Aussie garlic farmer here... Main factor in bulb size is how well you grew'd it.

@azza-in_this_day_and_age

8 ай бұрын

as a non garlic farmer i can confirm, you can tell how well its grew'd by the size of the geezeless thing

@aarondavidson6409

8 ай бұрын

@@azza-in_this_day_and_age .... this is getting weird... my name is azza...

@andrewsock1608

8 ай бұрын

You mean grozed

@azza-in_this_day_and_age

8 ай бұрын

@@aarondavidson6409 a sheila from adelaide annointed me with the title azza, she said it was my name in australian. ANYways.. pleasure to meet, you fellow aaron! however, i reckon were now required to battle unto death, if im understanding the rules accurately?

@aarondavidson6409

8 ай бұрын

correct indeed. I believe we have to meet exactly half way between our current locations with our choice of weapons. I'm assuming that will be in the ocean so from previous experience I suggest you bring flippers.@@azza-in_this_day_and_age

Clicked for the garlic, stayed for the potatoes; that little hand and voice are adorable.

@HubcapPointOutdoors

8 ай бұрын

Potajos?

@sumus11

8 ай бұрын

that little gasp was what done it for me made me miss my own little helper

@07YellowS2000

8 ай бұрын

Now AvE needs to teach the young apprentice how to properly machine threads in the badata.

@HJZ75driver

8 ай бұрын

@@HubcapPointOutdoorsPertadas!

@HubcapPointOutdoors

8 ай бұрын

@@HJZ75driver it's like vijeos but for potatoes.... so no it's potajos 🤣

Garlic mashed potatoes? Yes please.

@keithcurrams

8 ай бұрын

Oh heck yeah,,, that's a GREAT idea....

@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap

8 ай бұрын

cook unpeeled clean potatoes in water, hit em with the masher so the break a bit but aren't mashed. Gobs of butter and whole garlic cloves. Into a 200C oven for a bit more than a half hour. Crispy garlic infused buttery bodados.

@jamessullivan6985

8 ай бұрын

@@yourdrinkingthat wasn’t garlic juice………

@Shocker99

8 ай бұрын

Why stop at potatoes?! Garlic with everything!

@Project337

8 ай бұрын

@@Shocker99 focusing on the content, obviously we could do more

And just like that barely a week short of my 48tth birthday i find out what garlic seeds look like ... Pretty cool, thank you.

@arduinoversusevil2025

8 ай бұрын

And they aren't actually seeds! They are genetic clones; bulbils. Tiny garlic bulbs of the original plant.

Gotta get my allotment productive next year. I keep telling the more experienced fellas "I'm establishing the rhizosphere, these weeds, they are free Nitrogen"

i remember as a kid in ND going thru the fields after harvest pulling up the missed potatoes for winter. was good times. 👍

I remember the simple joy of finding botaters as a kid. You mean I can dig, get dirty, and get botatos! Holy crap!

We had a fairly large garden plot when I was a kid, I dunno about garlic but my father would have me walk through the garden with instructions to pick off half of the blossoms on the tomato plants. He told me each blossom would be a tomato, and if the plant tried to grow too many, they would all be small.

@aerogfs

8 ай бұрын

It does apply to most fruit productions. Specially important for grapes, since they have even less space than usual...

Bulbs are a plant's way to store carbohydrates during the growing season. When the growing season starts to taper off in late summer/fall the plant invests some of those carbohydrates into flowers/seeds. Thusly, smaller bulbs if allowed to flower. You can remove the flowers but I would suggest harvesting before flowering and allow the ones that you missed to reseed in the garden for new garlic in the spring.

Been away for a year.. clicked on your video the second it popped up. LOVE YOU AVE!

@arduinoversusevil2025

8 ай бұрын

Well, I don't know about love but I thank you regardless.

Great to know that your kids are learning where food comes from. That's an important lesson.

I love how someone with so much technical knowledge is out planting potatoes. It's a sign of the times

A couple of days ago, I harvested sweet potatoes from a 7 gallon grow bag. One potato to start, many pounds of sweets produced. First year trying this, but I am led to believe by these interwebs that you have to let them age in a dry, covered spot for at least a couple of weeks to get them to sweeten up. I'll know if that is bullshit if I find them rotten instead of sweet in about 12 more days.

