1 November 2014
This autumn we planted three varieties of garlic. Now we get to wait for the summer harvest to find out which we like best and add home-grown garlic to some favorite dishes – it’s perfect in steak sauce, mashed cauliflower, fermented green beans, and a host of others.
As if its vibrant flavor wasn’t good enough, garlic is full of anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-oxidant properties, which make it an especially good thing to have on hand.
Before breaking apart the garlic heads.
Burrowing the garlic clove into its winter home, pointy-side up.
Cloves ready to be covered with a blend of dirt and home-ripened compost.
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
—Genesis 8:22
Is it that easy?? I must try this! :)
Oh, yes! Ours are in, too! There isn’t anything more valuable in our garden, food-wise, than garlic. The soil is still quite warm!
Blessings to you all :)
We are Italian and indeed grow our own garlic every fall is planting time , our biggest problem is the best way to store over the hot summer. With no basement it is hard to find a dry cool space, BUT i will not give up on it !! We do of course share..