This video brought me so much joy. When you see someone so giddy over doing something they love, and it is so wholesome, it makes me happy!

@clairehiker

4 күн бұрын

me, too!

Any day you’re looking down at a plant instead of up at the roots it’s a good day!

It's better to use a garden fork to gently lift up the entire plant than to just pull on it. Use the fork, Luke!

@Alison2436

12 күн бұрын

I usually dig my hand underneath and gently push up but I don't have a lot to harvest, maybe 2 or 3 rows

@ZAdobber64

9 күн бұрын

> lol. Some of us get it !

I spent $150 at the local MI Gardener’s store on garlic cloves, time to dig them up!

@amy_soucy

14 күн бұрын

Are you in the same climate? Mine are not ready yet.

@Pha-q

14 күн бұрын

I bought 10 heads of 5 different varieties from them in 2020. I've been replanting the largest cloves from the largest bulbs. This year, I'm harvesting 1000 heads. 😂

@noramax2925

14 күн бұрын

@@amy_soucy Our garlic has not started turning brown either. We are located across Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. We have had a lot of rain! We use a garden pitch fork to gently lift the garlic out of the soil. Wait a few days for your soil to dry so you don’t have muddy bulbs. Luke your garlic is huge. Great job. Happiness abounds!!🧄

@iveo83

13 күн бұрын

I bought 3 heads 7 years ago and never had to buy them again. I plant about 200 every year now and able to have garlic the whole year 😊

@marycountry

13 күн бұрын

Great harvest Luke! Will pick mine in a week or two.👍🏻

Oh I harvested mine yesterday and it was a great crop! I also planted carrots between the garlic and did not thin. When I pulled the garlic a few carrots came out. It was pretty satisfying !

I live in Rochester NY and I noticed my garlic looks ready now. I normally harvest after 4th of July but I'm doing it tomorrow. You the man Luke!

As soon as I saw this, I went and harvested mine because it looked just like yours, mine too is the best crop I’ve ever had! Crazy awesome growing season.

Where's your garden fork dude? lol Harvested half of mine and this weekend the rest is coming out. Thanks for being awesome Luke.

I planted migardener garlic last year and just pulled mine as well. Awesome harvest!

I just had my first successful garlic harvest yesterday. It pales in comparison to yours. My wife and I were thrilled. It was glorious. Thanks for the inspo!

I absolutely love his sheer joy

Friends, I lived on an organic farm that sold seed garlic, and my husband supervised garlic harvesting and processing. PLEASE do not pull your garlic up like this. Use a trowel to gently lift the bulb - pulling like this can damage the skin and cause bulbs to rot.

@smhollanshead

14 күн бұрын

Doesn’t it depend on how soft your soil is?

@kellyforeman1703

14 күн бұрын

right? I use a digging fork

@Gen2GenHomestead

14 күн бұрын

Do you wash them after or wait til the soil on the bulb is dry and dry wipe it?

@fcjcheah

14 күн бұрын

Do you have a website that I can go visit? Would like to check out your seed garlic 🧄 ❤

@Pha-q

14 күн бұрын

​@Gen2GenHomestead I just shake off the soil and wipe off any large clumps that would slow down the drying. I then cut the tops about 8 inches above the bulb and cut the roots leaving about 1/2 inch. Then it's on to the drying racks. Treat them like vampires (no sun). Once cured (usually around 4 weeks for me depending on weather), I remove the outer layer of paper and dry soil, cut the tops down to 1 inch above the bulb to save storage space and they go in milk crates in the basement until used. A garage can work too, but if it gets too cold it can trigger them to grow again. Home made drying racks are 2ft x 4ft boxes made out of 2x4 with 1/2 inch hardware cloth stapled to the bottom. Fans placed on top for extra air flow. Can fit about 100 bulbs average on a rack. Any way you can get them out of the sun with plenty of airflow works. Saw homestead in your name and thought you might want more info 😊

We planted 1100 cloves and we just harvested and holy cow did the garlic do great this year!! So excited to put it away for the year!!

I love your joy, Luke! Garlic makes me happy too.

Love the infectious excitement. Can't wait to see if my garlic harvest is just as tremendous!

😂 I share your joy and smiles! I harvested my garlic this week and it is like Christmas for gardeners!! 🎉 I love growing it and watching you be so happy! Congrats!!😊

My garlic is suddenly looking ready too and I was worried because it's so early! (Growing in Eastern Mass.) So happy to see so many other's finding the same thing this year!

