My Biggest Garden Failure in 10 Years...

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I lost almost ALL of my garlic this year - but @jacquesinthegarden and I tried to salvage what we could, and share plans for how we'll end up using it anyways. Every year you learn something new...even with a crop you've had prior success with!
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00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Pulling The Garlic
07:27 - Trimming & Separating Garlic
09:54 - Peach Tasting
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@caseymarion7273 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the honesty, comedy, and learning from the failures. Failure is a great teacher if we don’t feel too bad about it. Thanks for all the information, education, and laughs guys!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

You learn more from failures than successes, everywhere in life!

@albertkohne4405 Жыл бұрын

@@epichomesteadingHaai thanks for you great channel and tips today I have 50 Appel trees grow from seed.

@alexandrameub5602 Жыл бұрын

I love that they show the failures and the successes while continuously stressing that they're not experts. I absolutely love their philosophy on gardening. I also enjoy the competition that Jaque and Kevin have with each other!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

We compete on being the most novice!

@ugosmith7529 Жыл бұрын

We had a tornado warning and huge torrential rain yesterday. The rain was so strong and the droplets so large that it literally shredded one of my butterhead lettuce bed. That bed went from my nicest looking lettuce ever to looking absolutely destroyed in the span fo 15 minutes. Lesson learned, next time there is a freak storm, protect the butterhead

@Neenerella333 Жыл бұрын

I totally sympathize. I put out my well-cared-for little tomato seedlings, only to have them get clobbered by hail. I made two plastic umbrellas out of pint take-out containers and a bamboo skewer. But it only rescued one. 😢

@Estertje93 Жыл бұрын

Glad you're okay I just came to say I read 'tomato warning' which made me think that in the US there is an alarm that warns you when you need to protect your tomatoes. 😅

@loverlyredhead Жыл бұрын

@@Estertje93I mean, any severe thunderstorm warning is a tomato warning for me 😂

@ugosmith7529 Жыл бұрын

@@Estertje93 🤣 I'm actually from Canada. Sadly no such technology exists....yet. There was no tornado thankfully but very strong winds, the gutters temporarily overflowed, the rain beat down on tender leaf plants and my street turned into a temporary creek. On a positive note, since the rain shredded the lettuce, which remains squished in the soil of my raised bed, nature has essentially created its own compost, just in a very convoluted way this time 😅

@j.d.x4451 Жыл бұрын

Sorry for the loss of garlic guys, but it is encouraging for lots of your followers to see not only the great success but also the failures that happen with each garden season. Ours this year were strawberries and blueberries...

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Every year it's something!

@yeevita Жыл бұрын

You should try to save as seed garlic the ones that did well, had the least rust, and were healthier with the aphids. That is how you develop a garlic for your own garden.

@Mulljackson Жыл бұрын

Land race it

@froggieogreen Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't - garlic rust lingers in soil and the cloves grow in that soil. If you're growing hardneck garlic, you can let the bulbils develop and save seed that way since they never touch the soil and are not affected by most diseases (it just takes a few years for them to grow out to full garlic size). I grow a heck tonne of garlic as it does very well in my climate and I use both methods of replanting healthy, disease-free bulbs and letting a dozen or so plants fully develop the bulbils so that my stock isn't decimated if a disease runs through my garden! :)

@ralfnuggs165 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it doesn’t really work like that man, it’s still a gamble with the next few batches until like I’d say 5 generations of “good” genetics. Which still you’d have rotated at least once hopefully in that year so you wouldn’t even know. Just because your mom and dad have good genetics doesn’t mean YOU can survive horrible conditions

@pilsplease7561 Жыл бұрын

@@froggieogreen Hardneck garlic is sterile they no longer seed.

@pilsplease7561 Жыл бұрын

@@froggieogreen Also I never rotate my garlic to different locations as I have 1 spot to plant and thats it.

