Garlic Braiding

[TheTippayarat]

Thank You So Much...

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Luv.

[Caviar100]

btw, this year i want to try ginger ! any ideas ?

[Caviar100]

hiya ,

i managed to plant the garlic i intended to last fall....thank you for your help.I finally found some excellent seed !

i will let you know what the results are by next month or in April.

So far so good though ...i planted 6 acres of organic garlic , if all goes well , will plant more in the fall. :))

[TyrannySue]

whoa, that's a mega-braid!

[Caviar100]

BUT I was told that the Chinese variety if planted will sprout and the bulbs will form but there will be no cloves ?!! they end up looking like onions ?!! Why ?

[Caviar100]

I was not purchasing the seed from grocery stores but a wholesale farmers market. However , there are only two varieties of garlic

1)the white chinese garlic

2) a local soft neck variety

I was preparing to plant the Chinese kind because it looked much better than the local soft neck.The local softneck here is too small in size with like 20+cloves to each bulb abd each clove is tiny.It just looks horrible ! the Chinese is not as good as what youve got there but better than the local variety

[Caviar100]

@gardenerd 1 your online name really suits you lol

you KNOW what youre talking about...you're the only person online thats been able to answer my question properly out of the billion people i've asked.

I had no idea , and i'm sure others didnt either that garlic can be or is sprayed to stop it from sprouting ...how clever !!

[Caviar100]

Hi again

I love this variety of garlic

however you've only trimmed the roots a little leaving behind maybe a quarter inch to half inch..

i wanted to plant some garlic this year but there were absolutely no roots on the garlic seed and i was told that the garlic wouldnt grow ...i dont know when the roots were trimmed either ...is it true that the garlic seed will not reproduce because there arent any roots ?

[gardenerd1]

@Caviar100 Garlic purchased from grocery stores has most likely been sprayed to prevent sprouting. The roots have nothing to do with whether or not the garlic will grow. Spraying does, however. The bulb is dormant until planted, and then it sends up a sprout, then roots. Buy seed garlic from an organic seed company online to ensure that it will grow.

[Thesmalltowngardener]

@Caviar100 You can buy garlic from the store it is fine i have done it and so has many others just male your you plant seat garlic pod pointy side up..if you have any questions pm me

[Caviar100]

thats neat what type of soft neck is that ?its quite big

also you trimmed the roots so if you want to plant garlic but the roots are trimmed would it still grow ?

[gardenerd1]

@Caviar100 The garlic you see is Kettle River Giant. Trimming the roots won't change its ability to grow next season.

[gardenerd1]

@dwhoppy - glad you liked the garlic braiding video, and our podcasts! Thanks for listening - we'll keep them coming.

[gardenerd1]

@dwhoppy - glad you liked the garlic braiding video, and our podcasts! Thanks for listening - we'll keep them coming.



[dwhoppy]

The best demo I have found. Even an old bald guy with no hair to braid can follow this. I've loved the Gardenerd Itunes podcast for years. great to find Gardenerd on Youtube.

[gardenerd1]

skyesong777 - exactly! Once that part is figured out, garlic braiding is really easy.

[SkyeSong777]

It's so much like French braiding hair! :)

[gardenerd1]

Chaizee7, your plan is perfect. Good luck braiding, and enjoy the process.

[chaizee7]

Excellent work. Beautiful braid. I'm new at this and I just pulled my garlic out of the garden. They are covered in dirt, moist, the stems are green. I'll hang it for a couple of weeks, then take off the dirty, dried outer covering to show the clean white papery tops. Then trim the roots and try this braiding technique. Thank you for sharing!!

[gardenerd1]

Ladybluluv, to each her own. I have a friend who is violently allergic to garlic, but she still likes the garlic braiding idea. Perhaps you could do this with peppers instead. They hang them all over the place in South America and Hungary.

[ladybluluv]

Sorry, but I wouldn't touch that stuff with a ten foot pole.....ewe.

A guy I work next to stunk from having it for dinner the night before. It made me so nauseous to be within 20 feet of him. Never liked that stuff to eat or smell. When I was a kid at my friends house. His house always stunk of something nasty and I'd ask what it was and he told me (nothing was even cooking at the time, it just lingered in the air) and I'll never forget that word he said, the dreaded GARLIC!

[gardenerd1]

Keeping your garlic in a dark pantry will help prolong its life. Some people keep it in the fridge, but I've never tried it. My first thought, though, is that different garlic varieties keep different lengths of time. Softneck varieties have longer storing power than hardneck varieties. I like Kettle River Giant (shown in the video), because it stores for 9 months or so.

[00icwhit]

This is beautiful. My question is, do you have any tips on storing garlic to prevent it from going bad. I live in FL and my counter kept garlic starts turning brown and mushy after only 6-8 weeks. i would use that much garlic in a year, but how would I keep it fresh?

[strider3700]

Is there any issue with doing onions the same way or is their a different technique to braiding onions?

[gardenerd1]

@strider3700 you can braid onions (and dry corn with husks still on, BTW) the same way as garlic. Have fun with that!

[I3addogy]

Garden Nerd, more like Garden Hottie.

I didn't plant enough garlic to do all that :<(

[gardenerd1]

That's a very good question sbandfield. It is common to cure your harvested garlic for 4 to 6 weeks before braiding or storing it. Drying it out of direct sunlight on screens is ideal. I've never tried braiding it before curing. My concern would be that it might not have enough air flow and could rot. The other reason to wait is that your fresh garlic will shrink slightly as it dries out. If you braid it with green stems it will seem very loose in a couple of weeks as it dries.

[sbandfield]

I just harvested enough garlic to make a nice braided bunch as you so beautifully showed. My question is - can I braid it while the stems are green and quite pliable or must I wait until it is dried out as shown in your video? Thanks for such a great how to video!

[misschris618]

Should the garlic be dried out after harvesting? If so, for how long?

[gardenerd1]

@misschris618 usually garlic needs to cure for 4 to 6 weeks in a well ventilated place out of direct sunlight. Some people dry their garlic on screens, and I just lay it out on the counter. Fair warning - the room you cure it in will smell like an Italian restaurant for a good long time.  But that's not so bad, is it?

[skaterpatrick98]

Cool! I just harvested a lot of garlic and am going to try this tonight! Seeing it done has been really helpful!

[spraggerdog]

from what end do you start using the girlic ?

[gardenerd1]

@spraggerdog Great question! You use the garlic from the end that you tied off, which ends up being the top of the braid. In other words, the first bulb of garlic you place at the beginning of the braid is the last one you'll remove.

[TheBabywalnut]

Great, I have just grown my first garlic (a lilac variety, I live in France) and had no idea how to plait it. Very easy to follow thankyou very much !

[sauceykat]

Wow, very helpful and clear video/instructions. Great job!

[amandastribe]

very good how to, nice clear instructions

[LoveMyPhilly]

Nice Nice!

[cannoli005]

bravo!

[BillyAteMySoul]

That was a really well done video, thanks!

[Blaseofire]

I liked your video and it was informative vs drawings. Thanks!

Blase

Harvard, Ma

[coopdedoo]

That's some awesome looking garlic you have there! Thanks for the how-to.

[marsuzter]

Well done! Thanks for this video piece.