlier this week so I planted mine yesterday before the rain set in. I have had more rain today than in all of September combined. On a positive note the garlic won’t need to be watered soon (if at all before winter.)

I'm in zone 7a and I'll be planting my garlic in containers again possibly this week. Last year my softneck actually did a bit better than the hardneck.

I received my soft neck seed garlic this past week and it is absolutely beautiful! Large heads, very healthy looking and packaged nicely. I would highly recommend this seed garlic.

I have been watching you for years. You have helped me so much with my garden. I am so proud of you and the success that you have all accomplished.

As an Australian it feels so weird when you say "plant it in the coldest months like December". Besides that, great vid

Just got my garlic from botanical interests 😊 gonna plant this weekend

Perfectly timed! I'm in 7b and planting this weekend! The weather is finally going to cool down and stay there! Yay!!

Kevin - this is a great video! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate major companies specifying growing for zones 9 & 10. Zone 10 is often left out as we usually require extra or different steps/instructions to grow things that we otherwise couldn’t.

Thank you! I saw a recent video saying to put hard neck in the fridge. I received my hard neck 2 days ago (ordered months ago from Annie's seeds) and put them in the fridge. So glad to see that zones 9 and 10 can plant up until Dec. I thought I possibly missed the boat due to the 8-to-10-week cold requirement. So happy to see that you sell garlic. Will order next time :)

I'm a newer subscriber, and I've loved your channel since I started watching it! Amazing job on all of your videos! I look foward to seeing more!

Just got two of your garlics in the mail... great packaging!

A little late, but still useful! I planted mine a week ago. We’re in Zone 7b

That’s it. I’m trying garlic. The timing is PERFECT! Thanks Kevin!

Mysic is the best! I find that growing garlic is incredibly easy. Set it & forget it. But harvesting & curing takes some space & wisdom.

Perfect timing because I was going to put it in the freezer for spring planting since I will miss the fall planting. Thanks and take care.

Heyyyyyyyy....I'm a Born/Raised San Diegan & until now I never knew Ya'll based here! ❤ love Me Garlic too!

Perfect timing as i begin my own garlic experiments

I live in Indiana and planted my garlic in September. It’s doing great!

Watching Kevin try to water and talk at the same time made this video worth watching alone 🤣 👍

I actually just planted my garlic today as well. Store bought last year and regrowing them from now on.

Thanks for this. Useful for us folks in hot and sunny Andalusia, Spain. Almost in North Africa where I live so this is good advice.

Thanks man. Here in the north of spain, border with france and high mountains with freezing temperatures and snowfalls, i plant garlic in febrary. This november i will try garlic sooner.

Thank you for this video....I lost approximately 100 bulbs last season to orange spotted rust as well. We had so much rain. I didn't know that hardnecks could be placed in the fridge prior to planting. Thank you from a fellow gardener in Riverside.

Me at 9 AM this morning: Let's get the garlic in the ground Epic Gardening at 2 PM this afternoon: Watch this before you plant garlic

Great video! Question about watering-- do you need to water before the garlic sprouts? If so, how often? I'd think you might run into ground rot if you water too much too early.

If this had come out an hour earlier, I could have watched it before planting 🙃 I read your blog posts about it first, at least!

I'm in Huntington Beach, CA, so I'm gonna plant mine tomorrow, 👍🏾

Oh no I've already planted mine! Lol I'll just learn for next year. We had a harrrd freeze last night so I'm glad I got them in the ground a few weeks ago.

Spectacularly timed video homie, thanks. if we run late and toss em in the fridge all winter. Should they go in the ground right after last frost in theory?

I'm an old guy who lived in many countries. The small heads of garlic that we used to have were so much stronger than these big Asian garlics that have won the hearts of garlic haters. They love them because they don't taste like garlic any more. If I was to guess I would say a half a clove of what we used to call garlic has more flavour than a whole head of this big crap. Call me a liar if you wish.

Also if you add bone meal to each hole just about a table spoon it will help with bulb size too.

This is exactly the type of videos I like! Explained it all in detail yet quick!

My sister and her husband bought a small farm property that was built by German immigrants in the 60/70s have the absolute best garlic growing I have ever had. My sister is has a red thumb and had nothing to do with this garlic. It just grows every year with minimal watering. The cloves I was given have stayed fresh and juicy for over a year now just being stored in a dark cabinet.

Loved how your watering of the garlic just followed the natural flow of you talking with your arms!! I have my elephant garlic in the ground but waiting on my other hardneck garlic to be delivered!

