We Grew Garlic 7 Different Ways, Here's What Happened 🧄

In the 1970's I stopped throwing out my sprouting garlic in my kitchen. I took the cloves out to the yard and poked the individual cloves here and there in my flower beds. They didn't hurt anything, and I never ran out of garlic again. When I needed garlic I just went out and pulled up a garlc plant. Sometimes it was a whole head, and sometimes one gihugic clove, and I'd just replant that and go grab another one. If the kitchen garlic started to sprout I'd just go out in the yard and put it in the flower beds.

Zone 6a here (New England). One benefit of growing garlic deep in colder growing zones is that you get some protection against hard freezes. We had a couple weeks this past January where the highs didn’t get above 20°F and the lows were in the single digits or colder. The top inch of soil is frozen solid at those temps. You have to bury your bulbs deeper as an insurance policy or you’re going to lose them.

The remaining question is: which one is more effective on vampires?

I grow heaps of garlic too, so found this extremely useful. One tip I'd share is that we had a really wet summer a while back, and the cloves that were planted close together rotted as the soil didn't drain away fast enough.

Just a tip , please make a slide / sheet conscising all the results and add it to the end of video , it will help a lot

Thank you for doing the whole trial in one video! We all really appreciate that.

I love it when you guys do stuff like this.❤🎉

I have been growing garlic for over a decade in MN. And been a vendor in the MN Garlic Festival. And I know what the commercial growers found in CA is that they got smaller bulbs in a 4 in spacing but more volume per acre. And I have grown every variety, ie Softnecks and representatives from each of the varietal kinds. And gotten the Creoles and Softnecks to 2-2.5 in bulbs in two or three years. And hardnecks up to 3.5 in with a lot of 2 to just under 3 inchs. And I use to sell garlic in the MN Garlic Festival for years. And what I have found is that 6x6 spacing in beds 4 rows wide with an 18in walk path and planted about as deep as the clove is tall *meaning if the clove is an inch tall u cover it by about an inch of dirt if its 2 inch tall by about 2 inch of dirt. If you plant deeper u get smaller bulbs and if you plant shallower u get more squat bulbs. And if you plant in this way once the plant gets some size to it weeds are a lot less of a problem. And I use to plant 10000 or more a year.

This is honestly pretty decent science. Small sample size, but you gave enough information to replicate your study and people are enough into garlic to give it a try. Give it a couple of iterations of people sharing their results and you’re likely to converge onto a correct result. It’s the very picture of science.

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