Garlic.....Natures Antibiotic

[KevsFarm]

Wow...that sounds like pretty wild stuff GoogleNT...! I'm a webtv low techy, so i couldn't view the youtube links.. It's amazing the stuff they are developing these days,,,!

 

[discoversimplicity]

I found green garlic at the local farmer's market. It was so good! The asian gentleman selling it told me to use it just like scallions. Now it's in my salad, any thai or asian dishes, or anything else when the farmer's market is in season. It's delicious

 

[FarmerDenise]

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

That's the way we use them too. We don't want to take the greens from our main crop, because we want those to grow nice and big. But all those "volunteers" growing in assorted places, those make a wonderfull addition to our meals. And this year we have so many of those, we can even feed them to the goats.

ETA pic of our garlic bed

 

[KevsFarm]

Looking good FarmerDenise... Everyone should have a nice garlic patch, right...? Thanks for sharing...

 

[Icu4dzs]

The most recent issue of Farm Show Magazine has an article where they have used cinder blocks as containers and filled them with a variety of components as media and planted their garlic in it. Very clever idea and well contained. The picture in there shows a fence around the large group of cinder blocks so there must be a natural predator from which they are protecting it.

 

[KevsFarm]

Icu4dzs....interesting, growing garlic in cinder blocks, i'd need about 1000 for my crop of 3000...!! I haven't had any natural predators bother my garlic.However to keep the deer from trampling my garlic plants i've had to fence them in.I had the same problem with my new asparagus bed 3 yrs ago.The deer don't seem interested in eating garlic or asparagus plants at all, but do terrible hoof damage to new asparagus crowns and garlic plants...Those dang deer, if they don't eat your crops, they trample them..! Haven't had any insect problems with my garlic, and garlic is used in home remedies to make a natural insect spray repellant..My asparagus.? every yr i do battle with asparagus beetles...! I try to get them earlier in the morning, while it still cool out and they are moving slow.I hand pick them off,they are pretty fast once they get warmed up...! If i hammer the every morning, i can keep them under control.Some yrs they are so bad, they attack the asparagus as it is emerging from the ground, but thats not often.I never use chems to control insects.