@courtneycullen6289 Жыл бұрын

I mean, is it any consolation that I had an amazing garlic bulb and garden scape year and now all my friends and family think I'm a garden witch? I did get some of my garlic from Epic! I really appreciate things like this (and green beangate). It helps to know it happens to all of us. Fingers crossed for the potatoes growing in my front yard flower bed.

@laurieslifeessentials Жыл бұрын

As a gardener who is also just a human, I so appreciate the honesty! It makes me feel like, "Okay, I am not the only one this stuff occasionally happens to." No matter how experienced a gardener you may be, there are always going to be good and bad days in the garden, and I truly love seeing both! So thank you so much for sharing. ☺ Now I can show this to the hubs and be like, "See, everyone loses a crop, or a plant on occasion, but they know it's not the end of the world. Because we can grow another one!" 😅Also, on a side note, that wild tuft of hair trying desperately to escape from the back of Kevin's hat in the middle of the vid is absolutely priceless! 🤣

@Dan_Ger1 Жыл бұрын

Love the comedy/ light hearted jabs and the editing (sound effects and close ups). Everyone behind the scenes has really “upped the game“ on the videos.

@ClaireRousseau Жыл бұрын

Good to see you were able to salvage some of your harvest. I just lost my entire crop of garlic and shallots to allium leaf miners: they were burrowed inside everything, whether or not it had bulbed, it was just nasty. 24 square feet in the bin, not even compostable. I'll be rotating crops along with you guys - hopefully it won't affect my winter squashes.

@syrathdouglas1244 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, my moms ponytail plant died recently. We put it in the garage under a tarp during winter, but the tarp must’ve fallen off it. It’s growing a new stalk off the bulb, though!

@Shroomunati Жыл бұрын

Y’all are true masters of your craft none the less, always making the best out situations and even better videos

@UtukushiDAE2007 Жыл бұрын

I like the fact that you shocase your failed crops like this. Its sincere and gives us more lesson than just any tutorial of how to pkant or grow in our garden.

@kevinbossick8374 Жыл бұрын

I have approx 50 planted. Harvested a few the other day. Pretty small so far. I plan on pulling more this weekend. Last year was my best ever for garlic. It can be hit or miss.

@skysea6441 Жыл бұрын

This makes me feel less bad for my own failures in the garden.

@Gardeningchristine Жыл бұрын

I have onions garlic shallots and leeks spread out all over the garden. They don’t take up much room in the beds and some pest detouring!

@Katnip7770 Жыл бұрын

I put the peeled cloves in a glass jar, covered with vinegar. It keeps in the fridge for 6 months or more. It’s a little pickled, but can be used in many recipes. The vinegar becomes garlic flavoured and is great in salads.

@kathrynnielsen8367 Жыл бұрын

I failed last year with my garlic. Some cloves just enlarged slightly. All I did in the end was to chop them all up and put them in a jar with olive oil, keeping it in the fridge and using a teaspoon as I needed it. It thickens slightly in the fridge, but if I take it out early enough I can then brush it onto pizza base for garlic pizzas. Yum!

@priyaspreciousplants190 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your failures too so we can all keep learning. This is the 1st year I tried garlic after looking at all your garlic videos & honestly the garlic I harvested was not bad. Love your videos. Kevin & Jaque.

@tamarayuen7774 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! So great to see the results of what was planted in previous videos, even if the results aren’t ideal, it still shows us gardening fails are normal & to be expected 👍 Thanks for this!

@jennhoff03 Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, I burst out laughing at "What the hell are you laughing at?!" after Kevin's roast of Jacques' garden. ;'D Ah, I needed that laugh!

@shanebep3135 Жыл бұрын

This is a premium reminder to keep a close peeper on those peckers. When I have under developed garlic, I like to mince them up and store them in olive oil in the fridge. They'll last a long time as long as you keep them submerged.

@hannahkayt7222 Жыл бұрын

I'm so beyond glad I stumbled upon you!! I am very new to the homesteading community, and don't have a lot of opportunity where I'm at, but am LOVING the learning process and sculpting the dream!! I hope to someday be as established and connected as you guys. Thanks for sharing to all, cheers!!

