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True story. As a kid, I got into gardening. Planted some onions and garlic. I forgot about them. To this day, nearly 45 years later, I still have volunteer plants that come up from that patch.

PLEASE do a gardening series! 🙏🏼❤️

Hey folks! If you want to grow onions, make sure you grow the varieties that are compatible with the amount of DAYLIGHT you receive. For example, do not try to grow walla walla onions (a long day/northern onion) in Texas(a short day/southern state). It will not bulb! And yes they do sell the seeds in your local area despite them being almost useless (if you are a southerner). Don't play yourself. If your latitude is low, grow short day varieties. Onions bulb based on the amount of hours of daylight.

if you want a REALLY easy and prolific plant, grow Egyptian walking onions. They're kind of like spicier shallots. And they seed themselves, so if you forget about them, they just plant themselves. They won't grow really big like a yellow onion, but they're useful and so easy. Great video!!

I’ve been growing garlic and onions for years. Plus a lot of fruits and vegetables. It’s extremely rewarding. More people should learn to garden just in general. Grow your own food lol. It’s delicious! ❤

One thing worth knowing about growing garlic is that if you want it to have multiple cloves, you actually NEED to plant it before first frost. Not that you 'can' store it underground in the winter, that it actually *requires* getting frosted in order to go through the stratification process, which is what triggers the planted clove to know that once it wakes up, it should split into multiple cloves within an full head. Otherwise, if you just plant your garlic clove any ol' time, it'll essentially stay as a spring onion and only have the one clove at the base, with green shoots as normal. There is no wrong time to plant garlic, but there is a right time for what your intended outcome is! Also, for braiding garlic, you can really only do it with softneck varieties, since there's no flex to the neck of the hard neck kind, in order to weave. You can use a string and tie them up together to use the string as a sort of netting, but that's a whole other deal. Hardneck varieties are the only kind that produce scapes, and they tend to have larger cloves as well as a shorter shelf life. Softneck-which is pretty much the ONLY kind sold in 'normal' grocery stores-can be braided, and has a longer shelf life, but the cloves are smaller and there aren't any scapes. For what it's worth as well, by the way, the larger the clove you use to plant, the overall larger the size of the cloves in the resulting garlic. If you continually save the largest cloves from your garlic bulb to re plant, even the soft neck varieties will eventually have decently-sized cloves. But as a person who loves garlic and wants to peel as little of it as possible, I'm a fan of hard neck all the way.

I had a 92-year-old home health client once who grew Egyptian walking onions. She had been growing the same onions for at least 25-30 years. When I helped her in her garden, pulling the bulbs, I fell in love with this onion type. I like perennials, so I'm going to try this fall to get some started, along with garlic and ginger.

Don't under estimate the value of growing onions and galic for your local food pantry. Deliver them cleaned off and whole. Watching how various communities wanted the different parts was a learning experience. Our whole garden was for the food pantry❤

I live in an apartment, no balcony or space outside. Garlic scapes are grown easily from that bulb that has shoots. Just put them in a pot, 1" deep, and in ten days you will have a beautiful plant to trim ... YUM. And they do grow more. You're not gonna get a 'crop', but it's an easy thing to do with that sprouted bulb. :) Love your channel; it's the best for learning all kinds of home cook stuff. x

Not forgetting the feel good factor. Harvesting and cooking with food you've grown is so satisfying. Chickens are so entertaining to watch. Home laid eggs are amazing and even after 20 years, I still thank them for the eggs as I leave the coop.

Growing garlic is next level. Plant and forget over the winter and you have the most wonderful produce in spring. Honestly spring garlic has changed my life, or at the very least leveled up my cooking tremendously.

One thing you didn’t mention which is SO COOL about growing your own food- variety! You can really hone in on the exact varieties you want to grow, because you love the flavor or because they work well in your climate or they store really well, etc. I live in a bit of a tricky area to garden in and one of my favorite parts of growing food is finding varieties that I love and can perform well in my region. It’s just a rewarding hobby to get into.

QUESTION: For those of us in apartments, we need help with growing onions and garlic on our patio. What is the minimum depth a pot should be, and what is the minimum spacing in a pot before it’s too crowded. Also, what kind of watering regiment is optimum? How much sun exposure?

