We grow our own garlic. All of it is propagated from the volunteer plants we found in the garden fifteen years ago. I like garlic in soups, omelettes, all the savory dishes. I’ll even eat a raw clove to get rid of a cold. What a great immune booster it is!
A friend told me how to tell when the bulbs underground are ripe, the foliage of the plants wilts because the growing phase is finished. I dig the “stinking roses” up with a shovel, sun dry them on the back porch, snip off the stems and keep them in a ceramic container in the pantry. My garlic stash usually lasts until January. Then I use the harvested garlic scape seeds as garlic, since I rarely catch them before they head that way. I find fresh garlic is more pungent. Good thing the whole household is eating it!
Do you like garlic? What are your favorite herbs or spices?
¡Olé! –Rebecca
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Love garlic and here where I live on the Isle of Wight in England we have a very famous garlic farm with a 3-day festival every August. I use herbs a lot in my cooking, growing oregano, basil (2 types), fennel, mint, parsley (2 types), dill, sage (2 types), bay, thyme and rosemary. I have a small smoker and love to smoke garlic, it has such a different, softer flavour when it’s smoked. The garlic farm sells black garlic which I sometimes buy.
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Thank you for your comments, Marie. After your description, I am anxious to travel to the Isle of Wight! Sounds like a wonderful place with great food. Love your list of herbs you grow. We have sage, oregano, lemon mint and chive. Is it the species of garlic or the growing conditions on the Isle that are unique? I would like to attend the festival one year!
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The lines on this flower is elegant 😀
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Thank you very much, Cee. They remind me of swan necks. 🙂
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Awesome! I have never grown garlic. Something to try.
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Thanks, Michele. I think you’d have fun with it! So rewarding to grow. 😉
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I love garlic! Would love to grow some one day. Also a fan of chilli and basil.
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Hola, you could start this year, if you’re not up to your ears in class work. Some species can adapt well to pots. Actually, all three could. Suerte, R
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Sadly do not live in a place that gets alot of sun!
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Perhaps when you’ve earned your degree and can reunite with your partner, things will be sunnier. 😉
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I love garlic! I use it in all of my meals. I’ve never tried growing it and have never seen a garlic plant.
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My, Rosaliene, you are in for a treat! You are already a gardener – so you have all the skills you need. Garlic is a plant in the fall bulb. You might try planting some, but you may get hooked. 😉
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I’ve grown garlic too and loved to use the green shoots in good as they have a great flavor. I love all things garlic.
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Good to hear, Sadje! Like minds. Garlic makes food so flavorful.
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Yes, exactly.
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I love cooking with garlic scapes, they are not as pungent as other spices.
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Thanks for your comment. Which tasty things from your farm do you like to cook them with?
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I cook them with stew beans, stew peas, soups, Irish potatoes cooked in coconut milk and rice and peas with coconut milk. It is pretty flexible.
I’ve never seen scapes sell at the supermarkets or markets in my country. I discovered scapes when I started growing garlic, I did research on it and found out they can be eaten and decided to try it. I’ve been using them ever since.
Interestingly my initial reason for growing garlic was not to eat but because people say if you plant it between crops it can help to keep off pests.
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Sounds tasty. Yes, they do deter insects and even 4 legged pests! Good to see you. 🙂
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I like garlic! I like it in almost all of the dishes that I cook!
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I feel the same way. Anything to keep away vampires! And it tastes great.
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