Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: I love garlic!
I just have to say garlic rocks!
I planted two dozen plants early, early this spring and I just pulled them up. Oh, they are great! They taste good, though they are spicy little buggers!
I also used one medicinally. I'd sliced my toe on the walking side, don't know how. It was about a quarter inch slice, and bled quite a bit. Looks like a horrendus papercut. Anyway, after a couple days of Neosporin and tylenol, it was hot and really tender. Having nothing to lose, I sliced one of my little garlic cloves paper thin, put it right on the cut and bandaged it up. It stung a bit, but by morning, the pain was lessening. By nightfall, it was healing over. By the next morning, having applied new garlic slices overnight, it is completely healed. YAHOO!!!! Good to know!
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
Garlic does rock. _________________ Massive Human Dieoff must occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where you live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
I love it too. Though the ag extension says not recommended to plant here, it seems to be one thing which will survive neglect. It just goes dormant and then comes back the next growing season (probably Fall if we get some rains). A perennial, you can just leave it in the ground until it's big enough to harvest. Though I harvest it no matter how tiny if I need some. It's one thing I'm still harvesting from the big garden that died in the drought. It's like hunting Easter eggs!
We eat garlic nearly every night. _________________ "...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow..." - jboogy
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
Oh, I love garlic too! I love all alliums, really. I have at least ten different kinds of onions and garlic growing right now. I can't live without them. _________________ What, so I'm in no end game
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
Garlic is good stuff. Easy to grow, tasty & medicinal. I fell down while stacking firewood on pallets & cut both arms a week ago Saturday, & now the cuts are infected. Maybe I should put some sliced garlic cloves on the wounds. Think I'll try it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
I start in November by putting whole bulbs in the fridge for a couple weeks. Without this step, the bulbs will be small at harvest. I take them out, leave them on the counter to get warm for a couple of days. Break up the bulbs into cloves, leaving the paper as intact as possible. I put the cloves on a plate, tray or whatever is handy. Within a couple days many of the cloves will have sent out roots. During this time I prep a few spots in the beds. I like to spread out a crop rather than keep everything together, less oppty for pests to grow to problem levels. I grab the cloves with roots, drop them in, spaced at 4" intervals. When the tops pop up, usually within a week, mulch the hell out of them.
By mid March, the plants will start to develop bulbs. Get them good and wet a couple times a week. Soak the living crap out of them. They need plenty of water to form large bulbs. keep the water up through April. Tops fall over in May. Pull the things out, let them cure in the shade out of the rain.
I harvested about 20 pounds of garlic this year. Also have red, yellow, white onions, about 40 pounds this year-disappointing, plus chives, leeks, elephant garlic. First leek attempt was last year. They were slow but the one survivor was outstanding. Kind of like an onion tube. _________________ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
We will be harvesting our garlic soon. We keep trying different varieties, but have about 6 or 8 that we really like that we have been growing for years. After harvest and sorting, we will replant in October or so, mulch well after a hard frost, and wait for growth next spring. We are harvesting onions now, not as good a crop as last year, though.
Garlic is an interesting plant in that we have found that it seems to adapt to different environments over a couple of years of growing and replanting and regrowing, so don't give up after just a year or two with a variety, if it doesn't seem to grow real well for you.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
I started with garlic from walmart.
1st year they were kinda small, next year they got considerably bigger.
to add to my harvest I picked up more bulbs from walmart...these came out kinda small, but I did not try putting them in the fridge.
Ended up with about 200 plants going. Most of them came out the ground, although I'm sure the ones that did not will come back with the next crop. I give some to people I know, keep a lot for replanting, eat a pile of it.
I've found I can start eating the things anytime. When small they cut up just like a scallion. Works well with steak. Leaves are elegant added to a salad. _________________ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
Garlic
* Studies suggest this has applications as a powerful antibiotic.
Quote:
Garlic as an antibiotic
Garlic is a broad spectrum antibiotic, killing a wide variety of
bacteria. Many pharmaceutical antibiotics kill only a narrow range of
these germs. Dr. Tariq Abdullah, a prominent garlic researcher
stated in the August 1987 issue of Prevention: “Garlic has the
broadest spectrum of any antimicrobial substance that we know of
— it is antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic, antiprotozoan and
antiviral.”...
Fatigue, Body Aches, Loss of Appetite from cold :Single
Seed Himalayan Garlic juice can be wisely said as "Wake up the dead juice"
If you feel that you have a lot of fatigue, loss of appetite, and body
aches as a result from a cold. It would be those types of colds that
just basically gave you those symptoms. It would have none or very
little fever, coughs, stuffiness and sneezing. Nothing works better.
• There are a few ways to make this.
• You can either boil some water and add sliced onions to it. Or
• Boil water and add chopped garlic to it. or
• Mix both onion and garlic to the hot water. I leave the chunks inside. You can remove them if you
Chop up a garlic, shave off a little onion, pour in a cup of boiling
water, then an ice cube in your cup and enjoy. It's good stuff!
Just remember to brush your teeth afterwards...
I bought about a dozen varieties last year from Karen and gave them a new variety to plant (Bavarian). I will probably harvest my garlic this weekend but have already sampled some. You will never go back to store bought (from China!) garlic after you have tasted some of these varieties.
I found the Bavarian to be very unique. Karen says of it "Raw it has a bite that tingles on the tongue and mellows to a sweet aftertaste. Cooking with it or roasting it really brings out its sweet garlic flavor. We think it tastes just like garlic candy! It’s really unlike anything we’ve tried so far."
My favorite way to cook it is in an aluminum foil packet with chunks of new potato, olive oil, sea salt, coarse ground pepper, and fresh rosemary sprigs. It takes about 20-30 minutes on the BBQ and the flavor can't be beat. If any of the garlic "burns", it carmelizes and is like garlic candy.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:43 am Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
Garlic is the easiest stuff I ever grew. This is from the wilderness stumblebum who does not have a green thumb.
And the stuff you grow yourself has so much more flavor than the store-bought. Use one clove instead of three.
Supposed to be good for repelling certain insects, too, though I don't have enough experience to verify. _________________ "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." — Thomas Hardy
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: Re: I love garlic!
Garlic may not be the staff of life, but it certainly adds to the adventure. _________________ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
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