@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap

8 ай бұрын

If you store normal potatoes in the fridge for about a month they will sweeten up. The starch turns into sugars, horrible texture because the starch is mostly gone but far sweeter. (Potatoes are best stored a hair above 5c or else this happens)

@kendavis8046

8 ай бұрын

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap I grow potatoes every year, and always store them at room temp, well ventilated.

@LonneLpp

8 ай бұрын

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap This is good to know thank you for the knowledge!

@upinarms79

8 ай бұрын

Grandad grew a lot of sweet potatoes and that's what he did. He used to lay them out in the basement and cover them in burlap. No idea if it did anything special, but they were always good when granny baked them up. Just don't leave them too long of they'll start to get soft spots.

@StanErvin-yo9vl

8 ай бұрын

LEAVE THE DIRT ON THEM! It's a natural rot barrier! Space them out uncovered well ventilated with no visible muddy clumps. When they are turned up in the fields they're left for three days before picking up.

Thanks Uncle for teaching that boy right how to garden and communicate in proper American English. 🎉

@PlanetaryThoughts9861

8 ай бұрын

He's lernin' him to count as well!

Potato’s are just amazing how they work. Magic ground grocery.

hey AvE, I want to quickly thank you for making videos over the years. I've grown in the light of your shared personality and enjoyed joining in on your own want for wisdom. - sincerely James

@arduinoversusevil2025

8 ай бұрын

That's very kind of you to write James. Thank you for sharing in our collective bumblefuckery!

You are the best my friend

Understand the theme here, AVE is showing us all what is required for what is coming!!!! THANKS AVE, you are the man that saves humanity!

Oh my that poor child is rummaging through the dirty. Oh my that has to be some form of midevil punishment. I'm just pullin your chain. It is good to see kids learning to live off of the land and grow foods. I followed my father around all my wee life then when I became a growed up I knew things like magic it was I knew how to do stuff. Great vidjayo!

I had a garlic clove that sprouted just laying around in the kitchen so I planted it and it wasn't long and it grew to be about a foot-and-a-half tall... Not even sure when to harvest it but I will snatch it up before it freezes😅

@BelligerentWoW

8 ай бұрын

When the lower half of the garlic leaves have turned brown, that's when to pull. Each leaf is wrapping around the bulb so if you wait for them all to brown you risk the outer most layers decomposing. So the middle ground is half to 2/3 of brown leaves, dig and pull. Also, if ya wanna try it for next year, depending where you live garlic overwinters! I'm up in the north east and I usually plant my garlic batch in mid October to early November so they set a root before the ground completely freezes. They will take off in the spring and by June/July you're ready for a garlic harvesting! Honestly my favorite crop to grow because as long as you give it some good soil and a 2-4in light leaf mulch overtop, it's set and forget! Such an easy plant!

"We're gonna check that!" Sounds like project farm there for a sec lol

Would happily watch more vids of your gardening.

Everything up there in Canada is expensive. They haven’t figured out a way to tax your people yet to breathe but I’m sure it’s coming.

My Soviet era Slovak grandfather would always say, to make dinner ‘you start cooking the garlic and onions, then decide what’s for dinner’

Garlic is an old wives' tale for sure. It doesn't actually exist, much like "birds", "Australia", and "inflation slowing down".

@colindewolfe3647

8 ай бұрын

And England is a conspiracy of cartographers.

@aarondavidson6409

8 ай бұрын

I'm an aussie garlic farmer with a pet bird and hope in the economy... who is also now questioning his reality...

@ianmason.

8 ай бұрын

If'n Australia doesn't exist, where do all those Aussie bartenders in London really come from?

@Dreddy72

8 ай бұрын

@@ianmason. hollywood, where everyone is livin' the lie.

@bonnienichalson5151

8 ай бұрын

LoL from reality:) it all in your head

Didn't know old Wives got Tails, good thing I divorced her before it grew in.😂😂🐊

Using bulbils also breaks up the soil borne disease / fungus that a below ground head carries. Since they're up in the air they do not transfer the fungal issues into the next planting area. Rotate your crop and keep your soil clean of the fungus :)

@KHALABEEB

8 ай бұрын

Even though it will always be amongus?

