How to Grow Garlic

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Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Garlic is a staple in so many savory dishes, but if you've only ever cooked with the sad grocery store bulbs, it's time to see garlic's true potential by growing your own. The depth of flavor and variety that homegrown garlic offers blows store-bought out of the water. Lucky for us, plant friends, growing our own garlic at home is so easy! In this episode, homesteader extraordinaire Jill Winger walks us through how to grow garlic step-by-step, select varieties, grow, harvest, and store your own garlic for a steady supply of flavorful garlic all year long.

In this episode, we learn:

[03:09] Garden Society shoutout
[05:17] What led Jill to embrace homesteading?
[07:01] Check out Jill’s blog and podcast!
[09:29] How Jill's garden has evolved over the years
[11:23] Jill’s early years of homesteading and its long-term evolution
[13:18] Why homesteading involves continuous trial and error
[13:54] How long has Jill been growing garlic?
[14:59] Homegrown vs. store-bought garlic
[15:57] How to select the right garlic to grow
[16:08] Choosing a reputable garlic seed source
[17:24] Softneck vs. hardneck garlic
[19:19] Where to find a wide variety of hardneck and softneck garlic for pre-order?
[21:07] Where to get quality potting mix and soil for garlic growth over the winter?
[24:05] What else is needed to grow garlic besides cloves?
[25:37] When is the best time to plant garlic?
[26:41] Why garlic is low maintenance
[27:28] What steps should be taken to prepare garlic for planting?
[28:32] How deep should you plant the clove under the soil?
[29:21] Why garlic doesn't rot or freeze despite delayed stalk growth in winter
[30:32] What’s the next step after planting garlic?
[32:39] How does the harvest timing affect the taste and texture of garlic scapes and bulbs?
[33:52] How do you know the garlic is ready to harvest?
[35:03] How do you “cure” fresh garlic?
[37:01] Tips for storing garlic for a long time
[38:35] Common garlic growing issues and how to address them
[39:36] Jill’s favorite garlic recipes
[41:35] How did Jill’s homestead slowly evolve?
[43:48] How reconnecting with nature and sustainable living creates a natural ecosystem

Mentioned in our conversation:

Garlic Scape Pesto Recipe
How to Braid Garlic
How to Plant Garlic
How to Braid Onions
Lomi Tabletop Composter
Territorial Seed Garden Garlic Catalogue
Upcoming Book by Jill Old-Fashioned on Purpose
Growing Joy Episode 123 How To Manage Deer, Squirrels, Chipmunks, Moles, Voles And Other Animals In Your Garden With Brie The Plant Lady

For a step-by-step guide on growing your own garlic,

check out the full show notes and blog here!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Garlic, the base of so many of the dishes we know and love, especially if you're Italian like I am,
0:06.0	sauces, stews, even homeopathic remedies all begin with garlic as a base ingredient.
0:11.3	If you've never grown garlic before, you know it as the crusty moldy
0:15.0	bulbs that you get at the grocery store, but I have recently learned that the grocery
0:18.9	store garlic does not scratch the surface of the potential of the flavor and variety of
0:24.7	garlic that we can have access to as gardeners. But you got to grow it. There are so many
0:31.6	varieties of garlic that you just can't find at the
0:33.9	grocery store but you can order them online and grow them in your garden.
0:38.0	Garlic is also a natural pest repellent for gardeners and takes up little
0:41.9	space in our gardens and gives us two yields, the bulbs,
0:45.2	and for some varieties the scapes. There's a world of garlic you never knew about to be opened up to you with this
0:51.1	episode, My Sweet Plant friend, get comfortable and get ready.
0:55.2	Welcome to the Growing Joy Podcast,
0:57.4	where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully,
1:00.6	but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives.
1:06.0	I'm Maria, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lovers Guide to Cultivating Happiness,
1:10.0	speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, an epic plant killer turned happy plant lady.
1:16.0	On growing joy you'll find conversations about plant care, plant community, and wellness through the lens of plants.
1:23.2	Plant care is self care on growing joy,
1:26.7	the podcast.
1:27.7	Hello, my sweet plant friends, I hope you're doing well.
1:30.6	I hope you've had a wonderfully planty week.
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