I thought you were king? Guess I'm king in this category 😎 I got the good old 12⁰ inches

​@@danialrafidsure dude, keep telling yourself that, when you gotta brag about it to strangers on KZfaq comments, then clearly you have a small dude problem. Lmao.

This comment made me spit on my phone in immediate laughter!! 😂

🤦‍♂️ 😂

​@@danialrafidyeah right. 😂

It's expensive. Everything went up. And growing in the desert is not easy. I use all the organic matter that my hands can reach from kitchen waste to weeds, bark, grass.... compost all the weed trees.... but I live in the high desert CA and I had to buy everything from raised beds materials to soil, fertilizes... and you know everything went up in prices. Gardening is expensive, Just ask everyone else.... If I live in the south east when a lot of greens around then the cost wouldn't be too much.

I like to place my used soil into the compost bin to get more nutrient back into the soil and so I can basically “recycle” the soil😆😂 idk if the science supports me but I believe it works because anytime I put any seeds into my compost bin, they start growing without me meaning to grow them

You don't even need to rotate your crops, just refresh the soil and you're good.

Exactly. I barely understood what he was saying

U cant complain about growing crops that arent native to ur environment 😂 thats like being mad i cant make orange juice with lemons ​@kqdwills

and good deer repellent 😁👍🏾

Yasssss you got this!!

@@MindandSoilI’m in Oklahoma when do I plant them outside. November?

​@@Greenacres1958I've had a patch in North Texas in the ground for 17 years, if that helps any. Starting from scratch I'd guess anytime between january to march would be fine.

Absolutely! Glad you enjoyed it :) Thanks for watching!

Yes I agree. So satisfying to your soul ❤

Yeah dude lol, 'easy steps', guy literally uses 90 dollars worth of soil to grow 1.30 dollars worth of garlic.

Ummmm yeah. So much money to purchase the soil

Soil can be reused. The more times you use it, the cheaper it becomes. It also helps when you are composting and making your own soil. Gardening gets cheaper the more you do it.

Some people don’t have enough “dirt” to grow anything or space. Containers are the way to go, especially if you live in an apartment. I loved my balcony garden.😊

@@eh760290 dollars of soil??? What? that’s like one 8 buck bag and you would still have enough for another one.

Cool idea!

@@MindandSoil yeah. this is good for avoiding rot

Love garlic!

Depends on climate

Yes, jumped on here to ask “but WHY?!?” I guess only for those w/no yards/dirt (like apt dwellers), but still, I’d kamikaze grow it somewhere, planting it under the cloak of darkness.

WElllllll, um.....I have tried for years to grow garlic in a little garden space w/a little bit of sun & had 0 luck. The heads grown were not much bigger than a large clove. Very disappointing. This year, the leaves ended up w/little specks of black mold. So! This Fall I'm going to try Grow Bags & put them where there's more sun. Keeping fingers crossed that I have much better luck.

No garden. Balcony .

@@jacquelineclarke264 that'll work. I use rooftop.

Winter

it also depends on what zone you are

it's not

Need to wait till the leaves turn brown and die I've grown my first lot this year and got great results even tho I overwatered a little I think Good luck

Wait for half the leaves to go brown then pick it. Make sure you cut the garlic scape else all the energy goes to the plant and not developing the bulb

Plant 3 weeks before first frost and don't harvest until the next year, around June give or take . Works everytime

Are you planting hard neck, or soft neck garlic?

why not just make a barrier around the plants??

depends on if the material you used for your bag is porous or not. just test it out, if water can seep out then its fine and if not, add some holes. and garlic prefers a wintering period either way, to my knowledge the cold temps are what triggers the development of the flavor compounds iconic to garlic. softneck garlic has a short grow season, doesnt need to be wintered and can be planted in the spring, but will have a mellower flavor. the hardneck garlic that is most popular to grow for flavor, size, and hardiness needs the longer growing season and the winter.

No don’t use wood chips. They suppress plant growth. Use straw or hay mulch instead if you don’t have leaves. Or you can try to plant a bit deeper into the soil and use no mulch ( I do this)

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching :)

Gardening is groovy for sure! Thanks for watching :)

Yes saw one and another to use baking soda and fish fertilizer

I was researching and it says they like to be planted and left alone during the really cold season and then harvest towards end of spring/summer. I think it depends on where you live and the type of soil tbh

Great response! September to October is great timing for most areas :)

Nope! Only as needed, check out this video to see how I go about watering garlic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbR4qK5zvq2UmYk.html

They're just a light mulch. The garlic will grow through that just as easily as through the the dirt.

Garlic is set in the ground right before winter, so by the time it starts growing in the spring, most of the leaves have broken down and become part of the soil. Garlic grows through what leaves are left

Great Q! Not these ones as they are very finely sifted. But if you were home worm farming then 100%

Every now and then I find worms in my indoor containers from the worm castings I order from Amazon. It’s always exciting finding them!! 😆

@@MindandSoil thanks. I haven’t used worm casting. I’m new so I’m learning. I’m three days my first plant (carrot) germinated a beautiful seedling. I am so surprised, I expected the carrot to be the last one to start sprouting, not anything else have germinated… I’ll wait and see, and only saw some minor cracks on the soil and a little bit of shrinkage, but it fixed with water. I’m scared, let see how the week develops. Thanks very much

@@Drualeaf haha. I don’t like worms at all, but if they’re good then I guess I’ll have to learn, I’m new to this gardening world (square foot on a balcony) my first seedling ever came out this morning and I’m crying out of joy hahaha.

October

Hahahha, just trying to go from Garlic Guy to Garlic God 🤣. I'm not sure what I'll go for next. Probably a bunch of seed starting bizness in the new year. Any other ideas you think would be good to do?

@@MindandSoil I'm working on getting mycorrhizal fungi into all the annual beds by running a row of perennial in the middle or back . The fungi is supposed to connect you to all the big tree roots in the area. Check out grocery row gardening with David the good . I'm trying somthing similar but wider beds with chicken tractors.between

Mulch

@@melissaanthony7175 thank you 🙏

​@@alexisgem3923no problem!

In my area we plant garlic till end of November, I am in BC, Canada.

@@MindandSoil thank you. I'm in Queec so it should be the same.

Great question! You want to plant in the fall (Oct-Nov) and it's okay if things go below freezing through the winter. TO further insulate them you could surround the container with rocks, burlap, leaves, or plant a bunch of them together to insulate one another!

True but to me gardening is also about the experience, not only about saving money. Also you get acces to many varieties with so many new textures and flavors. In the case of garlic there are about 600 varieties in the world and the stores only sell two of them which lack flavor but are easier to grow with a longer shelf life.

It’s better for your body to grow them. No telling what they put on them in the growing centers.

Yea except the costs here are self sustaining systems , he didn't pay for the compost and didn't pay for the garlic cloves and paid for the bag a while ago haha if he watered with city water then he paid very little if rain water than nothing

You can definitely experiment with starting some garlic indoors in a container under a grow light! We will be doing a similar experiment, stay tuned!

hahahah it's so tough being in canada!

Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it wrong

Can't be a stone age measurement if we still use it, Einstein.

And thank you for taking the time to comment 👏🏻🥱