I used your bulb protect and feed as well and had an epic harvest! Epic!! Will definitely use it again 😊

This has been an exciting week! Garlic harvest was Sunday, and ours looked a lot like yours! I planted hardneck and softneck all together last October after digging up our sweet potatoes. They went in double rows at 4" spacing, with 18" between each double row. Put a cover crop of peas, oats and mustard over top with another inch of compost over. It all grew nicely until January, when the freeze killed the cover crop. Put some shredded leaves over top and waited for early spring. Then it was only a few shots of compost tea while it was growing, and we got our best harvest yet! I was as shocked as you were when I started pulling up these monsters! Now sweet potato slips are back in the bed and looking forward to October again. 😊

I suggest you use a garden fork to loosen the garlic before you pull. You’ll have much better results.

Love your enthusiasm! I’m so jealous of your haul. Last October I planted a huge bed of garlic I bought from Amazon. Guess what? Not one single bulb came up. So disappointing. Bought lots of onions seeds from Migardner so that bed is now filled up with onions that look fantastic. Waiting for the restock of garlic in your shop to buy to plant this year.

@christinemccoy4471

14 күн бұрын

@judy Amazon?. Go straight to companies you can actually talk to people

@MyFavoriteColorIsBLUE

14 күн бұрын

Same here. I got them off of Amazon and that was a big mistake.

@joshuahoyer1279

14 күн бұрын

I tried that with Okinawan sweet potatoes trying to get slips to start. Each one rotted before putting out a single slip. The problem is that often some of this stuff is shipped overseas, which means they typically irradiate or otherwise treat it, which knocks out its viability. Thank goodness I found someone on the Facebook marketplace living at least in the same state as me who was very generous with her slips. I am very wary about ordering growables on Amazon. Sometimes they never grow, or it's something different from what you ordered. Like one banana plant my wife bought me for my birthday. Advertised as the Blue Java ice cream banana plant, but turns out it was most likely an entirely different (albeit still delicious from what I hear) variety.

@dawn19maria

13 күн бұрын

Please stop buying plants/seeds from Amazon! That’s not how you get good results. Buy from a dedicated seed/plant website.

Your enthusiasm is awesome!

My garlic leaves are so tall, up to my waist right now!! I'm hoping for a really good harvest soon! Scapes are just starting to form

@LukeRT

14 күн бұрын

Same here, have never seen garlic grow like this before, I'm 6ft and it's up to my chest

@Pha-q

14 күн бұрын

Same here. Super tall. German Extra Hardy was the tallest and harvested last week. Some bulbs are the size of baseballs. Have fun!

Great harvest. I find that by digging them out the bulbs don't break off.

I love your excitement when gardening. Your garlic looks great. Mine is ready here in Ohio too but I am going to try to wait a couple of days for it to dry out a bit before harvesting. We have been getting so much rain the last couple of days. I know mine always keeps longer if I harvest it when it is dry.

Incredible - The best part is your reaction to the harvest, there is nothing better :o)

Your excitement is so contagious! I was smiling and even giggling? Right along with you! Well done!

The beginning made me laugh 😂

Your excitement made me smile.

Those look great Luke

Great haul. Mine came out last month.

Love the enthusiasm

Incredible size! Awesome!

I love how excited some garlic made you 😊. I’d be SOOO excited too. I think I might give it a try this year!!

I'm so jealous! Life goals for sure!

Luke, your enthusiasm is so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your fanastic gardening tips, advise and knowhow. My veggie gardening has been taken to a whole new level thanks to you!

I make some of mine into black garlic and dry some for black garlic powder so good

@cct9194

14 күн бұрын

How do you process it into black garlic?

@toddcathyfranklin4189

14 күн бұрын

@@cct9194 in a slow cooker on warm rap heads in clingwrap then aluminum foil it takes about 3 weeks then dehydrat some and grind in coffee bean grinder

Awesome!

Loved watching how excited you got. I hope I'm the same way when it's time here to harvest. I just harvested my scapes a few days ago so it's getting close.

Harvested half of mine. Waiting for the other half to be ready. Still watering some, waiting for others to have more brown leaves before pulling. Love hearing your excitement.