I overdid it as well when I first attempted a backyard garden. I ended up with a little of everything but not enough for a meal. This year I am only focusing on a few items in bulk. Green beans, tomato, peas, spinach, green onion. I tried broccoli and the plants have grown well since last winter but aren't producing the flowerettes we know and love so looks like failed on that. Thanks for your video, def leaning into onions and garlic this year along with all the wonderful fresh spices that are super easy to grow. Growing up my Pops always gardened and I honestly did not enjoy getting drug out every weekend to tend to the gardens. Now I totally get it and why Pops loved gardening so much. It truly is good for the soul even when you fail miserably. You get better for the next go. Thanks for sharing.

I love this video so much. It's super informative and really shows the whole process and different things you can do throughout the process. Would love to see a whole series on this with all the different vegetables you grow in your garden.

I’ve been waiting for someone to do a garden to kitchen show. Thank you for this great episode! 😊🎉

I grew 30 beautiful bulbs from farmer's market garlic this year and it's hanging braided in my kitchen where I just cut one off as needed. So cool! I'll grow more this year for sure, my current harvest won't get me through the year.

Loved this video! I have been considering starting a small garden and this has definitely inspired me to DO IT! Looks like a bit of work, but so worth it & more appreciation when growing yourself.

Hi Mike, I just wanted to say thank you. Brothers Green inspired me to cook. You and Josh made cooking seem so easy and fun and I started cooking, to the point that I actually got semi-decent at it. I'm moving out in a couple of weeks and will definitely be looking forward to starting my own little kitchen garden.

add carrots and radishes to your mix. both easy and tasty also many varieties. We used to grow potatoes as a kid and all I remember was planting, forgetting and harvesting; they are more work to harvest but again, if you like a specific hard to find type, they are easy. And for fun, plant sunflowers for awesome looks :) Local birds will love you.

Loved this video. I've been a small home gardener for more than 30 years. You're featuring two of the easiest crops to grow. One thing I've learned about garlic is that if you aren't planning to use the scapes, remove them as soon as they appear. You will increase the size of your bulbs by as much as 40%. As well, save your largest cloves for sowing. There's a significant difference in the size of bulb produced from a large clove and a small clove. As for onions, I've had the best success with sowing onion seedlings. I grow my own seedlings. I choose varieties that are best for storage. Sometimes I will grow a small amount of some well-known varieties that don't store well - Walla Walla and Vidalia are two of these varieties. Cheers.

This has been my 4th year growing both onion and garlic. Once you know the right type to grow and the timing, they are incredibly easy to grow.

Love it! I’m growing garlic for the first time this year. Onions next spring. I’ve been growing all of the basics for the last few years ever since I got into gardening during Covid where I had unintended time off. My focus has always been varieties that I can’t easily find at the store or things I use a lot. Excited to get into the alliums a bit more!

Excellent video and advice! As a keen relatively new gardener who has grown onions & garlic for 2 years now, I completely agree ❤

Gardening is really good for yourself it teaches you how to provide for yourself even if it's just a little. Not to mention saving you the environmental impact of trucks driving your stores produce around. Also as he said you can get some nice variety, stores usually only have the same stuff over and over again. But there's tons of different types and flavor profiles outside of the types that are mass produced. It also feels nice to see exactly where your food comes from cause there's no changing hands and locations. Can also save you issues if a mass farm has a failure with certain crops like losing it to disease or pests which results in a shortage, whereas you have your own to get through it. It really is so good to garden.

Love the gardening content and hope to see more of it. It is interesting that you included therapy in a video with gardening content. I started a small garden, for the first time, back in 2013. Since then I have found myself more centered and balanced and I believe gardening is a great form of therapy in it's own unique way. It definitely connects you to the land...i.e...the soil, soil microbes, insects, weather, seasonal changes. I now have a much deeper appreciation for farmers and where food comes from and the work it takes to bring it to our tables. Great video Mike, and thank you for the wonderful content.

I just finished curing and cleaning my hardneck garlic. I had a whole plot this year and got a nice crop for the winter and to share with friends. I am very bless to have a garden, orchard and lake property to enjoy. Is really a joy to garden and grow as much vegies, herbs, flower and fruits. Sometimes, I get some birds too. My experience is that growing your own veggies and eating fresh from garden is the best and you can get so much from a few seeds.

Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals

I think you just persuaded me to give gardening a try. Been wanting to give it a go & garlic seems like my starting place. Thanks for sharing this

One more important point is that you know what kind of fertilizer you used. Not full of unhealthy chemicals. I plant 300 bulbs every year and give most of it away to family and friends and yes, keep some to plant again in the fall. Just did onions for the first time this year! So fun to be able to provide for yourself. Thanks for another great video.

I agree! My community garden plot came with a healthy crop of garlic chives (look it up). I love it in eggs and potatoes... But it grows year round and it's even easier than the bulb plants. The biggest issue is controlling it! This year with all the rain and cool weather we had in California my garlic got rust which made for tiny bulbs and no more garlic in that spot for 3 years. The red onions were smaller than expected but perfect for pickled onions.

I'm in zone 7b, also. Great to know about garlic storing itself over the winter. I love garlic & onions. Definitely want to grow a ton. Thanks for making this video.

I think Potatoes could also go in this list. They are just as easy and abundant. They'll start growing on their own / going to seed like onion and garlic and all you really need to do is plant them and they'll replicate! Though, hilling is a bit of a process but it's not too hard.

Add shallots to your garden! They grow exactly the same as onions, spaced a little closer. Would love to see what you do with an abundance of those - I'm swimming in them this year 😊

This was so exciting to learn about! You are very organized in your gardening. It's empowering to know that many of us can grow these beautiful ingredients at home! Thank you for the detailed and entertaining video 👌

Longtime follower here-you just inspired me to go plant some of both! I was a bit put off from gardening after my everglades tomato seedlings failed once actually outside, but these look so hardy that I feel they may actually survive. Thanks a ton for both the inspiration and the instructions! :)

Imho potatoes are the easiest to grow. It just takes a lot of space

A reason you don't mention: better varieties. I never had Russian red garlic (a hard-neck variety) until moving here, where it's grown locally: enormous, almost sweet cloves, still with pungency AND (big one) *extremely* easy to peel. That stuff from Gilroy - soft-neck small garlic with tightly clinging papery covering - is a pain to peel, with small cloves that lack flavor beyond pungency. The focus of commercial crops is being easy to harvest (thus those tough-skinning tomatoes that are strip-mined somewhere in Texas), withstand long storage, hold up under shipping, etc. - that is, the focus is NOT on taste and flavor and how easy to prepare. Onions, too, have variety beyond just yellow and red. I love sweet onions, apple-like in mildness. However, I think those require low-sulfur soil, so they not be possible in one's own garden but do best in (e.g.) Vidalia, Walla Walla, and Maui, which apparently enjoy low-sulfur soil.

Thank you for this video. I loved your garden last video I watched. I am going to try to refer back to this and plant garlic this fall.

Great Video, I planted some onions a couple weeks ago here in Florida, and will start my first Garlic crop this Fall when it gets cold enough!

They will get even better over the years. There's something about the ground man, the big symbiosis of the ground and the vegetables that will develop over the years. My grandparents had a food garden that was more than twenthy years old and it was the best I've ever tasted.

What a luxury it must be to have space to grow your own food that’s amazing thank for sharing I miss my garden.

This was great info.I'm definitely gonna plant garlic this fall.Thank you

What kind of recommendations do you have for people who live in apartments without lawn space to grow some of these? Would love to see a video for that limitation for growing food--I'm sure you have a lot of ideas!

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Great content! Looking forward to planying my first garlic this year.

Just harvested my 1st 13 (?) onions in 2 10” pots - ate some & forgot to count. Love the info on using the green tops - thanks👍🏻 Will try garlic next❣️

Not enough garlic 😀

You have enough garlic for the fall/winter! You’re also very protected against vampires. It’s a win win!

Great informative video! I Just started my first garden at 62yo, lol. I love garlic so am going to plant some this fall and look forward to never having to buy it again! Plus your bulbs look better than most of it I find at the store! You never know how old it is!

