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How to Plant Garlic | Seasonal Planting Guide for Bigger Bulbs and Stronger Growth
Oct 12, 2025
This video explains how to plant garlic correctly and the simple preparation steps that help produce larger, healthier bulbs. I cover choosing cloves, spacing, planting depth, soil preparation, and early care so plants establish strong roots and grow successfully. It is helpful for gardeners wanting reliable garlic harvests and better understanding of seasonal bulb planting and plant development.
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Let's plant our garlic for this year.
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben. We're now
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in October and it's now time to plant
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your garlic in your garden.
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This is because it needs the cold to
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help split the bulbs to form the garlic
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itself. So, October is the ideal time to
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get this planted. Now, we're going to be
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planting two varieties in our bed. We're
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going to be planting the white
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Casablanca
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and we're going to be planting the pink
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Jeremy Midor if that's how you say it.
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But we're planting these two varieties.
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Now these ones I got from the garden
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center and they say that it's ideal to
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plant garlic from the country that you
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are in. So these are UK varieties of
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garlic. If you buy them from the
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supermarket,
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look for the UK ones. and plant them or
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even Spain because they have the same
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sort of climates for us, not China as
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obviously that's a lot warmer. However,
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I'm going to be planting some from China
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because I always say you shouldn't do
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it, but I'm going to plant some myself
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and we're going to see how well that
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gets on and see if it does actually grow
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well. So stay tuned for that video where
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we'll be posting and we'll be sharing
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updates, progressing, showing Eva ones,
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the UK ones and the Chinese ones to see
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how well they actually get on. So yeah,
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that's going to be a good experiment. I
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love experimenting as gardener. If I
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always say don't do it, I need to know
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why not to do it. So we're going to try
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it and see how well they actually get
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on. Let me know if you do grow
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ones from the supermarket that are from
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China. So yeah, first job to do is split
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all these cloves up and get them
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separated. When I first started
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gardening, I used to think, wow, just
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one bulb to plant. It's expensive for
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that. I didn't realize you had to split
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them up into separate cloves. So I've
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learned that as a gardener myself. So
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yeah, let's get these all split up and
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separated and get them ready for
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planting.
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So that's all them split up. As you can
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see, we've got some big bulbs which will
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probably form nice big garlics. These
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small ones won't particularly grow much
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on them. So, it's up to you if you want
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to plant them or not, but the big ones
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will do better. Now, when you're
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planting them, you need to plant them
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the flat side into the ground. That's
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where the roots grow and the chute grows
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out of the curved bit at the top of the
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garlic. So, yeah, we'll get us dber.
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we'll get us cane so that we get them
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lined up and planted out. But yeah,
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let's get these in.
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So, we've planted our first variety
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in rows and left enough space in between
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them so that we can weed them easier
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enough. So, then we're going to plant
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our next set over there. We're going to
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leave a gap so that we've got enough
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space to walk in between them a bit like
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that. And then we're going to plant them
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over that side. So yeah, let's split up
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the next set of onions and get them
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planted. Garlic, should I say, not
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onions. So we've separated them up.
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These cloves don't seem as big as some
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of the other ones, but we got some
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decent sized ones. So these are a pink
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variety of garlic. So we're going to get
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these planted, get them in the ground,
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and get them watered in. So we've now
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got these planted. We've got three rows
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of these ones and two rows of the pink
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ones. So, what we're going to do is
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we're going to net them over to protect
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them from the birds because birds love
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to pull the shoots up as they start to
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get growing. Once they get growing big
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enough, then we'll take the netting back
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off, but we just want to protect them
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and stop them getting pinched because
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last year quite a few got pinched from
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the bed. So, yeah, we're going to net
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them over and protect them from the
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birds.
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So, that is the garlic planted down here
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at the plot. So, let's see how well it
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gets on and see if we get some decent
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garlic next year. They should be ready
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to harvest around June time. Usually
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when they start dying off the leaves,
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that is usually when they're ready to
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harvest. So, yeah, can use this bed
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afterwards for different vegetables. But
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these are one of the things that you can
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grow for through the autumn winter
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period.
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So, make sure you stay tuned for our
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video on planting Chinese garlic, which
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we'll be posting. Also, make sure you
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drop us a follow to stay up to date with
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all our videos and how well they grow
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throughout the year and keep up to date
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with everything that we're doing. So
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until next time everyone remember keep
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smiling, keep shining and keeping with
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everyone.
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