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...]
How to Preserve Garlic in Oil – and Other Ways to Store Garlic
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 market. We grow a lot of garlic bulbs here; we have always loved eating … [Read more...]
How to Roast Garlic with an Oil Drizzle
Once you learn how to roast garlic, you'll be including this healthy side dish more often with your meals. Why You'll Love This Recipe Roasted garlic tastes sweet and nutty and sends wonderful aromas throughout the kitchen. Garlic, as a cooking spice, is quite versatile. There are not many dishes or cuisines for which garlic is not a good complement either as a side dish, as an infusion … [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. 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...]
Bacon Wrapped Garlic Appetizer
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...]
Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter
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...]
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 … [Read more...]