@eastportorganic

8 ай бұрын

Keeps the fungus down to a dull roar...@@KHALABEEB

Digging spuds with younglings has to be one of the greatest joys in life.

Love your out n about talks

The food is wonderful. The grandkids out helping gather the harvest is priceless.

@iamblaineful

8 ай бұрын

grandkids.....yeah, okay. LOL

@DjSubstain

8 ай бұрын

Thingamujigger, are you talking about yourself? AvE ain't that old. It's his kids.

It makes sense that the bulb would be smaller bc the plant is using its energy to grow seeds whereas if you top them the plant uses the energy into growing the bulb. Same principle with growing Bonsai where you clip the new shoots/growth in spring to force the tree to "bud back" or with growing Cannabis where you either top the plant and remove the Cola completely or you can break the stem to force the plant to divert the plants energy into growing lower canopy flowers.

Yes they're definitely smaller with the scape not removed. Still usable though.

Those large single bulb garlic cloves are the best tasting though, you can just eat them plain, and they taste great. Or slice like an onion and fry with the breakfast bacon, and get the best of both worlds as flavour. Nice how the little hand is helping, she is getting bigger and bigger every year, soon will be doing work at the healing bench with you.

😂 that last clip put a smile on my face! thanks for including that

I kinda like the idea of a super bulb.

Only thing that survived the wrath of my chickens this year are my carrots.

My old wife has got a tail.

@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap

8 ай бұрын

Does she have hoofs too?

@ShedTV

8 ай бұрын

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap Neigh.

That last bit is just friggin magic; magic that food can come from dirt and magic because you can pass that on to the little ones. [insert lion king circle of life song]

Interesting.... I live very close to the garlic capital of the world. Gilroy, CA USA!!!

When we think of AvE, it's only natural to think "bulbous".

Society garlic is the way to go. Hassle free. Also Egyptian walking onions a great addition.

Ouuu dandy good garden there bii, granny be proud

Mmmm... garlic... Mmmm... potatoes...

When i was a kid i used to get so excited about finding potatos

It's all about energy storage. The plant uses the energy stored to make seeds so you get smaller cloves. They're still garlic though! No harm done either getting seeds and smaller cloves or larger cloves and no seeds. Depends on what you want. Most people either want seeds, or high quality cloves hence the prevailing habits.

There are a few farms that have managed to get some real flowers and cross pollination to make true garlic seed. Not on a level for selling the seed, but enough to develop new cultivars. I found one such breeder in Oregon.

Can I suggest a revival of the 2 minute manly man skill vidjeos? After sharpening my Briggs and scrap-iron stone flinger and reviving a borrowed press-sure warsher, I'm running out of things to do with my lubricated lawn and mortgage.

I'm always spreading seed and my bulbs are huge. If you're worried about propagation, just stick to the old wife's tail.

Fun and games on the garlic collective!

Oh chickadee sounds like she’s growing up fast!!

The Irish in me loves digging for taters.

@vex6559

8 ай бұрын

aye...too bad the whiskey never roots...damn shame...

We're going to test that! Very impressive! 😂 maybe this year we'll take a run at our own garlic. Being in Hills and all I feel behind the curve buying garlic

I could never be a vampire...I just love garlic too damn much :)

@Diggnuts

8 ай бұрын

Perhaps you are a masochistic vampire with impeccable taste?

The only wives tale about garlic I hear is mashing them up in your socks when you are sick.

Whenever I need to get some good vitamins in after eating bad for for a few days I always reach for the Garlic, onions, Ginger. Always feel better after.

0:19 an old ecology teach would show us these and they tasted so good

There is something about watching a childs hand lift potatoes...... Maybe it reminds me of myself at that age

I tried this a few weeks ago (also weary of the wives tale). Had 10-20 with removed scapes, and about the same with scapes. Washed and weighed the heads - behold, on average garlics with scapes removed had 57% more mass compared to the incumbent! Will always remove my scapes now

@MauricesExoticPets

8 ай бұрын

Scapes are good eats, and an efficient way to grow more garlic, very much a have your cake and eat it too sort of situation.