Starting my seeds for spring ahhhh it’s been 2 years since I had my last garden and fed my family it was so liberating and cool to teach my son how we grow food to eat, he enjoyed being able to harvest for meals 😋 💜

I think my number one reason is saving money. Yes these products are not expensive in a store but you can grow these cheap and anywhere in an outdoor area or a single pot in an apartment or a patio very easily

I've been seeing onions from New Zealand in Czech stores which made me so mad. The idea that it's worth it to transfer a vegetable that can be grown in the final destination literally all around the globe is ridiculous. One of the many reasons I've been motivated to learn how to grow it. Great video!

Fabulous video, thank you for sharing. One thing that I find curious about store bought garlic is the tendency for the garlic to rot if not used for a few weeks yet I see garlic braids that seem to last for months. Another point, you can also grow onions from the bottom scraps from whence the roots pop out!

As you work more in the garden, I wonder if you’ll dabble in composting too. I LOVE how detailed this video that covers the whole life cycle of the onions and garlic. I would love to see you cover composting options i.e. compost devices vs best low cost(cash, time, equipment etc) option with high value.

First. Love onions and garlic in my vegan cooking. Thanks for the vid.

My man just discovered gardening.

I really enjoy learning from these videos. One thing my mom used to do when it comes to storing onions was to cut the legs off a pair of panty hose. She would put one onion in one of the panty hose, tie a knot, then insert another onion in the panty hose, and repeat. This way two things would occur: 1. The onions did not touch each other, staving off spoilage, and 2. You could just cut one onion off the panty hose when you needed it. I am an old lady now, but the onions we grew, they would last quite awhile. Mom cooked every day, and she would use quite a bit of onion and garlic in her dishes. My father always like spices, a “zing” in his food. Thank you so much for imvesting the time and effort into mKing your videos, I really enjoy learning from them.

this video is absolutely perfect, i can't wait to try all of it when i finally have my own garden!!💖

I don't know who needs to hear this but stop saving all your money. Invest some of it if you want financial freedom.

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Great video and lots of great points made! The homegrown and store bought comparison doesn’t really touch on the impact of varietal difference also - commercial crops are often selected for storage and shipping capability, while many of the heirloom varieties you can buy seeds for are typically selected for flavor and culinary value! So of course they taste better!

Thanks so much for all your videos man! It always makes my day better when I see you have a new upload

I’d love to see your ideas on what to plant first to get started with a garden and how to work up to the large one you have now

Thanks for this!! We just started major onion and garlic planting this past year. OMG so glad we did because having such a bad harvest of tomatoes.

I am absolutely focusing more on growing staples in my garden next year! I'll still be growing fun things like kohlrabi, romanesco, heirloom tomatoes, snap peas, eggplant, etc., but I'm dedicating far more space to onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and potatoes. And I'm lucky enough to live in an area where I can grow Walla Walla onions, can't wait to see how they turn out!

That was really cool I learnt a lot today, thanks !

I grow these 2 crops and love them. I let the onion sit in the soil until the green part is dried up, then theyre ready for fall harvest.

I live in Newport RI (zone 7b), plant every November, 6” deep + mulch with fall leaves, grass clippings or washed seaweed. I harvest around every July 15th + I snip the scapes approx. a month before I harvest! During the Spring I fertilize, water when v dry + stop watering after I remove the scapes- I always get great 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄!

Something I wasn't super clear on was do you harvest only 1 time during the year? I guess since I'm used to grocery store garlic, it doesn't last ~1y in my pantry, but I assume fresh garlic might? Thought I would ask!

Fun and informative video. Thank you.

Love the video! Thank you for sharing this info

I picked about 35 garlic heads this summer. Definitely leaving space for it in my garden. Such a high value crop for the place it takes

Yes! Garlic! I grow lots of it every year & I haven't had to buy any for as long as I can remember. I cook a lot & grow all of the alliums...garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, chives. For onions & shallots I recommend buying the seed you want and starting them in pots (like what you would buy as starts at a nursery). Sets, which you get in a bag of small bulbs are less desirable IMO because the plants often don't know if they're in their 1st or 2nd year...many will think they're in the 2nd year and thus won't form a bulb and will simply make a flower.

I love the garden + cooking content! Keep it coming!

