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  1. 06-25-2009, 12:54 PM #1
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    Default I have garlic!

    Whoo! First time I have ever grown it successfully! I pulled two small heads this morning. They are small because they are from one I missed last year and they grew too close together. They smell soooo good! There are about half a dozen larger plants that are still too green (I think) to dig up. I'll be watching them!
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    congrats on your garlic! It's a great herb to grow. We harvest ours sometime between mid july & august here in zone 5.
    We'll make pesto with garlic & basil for freezing with some of it.
    How do you like to use it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by redmaples View Post
    congrats on your garlic! It's a great herb to grow. We harvest ours sometime between mid july & august here in zone 5.
    We'll make pesto with garlic & basil for freezing with some of it.
    How do you like to use it?
    I'm in zone 5, too, but these two stalks were brown all the way to the top so I figured they were "ready".

    I put it in everything. LOL! This week alone I have put some into short ribs, tandoori chicken, marinade for cube steak, bbq pork, and tonight there will be a little bit in the dressing I'm making for corned beef sandwiches. IMO, almost anything can be improved by garlic.

    My basil plant is getting large, I will be making pesto, soon, too.
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    That is SO cool! We're definatly going to be growing garlic next year too.Excuse me, we're planting some this Fall - we'll have to wait to see how it grows I had never seen it planted until this year - I was SO suprised. You must be so excited - I know I would
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    Good for you!! I grew my first garlic this year, planted last October in zone 7a. What I planted was some "store" organic garlic, and some a friend gave me. The store garlic was small and the friend's came up very large. It's all good, and I hope it keeps well. Not that it will be that long before it's all used up. It was all so encouraging that I've ordered from a garlic farm to plant next October.
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    Never have grown garlic - is it started from seed or what?
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    We have been very successful in keeping animals out of herb garden, I attribute it to the garlic stretching across the back. Go to this sight and try her recipe for garlic scape pesto ~ I'm heading out the the garden right now!

    Leave some of the scapes as they will turn to seed to plant again in the fall. I'm guessing all garlic is the same....
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    It's started from garlic cloves, planted in the fall (here, anyway) with the pointed end up. I think I planted mine about 1/2 inch below the top surface.
    Anyway, google some garlic-growing sites. It's interesting reading.
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