I look forward to planting garlic in the fall. It connects me to my garden next year, reassuring me that the too long winter ahead will yield something wondrous. The cloves I plant now will soon send up shoots that will survive through cold and ice and become mature plants on the other side of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'garlic'
Urban Garlic Harvest
July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · garden
We harvested enough garlic last week to last the rest of the year. Here you see the softneck variety, which produced big, luxurious bulbs.
Softneck garlic is the kind you normally find in the grocery store, with an indeterminate number of cloves of various sizes. A second type of garlic–hard neck–produces a more uniform bulb with [...]
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A Farmer and His Garlic
March 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
As part of his annual crop rotation scheme, Leigh Hauter over the years had planted garlic just about everywhere he could on his farm except for this strip of land on the slope just below his greenhouse.
The previous owners of Bull Run Farm had not done much in the way of erosion control. “There [...]
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Mulching Garlic
March 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
I like to mulch with straw. Straw gives the garden a natty look, like the gardener really knows what he’s doing. Ha! And really I should have mulched my garlic beds when I planted them last fall. But I haven’t been particularly thrilled with straw mulch around garlic. It seems like the weeds always [...]
Garlic Harvest
June 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Garlic planted in the fall overwinters and should be ready to harvest sometime in early summer. Yesterday we gathered 40 heads of garlic from a bed outside our front door. This is a softneck variety. Originally we had planned on planting hardneck garlic, which produces delicious scapes or flower stalks, but our favorite [...]
Kids Make Fava & Pea Salad with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette
May 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Sometimes I am completely surprised by what the kids in my “food appreciation” classes find delicious. I wasn’t sure at all about this particular dish–a salad of fava beans, peas and asparagus–because it is just so darn green. In addition, I was betting the kids had never heard of fava beans and might very [...]
Where’s the Garlic?
July 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
This morning saw a happy convergence of food activities.
The garlic we picked yesterday is still sitting on the front stoop. I have no idea whether to wash it or find some other way to remove the dirt. I am just that stupid about garlic. I asked my wife and was surprised to learn she didn’t [...]
Garlic Harvest
July 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
In the course of weeding one of our garden beds, I forced myself to consider the small garlic patch that had been overrun with crab grass.
“It’s all brown and dried out looking,” I told my wife. “What do I do now?”
“Sounds like it’s ready to harvest. When did you plant it?”
Last fall is when [...]
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