I'd like to hear more about solo-clove garlic. Where the bulb is one solid clove instead of several cloves.

I’m inspiring in this video about plant vegetables. Thanks man 😊

I have garlic growing in my flower beds. Planted it around the roses years ago as a deterrent for bugs. It has spread and come up “wild” every year. I have enough every year to give away. Gotten to the point where I cut off the seed heads to keep it from spreading and overtaking my flower beds!

Kevin is a little late for some of us about to freeze. A few weeks earlier, next season 😉 Have you ever grown potato onions? That's my new experience this season another onion that needs cold stratification. Would enjoy a video about it.

Great video!

Zone 6B here -- great success with hard neck at our place. Planted a LOT more this fall. Trying some soft neck this time, too. We'll see how it grows! Garlic is such a satisfying crop!! Love growing my own. Great vid!!! Thank you!

I really enjoyed this video! I live North of you near the ocean so your channel is one that's really appropriate for me.

I've tried planting garlic many times with varied success. I like the tip about cooling the bulbs before planting and will try it. It is similar to the recommendation when planting tulip bulbs and makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the useful information you provide.

Definitely going to try and grow some hardneck garlic. I'm in NYC so I guess I can put some in a 5-gallon grow bag and place it in the corner of my fire escape this winter.🤔

You're a very good teacher. It's one thing I like most about your channel. You explain why not just how. 🙂

Im so on this b4 i plant! Love your onion haul!

I love all your videos, the homestead, main channel, and Jacque's as well. I have been watching for a few years, and you were my inspiration to start my own gardening channel.

I started planting garlic, have grown virtually every single kind in existence, and am up to 1000-1200 this year in the ground its growing so fast that ive become the go to place for organic garlic in my entire county. And its turning into possibly being a viable future business by accident I just got hooked on growing garlic for my own uses and then it blew up and went overboard.

The heat wave we had in south Florida killed my first attempt at garlic! Oh mylanta it was hot! Sweet potatoes grew well though!

I live in northern NY, I plant soft neck garlic and I do it a coulpe weeks after harvedst in very late summer into fall. But every year it seems that harvest time is getting earlyer and early every year andThey sprout pretty good by the time winter comes a long. As the years have gone by I seem to be getting smaller cloves.

I was just looking up how to plant garlic before I planted them today . Thank you for the perfectly timed video 🧄

Glad to catch a video early!! Thanks for another great tutorial. Hopefully I can grow more than just garlic leaves this year lol

Perfect timing for the video. Except for last year I've always had success with my hard neck here in Quebec. This year is so different with the weather. I've prepared the bed but waiting to plant. I was going to put in a raised bed but read many places saying that the garlic needs to be planted directly in the ground in colder climates 🤷‍♀️I'm so confused lol

Thanks for this video. I'm planning on growing for green garlic. I did it once by accident and it was the only garlic that was actually usable since all the others I planted in the garden died. The green garlic was a last ditch planting, in a pot, because I ran out of room in the garden.

Hello from Georgia, we just planted our garlic! We had pine straw so that’s what we used! Wish us luck! 🙋🏻‍♀️🤗♥️🙏🍁

Looking forward to planting garlic in South Carolina 8a.

I had funky garlic last year and wasn’t going to try again but…. Love garlic and will try again! Good tips! I’m in Palm Springs area.

I will plant cloves that are looking ready to sprout any time up to early spring. I just tuck them into an available space. Sometimes I just get green garlic tops but quite often they form a small but useable bulb.

The watering technique while talking in the end was impeccable. What a pro!

I live in Central Florida and only grow Creole varieties. I vernalize mine for 8-10 weeks and have done well. Last year got over 100, but smaller heads. This year left them cold for 3 months. Planted in December and here we are in March and mine will be done it looks by May considering I checked them today and they are forming heads

I plant it around my roses, both seem to like each other❤️

You are so much fun to listen to. You have such a friendly approach to your explanations. Thanks for not complicating gardening! I have watched many of your videos, and I'm always glad when your videos come up in a search. I am a subscriber, btw. Have a good one!

I’ve been given some elephant garlic seeds and very excited for autumn to come here in Western Australia 🧄

I add chelated Phosphorus on top of the bulb when planted, this has always made lager bulbs when I harvest in July. I Plant OCT here in Northern Utah. I also mulch right before the snow, then rake off once snow melts. Seems to be fool proof for me.

