The entire time I’m watching this video…my knees are KILLING me!🤣 I imagine we’re the same age, how can you kneel on the concrete for that long?!🤣

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

ha ha ha oh no, I was moving constantly! Kneeling on anything other than a soft kneeling mat is a killer!!!

Love your energy! Now I'll have to check what other videos you have.

@eliandkate

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 oh there plenty to keep you occupied

I got French garlic last year from Wilko and it grew really well from planting in cold greenhouse and then planted out on allotment. Quite a few allotmenteers use supermarket garlic without problems especially in these financially hard times. X

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I know loads of folk who have, but like I say, is just about knowing your garden and what’s possible in your garden 😀

I've made garlic scape pesto and tucked it into the freezer. Lovely!

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Oh now that is a delight Becky 😍😍😍😍

I put extra onions and garlic around the edges of beds so the scent deters pests, they have space to grow and generally it’s unused space between brassicas.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Awesome plan I did that last year

Hi, I live in Scotland too and have only recently discovered a love for gardening and stumbled across your channel, I just want to say thank you - it is so helpful and enjoyable.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Awwww that’s awesome it’s helping Stephen

love the vids so helpful happy gardening

I got garlic planted up and even used little ones too.

My onions did terrible this year, so I am thinking of growing them with the soil mixture you just put together.

Hi Eli & Kate, great video on explaining in detail anpit different types of garlic. I hope it grows well for you this coming season. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed it Christine :D

I planted my Isle of Wight garlic last week and also a French variety. I used those last year and they stored well. Lovely to meet you and Kate last week at the Adam Frost evening in Edinburgh! You're as nice as you are on here. Thanks for the chat!

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

You’re showing off…. Last week? 😂😂 It was awesome meeting you too, hope your journey home wasn’t too bad, we were thinking about you. Now we’ve got a smiley face to add to the name 😍😍😍😍😍

@jennyjohnson9012

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate 😀😘

I love your videos!!!

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha glad to hear you are enjoying them Ashley

Last year rather than throwing the small cloves away I planted them all in a pot and cut the green leaves as they grew, great in salads and we had several pickings. Michael in Arbroath

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s a good idea 👍

Hi Eli , loved your update today I always use IOW Garlic and have just returned from a lovely trip there and brought home my Garlic which is safly planted out , I got Rosewight , Merseywight and Kingsland Wight, happy days x

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Oh Jim, that’s a heck of an effort to disable on a stamp 😂😂😂😂 Cool you are growing Kingsland too 😍

@Jimsraisedbedgarden

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate 😄👍will be interesting to see how things go Eli xx

Our garden club had a garlic expert as our speaker at our last meeting. He said if you're growing in a pot, he recommends a deeper one (12-18 inches). We had a ton of rain last year as well, and my garlic did well in raised beds, I think because they're raised off the ground so the drainage is excellent. He plants as late as possible to avoid getting any green showing before winter as frost damage on the plant will seriously reduce production. In a year where a very cold or wet year is expected, he plants in early spring instead of late fall. (We're in Vancouver BC Canada; lots of winter rain; it doesn't usually snow, but we sometimes get a freeze and a little snow that lasts a week). And he says any small cloves he doesn't plant, he uses for cooking.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Perfect Candace, exactly what I was talking about around the knowing and understanding your garden, your climate and not just copying someone else. We can learn so much with the amazing info we can now access on the internet but we need to take that info and understand how it relates to us 😍😍😍

I think I would use sandy soil for garlic in your area. There are 2 good reasons I love my sandy soil-no slugs and no chance of rotting. This year I ordered a variety pack and think they are all hardneck. If they don’t keep well I will dehydrate most and maybe some diced. I can then powder the dry batch. Good thing it’s nice out when we harvest so we can dehydrate outside☺️ I hope I didn’t plant too soon as we are having Indian summer after a week of freezing and I noticed a couple were up already. I threw some old hay we had on them in hopes no more pop up. Some varieties were starting to sprout when they arrived and I only planted a couple inches deep. Oh well, I’m sure I will end up with enough to replant next year so I don’t have to buy them again as they are expensive.

Hmmm... great minds indeed. 😀 Nice video.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

you realise we'll competing now?

Scapes are wondrous!! Can hardly wait.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

They are Frances I’m so glad I’m not the only one!!!!!!

@francesbatycki404

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate - salads, stir fries, mmmmmmmmm…. I just planted between 125 and 130 cloves of various varieties. I want to see if the scapes from porcelain, let’s say, are distinct from Mexican purple. Nakusp, British Columbia. And btw, your garden is a delight to behold. Neatness is not one of my virtues…. Lol!

