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How to Plant Garlic Cloves – Growing Garlic Part 1

By Annie

Learn how to plant garlic cloves

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...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Garlic, Grow Vegetables

How to Preserve Garlic in Oil – and Other Ways to Store Garlic

By Annie

Here's how to preserve garlic in oil - store it in the fridge or freezer. Garlic is one of the easiest things to grow in your food garden. You can grow quite a few heads of garlic in a fairly small space. Garlic doesn't mind growing in the garden or in containers or pots on your deck. You can also buy garlic at the farmer's market. We grow a lot of garlic bulbs here; we have always loved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Garlic, Tip of the Day

How to Roast Garlic with an Oil Drizzle

By Annie

Roasting garlic in a cast iron pan

Once you learn how to roast garlic cloves, you'll be including this healthy side dish more often with your meals. Learn how to easily roast whole heads of garlic! Why You'll Love This Roasted Garlic Recipe Roasted garlic tastes sweet and nutty and sends wonderful aromas throughout the kitchen. Garlic, as a cooking spice, is quite versatile and there are lots of delicious garlic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Garlic, Recipes

Growing Garlic – Part 3 How to Harvest and Cure Garlic

By Annie

hanging garlic is drying to cure

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...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Garlic, Grow Vegetables

Growing Garlic in the Garden (4 Part Series)

By Annie

How to grow garlic like this bed of 100 garlic bulbs

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...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables

Best Garlic Cloves for Planting – Growing Garlic – Part 4

By Annie

best garlic cloves for planting lay on a paper bag

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...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Garlic, Grow Vegetables

Bacon Wrapped Garlic Appetizer

By Annie

This Bacon Wrapped Garlic Appetizer is delicious, easy, sure to please a crowd, and best of all, it's ready in just 10 minutes! Bacon Wrapped Garlic Appetizer Backstory It's all about garlic these days at our house! If we haven't been drying garlic, cleaning garlic or selling garlic, we've been eating garlic. It's like this at the end of summer every year at our house. Everything is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Garlic, Recipes

Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter

By Annie

It's Fall and things are finally winding down in the garden. Everything has been dug up and dealt with. Now it's time to start putting the garden to bed for winter. Here's what we've done so far this season with our garden harvests. Root crops are being stored in our cold room. The canning is almost finished for the season and we're happy to see jars full of home canned goodness on our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure, Fall, Garlic, Grow Your Own Vegetables

How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes

By Annie

Pickled Garlic Scapes in Canning Jars on wood counter

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 summer around July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the garden, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Canning, Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Canning, Garlic, Grow Vegetables, preserving, Tattler

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