Garlic Planting Mistakes to Avoid
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Planting garlic is where most growers make the biggest mistakes. Learn what to avoid when growing this delicious, aromatic root crop.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the podcast Kevin here and today we will be talking about one of my favorite |
| 0:06.7 | Plants of all time actually and that's because I love the flavor of it and that would be garlic |
| 0:11.9 | We're getting to that point where we need to start planting our garlic and thinking about our garlic. |
| 0:17.0 | So today we're going to go over some mistakes to avoid when you're planting. |
| 0:21.0 | And I've definitely made a few of these myself first time I grew garlic |
| 0:24.0 | didn't really know too much about the way that it grew and of course if you don't know how it grows |
| 0:29.6 | then you're probably going to grow it incorrectly. Before we get started, let us read the podcast review of the day. |
| 0:37.9 | So we've got one from Planting Ability. |
| 0:39.8 | He says, tuned into this podcast and a few others at the same time, still listening to this one because of the focused and informational format. |
| 0:46.0 | The episodes have covered things that I've adopted in my own gardening. |
| 0:50.0 | Amazing, thank you so much, very grateful to hear that and hope we can keep on delivering value here on the Epic Gardening podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, so garlic, what do we need to know about planting it? |
| 1:00.0 | Well, the first mistake you might make is just planting every single clove that you get. |
| 1:06.0 | Even if you're ordering high quality seed garlic bulbs, then you still can make this mistake. |
| 1:12.2 | So you may just say, okay say okay well those are kind of |
| 1:13.9 | expensive I want to plant as many clothes as I can from each bulb what you |
| 1:18.4 | should really be doing is planting the biggest and healthiest looking clothes that you can because it's just going to be better. |
| 1:28.5 | There's a direct relationship between the size of the clothes that you plant and the bulbs and clothes that you will harvest. |
| 1:34.6 | So that's not 100% true, 100% of the time, but the healthiest and biggest cloves are going to be |
| 1:40.5 | the ones that you want to plant. So that's the first thing that a lot of people will do wrong. |
| 1:46.8 | The next thing will be planting too early. This is something that I've fallen prey to before and the reason why is garlic establishes its root system before it sends up a shoot. |
| 1:59.0 | So if you plant it too early, the shoot is going to come up and is going to draw water from the clove. |
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