You CAN braid hard neck garlic! First, you can harvest the tender scapes ( delicious!) for stirfry or pickling ( like pickling asparagus tips) in the closed bud stage before the scape tip fully forms the flower. Follow the curly scape stalk down to the base of the plant and cut, leaving the other garlic leaves in place to continue growing until you are actually ready to harvest the garlic. At garlic harvest you'll only have a short hard neck stump to process for braiding. If you choose to leave the scape on, I clip the forming flower bud off the tip so the developing bud isnt wasting energy making seeds as well as an underground bulb. At harvest dig up the garlic bulb leaving the stems and leaves attached and dry/ cure the bulbs as usual. Once the bulb has cured, spread the softer leaves to the side and using a wood or rubber mallet, gently pound just the hard dried scape stem to soften and make pliable the woody stem fibers. Dont over pound the stem, just enough to make pliable and try not to pound the dried side leaves as dried leaves can breakup and you won't have anything to braid. Braid as usual. I braid when the leaves and stems still have a tiny bit of green left in them so they dont crumble and fall apart during the braiding handling process, and let the braided ropes hang in a cool dry place to finish the final leaf drying. You can still use the garlic as the braid dries. If you do this, braid as tightly as you can as the slightly green leaves will shrink a little more as they dry.😊

You cannot even imagine how excited I am for this entire series of vegetable garden videos!!

Your garden bed set-up is AMAZING!!!

You inspired me to finally plant garlic. So I did. Right after I finished tulips & daffodils. Nestled them into my new raised beds, that is after chopping icey soil cuz it’s almost the end of November (I’m in a high zone 5/5b). Finished as the sun went down. Two minutes after taking shoes off and collapsing in a comfy chair, the lightbulb went on. I planted whole heads, not cloves!!! Well... back out the next morning to undo & re-do before the big storm hits. Wish me luck.

Garlic was all sold out last fall when I started looking. I just went to a Publix and bought organic garlic and planted it. I just harvested it and they were huge! I planted the two packs I bought, which was a LOT of garlic lol. But it worked fine if you can’t find any online or at a garden center.

Never planted garlic before. Didn't realize there were so many varieties. Can't wait to see them come up and harvested.

Awesome video. This fall the husband and I are redoing out tiny back yard by putting in a little patio and raised beds. Im planning what to plant for next year and I thought about fall garlic. Seems so simple. Thanks for easy explanation.

Thank you for sharing Laura and Aaron you got some great shots!

Love the symmetry and formality of the beds!

I’m in love with your raised beds. Great aerial shot Aaron. 🙏

The drone view is so cute! 💜

I’m so excited to watch your veggie garden come together! I really like your style and your videos are very informative 😁

Love it when you do a drone view. You two work well together and make great videos.

The visual totally helps! Thanks! Your instructions are the best!

You and your videos are such good educators for gardeners both novice and experienced. Thanks you so much!

This video has been so encouraging to me that right after watching it I went ahead and planted my own garlic in my raised garden and so can't wait for next year for harvest something to look forward to in 2021 thank you so much!

I'm so eager to plant things I can eat. Your videos are truly inspirational and informative!

Watching you plant your garlic made me think of Gilroy California they would have a Garlic festival every year, The whole town smelled so good with all the different foods that they made. I believe it was in the month of July people from everywhere would come. I lived there for quite a few years. It was exciting.

Very interesting! Never thought about planting garlic. Look forward to seeing updates later.

Thank you for this! Also I like how you have arranged the raised beds, it looks very nice and patternistic

You didn't mention anything about mulching your garlic. I've always thought it was necessary to do so. The one year that I didn't mulch, I had a complete crop failure. Maybe that was just a coincidence? I garden in raised beds in the same zone as you. Thank you so much for all your videos!! You're a great teacher. I've learned so much from watching you. :)

You always seem to answer all my questions without me asking. You are amazing. So in Love and addicted to your videos. They are all an inspiration to me and have changed my life especially when life gets to be so sad sometimes and you always seem to make me smile. God bless you and family.

Thank you so much. I have been wanting to plant garlic for a few years now. I have heavy clay here in TN so I would need to trench mine. If I can still find some at my garden center, I think I will plant some just to see how it does. I've never had fresh garlic but everything I read says it is so much better than store bought. I love garlic. I so appreciate you taking the time to show us how to do this. 😍🙃

Garlic ice cream is delicious! It tastes like vanilla, with a subtle, soft tangy aftertaste. Never know there were different types of garlic to plant. Most garlic videos I've watched claim garlic from grocery store is perfect to plant. Thank you for another great informational video!

Love the drone footage, amazing.

Your veggie garden beds are beautifully arranged. Having a spigot on each bed is a great idea.

Thank you for the selection, planting, harvesting, and storage information. I did not know a few points you reviewed. 😊

Wow I had no idea there was so much to learn about garlic! I hope to start a food garden once we become home owners on the future. I'm excited to see what else you plant in the raised beds ❤️

I braided hard neck garlic last spring. I just make a slit and remove the shoot inside. It works perfectly! Just planted about 100 cloves from last spring. Love garlic

Amazing view from the drone.

