My NEW Favorite Way To Plant Garlic 🧄

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I purchased 3 organic hard neck garlic heads at the grocery store 10 years ago. Since that first year I’ve harvested at least 100-150 bulbs each year. I plant the beginning of October using blood meal. I sprinkle again in the spring. I do weed if necessary. Garlic is so easy to grow even if you do nothing after planting. I’m often asked what I do with so much garlic. It’s very time consuming but I like to dry it, grind it and make the most delicious garlic powder and give it as gifts.

Last year I soaked my garlic with pretty good results. This year I planted some unsoaked garlic as a test to see if it makes much of a difference. I am a self sustainable gardener, do not purchase any fertilizers. Soaked my garlic in a worm casting/compost extract and a couple quarts of fermented comfrey tea, smelled lovely, lol. In each hole before planting the garlic, a handful of worm castings. What was interesting was my planting got interrupted for a few days, so I stored the soaked garlic cloves in a bucket of worm castings, when I went to plant the remaining cloves, roots were already sprouting. Happy holidays ! Seay Well !!!!

27 years ago, my mom bought a house and discovered a bunch of softneck garlic growing in one of her flower beds ... she harvested it and replanted, just poked it 2" into the same ground, and it came right back, and she has done the same for 27 years, never bought any extra, just replant what grew - no fertilizing, no soaking, no compost or soaking or peeling or whatnot ... great success. Fast forward 27 years, last fall we planted 3x as much, in the actual garden, 4" deep and 4" apart, with compost and fertilizer and regular watering, etc, and every one of them grew, and the bulbs when we harvested last month were 50% larger than ever before. So, I have learned it is possible to grow garlic by ignoring it in a flower bed or giving it maximum care in the garden, it all tastes the same, but the larger cloves are a nice reward for the extra work... and this year, we are adding Elephant Garlic, a second version of softneck, and a hard neck variety too - cuz thanks to YouTube, i now know what a garlic scape is, AND I MUST HAVE THEM!!! 😂

That soaking in fertilizer trick really works !!!!!!! I soaked store bought garlic in some seaweed fertilizer and every bulb grew roots over night!!!!!! Hopefully they bulb 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Okay Epic guys, I’ve followed your instructions for 3 years and finally this summer I grew some nickel size cloves. They had the cutest cloves about the size of a chickeydee’s little claw. 😂 But I was so happy to finally see a head develop from a clove. So this year I rushed to your store and ordered whatever kind you have. I hope “Epic Eric” blessed the bulbs before mailing cause this is THE year. If I get useless heads I will move on. If I’m blessed with real garlic heads I’ll buy a birdie bed like yours (when on sale of course). Love. Your encouragement guys, you seem to know I failed. 😢

One good way to stop disease is not peel your garlic in your garden bed. Peel all that stuff in the house.

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My hardneck garlic grown in New Hampshire lasts nearly a year. I harvest in July, cure and store in my cellar. Bulbs picked in July are still perfect past February and good even into Spring. Contrary to what most Youtubers parrot over and over, hardneck garlic lasts a very long time.

Love the dunking in vodka. I have bottles that my husband tried before he passed away. I don't really drink. All of them have just been sitting in a box. Now I have a use for it. Thank you.