Garlic.....Natures Antibiotic

[lwheelr]

I didn't like Elephant Garlic. It lacks the zip of true garlic, and has an underlying flavor which is nauseating to me. My mom loves it though.

I planted about 50 this year, not nearly enough, and may not mature here.

Be careful using garlic medicinally - it is also a fairly strong blood thinner. Not generally a problem, but if you consume it in large amounts, it can have harmful effects at certain stages of pregnancy, and can absolutely make heavy bleeding worse.

I've used it to control a blood clotting problem for several months, and a small clove of garlic is comparable to a baby aspirin in blood thinning effects, but does not last as long.

 

[baymule]

I eat lots of garlic and mosquitos don't bite me near as much as they bite DH. He makes real good "skeeter bait".

 

[mrbstephens]

Yep, you said it Dooley, C___da...i don't want to be accused of Flaming the country...lol PirtyKitty, never grew elephant garlic.As far as i know its said to be much milder than other garlics.I've had very good luck with the German white and red varities, as well as Music here on long island.Garlic is great stuff for sure..!

Hey! You're on Long Island??! Where? I'm in Hampton Bays!

 

[KevsFarm]

Out more towards Montauk...

 

[FarmerDenise]

We have been growing garlic for years. SO got his from an uncle, Italian red. I had Polish red and a German red that I had purchased from a seed catalog years ago. SO when we moved in together we combined our garlic. A few years ago I bought a German white garlic from a local farmer in upstate New York, when I was visiting my parents. So we added that to the mix also.
We grow more than enough garlic for ourselves and sell some of it and give some of it away.What KevsFarm says about the size of the clove that you plant is quite right. The bigger the clove that you plant, the bigger your garlic bulb will be. We usually throw the tiny ones into the field and use the sort of small ones for cooking. We now have garlic growing "wild" all over the place, because after those little ones landed somewhere, they sprouted and grew. If we didn't pull them for some reason, they kept growing and expanding every year. So now we have clumps of them interspersed in any area that doesn't get plowed.
These come in handy though, we eat the greens. In years when the garlic bed doesn't produce well we still have the volunteers.

The heat in June and July doesn't seem to bother the garlic. SO waters it til about mid June. then he quits watering and just lets them be. We hoe a couple of times to make sure the ground is broken up, so the bulbs can expand and start to dry out. Once they are good and dry, he starts digging them up and we bundle them. We leave the bundled garlic out in a wooden cart we have to further dry it. The we sometimes braid some of them, but we mostly cut off the tops and roots and clean them. Then we sort them into seed, sell, our use and givaway baskets. The biggest and best get saved for next year's seed.
Right now our garlic is over a foot tall. The tips on many are burned, possibly from too much chicken fertilizer applied last summer and the ground is beginning to crack in some of the rows.
They should really grow after this late rain we are having.
We don't mulch as that seems to encourage snails and bugs in our area.
Invariably some of our chickens get out and dig in the garlic patch also. If we have mulch in there, they really go crazy and have wrecked our garlic in the past. :/

 

[mrbstephens]

Out more towards Montauk...

Oh, you're near the end! I'm from EH!

 

[discoversimplicity]

I just bought some odorless garlic capsules for my dogs' flea problems, but can't find anything about doseage per pound . I have a St. Bernard at 220 lbs., down to a long haired mini doxie at maybe 7 lbs. The capsules are 1250 mg. Can anyone help?

 

[KevsFarm]

Cool...i didn't relize there were a couple of east enders on here...

 

[GOOGLE NIKOLA TESLA]

hey kevfarms,
i know this is about garlics antibiotic effects, but everyone should look up the ultraviolet blood treatment device. im not sure that it is real, the fda is supposedly allowing it to be tested, but basically it kills most bacterial and viral infections by using ultraviolet light to clean the blood. first the blood is taken like a normal donation and then its run through a ultraviolet light source, see most of the bacteria and the virus are very weak to pure ultraviolet light, causing them to screw up and die, and breaking down for the bodies natural immunity to take over. the blood is then transfused back into the body. the bodies immune system then takes the broken pieces and develops an immunity to the disease, like a natural vaccination. it was 80 percent effective in treating hepatitis infection, 90 percent effective in all of the flu viruses and the man made h1n1 virus. and 80 pecent effective in treating hiv symptoms. this is very good statistics. this might be a very good long term device if there was no hospital some day and its quite simple to use (just a ultraviolet light iv tubeing and a bag and a needle access)lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DIv5t0ZmA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_YxWwe64zg&playnext=1&list=PL41774127D04AD407

 

[KevsFarm]

FarmerDenise...yes.i to have garlic scallions growing all over. as well..! I love them, thats what i use in cooking until my new crop comes in.I usually take the soft/going bad cloves and wing them where ever, in the fall,as i'm getting ready to plant and they start to grow.So each spring when they have nice green tops, i yank them and saute with mushrooms,use in a soup or whatever.They look just like store scallions, but are nice and garlicky instead..This time of year the whole garlic crop is basically garlic scallions where i live.June and half of July are the big months for heads to develope for may area. I see some garlic growers selling garlic scallions at farmers markets early in the season.I rarely pull any from my main crop though, i like them to grow out into nice big heads... I should change my name to KevsGarlic instead of KevsFarm, i grow and eat so much of the stuff..must be the Sicilian in me.....lol