Derald wrote:
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welcome back to the funny farm.


2011-12 was my first real attempt at garlic growing. In November,
planted a pound (Inchelium red) that came from Wisconsin. Half of it had
two months' induced "vernalization" at near-freezing. The vernalized
garlic was ready to harvest in June. Good but small heads. Believe me,
I've been thoroughly educated by "the cook".

she doesn't like peeling a lot of small cloves?

i'm tempted to take some of the bulbules and
roast them and then try to press them out of their
peels to see if that will work. the other alternative
is to grind them all in the blender with some liquid
and then filter it off for the juice, but then
there is the problem of figuring out a good way
to put that juice up to keep it. i was thinking
a good ginger/garlic and chinese spices of some
kind type of sauce/jam/relish. i'll probably have
10lbs of these alone. some of the bulbules are
bigger than the actual garlic head it came from.

someone we know was rather amazed that the
garlic they have been growing for many years
actually had a bulb in the ground. they never
harvested and divided it. instead they kept
picking the tops and used that. i showed them
an entire plant and they took it to show the
others... got a good laugh out of that one.


It seems further reading
about garlic nutrition might be wise, LOL! At any rate, the other garlic
persisted into July and came to nothing.

huh.


For 2012-12, purchased a pound each of "Inchelium red" and "Ajo
rojo" from a grower in Texas. Expecting delivery by late July, I first
found out the "Ajo rojo" is not available this year and, more recently,
received notice of a crop failure ("a warm winter and tons of rain", he
wrote): No garlic being shipped. Bummer.
Accepted his offer to provide garlic from a third-party because
it's far too late to shop elsewhere. I neglected to determine whether
and can only hope that it'll be from the south or southeastern US.
Anyway, here it is late August and I have no garlic in the 'fridge
as I'd hoped to have by now (sigh).

send me your shipping address and i'll send you
a handful of the largest cloves i have left. we'll
see how it does down there. i'm always up for a
bit of fun. it is a hardnecked garlic but
you are speaking of refrigerating. might do ok...


songbird