@that_auntceleste5848 Жыл бұрын

I'm learning some humility in my 5th year here in my Northwest Indiana Garlic. Every year I have crops that succeed amazingly and crops that fail. And quite often the failures are the ones I think I have in the bag because I had a bumper crop the summer before! This year I am amazed at the abundance of delicious food my yard is yielding. But let's not discuss okra or pumpkins right now mmmkay?? It is so important that you share these videos because it lets other gardeners know that bad crops are just part of a *successful* garden journey!

@susan_beaver Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video! After following along with this and Jacques' garlic beds and the bad news of the garlic rust, it's actually inspiring to see that you were still able to get some useable garlic and that your shallots weren't too badly affected! While this may have been a "failure" you were able to show that quick action still saved some of your crop and you've taught us viewers a lot. Good luck with your future garlic!

@kellyknowles794 Жыл бұрын

sorry about your garlic loss, I had the same thing happen 2 years ago in my raised beds. I appreaciate all of the information that you put out there on your channel!

@juliewolfe7558 Жыл бұрын

I can so appreciate this and feel your pain! I had the same thing happen to my garlic this year. I have never before had such a terrible aphid problem. Nothing I did got rid of them. It was awful. You did exactly what I did - cut the tops off, let them dry a few days and then dehydrated.

@arladeleon3806 Жыл бұрын

I think the garlic issue was not anything you did for sure. I had the same problem... the rust... and I have not had that before. My garlic harvest last year was fabulous, and I did NOT plant in the same place this year. I believe it was all the extra rain that we got. I don't think we could have predicted that or prepared for it.

@torg5511 Жыл бұрын

Wow! I had garlic rust up here in Portland, Oregon. Kept trimming the bad leaves to try to save my cultivars, some of which I've grown 7 years and are just getting well acclimated to the locale. The rust jumped to my leeks and I pulled them, but saved most of my cultivars, though they will be small for several years. I never heard of garlic (alium) rust before. Will use some of the techniques you mentioned next year to continue the landraces. Thanks again for your great content, both of you.

@froggieogreen Жыл бұрын

ohhhhh, I had the tiniest bti of rust last year on a couple plants and thankfully managed to get rid of it (no signs this year so far at least!). It's so frustrating because garlic takes so long to develop, but at least it's good you're able to preserve it in powder/dried form. :( I hope you have better luck next year in a different location!

@flamboyantpotato4004 Жыл бұрын

Tbh with garlic rust, I watch closely each week and if it starts showing up, any leaf that has it gets plucked off and tossed in a bag, thrown away in the trash. It helps slow it down. I think celery can get the same issue, you just gotta prune it off and keep an eye on it. Editing to add I appreciate the honesty and information in this video. Not all years have awesome results, and we grow from each loss.

@MsFresh619 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing and keeping it real. Good to see that you didn't lose it all and you'll at least get to enjoy what was good

@candicemcmath4521 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing when things go wrong and tips for growing from it!

@Gkrissy Жыл бұрын

Black aphids got to my garlic too. I sprayed water on the aphids and cut off the tops. I refused to lose my garlic harvest this year. But I had a few good bulbs but the rest were mediocre as well.

@grandmothergoose Жыл бұрын

So long as they're not rotted, they're all potentially salvageable. You can either eat them as garlic greens, or store them if they haven't bulbed and replant them next year and they should then bulb up. Sometimes garlic just needs a second year to form a bulb in some climates and conditions.

@teresaamsler5083 Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry your garlic crop was a bust. At least your onion crop was stellar! My result is the opposite. Fantastic garlic, few good onions. I'm in southwest Riverside County. Wet, cold, and frequent frosts up here caused a bolting fest...

@arnoldreiter435 Жыл бұрын

i feel your pain guys, last year i had great cherry tomatoes, peppers and strawberry's. this year has been wet and overcast so my peppers are dying none of my strawberry's made thru winter but my beans and peas are growing like crazy. take the wins where you can and learn from the busts how to do better next year.