These are beautiful

I LOVE your enthusiasm! I tried garlic for the very first time this year. It was a flip. The only garlic that seemed to do well was the elephant garlic. I need to take a look at your garden bed prep

Pure joy came through.

I laugh like you do when I’m harvesting my garlic 🤣🤣💕

I just pulled my garlic and had the same experience. All the garlic were big and healthy. I pulled 75 garlic heads these past few weeks in total. So fun! And great for all my cooking dishes.

this is so fun! I feel like I'm pulling them out too

Looking good brother!

That's a great harvest. I haven't had much luck with garlic. It's probably too hot here.

Fun harvest, huge heads!

WOW! lucky you!!!

I bought your garlic last year from the website and I also got massive garlics. I've never seen garlic so large, there's a couple that are larger than the palm of my hand.

I had my most successful garlic harvest this year. More than 30 balls. 8 nearly tennis ball size. Definitely saving the largest cloves for fall planting. Got my “seed” from natural grocer. Don’t know exact origin but all soft neck.

I love your joy! But I have garlic envy!😂 I pulled mine up this morning, and they were all much smaller than what they were last year. But I will try again!

Nice Garlic Luke😁🇦🇺

Pulled mine today and my German garlic all were as big as your biggest one you showed. All thanks to trifecta +

Good job my boy ❤❤❤

I harvested a little early too. They weren't quite as big as yours, but not bad.

I'll be harvesting mine next month in July.

Nice harvest

I'm going to harvesting mine today, right before 4th July

I have to wait for a dryer day 😊 i did music garlic this year

I've harvested half my garlic and came up with a number of solo/mono garlic that was one single giant clove/bulb. Any idea what would happen if I saved these and planted them for next season?

Been a good year for garlic. I had a few Persian Star that were fat and globe shaped. The individual cloves became more apparent a week or so into curing.

Nice growth for not being in a Mediterranean climate. It practically grows wild here in Seattle especially elephant garlic. They also produce corms which end up being left in the soil. They soon germinate and grow into a single bulb elephant garlic. Since our winters around here are mild these single bulb elephant garlic survive and are ready to harvest by the next summer

Great looking heads of hardneck Luke. I have another week or two before I pull mine up. When do you expect to have bulbs in stock for sale this year ?

I'm in Michigan too and my garlic has been exceptionally excellent this year too. Could the warmer, wetter winter have helped out?

Mine is almost ready! Maybe another week!

QUESTION: What size bulbs should I set aside for seed garlic? The normal size or the big ones? Does anyone braid for storage? (My harvest was fantastic and also early in KC this year, too). Thanks, Luke, for sharing your knowledge AND your joy! 🤩

Love your reaction to your garlic crop! I wasn't disappointed with mine but would of been more ecstatic if my garlic was bigger, like yours...lol

Love your enthusiasm! Will you sell small quantities for growing in the fall?

I looked at my garlic tops and they don't look quite ready yet. I'll wait another week or so before digging it up. ...can hardly wait! We're nearly out of garlic in our kitchen.

I think purchasing garlic online rather than just planting local farmer's market garlic was a mistake: much of it just didn't mature before the tops died off. I'm near Gilroy CA, the "garlic capitol of the US" and I think buying local is what I'll do from now on...😢

@irony11

14 күн бұрын

Purchasing "online" is rather vague. If you purchase online from a reputable company there shouldn't be issues. Amazon (for instance) is not. MI Gardener has a big variety and many have had great success with their products.

@amyschmelzer6445

14 күн бұрын

Buying local seed garlic and then saving my own seed from year to year means I am growing garlic that does well in my area. Yes, it’s fun to try a new variety that someone on the internet raves about, so I am not going to knock people who do that. However, I’ve found it takes a few years for a variety grown elsewhere to acclimate itself to my growing conditions. I don’t want to wait for small garlic to start producing large heads. Since you’re near Gilroy it should be easy to find varieties for next year that will do well.

❤❤❤

I planted for the first time this year. Mine have another bulb like area growing an inch or two above the In ground bulbs. What causes this? These did not produce scapes so they were soft neck. I can’t wait to get garlic from your store this year.

I need to try bold plus this fall for pur garlic.

Did you prune the elephant garlic scape the same time as the rest that looked amazing I’m waiting for my first harvest in Colorado. Leaves haven’t started dying back yet.

@teebob21

14 күн бұрын

@@Crashbangable Elephant garlic is actually a form of leek. I don't think it produces scapes.

