Garlic

[Tsalagi]

Anyone growing garlic? I've been looking for some hardneck garlic to have for eating (preferably Chesnok Red) when it comes ready this coming fall.

[HatchA]

My Gran used to grow her own veg and garlic was a staple of her garden.  I've yet to get around to doing something with my garden myself.  Her garlic was always amazing...

[stickbender]

     I was growing some, till the neighbor who takes care of my yard, had one of his guys, weed whack, and he whacked my garlic plants down, even though I had put stakes, around them to protect them........   A Friend of mine in Plant City, makes an awesome garlic wine for cooking.  He takes about a pound or so of fresh garlic cloves, and peels them, and then puts them through a press, and takes all the fresh juice, and puts it in a white wine, and bottles it.  He told me to make sure I didn't break a bottle in my truck on the way home.  He said a Friend of his did, and it still smells like very strong garlic!! 

                                                                        Wayne

[butterbean]

  That's a purty good idea, stickbender. But I bet your hands would stink for a week.

[dmassphoto]

  That's a purty good idea, stickbender. But I bet your hands would stink for a week.

Yeah, but he's completely safe from vampires then! 

[aznboi3644]

dang...the vampires in my area have evolved immunity to garlic 

[HatchA]

Wash your hands with cold water, NOT hot water!!  Hot water effectively cooks the garlic oil onto your skin. 

[Tsalagi]

What's wrong with the smell of garlic on your hands?  Just lets people know you can cook!

[M-P]

I just started growing garlic in the last couple of years.  I wasn't sure it was worth the effort.  After all the grocers have tons of the stuff.   I am finding there is a variation in flavor though, and growing your own allows you to choose.  I don't have enough for a major trade though, sorry Tsalagi.   Ron

[M-P]

Hey!  I am in to seed saving and exchanging seeds.  I you want a bulb for planting I may be able to help in a couple of months.  I've got seeds now for green beans  ( Hickman's pole bean) and limas ( Rev Taylor's Many Colored limas).
Ron

[Postman]

i'm in western VA, and I've grown Chesnook, Italian Music, and German extra hardy. i plant it in october, right now it's 2 feet tall and i'm removing the flower stalks so they don't take away from the bulbs.  i use it aas a border and it seems to keep a lot of stuff out of the rest of the garden. hardnecks seem to keep better for me. good luck!

[Tsalagi]

Thanks for offer, Ron, but our garden only really grows mints, thyme, and oregano successfully due to the Ponderosa pines here.  Our community farmer's market starts this Sunday and hopefully someone will have some hardnecks.