2017 garlic!

jerrytheplater · Sep 16, 2017

New to the forum and just doing some looking around. I grow Rocambole every year. I got my first garlic in 1986 from a Polish woman named Paula that lived in Garfield, NJ. I've been growing it every year since. My boss gave me some garlic from a friend of his in NY State a few years back. It is about 2 weeks earlier than mine, larger, but does not store as well. Last year I planted maybe 500 cloves of my bosses garlic and only maybe 350 of mine. I have decided not to plant his anymore because it really does not store as long as mine.

If you want to see a series of very amatuer YouTube videos of me planting my garlic very late in the fall, December 18, 2009 the link is below. It is in two parts. I was planting in soil that had about 2" of frost in it and had to use a pick to break it up to get to the soft unfrozen dirt below.

Part 1

Part 2

April 3, 2010 to show the garlic I planted growing from the planting above.

jerrytheplater · Sep 18, 2017

MyOwnIdaho-I hope my post was appropriate. Should I have started a new thread about it? New here and am used to keeping similar topics in the same thread.

myownidaho · Sep 18, 2017

Jerrytheplater said:
MyOwnIdaho-I hope my post was appropriate. Should I have started a new thread about it? New here and am used to keeping similar topics in the same thread.

Not at all! I'm impressed at how much garlic you grew. 64 bulbs is more than enough for my wife and I. I typically plant towards the end of October and have great results.

jerrytheplater · Sep 18, 2017

MyOwnIdaho said:
Not at all! I'm impressed at how much garlic you grew. 64 bulbs is more than enough for my wife and I. I typically plant towards the end of October and have great results.

Thanks. I love garlic. When I make a batch of Cowboy Beans to serve 50 people (1 3/4 gallons) I use about 100 cloves of garlic in it. When I cook eggs for my breakfast, I fry an onion and maybe two bulbs of garlic with them. Our garlic lasts us about a year. Sometimes I have to throw some out in June because it has turned brown and shriveled. Every once in a while we have to buy garlic-but that is agony to me.

myownidaho · Sep 18, 2017

Jerrytheplater said:
Thanks. I love garlic. When I make a batch of Cowboy Beans to serve 50 people (1 3/4 gallons) I use about 100 cloves of garlic in it. When I cook eggs for my breakfast, I fry an onion and maybe two bulbs of garlic with them. Our garlic lasts us about a year. Sometimes I have to throw some out in June because it has turned brown and shriveled. Every once in a while we have to buy garlic-but that is agony to me.

I usually have to buy garlic for about 2-3 months in the spring. I use a lot of my crop in jalapeño escabeche and tomatillo salsa.

ddufore · Sep 19, 2017

Hey MOI from very northern New York. I grow 5 varieties of garlic, usually 130-150 plants in all. Plenty for me and enough to give away. I have one softneck that lasts 10 months but the others not so much. When I feel it's time to deal with the others before they go by, I freeze them. After peeling I'll freeze them whole on a cookie sheet, then into a ziplock bag. I can pull these out individually. I also chop garlic a put it in a thin flat layer in another freezer bag. When I want to use chopped garlic, it's easy to break off what I want and add it to whatever. No need to buy grocery store garlic.

Rings Я Us · Sep 19, 2017

I think I may use 1 bulb of garlic in 2 months . I try to use it before it gets bad. I think it's the cheapest thing in the whole market though.. so I buy it whenever mine gets old.

myownidaho · Sep 19, 2017

ddufore said:
Hey MOI from very northern New York. I grow 5 varieties of garlic, usually 130-150 plants in all. Plenty for me and enough to give away. I have one softneck that lasts 10 months but the others not so much. When I feel it's time to deal with the others before they go by, I freeze them. After peeling I'll freeze them whole on a cookie sheet, then into a ziplock bag. I can pull these out individually. I also chop garlic a put it in a thin flat layer in another freezer bag. When I want to use chopped garlic, it's easy to break off what I want and add it to whatever. No need to buy grocery store garlic.

I may try freezing some this year. I don't like seeing things go to waste.

Rings R Us said:
I think I may use 1 bulb of garlic in 2 months . I try to use it before it gets bad. I think it's the cheapest thing in the whole market though.. so I buy it whenever mine gets old.

I probably use a couple heads a month when I'm not canning. The problem is there's no comparison between home grown garlic and the stuff in the stores. And as for cost, I grow onions too. [emoji]128512[/emoji]

ddufore · Sep 19, 2017

I hear you. To me having the garlic I've grown myself is very rewarding.

Rings Я Us · Sep 19, 2017

I would make garlic oil and compound butter with some. Garlic dip.. yum

ddufore · Sep 19, 2017

Roasted garlic cooled and squeezed into a small dish and whisked with a little olive oil and s&p is awesome on anything!!!

Braz · May 30, 2018

End of May and the scapes are forming. It is a little earlier, by a couple weeks, than usual.

I couldn't resist and picked a few for lunch.

Scapes, garlic, some onion, a bit of arugula, parsley, a few cherry tomatoes, butter and lemon zest and juice for finishing.

Sautee with a bit of olive oil. Arugula, parsley and tomatoes will go in later. Meanwhile, some pasta is boiling in another pot.

Plated, finished with some grated parmesan.

A very tasty lunch indeed. Just for fun I tossed a couple scapes into a jar of pickled eggs to see what pickled scapes might taste like. Can't be bad, right? There are still enough scapes in the beds to make some pesto in a day or two.

ddufore · May 30, 2018

Pickled scapes sound yummy. It will be close to a month before I get any.

Braz · Jul 3, 2019

Time to wake up this old thread. Harvested this years garlic crop today. I only planted two varieties, a hardneck (Music) and a softneck (Incheleum Red). Planted last Halloween. Cut the scapes off the hardnecks a few weeks ago and made pesto. These did really well in the raised beds with nice big bulbs.

ddufore · Jul 3, 2019

I have those two planted as well as three other varieties. I’ve got 2-3 weeks to go before I harvest. I planted October 15th.

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