This past fall was my first time planting garlic. I planted 21 bulbs. I have 9 left bc my chickens ruined it. Anyways, i wasnt sure when to pull it. Mistake #1 Imade from watching this was that ivelet it flower. Thanks for your videos and teaching me what to do with my things. Round 2 will be this coming fall. Hopefully my chickens will stay out. I have a better set up now to keep them out of it.

Congrats !!! 😂😂😂 That IS a Great garlic harvest, lol... ❤❤

I harvested mine this morning. First year for me so I am just hoping I did things correctly. Aside from the elephant garlic, I got the others from you. German is the one that did the best followed by Ivan. Music did poorly, very small bulb but it still looks pretty. Hopefully I can keep a couple of the German and Ivan and replant them this Fall.

Wow that's great. I planted some elephant garlic but none of it grew for me. Maybe the squirrels got it after I planted it...darn squirrels 🐿 😂

@katiemoyer8679

14 күн бұрын

I’ve had that issue, squirrel love garlic and onions. I found placing a nylon netting over the what I plant- let the cloves or sets get a deep start. After a few months, they seem to no longer be interested in my crop. I then remove the netting, save for use next year.

@jenchelle13

14 күн бұрын

@katiemoyer8679 good idea

🤩🤩🤩🤩nice one

Hm... Maybe I should experiment this upcoming year. Grow garlic around the perimeter of the raised garden bed, and interplant it with fast growing plants like radishes or perennial herbs like basil. Then, try to mend/compost the soil at the center of the garden bed during spring (our spring is too cold for a lot of plants/seedlings). Once it finally warms up (end of May usually), is when I can harden my spring/summer seedling plants. I planted garlic last autumn, but only one out of the bunch have survived (first time trying as a newbie gardener). Too much rain in the autumn season, and winter has been pretty warm/dry for the Northeast.

we had else nino this year in SoCal and my garlic was huge as well some were softball sized! and no, not elephant garlic, we planted Russian red

I love growing garlic. I am on my 4th year. I plant in spring and fall. This year I did hard and soft neck. I noticed the soft neck were a bit small this year. Any tips?

I harvested my garlic last week first group my elephant garlic all mono bulbed sad but my siberian was amazing

I planted in the fall, it greened up, I left it to overwinter, and nothing. 😢. Maybe I put it in too early? I was told it would be fine but nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Not one green sprout. Do I dig it up and start over this fall or wait it out? I’m in Iowa. It was so pretty 😭. And it was MI Gardener starts!

LOL! 💧💧 thanks always for the tips!

Hi Luke, you said to harvest when 50 -75% of the leaves are dead. The first several i watched you pull only had maybe one yellow " dead looking" leaf. Am I wrong or missing something?

I got the biggest garlic this year ever. Yours looks like mine. I was surprised.

My elephant garlic didn't do to well, regular garlic grew amazing though.

Can you also eat the stalk of garlic? Saute? When should I order? If I order now will it be ok until the Fall? Live in northern MA

I harvest all my elephant garlic 4 days ago it’s start splitting on neck area,we have so much rain ,so I dig them out. Now I still have another kind still there ,I look today on it’s still green more ,so I think I wait till next week. I already plant there today carrots and basilica.Cabbage in containers waiting .

So I normally let my garlic die back a little more than this and let the top half of the plant die completely back, but after seeing these results, I might be going out and harvesting my crop this afternoon. I agree it was a great year for garlic. Once it warmed up, it stayed warm and wet and some of my stems are the thickest I have ever seen.

@teebob21

14 күн бұрын

Replying to self: my garlic was ready! Some of it was past ready and was already separating at the neck. The average bulb was bigger than a golf ball!

What to do with the garlic stem after you remove the head? Do you compost it?

Its possible to craft a garlic digger. Basically a flat horizontal blade attached to a pto that goes under the heads to loosen them up and make it easy to pull. If youre doing acres of garlic it is worth it. That a d a garlic planter

why didnt you use a digging fork?

I cut off the scapes as soon as they appeared (instead of waiting) and had about 20% bigger heads of garlic.

We had a drought, like not even an inch of rain all June, so we'll see if my garlic kept growing

I want some of each please

Northern IL/southern WI has been 3 weeks ahead on everything this year. So weird. Wonder what's going to be happening by October.