Garlic Site Selection and Soil Prep

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Learn how to prepare your soil and choose the right planting site for your garlic. Connect With Squared Roots Farm: Jeremy and his wife Dana are the owners of Squared Roots Farm, a seed and culinary garlic farm based in Oregon. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone?
0:02.0	What's going on everyone?
0:04.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show, the Epic Gardening
0:16.5	Podcast. It's Garlic Week here. We are with Jeremy from Squared Roots Farm
0:21.0	who, as you might imagine, they own a seed and culinary garlic
0:25.1	farm up in Oregon.
0:27.2	I've got some of their seed garlic right now in my fridge.
0:30.9	We talked yesterday about, you know, being in a warmer climate here, I do have to
0:34.8	vernalize and sort of fake a winter. But that's not what we're talking about in today's show.
0:38.8	We're talking about how to choose the right area of your garden to plant your garlic and then how to prepare that
0:45.1	soil.
0:46.1	And so, I mean, I can't imagine that this is any less important really than the type of
0:51.8	seed you select, right, Jeremy?
0:53.2	So what should we be thinking about when it's time to actually plant?
0:56.7	All right, yeah.
0:59.8	So your clothes are going to be in the soil for up to nine months.
1:04.0	So it's important to prep your soil before you plant so you have the most chance of success through the season.
1:17.0	First thing to consider is the site that you're planting.
1:21.0	Garlic really likes to have full sun.
1:25.0	If you have an area with not full sun,
1:30.0	a little bit of shades, okay.
1:33.0	If you have to pick between morning sun and evening sun,
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