The last entry discussed the huge advantages of growing gourmet garlic and provided techniques for planting fall garlic, today I’ll share a few tips for buying the best gourmet garlic seed.
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Growing-Garlic
Here in Central Pennsylvania it’s almost time to plant the fall garlic seed that will grow into enormous cloves of delicious gourmet garlic by the middle of next summer. Sure you can plant garlic next spring, but in most areas you’ll get healthier plants, larger cloves, and better results from a fall sowing of this cold hardy root vegetable.
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The gourmet garlic plants have begun sending up their seed stalks which are commonly referred to as garlic scapes. While some garlic growers leave the scapes on the plants, I always remove them as they appear during the early summer months.
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Need to find a creative use for those left over garlic bulbs that you stored but didn’t get around to using during the winter months? Here’s an idea; plant the extra garlic cloves out in the garden and grow a crop of delicious baby garlics. Teaching Old Garlic New Tricks By now the garlic that was harvested [...]
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