Last fall I blogged about planting garlic. We’ve now harvested about 200 bulbs of garlic, so that ought to last us for a few months. This here? These garlic cloves grew half way up the plants’ stems. How weird is that? None of our Gabriola Garlic plants did this, but a garlic variety called Tal [...]
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I planted garlic in the fall, since it seems like the perfect crop for me (I love garlic, and it doesn’t need much work) and for Gabriola (it doesn’t need much water in summer, either). By the time I was done, I think I planted something like 190 cloves. Most of it is Gabriola Garlic, [...]
Ah, garlic. This week I planted 125 cloves of garlic, which should produce 125 heads of garlic, and be enough to keep vampires away. Garlic does seem like the perfect thing to grow on Gabriola, because Other than weeding, garlic needs little care once it’s planted. (…) Because most growth occurs before the summer sun [...]
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If your Gabriola garden is full of garlic, you might be wondering what to do with your garlic scapes — the loopy stem parts. Mike Hess has the answer at Hard Boiled: When Life Gives You Garlic Scapes, Make Pesto. See? It’s like a garlicky, delicious snake. Essentially, a garlic scape is the stem of [...]
