My garden is pretty much crap this year. I planted late and it rained a ton and now I look out there and pretty much want to cry my eyeballs out because I’m a terrible gardener.
Oh, but I did grow some garlic because it took absolutely no effort on my part. I stuck some in the ground early last fall and wah-la, garlic.
I asked one of my friends if he wanted to take home some garlic and he said, “Uh, I get my garlic from a jar.” Then he said, “Oh, okay I’ll take half a clove.” Half a clove? Who takes half a clove? And for that I gave him none. I’ve decided only people that appreciate how hard I worked to grow this garlic deserve to have it and also people that appreciate fresh garlic, because it is NOTHING like garlic in a gall-darn JAR!!!
Also, I need to keep it so I can get rid of all the vampires roaming the soybean field.
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Wow.. you know as I’m reading this, I get a smell waft over me of garlic.. and I’m like woooowww… how bizarre!!! LOL And it didn’t register at that moment, that my husband is in the kitchen making sauce for spaghetti and cutting up garlic! ha!
I never understood garlic from a jar either!!!!
I use garlic from a jar, too… unless I need whole cloves for something… like a clove in a jar of dill pickles. But it IS easy to grow… I just don’t have dedicated space for something that grows from fall to summer.
My veggies are doing fine, but only because I don’t grow much except for tomatoes and peppers. My poor flowers are overrun with grass.
Yay…sure the jarred stuff is easier and faster…but it just doesn’t taste the same. We grow it too… do you use your previous year’s garlic as seed or do you get it from someplace else? We found that it is best not to use our own. Your garden weather sounds about like it has been here in Idaho….crummy.
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From a jar?!
Really?
Ewww……
I have come to gardening late and made some mistakes last year and vow to do better this year–I live in the tropics so my growing season hasnt yet started. good to know how easy the garlic was. i will try some of that this year. Half a clove???Whats with THAT?
I’m not much of a gardener but I can appreciate how hard it is to grow veges/plants. It’s a shame your garden wasn’t successful, maybe next year. As for garlic…love it both fresh and bottled.
1/2 a clove?
I planted garlic, except I think it died, cause it never sprouted.
I would love to grow garlic but I am a HORRIBLE gardener. Can it be grown in a planter? Does it have to be in the ground? How do you get started? Can I buy a bulb from the store and plop it in the soil?
See? PLOP. That, my friend, is truly my thought process when it comes to gardening.
My sympathies – I usually have a fairly beautiful garden but with a lot of work stuff going on I got a very late start this year and it kept raining. I have only gotten some artichokes and strawberries so far. My tomatoes and peppers are trying to survive the neglect
Garlic is delish and tastes even better if you roast it – sweeter taste and wonderful !!
After reading those Twilight books last year, I had pretty much decided that vampires were not such a bad thing. Then I watched put the New Moon video in the queue to watch with the girls this month and now I’m pretty skeeved out by vampires. I shoulda grown some garlic.
Dadgum, and all this time I thought jars of garlic grew that way!!!
That is fine looking garlic. I would love to have it . . . IF Hubby didn’t hate garlic so much!
Fresh garlic! Man what I would give to try that! I believe all the stuff I get at the store has been in storage for ages plus most of it is from China.
Send me some if you would be so kind.
That garlic is beautiful! I forgot to plant mine last year. So I have none. Sniff. Sniff. I’ve learned my lesson. This year it goes in the ground.
I love garlic! LOVE it! As in I smell like it when I sweat. Yaaay! Didn’t you know it’s TMI Day? But I can’t garden at this time due to psycho cows that eat everything around my house. And honestly, just say, you planted that much garlic because you’re protecting yourself from the Twilight craze, right?
There isn’t a recipe in my house that calls for half a clove. Half a clove?? Crazy man
Anytime a recipe calls for 3 cloves of garlic, I use 5. I love garlic but have never tried to grow it. Must do that this year! Right now though I just buy about 3 bulbs at a time.
I have a garlic patch that I inherited. I never knew when to harvest it. Now?
I’m with Lindie – anytime a recipe calls for 3 cloves of garlic, I use 5!
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I love fresh garlic, too. I have some in my garden. I am appaled when people use the garlic from the jar. It is the labor that is put into cooking that makes it totally wonderful. So, plant, grow, harvest, peel, slice, mince, etc. the garlic.
Hmm…I’ll take some of your garlic. I’ve just started to use garlic in my cooking and am not very experienced with it. I could give yours a whirl and maybe learn something new
My 6 yr old boy told me that vampires don’t drink “Sunny D’ or eat pizza. He says that if you think someone may be a vampire just offer them some Sunny D, if they say no then run for your life. The pizza, I am assuming is covered in garlic.
OK, I am really really sorry about this (really really really sorry, feel the need to apologize excessively in advance because *that’s how sorry I am*) but as a reformed francophile I must point out (because my eyelid twitches until I do) that it is “voila” not “wah-la”. I am so so so sorry. Really sorry. But I needed my eyelid to stop twitching.
Also, congrats on the garlic, it is gorgeous. One of those things I have not attempted because it seems so darn difficult, and I don’t know why I have that impression. My italian uncle used to grow it by the bale, and then pickle the cloves in olive oil and eat them like peanuts. He could get away with it because he was already italian, I suppose.
Eww, I find the garlic from the jar to be bitter, bitter, bitter. I get mine from the local farmers market. I’ll have to remember to throw some into the ground this fall and see what happens.
Strawberries are things I can grow, because the more you ignore them, the more they will grow.
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Half a clove? Doesn’t he know there is no such thing as “Too much garlic?”
Maybe since he gets his garlic from a jar, he doesn’t realize how much a clove is. I have met some evil people who don’t know which is a head and which is a clove of garlic.
And I’m feeling you on the sorry 2010 gardening situation. We are in the PNW which is rainy anyway but it’s a bad year even for us.