OT: Garlic??

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Anybody grow garlic? I usually have a huge bed of it going but got busy last year and didnt' get it going.

Already ordered 2 lbs for this fall. Miss that homegrown garlic!
 
I'm a garlic fiend, but I don't grow my own. Maybe next year. I used to work for an organic gardener who would but in a three or four acre plot of garlic every year. I broke three shovels trying to dig that stuff out of the ground one summer.
 
Never grown it,
but like to eat it.

Oil-baked garlic cloves
mashed & spread on a hearty chunk of fresh bread.

Yum!


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We have few vampires in Ohio...usually just have to deal with zombies.

I haven't yet found a good source Falcatta seeds...

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Living just a few mile from Gilroy Ca if the wind is right everything smells like garlic :eek: :D :eek:
 
Josh Feltman said:
I'm a garlic fiend, but I don't grow my own. Maybe next year. I used to work for an organic gardener who would but in a three or four acre plot of garlic every year. I broke three shovels trying to dig that stuff out of the ground one summer.
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a few years ago I cut a bunch of trees down. Then I took the trees and cut them up and used the 6" to 8" logs to make kind of a long square bed. Then I went to the barn and put like 2 full size pickup loads of goat manure mixed with alfalfa hay and lime stacked up maybe 18" in the bed I had made. After about a year the manure and hay broke down into this awesome black humus, very easy to pull garlic from.

This spring we grew some Yukon Gold potatos in the bed and they came out great. I'm gonna dig them, then weed and break the soil up and plant a cover crop of buckwheat on it, and in Oct I'll turn the buckwheat under for "green manure" and plant the garlic.
 
I've grown it a couple of times. Fun to grow and use. Unfortunately, we have so many freakin' gophers (which LOVE garlic) that all of my underground crops have to be in beds that have buried wire mesh.
 
Can't get enough. Don't tolerate fools who complain of garlic breath either.
Pickled, roasted, raw, you name it. I've tried it.
 
Sutcliffe said:
Can't get enough. Don't tolerate fools who complain of garlic breath either.
Pickled, roasted, raw, you name it. I've tried it.
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How about in Kimchee? ;) :D

I'm not supposed to eat Kimchee anymore because of the salt content but in moderation everything's okay once in a while ainnit? :rolleyes: ;) :D

I like lots of garlic in my kimchee.:cool:
 
frogfish said:
Living just a few mile from Gilroy Ca if the wind is right everything smells like garlic :eek: :D :eek:
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lived in Montery for a year, drove past Gilroy a couple times, olafactory heaven!

Garlic tip my wife taught me:
Mince a bunch of garlic in a food processor or blender. A lot. Maybe even a little more. Take the minced garlic and put it in a zip lock baggie in a flat layer maybe a 1/4 inch thick. Take the back of a chefs knife and press 1" squares into the garlic through the bag. The baggie should look like a chess board now, gridded out into squares. Slide the bag into the freezer (careful to keep it flat). Once it freezes, you just pop a square off anytime you need it. Keeps forever, no fuss or muss when you're cooking. Lets all stop for a sec and think about the smell of a bunch of minced garlic hitting a skillet full of hot olive oil....
 
I've got a few cloves growing in a pot and I agree home grown garlic is great.

I've been focusing on tomatoes and peppers this summer. I should have planted some acorn squash, pumpkins, potatoes, more garlic, onions, and a money shrub. I guess there's always next year.

By the way, it's been so hot and dry here the tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers are taking off.

Matt
 
Garlic is one of those things cooking simply needed. Thank God for it, and I'd love to grow some.

Nam
 
Garlic is incredibly easy to grow. :)

Everygarden should have some. When I first bought my house one of the first things I did was plant some garlic. I've since planted a rose bush in that area. I now several years later I have a fully mature rose bush with garlic volunteers growing around it. :D
 
We grow tomatoes, basil, parsley, and some Italian squash (cucuzzi). And we have a fig tree. But no garlic yet, I ought to suggest it... we sure use enough of it.
 
Even though the first time I had it we found some kind of a white larva of some critter at the bottom of the jar(Safeway brand). A few people at the barbeque ran for the restrooms when it was discovered. I just kept on plowing in. Whatever it was must have been as pickled as everything else in that jar.
I have a cute little korean gal friend who doesn't know what a skillet is. Her mom(controlling bitch that she is) does all the Korean favorites. The few times I've had her cooking I've been in heaven. The only tragedy here is her daughter will only be allowed to marry Korean. Poor Judy was born here, college educated and still dominated by her mom. Somethings never change I guess.
 
Sutcliffe said:
I have a cute little korean gal friend who doesn't know what a skillet is. Her mom(controlling bitch that she is) does all the Korean favorites. The few times I've had her cooking I've been in heaven. The only tragedy here is her daughter will only be allowed to marry Korean. Poor Judy was born here, college educated and still dominated by her mom. Somethings never change I guess.
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I have a friend who works with a lot of Indian women, smart, well educated and he is telling me all the time about the heartbreak they have after working here and falling in love with somebody, of having to go back and get into an arranged marriage.

One thing that probably kept So. Africa from lapsing into tribal fighting after the gov't fell was Mandela.

He said that he was being forced into an arranged marriage but he didn't like the woman, and was shunned by the whole tribe as I recall. He said after that that ethnicity meant nothing to him.
 
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