How to plant Garlic in Warm Climates. Vernalising the Cloves.

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Vernalising Garlic is a great way to get your plants off to a great start if you live in warmer climates like we do. We don't get the chill that other areas get to help kick their garlic off I decided to vernalise (chill) the majority of our seed garlic. Am glad I did as they are already out preforming the traditionally planted cloves & think that this will be my preferred method of preparing seed garlic from now on. Most have gone into the soil, some into the aquaponics & the rest will be planted into the straw bale bed out the front. Hope to get to that in the next day or so. Subscribing to us here at Bits Out the Back is as easy as clicking below, http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bnbob01 You can also find Bits Out the Back various social media where we post mini updates on the aquaponics, chooks, worms, wicking bed gardens & other small tidbits daily. www.facebook.com/Bitsouttheback http://bitsouttheback.tumblr.com/ http://instagram.com/bits_out_the_back @bits_out_the_back https://www.pinterest.com/bitsouttheback/ https://twitter.com/RobsUrbanFarm @RobsUrbanFarm Have a great one everyone. Rob.

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The Garlic that you vernalized, did you put it in water or did you just put it like that in the refrigerator.

Great video on giving the garlic a time out in the fridge. I love the test videos to see what may work best and then the after vids to see how it turned out. Thanks for showing us the results. Best to you, Kim

Rob. Now that it's 2 years after your video post on garlic and vernalising the planting cloves... What are your findings? Did the vernalised cloves produce a seed stem? Or did they simply produce superior bulbs to the non-vernalised?

Hi Rob, thank you very much for the post. I was thinking of planting the cloves in soil or water and then moving them into the fridge. Could this speed up the Sprouting?

Hi Rob, how long did you leave the garlic in the fridge for?

Thank you sooooooo much for posting this!!! I live in Costa Rica & haven't had much success with my garlic attempts....looking forward to planting the organic garlic I just put in the fridge!!!

Not to sure to tell you the truth.. I know that folks grow it in the tropical regions of Australia by putting it in at the start of the cooler, dry season & then harvest at the start of the warmer wet weather so it doesn't rot when the wet comes.. Singapore is a bit closer to the equator so chilling the bulbs first might be a bit of a must.. Hope that helps a bit & have fun trying, Rob

Can garlic grow in tropical climate Singapore?

Cool :) I'm looking for more to plant still :/

Might come in handy there indeed.. Ours are still out preforming the non chilled bulbs.. Have a good one :)

I am going to save some seeds from a plant & will be planting them out.. I have been told that it can take up to 2 years to get a decent size bulb when you grow from seed so will be interesting to see how they go.. That might also depend on the climate & variety grown too.. Thanks :) Rob

I heard if you let some of the garlic flower and set seed, the seed that falls to the ground will produce a bigger bulb year after year, and eventually you will have a bulb bigger than a clove of garlic.

No problem Pete.. Would probably do quite well in that little greenhouse.. Have a good one..

That would make for a good size system..

I hope so... Would like to improve on last years crop :)

The pipes are to let the water travel down to the reservoir.. The wicking clips show how they are set up & run if that helps... They can be found here PLBcWprMIwYYizRYZra6RRbe_mrPdnXu4G Hope that helps :)

Very impressed with your soil program! You've got your ducks in line.

Hey Rob, Hugo here again, what are the black pipes inside of the wicking barrels for? Thanks for the growing tips once again.

Without doubt do subscribe.

Thank mate :) Hope you find something useful there..