@Lars-im6fb Жыл бұрын

I had a horrible garlic year too! About 90% of mine all got hit with the black garlic aphids....and there's seriously no way treat them except to smoosh them. No organic sprays worked on them....I feel your pain!

@epichomesteading Жыл бұрын

Feel for you!

@reneford6774 Жыл бұрын

So much empathy, gone through the same thing last season. Planted my garlic into pots so I can move yhem around, it does limit the amount I can plant though.

@pedromunoz4468 Жыл бұрын

"I'll give you this, It wasn't my Fault" 😅😂

@AJsGreenThumbLLC Жыл бұрын

Always a lesson to learn from garden fails! You brothers take it in such stride though😎🥸 Mines got wet while attempting to dry outside but I got to em in time to thoroughly dry em out.

@brianmoore4299 Жыл бұрын

I feel for you Kevin and you too Jacque. I know the feeling of disappointment as my garlic harvest was not that great either this year. Last year was my best harvest of garlic. I didn't get rust or disease just smaller bulbs this year. Probably my fault for thinking all that rain was enough. Maybe I should have watered more in between. Oh well, live and learn and be happy with what you/I did get.

@conniemcgehee2851 Жыл бұрын

For the fresh peaches…Make peach ice cream or peach jam to pour over vanilla Ice Cream

@donnabrooks1173 Жыл бұрын

The two of you are a good comedy show. You both work very well together. RI P garlic and shallots.

@cumla Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the failures too! And btw. I love the garlicpocalypse grafics! 😂

@cokesonyou1201 Жыл бұрын

Failure happens and it's not bad and we love to see these too! Very unfortunate but the garden gods are hopefully gonna bless the garlic patch next year haha!

@thall3827 Жыл бұрын

Don't ever get rid of whoever edits your videos.

@martinaj.9266 Жыл бұрын

My garlic also didn't do well. I harvested it early with no real bulbs. I mashed it with olive oil and freezed in ice cubes. Now I have portioned garlic on hand when I need it. Much less than I wanted but at least I was able to harvest something.

@osmia Жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing the triage situation you're going through with your garlic

@petpawteek8776 Жыл бұрын

Aw man, I feel you’re pain. I’ve had four consecutive successful years with garlic but this year my entire 8 x 4 bed just shit the bed. Last year, I must have left two heads of garlic in the garden and this year the bulbs split and gave me half a dozen heads of garlic and that was all I got this year. I’m not entirely certain what happened, but this year I am going to spread out my garlic plantings throughout the garden and hope that if something hits one bed I still have several others that make it through. Like you, a massive onion harvest is my only consolation 😢 Hoping for a better harvest next year!🤞🤞🤞

@Gardeningchristine Жыл бұрын

I came out about a month ago and all my garlic🧄leaves had fallen over. I knew onions🧅did that but the garlic told me when it was ready.

@veronicadoggone5660 Жыл бұрын

The peach eating was almost a Croods 2 nom nom moment 😂

@rickthelian2215 Жыл бұрын

Jacques and Kevin should go in a plastic bag and in the General Garbage Bin, so its not sent to be mulched and reused by general public spreading it about if not destroyed in the composting process by your city.😊 Like the using the garlic as Garlic Salts or using fast but not for seeding next year.

@daniellebailey6802 Жыл бұрын

I had allum leaf miners really bad this year, but the garlic and one italian variety of onion managed to survive. I just pulled the cloves out to dry (witht he inner skin left on). I'll be using them up asap, so I'm not so worried about long storage. I'm a bit bummed, but Elephant garlic did the best of all and I can get more cloves to seed really cheap from out local farm stand.

@fletchbodenschatz8813 Жыл бұрын

I would say that, given the current position of Venus in relation to Alpha Centauri, and factoring in Brad Pitt's most recent hairstyle, 87 bulbs plus 20 use-first with an overall crop loss of about 60%.