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Porcelain was my standard variety before 😍😍😍

Little cloves and only one bulb, try growing as green garlic. the person to see how its grown is Steve's seaside allotment.

I’ve gotten 1/2 the garlic in the ground and then the weather warmed up with lots of rain. Last year nothing survived. This autumn I’m determined to plant too much so something survives to harvest. My first year I pulled so much you could smell it on harvest days 2 homes away. 😂

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

that was us... the garden stank of garlic :D

Aw thanks lovely. Looking forward to comparing the elephant garlic next year 😊

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Gives us something fun to keep in touch about 😍😍😍😍😍😍

@christiegrows2022

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate absolutely and stealing more if your recipes 😍

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha you are entirely welcome Wait till you see what I do with scapes

I grow garlic in buckets but need to put netting over as last year the foxes dug them all up, even the ones I had on the table!!

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Boooo That’s why I have nets on my bed, not so much foxes as cats and believe it or not…. Blackbirds!!!!!

I've heard of people planting the small ones in a clump and using the green growth like chives.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s a thought

Kingsland white do the best for me up in the Highlands. They needed good regular water cos I'm coastal too so pretty windy, and I noticed the scapes taste the best compared to other hard necks. 38 out of 40 were awesome, the other 2 were uprooted by a cat, so never mind. They did take a good while to cure though compared to other garlic ive grown. Enjoy cos they're very tasty. No garlic growing this year as I'm putting up my polly tunnel..

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

oh that's good to know, thanks :D

@rmac8737

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate i side dressed with blood fish and bone end of spring. Other than that I just left them to it. Germidour was OK... Big bulbs but a lot of their skins split should have lifted them earlier, so ill need to get through them quickly and Eden Rose were OK. Messidrome were another good performer but ill definitely do Kingsland Wight again, by far the best.

Garlic imho is a pain in the 😯. Only grow elephant garlic for years now, easy. About 100 a year, never fails.

Great video! Might've ordered too many cloves so we'll be using any spare pots/troughs. Your netting looks clever, is that MDPE pipe? What fittings did you use to connect them to the frame? Appreciate your advice. Did your garlic grow better last year? x

@eliandkate

4 ай бұрын

Much better garlic last year, bigger harvest and bigger bulbs. Well chuffed The covers on the beds are a set I built from the quickcrop stuff Love it!

Just wondering if the window box are a little shallow for the big garlic Eli... like the show keep it going

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Hey Andrew The elephant garlic (which I really hope it does turn out to be) isn’t in the planters. That was all the other types. The elephant garlic is in taller and wider pots. Will just have to wait and see 😀

@andrewredmond799

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate thanks for that Eli I hope you don't mind me asking it's just that I have onion rot in my soil and tend to sow onions and garlic in pots generally 30lts pots with 3 maybe 4 to a pot. Maybe ill reduce the size. Thanks again

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t change what you do after watching me in this video. Remember this is me trying something new, it might not work 😍

@andrewredmond799

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate your doing a right job

Hi Eli Reference hot bin I bought one for my birthday back in July. it’s 3 months already so yesterday we emptied a small amount out, it doesn’t look quite like yours though! Yours looks so dark with no bits in? Mine has egg shells the compost is dark and light , it stank a bit too, I have been layering it, perhaps not enough? Today I see the bin is no where near the green dial so not getting hot, is this usual after getting the bottom panel front section area of compost out only Compost seems a bit wet, obviously not enough browns in it as you explained on previous video with robin

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Sound like your compost bin has been too wet. You really need to use soooo much more brown than you think with a hot bin

@susanrush8217

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate ok let’s see what we can achieve, do you empty the bin in stages ?

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Just when I need stuff or if it’s full and I need space

I work in a cafe and just this year I've used the coffee from work for mulching the garden , would u recommend doing this.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

I do put my coffee grounds into my compost but I’m not sure about using them as a mulch, ie spreading them in a thick layer over the beds and pots. I’ve heard of folk adding it to their mulch?

Hey Eli, another great video. I think I’m binging ; ) It’s sometimes hard to know the best way to plant. Our weather changes from year to year in Zone 7A. What Zone are you in? Did you add compost on top of the garlic?

@eliandkate

8 ай бұрын

We’re not actually in a zone, your zones are specific to you guys and doesn’t apply to us 😁 I don’t usually add compost on top as a mulch nope

@adriankap2978

8 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate oh, I’m sorry. I saw the dark dirt on top and thought it was compost. Have a nice day.

@eliandkate

8 ай бұрын

We’ll it is, so you’re right there… it’s just now been added as a mulch on top. It’s just the compost that they are planted into. So I made up my big batch of potting mix, filled all the pots and planted the garlic. No mulch on top, so that’s what you are seeing 😁 does that make sense?