Digging "taters"... one of the best parts of gardening!

@SeanBZA

8 ай бұрын

Sweet potatoes are better though, even if they might take over the entire garden with time.

I like your policy: pay local youngsters to pick the rocks from your fields, a penny for 50. Boss Tweed *lives*

I was not instructed to re-subscribe yet but don’t want to miss anything. Apologies if I messed up your scientific speriments!

Was that chickadee or baby bear, man time flies. Cheers sir and family.

i can confirm if you leave scapes on you get smaller garlic, you need to cut them as soon as they pop up for best head size

Nice!

I cut the scapes because they are really delicious before the heads are ready.

Those look like they would be great for black garlic. If you haven't tried it I highly recommend it.

Few channels bold enough to use a semicolon in the title. Elite punctuation and best comments section. Yay ave!

Thanks daddy!. Nice..

Garlic is imperative to healt! They told us that clue in the new BladeRunner” movie 👍💪🙏🏻🤠

Staving off the vampires in your garden.

The older I get, the more your videos remind me there are still good Canadian families out there, somewhere.

Love garlic. Roasted, smoked, raw. pickeled, black, etc.

Need to bury a fake hand in there and let your kids dig it up 🤣

@kazzxtrismus

8 ай бұрын

im gonna do that with a beer

@jamessullivan6985

8 ай бұрын

U can grow beer?

@kazzxtrismus

8 ай бұрын

"if you can grow beer why do we buy it at the store?" "if they can print money why dont they print enough to not need mine for taxes?" @@jamessullivan6985

The real old wive's tale here is the word 'bulbils'. Come on, that ain't no word.

I grow Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum for ten years now. Always nice to see the reaction when I give some to people visiting my farm. Very healthy and as a bonus it keeps the little white worms in your a$$ at bay.

This seems to be common for plants that "bolt". I had carrots I forgot to harvest one year. I tried some next year after they went to seed. They shrunk and had zero flavor.

@SeanBZA

8 ай бұрын

Mostly because the natural seeding mixed them closer back to the original wild carrot. The yellow orange carrot is a sport, I see the other colours by me in the supermarket, and they are nice tasting, and a whole set of different tastes over the orange one, which is more or less bred to be canned and cooked without breaking down.

As a self proclaimed farmer. If you want potatoes you're all set, we got more than we know what to do with. If you want dead garlic anything. Im your guy.

Garlic can grow both bulb and seeds at the same time, it's onions that you need to choose one over the other.

Teaching people that blasting out seed makes the bulbs smaller is well timed since it'll soon be nofap November.

You can cook and saute the seed heads just as you would garlic and it's delicious, I grab a handful of wild ones in the forest whenever I can, delicious and keep other hikers away from us.

Watch out, one might lose it's gardening rights because of health emergencies.

Welcome to the Jungle, we have birds and snakes

Now I'm jonesing for wedge cut fries with garlic butter after seeing those 'taters in the ground.

The victory garden!

Raising them right. Respect

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it... :P

Yes. Yes indeed.

nothing beats when you dig out your home grown free range fries out of the mud. also, i don't fuss with the bulb size with garlic, i just double down on the amount to plant. ain't got time for fairy tales

If I feed both my kids they tend to be smaller then if I’m feeding it all to the one. Think this applies here as well. Divided finite resources.

Nature is pretty cool sometimes

Wow, you managed to hand water your whole potatoe patch up to 8 inches deep at least, must have took you forever.

How nice. You taught him to count. Good. BUT You also taught him to talk. That you'll regret in a few years.

It's not the size of the bulb that matters, it's the stink of the pink!

I took your advice and it worked. All my garlic this year look like blooming onions from the outback.

ever try growing potatoes in stacked 5 gallon buckets with no bottom? makes harvest a breeze with no digging around, just dump the buckets.

Them was some nice looking taters! Have you tried the Yukon gold type, up there in the Great White North?

I buy my garlic already minced and inside a jar (I know that's anathema to real cooks, but I don't care). Not sure how they get minced garlic to grow inside jars, but it sure is convenient.

Those seed nodules look like tiny garlic cloves. Can eat?

I must know more about garlic

I sure do like them french fried potaters, mmmmhmmm.