@abyssal_phoenix Жыл бұрын

Failures can happen to the most experienced, knowledgeable and prepared gardeners. Nature can be quite unforgiving Funnily enough i got a record garlic harvest record. Usually i end up with 1 or 2 larger bulbs above grocery store size. This time all the 12 bulbs grew to way larger than "normal" size. I suspect the mild and very rainy winter gave them such advantage. I suspect a similar winter next time so i hope my winter leeks will do well then too!

@TheGardenFamily Жыл бұрын

Appreciate you guys making a video of things that don't work out as well. We are all wiser for it!

@sagewhite5776 Жыл бұрын

Hundreds you say. My guess is 55% or 109 bulbs. In my yard (south florida sugar sand infested with root knot nematodes and no nutrients after years of bad lawn practices) any garlic bulbs would be a huge win but very reassuring to see it happens to even some of the best sometimes. Thanks for the education yall!

@riddhibhatt1482 Жыл бұрын

I have allium leaf miners on my garlic this year. They ruined my scape harvest already but we’ll see the real damage in a couple weeks when I pull the heads out. I don’t see any damage on the leaves so I’m hoping I can at least process and freeze the harvest 😅

@tesscarry Жыл бұрын

Mine although suffer from rush leaves they still manage to grow into huge bulbs.....have a look at my harvest of garlic they were huge , I think what I did was I only water mine 4x for the whole time they were in the ground and add bone meal by February.

@LindsayHaven Жыл бұрын

Loving Bat and Bread weeks on the podcast! Bat week was particularly amazing. 😊🦇

@gardenergal5198 Жыл бұрын

Video gave me some laughs. The garden is all about learning and a lot of times that’s through failures!

@iamaerojay Жыл бұрын

I would love to make some Peach cobbler with those peaches. Yum!

@ritzileclaire5990 Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. Love the positivity with plan b - dehydration for powder and eating green garlic. So, will you intercrop sweet alyssum or something else to attract beneficial pests next year?

@Arcticdi Жыл бұрын

You guys always crack me up! Sorry for your loss but I enjoyed the video.

@RizeTB1 Жыл бұрын

Decent😫those shallots are bigger than my onions. But my green onions did great this year. And I collected like over 2,000 seeds and already have 50-70 green onion starts. So jealous of your onions and shallots.

@andrewhammill6148 Жыл бұрын

Sorry about the loss. Stuff happens though when you garden. Anyway, you can use the really small ones in stock, if you make any.

@TheGDChap Жыл бұрын

I think next year im going to plant my garlic in a half oak barrel (local place is selling them for £25 a pop!!) rather than in the position they're in now in the interest of reducing the risk of disease spread. I think I'm going to plant some cover crop spinach or buckwheat in that spot just so something beneficial to the soil is in the ground. I'd be interested to see what you're going to plant in your garlic patch next season. Good luck with everything else!

@lurklingX Жыл бұрын

actually learned a lot about garlic this way! omg the peachesssssss. realizing i never saw the tree before!

@dwagner6 Жыл бұрын

I would definitely try to lactoferment if I had too much green garlic. Probably kimchi-style with gochugaru, etc.

@jessievaughn5467 Жыл бұрын

My garlic was terrible this year. My peach tree (here in georgia) got hit by our late frost hard, so no peaches. I dont think many farmers in georgia have peaches this year.. Yours look amazing!

@PlantObsessed Жыл бұрын

Wow I know you have a video to do but I may have literally torched that garlic bed. Ahhh plague garlic.

@ebradley2306 Жыл бұрын

My overly wet spring did in my garlic. Next year I might cover it towards the end.

@jeannamcgregor9967 Жыл бұрын

So sorry! I've been trying to figure out why my garlic was the biggest I've ever grown and I thought it was all the rain NorCal got this past winter. But you got tons of rain in San Diego too. I didn't get any bugs and disease, though, so that's probably it.

@lanetower3411 Жыл бұрын

I put four sprouted garlic cloves in the garden and got two decent bulbs. I ignored them completely. For me, that is success.