Wow! Love your raised beds! You always inspire me☺️

Great video, thank you for all your dedication to all of us who love to grow!!

Love the aerial view.

Your garden spaces are so beautiful!

gosh your video just gets better and better. Thanks so much for sharing!

Thanks for calling it "SOIL" and not "DIRT" like so many people do. Earth is LIFE, NOT dirt.

You make it look so easy. I’m going to try growing garlic and potatoes.

Thank for producing a clear, informative video..love your "show and grow" examples of just how to do this.😊.👍.

Great video going to plants garlic soon first time can’t get any better instructions, Just love your information so precise and clear.

yayyyy you finally got to use your veggie planters!!! Enjoy!!!

Thank you for being so informative! Im learning how to grow food, and youre a great teacher

I can't wait to have my own garden one day! I hope it'll look just as good as yours. Love the drone footage super bad ass lol looking forward to the updates 😊 take care God bless! 💜

Really cool drone shot of Laura planting from above!

That was sooo cool. Thanks for sharing and happy growing.

I really like the layout of the garden! And just a FYI, most Italian garlic are soft neck, not a hard neck... Maybe its just the way its labelled where you live, but we grow lots of garlic, and use an italian variety from where my family originates from in Italy, and i can tell you i only every seen soft neck garlic there... When it comes time to harvest it, you braid them, and hang them.

Can't wait to see the harvest videos to come! 🤗

Great video! I also plant hard necks and they last until the spring. Here in Quebec, Canada winters can be brutal and I am happy to see the garlics in late spring. I also like watching your informative videos. Thx 🤩, Nadia from Montreal

I love planting too.very inspiring video😊🍀🌸

oh wow, everything looks so different! 😮😮😮

Awesome photography!

Just watched your video that you posted last night of where you harvest these garlic Laura, definitely will be plants a couple of different bulbs now I know how to do it ... so I calculated roughly 8 months for growing them .... Magnificent crop ... well worth watching the latest video where Laura harvested these garlic 👍🏼🕊

Can't wait to see you do a harvest video on these 😍

Love the drone footage - more!

can't wait to see the update!

Looking forward to getting my garlic in❤️

Aaron great drone footage!

Nice video......great birds eye view Aaron!!!!

tfs.great info,live all your videos.doing my first veggie garden this year🥕🥒🍠🥔🤞🤞👍💓

A new favorite! Want my beds to look like that.

I was wondering the same thing Heidi asked about planting in pots. Aaron great drone view! Thanks y'all!

Wow great photography Aaron 👏 👏 👏

I enjoyed this video a lot! Thank you.

love to see your end results. I have watched the planting potatoes and garlic and want to see the finished produce pls

I planted my garlic last week. Therador, Flavor and Thermidrome. The very first thing I did when I bought my new summer cottage! Raised beds and garlic - I'm loving it! 😀

So glad you made this video, I was actually thinking of planting some this year! /Rachel

Fantastic, informative video! Can't wait to see what you plant in the rest of the raised beds! Looking forward to more edible gardening videos from you! :)

Loving the drone's shots!

Trying my first this fall!

Miss you Dexter!! The fluffy soil would be perfect nap spot for ya!

Love the drone shots!

Thank you! This was so helpful!!

Cool aerial shot Aaron😀

Lovely

I loved this video! Great info!

Love the drone camera shots.

I'm surprised you didn't mention how delicious eating garlic scapes can be!

Thank you for the lesson.

Thanks for the great info.I will be planting garlic and I found this video with great information.Thank you.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Such an amazing project that you're working on there!! Would love to see it when it's all done! #GardenGoals

DANG! Nice watering system!!!👍

Excellent… thank you 👍

So beautiful

You got a drone! :D I like the overhead shots. Thanks for the info about garlic! :)

Thankyou Laura for showing us how to plant garlic. I would really appreciate it if you could show how to braid garlic. Thankyou

This is fascinating , I learned a lot about garlic today :D

The drone shot was a great idea Aaron!

Brava

Amazing video!! I love content like this, keep it up 😍👌🏼

Great video, thanks

Thank soo much

I'm really enjoying watching your videos. I've learned so much and you really give a lot of great information. Hope your having a great pregnancy. I miss seeing Dexter in your videos:(

Thank you 😉

You are so cute! That’s first thing came out in my mind lol I’m planting garlic for the first time because stem came out….

Thanks. I was about to plant my garlic and found that you were doing the same thing. I'm planting German, Elephant and Italian. I'll let you know how it comes out around July. :-)

very gracefully you describes .......😘😍😍😍😍

That's a dream garden

Hi Laura would love to see a video on planting paper whites! ❤️ your channel. You look fantastic.

Oh, your raised beds look terrific! I definitely won't show them to my wife!

Hey Laura, I was wondering if you could do a follow up video on what your garlic looks like and how to harvest it etc.?

Would.love to see a video on how you harvest and store the garlic next July