Thinking of growing garlic in your garden? You, my friend, are a person after my own heart. Here's everything you need to know about how to grow garlic. In my house, garlic is a staple for so many meals. Not only does it add a wonderful flavor to recipes, but it’s a healthy superfood. It’s packed with vitamins C, B6, manganese, and selenium as well as a good source of antioxidants (I’m … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic – Part 4 Knowing Which Cloves to Replant
Here's the fourth (and last) installment in the How to Plant Garlic series and this one focuses on choosing cloves for planting. The first article can be found here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here. Here in Canada, we plant garlic in the Fall before the ground freezes. This lets the garlic cloves settle in and even grow a few roots. Then when the cold weather comes, the cloves go dormant for the … [Read more...]
How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes
In this second installment on Growing Garlic, I'm going to share a fantastic Pickled Garlic Scapes recipe. In the first post, I gave an overview about the process involved with growing Garlic. Garlic is one of the easiest garden vegetables to grow! Here in the Cariboo, the Garlic Scapes come on hot and heavy in early July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the garden, we basically … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic – Part 3 Harvesting Garlic
Your Garlic has now been growing all spring and summer. You've removed the Garlic Scape that is on each plant. Right about now, you are probably quite curious as to when to get your garlic out of the ground. You want to see how big those bulbs are! Here's the third installment on Growing Garlic Part 1 was an overview of Growing Garlic and Part 2 was How to Pickle Garlic … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic – Part 1
Garlic is so very healthy for us to eat. It doesn't hurt that it's pretty easy to grow on a small scale as well. Garlic takes up such a small space that you can either plant a big bed of it in a corner of your garden or tuck a dozen plants into a pot and keep it on your deck. In our climate (cold winters) we plant our Garlic in the very early Fall around mid-September. If you live in … [Read more...]