@kerriewyer Жыл бұрын

It’s only a fail if you don’t try! That’s why preserving is so awesome, it’s covers the lean times. I’m trying garlic for the second time here in Oz, and it ain’t looking great so far 😂😬 I have successfully grown a cabbage though, so that will cushion the fall 😂

@michellereber6816 Жыл бұрын

My first time planting garlic and it did pretty good. Enough that I’ll try again.

@MsWDWFAN1 Жыл бұрын

That stinks about the garlic crop. At least you were able to salvage some of it even if it was only 20%. Some are better than mine. I wonder if you could chop some of the young garlic or any of it, put it in jars and preserve it with some olive oil. You could use that in sauces or whatever you'd need it for. You'd have chopped garlic and flavored olive oil too. 🫒🧄🤷‍♀️ Freeze drying it to make garlic powder is an awesome idea too! 👍

@johnnyhoover5870 Жыл бұрын

My citrus trees are going crazy, preach tree, not so much.

@originalismisacrock166 Жыл бұрын

Looks like your garlic played the role of "trap plants" and lured the allium aphids away from your onions. Given the rust was going to get it anyway, it is nice to know your garlic gave its all.

@davordamjanovic893 Жыл бұрын

This year I planted garden 6-7 TIMES bit by bit and every time either it get flooded, the hail struck or everything looks beautiful and I go for 4 days and powdery mildew, Peronospora and snails reak hawok on my garden. This year was really devastating for my garden. I lost 100% of potatoes and all mellons, 95% of tomatoes and peppers etc. Also potting mix I bought was really bad, compost in it didn't properly finished decomposition, almost nothing sprouted; it would be better if I used my soil even though it is tough but every time thing sprouts. I thing the worse year than this wont come. xD

@collagenbabe8173 Жыл бұрын

Pulled 100 heads yesterday. Soul satisfying. Not as good as last year. Got some cloves for next year. Phew.

@lisaespiritu2901 Жыл бұрын

The peaches tasted delicious, still enjoying them!

@dawnpleasant2319 Жыл бұрын

My garlic contracted rust this year. All the work I put into it for a dismal harvest. Thankfully other things are doing well.

@jennbasil Жыл бұрын

I don't think I'd cure any of it at all. I'd peel it all and keep the nice cloves in the freezer for mincing and cooking with. The rest I'd peel and dehydrate or freeze dry to make into powder. Besides, I find it easier to peel when it's not cured. So sorry for your loss!!

@roelven1282 Жыл бұрын

My second year where i "mass produce" for the family ... failure this year has been brocolli compared to last year... smaller heads ... .so i hope in autumn i get a rematch with my second round of brocs.

@joepa6106 Жыл бұрын

😂❤❤ real life gardening ... thats why I love yall channels

@markkristynichols845 Жыл бұрын

Oh you will LOVE the onion jam!!! ❤ y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@D3Misty Жыл бұрын

Thanks for these videos.

@williamevans6522 Жыл бұрын

What was the planting density? Have you amended the soil with elemental sulfur? Amended with gypsum(calcium sulfate? Onions and garlic need good amounts of sulfur/ sulfate. Note: Your eyes burn when you cut onions due to the sulfur dioxide released converts to sulfuric acid when it meets moisture in your eyes . And the bite of garlic is due to same,I believe.

@siobhanmacleod7957 Жыл бұрын

Do you have a team meeting to come up with the names for the episodes or do they just come to you?😂

@augment3d6ixth97 Жыл бұрын

lmao 8:38 jellies and jams!

@asamoreno6892 Жыл бұрын

Hows the bannana and avocado tree

@shazzbotz Жыл бұрын

i got those black alium aphids too on my green onions. blast them off with the hose

@Seraph318 2 ай бұрын

I feel for the suboptimal garlic season

@dylanweaver7827 Жыл бұрын

I would just burn all the waste directly ontop of the bed for ease of use. Burns the aphids on the plants, burns the aphids in the topsoil, and then you don't have too spread the ash afterwards. Just have too move your irrigation lines