2024 has been a hell of a year, all this early rain has caused my garlic to develop a severe Rust problem, sprayed copper fungicide 2x didnt do anything at all, tried a few bio fungicides that claimed to slow down or stop rust spreading, didnt work, so i went to a local university and asked the ag guys what to spray and was told to use Azoxystrobin and its wiping it out sometimes you have to bring out the big guns systemic fungicides to wipe it out. Rust only sticks around if it lasts on the garlic long enough to turn black then it can live in the soil 10-20 years.

I've found that my garlic grows better in the ground, rather than raised beds, here in NH. One year I planted some in a small raised bed and in a big raised bed. Nothing survived in the small bed, and the ones around the edges of the big bed didn't do well. Presumably the ground and the center of the big bed provided protection from the freezing temperatures.

I plant my garlic (hard neck) in the 1st week of November, I am in Zone 6b in Massachusetts. The result have been great since i started planting them 3 years ago. This year I plant some store bought garlic for the first time. I will see how well those do compare to my own.

Thanks! I was wondering how you get straw without persistent herbicide poison. I just assayed another bale of oat straw and sure enough, it’s killing the test beans.

I hear very often that garlic doesn't like competition. Of course this depends on circumstances, but with decent soil, irrigation, and a wider spacing, there's no reason you can't intercrop other vegetables or even cover crops with garlic. At 6 inches it's a bit too close, but move to 8 or 10 and there's plenty of room for many plants.

Over the years, in SE Penna. (zone 6): 1-2" of new well rotted compost each year, Test the soil and ammend (top dress and 'scratch in') to ~ pH=6-7 (neutral) in early spring. Hardneck 'hardy' (German or Hungarian varieties, planted 2-3 weeks before first 'hard' frost and covered with 2-3"+ 'milled' straw mulch. Startng in MID April ( or earlier w/ good leaf development) apply every 2 weeks with a top-dressing of a 'tea' made of 2.5 gal of water per 1 cup of well dissolved pellitized chicken manure ... until ~late JUNE, or until you start to see 'the beginnings' of browning leaves. (note, at near the end of the growing season, be sure that you pull an occasional bulb to insure that "the cloves" are NOT separating due to their HUGE size ... or poor storage quality. As 'tight' bulbs for huge cloves will store better and longer). 'Cure' them in the SHADE / low light for minimum 2 weeks. "Gesundheit" !!!!!

I just found out that garlic/garlic water works as an insanely effective organic pesticide and deterrent for aphids, ants, slugs, whiteflies, deer, rabbits, etc. AND acts as a fertilizer for certain plants like orchids. Would yall cover this since it's invaluable if true? I'm just now digging into the topic so if yall already know about/use this technique, please illuminate it - thank you!

Great video. Watering. So when I plant, just water thoroughly how often until the rain starts?

Wow, for a prepper you sound really normal. Thanks for the vid

I’m in Kansas and I plant hard neck elephant garlic. It’s the best garlic here in my opinion!! I plant it in late August and leave in the ground til the next summer around late July.

I like the soft necks the best. I found out that a lot of people mince up a clove or two of garlic and swallow it after about 20 minutes. They use it to bolster their immunity, as well as prevent various health problems like high cholesterol or blood pressure. I started doing this myself. I also found out that it is excellent for tooth pain. Having raw garlic in your mouth burns, but your pain will go away if you leave it on and around the effected area. I find the hard variety sticks to my fingers when I am mincing it. Also, the more garlicky flavor is very over powering raw. My breathe absolutely radiates with garlic smell just from having it in my mouth long enough to swallow. I can see why people would prefer it in cooking though. I use both kinds, the hard does have more flavor. Thanks for the video.

Leaving in North Japan, I plant garlic so it grows some 5 cms green leaves before the snow. Then in spring it grows again naturally. Very easy.

Can shredded leaves be used as mulch instead of straw?

Definitely dope to know you are out of Day-Go bro!! #CaliGrown I'm in L.A (Grow Zone 10b), so I'm not too far from you. It helps to know that I can grow this size garlic in Cali, as well as Dragon Fruit. I grew my first dragon fruit tree using your techniques and I was worried about winterizing the Dragon plants. No need at all 😊🙏🏾 I just threw black wood chips on the surface to keep the soil warmer and that did my tree justice 💪🏾 Thanks bro.

I’m in Australia, and in our country April is the time of year for planting alliums including garlic! Thanks for all your advice. Sydney is kind of like a humid version of San Diego! ❤