How to Grow Onions and Garlic at Home... The Old AMISH Way

My name is Jacob. I am Amish. I have never bought an onion or a head of garlic from a grocery store in my life, and neither did my father, or his father before him. The row behind our farmhouse has grown the same two crops every single year since before I was born, and it has never once failed us. In this video, I am going to show you exactly how we do it. I will walk you through the way my grandfather planted his onions in the same bed for forty years without the soil ever going bad. I will show you the depth he buried each clove of garlic, the spacing he swore by, the one thing he always added to the hole that nobody outside our community seems to know about, and the reason he never once watered them the way you have been told to. I will tell you about the mistake I see in almost every garden I look at online, the one that makes your onions split and your garlic come out soft, and how to fix it with nothing but your hands and ten minutes of your time. You do not need to live the way I live to grow these. You need a patch of dirt the size of a kitchen table, a bag of cloves from any store, and a little bit of patience. I will also tell you the part nobody wants to hear: onions and garlic are the two easiest crops on earth to grow at home, and the reason most people still buy them in plastic bags is that nobody ever showed them how simple it really is. We have been growing them this way for two hundred years. Nothing has changed because nothing needed to. Try one row this season. Just one. Then come back here and tell me in the comments what happened. I read every comment. The harvest pictures you send back are the reason I keep recording. Next video: the old Amish method for storing onions and garlic through the entire winter without a refrigerator, the way my grandmother did it with nothing but string and a dry room. Subscribe so you do not miss it. Grow well. Stay curious. And remember, the people who fed this country with their hands knew things we are only just beginning to remember. #AmishGardening #GrowOnions #GrowGarlic #GardenTips #NaturalGardening #GrowYourFood #OldWaysAreBest #TraditionalGardening #HomeGarden #KitchenGarden