@adriankap2978

8 ай бұрын

Yes, it does. Thank you. @@eliandkate

We tried elep5 garlic before but won't plant them again. They taste very mild

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s the reason people grow it as it’s very mild. Something for all tastes 😍

I planted garlic in pots last year. Worked well, but the bulbs were much smaller than the year before. Might have not been the pots…so not sure.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

A second year to experiment further?

@rg-mi5hh

Жыл бұрын

Our garlic was smaller this year in the ground. It was a strange growing season. May have been planted too close together.

Still looking beautiful tho!

@eliandkate

11 ай бұрын

You watching old garlic videos?

@Garden-of-weeden

11 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate for hells bells sakes how did that happen?!? It was meant for your latest video 🤯 clearly wasn’t engaging brain yesterday!! Xx

Eli - how deep were those containers you planted the garlic into? I also have lots of rain, as well as high humidity here in Tennessee. Think I lost a lot of my garlic last year but won't know until I harvest them in July.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

They are bigger than they look because of the camera angles, about just over 2 ft

@tennesseenana4838

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate Thanks for your prompt reply. I really enjoy your videos and have learned from them.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome to hear Nana 😍

The rains been non stop here (Falkirk) my garden and raised beds are water logged so this video is perfect timing.... im planting garlic for the first time so will do what you have done and put it in pots...should i cover my pot's with tarp to orotect them from getting wet and if so when should i uncover them ....im new to gardening so any help is appreciated. Oh and did you take all the paper of the actual clove? I was going to plant them with the skin on 😐lucky you posted this video when you did lol. My friends are laughing at me because they say im being over protective ive got a new rhubarb plant and got it wraped up like a toddler ...well i dont want it getting to cold 🤣🤣🤣 or blown over with the wind ..... Can you tell im new at this

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t bother with the tarp, it will need some water but just make sure there’s plenty of drainage and your potting mix is free draining 😍

@laylamorgan4018

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate okay great thatnks 🙂🧄🧄🧄

I *loved* using my scapes last year - had the same problem you did and none of mine cloved. I still haven't gotten mine to grow this year. I'm with Kate - don't bin them 😂 Your containers will make it easier to keep out the weeds, as well. I like where you've out them to start off. The portability will serve you well! By the way - I like your hat 😉

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 keep your hands off

@robinscontainergarden

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate 😂😂😂

Did you actually split/plant the elephant garlic? Reason for the query is twofold. Elephant garlic needs about 12 inches between cloves (so 'they' say) .... and grows taller than normal garlic, so am wondering if those will be issues for growing in pots.

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah so if it turns out to properly be elephant garlic then it will be SO MUCH bigger But I only had the two so that has gone in a pot on their own so plenty of space… we shall see

@donnastevens8832

Жыл бұрын

I think I've got 10 cloves of elephant, and 2 bulbs of normal to get in yet. Am swithering between a low raised bed, a high raised bed, and 30ltr buckets .... or may be a combination of all of them. I just know I need to pull the finger out and get them planted or they'll still be sitting come Springtime lol.

Hey hun, not seen you about for a while and hoping you’re all well?

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Hey Pam I put a message out in the community a week or so ago but it maybe didn’t pop up for you I’ve taken some time away from making videos, I’ve mentioned this in a few videos but my health hasn’t been great for the last couple of years and I need time to focus on myself. I’ve not quit don’t worry, just that KZread takes up so much time that I really needed to find some time for me 😀

@Garden-of-weeden

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate oh my hun, I’m sorry to hear this!! I can completely sympathise! 100% you and Kate come first!! Please do rest tho! Even tho your not doing videos I bet your still doing lots of things (like living) lol I apologise for getting you to repeat yourself and I’ve not seen you say (my bad) Take care of yourself, if there’s anything I can do to help please say x

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

Och no Pam, don’t worry. It’s one of those things with KZread, you need to tell it to show you notifications for everything otherwise it picks for you. It’s so unreliable 😂

@Garden-of-weeden

Жыл бұрын

@@eliandkate I’m still a KZread newbie 🙈

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

It’s not too bad once you get the hang of it Basically if you want notifications you need to subscribe to that channel and you also need to click the bell and tell KZread to send you all notifications. There is also a benefit to visiting a channel homepage rather than just clicking videos as you see them. The home page is usually set up with videos the KZreadr recommends for you and you can see the tabs along the top with links to things like the community page or about page

Even though I grow garlic, I still don't understand how one clove grows into a bulb!

@eliandkate

Жыл бұрын

How awesome is nature 😍