The previous owner of the house I live in grew vegetables in their garden. When I was clearing some plants to plant sunflowers and zucchini I found garlic, some small onions and lots of carrots. I was suprised to find it since I started gardening 2 years after I moved in and had no idea these were still in the soil, I thought it was mostly weeds I also had a garlic from the kitchen sprout and put it in a small flower pot and kept watering it, it kept growing for months indoors until I forgot to water it

Thanks for sharing.These are exactly what I will plant this year 2024 as these are quiet expensive in my country - top imported foods.

Loved this video. Very honest assessment.

I havbece been gardening from the time i rented my first house in th mid 1980s but never grew onions because of limited space and as you said, they are realitively cheap to buy and i used a lot of them. However, after paying over $3 for ONE red onion last year, i bought some red onion sets and I am growing them in containers this year. another tip: I used to always plant a clove or two of garlic by my roses and in among my flowers to keep the bugs away and they seem to be great compainions,

I tried to grow too many things in my first garden this year. I'm getting ready to plan raised beds for next year, and I'm definitely going to include onions and garclic. This was SOOOOOOO helpful ! Much appreciated!

We've been growing tomatoes for a couple years, this year I've planted garlic, spring onions, red onion, yellow onion, bok choy and shallots oh some potatoes as well all from bulbs or just cut offs. Surprisingly everything seems to be doing well thus far. I've tried garlic a couple other times with no luck, planting during summer not during cooler weather

Thanks for this video!

Super content. Really helpful. Can’t wait to start

We started our first vegetable garden this year and we planted garlic and onions in spring still great to have fresh produce and we are going to go hard in fall and fill as much of our empty beds with garlic and onions

We have A LOT of things in the garden,but I love the garlic and different onions,they last sooo long if you store them right and taste so much more aromatic😊 Every year my friends get a little paperbag full of things from my garden and they love it!!

Garlic blossoms look really similar to leek blossoms before they open! Do they also have white, very small and adorable blossoms? Now, when you grow/regrow leek, it'll eventually stop regrowing at some point and grow a flower instead. The cool thing about that is: You can just gently shake the flower and live pollen will fall out. If they fall onto soil, like when you let them fall into a pot filled with soil, they will slowly but surely grow into more leek. I just love self pollinating plants. That is also how to "make" more peace lilies when they get those beautiful, big white flowers a few times a year.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.

it would be very interesting to see videos on each crop that you grow and how you store them

Another plus to growing your own is that you get to share time with, create memories, and teach your children about where food comes from. Little gardeners are good for the Earth

One thing I will point out about buying vegetables and spices from the grocery store is that depending on where they are grown they can pick up heavy metals from the soil. If you grow your own food you can build quality soil to help curb this. You can make your own onion & garlic powder (chili powder too if you grow chilis). Many name-brand spices are very high in heavy metal content not just from where the vegetables are grown, but they pick up a lot during processing. The health perspective is a great case to grow your own as well as avoid any chemical fertilizers & pesticides that have a residual presence.

I am an onion and garlic growing wizard and concur that it is super easy to grow either and both. Fall is time to plant the garlic, i like to wait until spring to plant onion. you can do it! BTW you skipped garlic bulbils and corms...they are the little tiny cloves that are in the garlic flower, in the stalk or hanging off the head itself. I can tell you more about them if interested. The home grown is more pleasant and will increase in strength as it ages, of course it also depends on the variety you planted :) I also rarely tear up when chopping home grown onion...they rock! I've been saving my onion seeds for years and years. I planted up a large pot with onions which I never harvest and just let them go to seed each year...so I have my own onion seed farm...hasn't failed yet!

I love hou you make things simple,, thanks!

I somehow haven't caught any of your gardening videos before this and i like the channel even more now!

7:08... wow what a camera trick. you look so different planting the onions than on your regular shot... amazing! LOL... great video.

Yes! Make sure you know if you need short day, long day, or intermediate day onions. Leeks are ash to grow, or chives easy peasy! I love planting garlic in Mid October.

I am awaiting my first onion harvest. My garlic was a big fail this year. Just rotted with the deep freezes we had this winter. I'll try again this fall.

Love this video. Please consider doing a follow up on how to grow these within an apartment.

Great video with great info! Thanks ✌❤

Totally. After years of gardening I have concluded that the absolute best things to grow in a garden (zone 7b) are greens, lettuces, herbs (all of these are salad items) and garlic, onions, and maybe potatoes.