Here are our best tips for how to plant garlic cloves in your vegetable garden! Garlic is one of the easiest vegetables to grow in your garden or in containers. And it is wonderful to use in all kinds of cooking recipes, plus it's also very healthy for us. Garlic doesn't take up much room at all so you can either plant a bed of garlic cloves in a corner of your garden or tuck a dozen … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic – Part 3 How to Harvest and Cure Garlic
Here's the third part of our Growing Garlic series. Part 1 is an overview of growing Garlic. Part 2 covers harvesting the garlic scapes - which we turn into Pickled Garlic Scapes. Now we're moving on to how to harvest and cure 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 … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic in the Garden (4 Part Series)
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. What is Garlic? To start, in case you're not already familiar with the plant, here's some basic information! Part of the Allium genus, garlic is a type of flowering bulbous plant. Botanically it is considered a vegetable, and it's closely … [Read more...]
Best Garlic Cloves for Planting – Growing Garlic – Part 4
How to choose the best garlic cloves for planting - just follow these tips! Here's the fourth (and last) installment in the How to Plant Garlic series and this part focuses on how to choose the best garlic cloves for planting. The first article can be found here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here. Here in Canada, we plant garlic (Allium sativum) in the Fall before the ground freezes. This allows the … [Read more...]
How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes
In this second installment on Growing your own 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 summer around July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the … [Read more...]