October 27, 2012

Don’t forget friends! Garlic is also a bulb, so that means that in the northeast, it’s time to plant a pungent patch! Garlic is incredibly easy to grow, just set it and forget it as they say in infomercials. It’s one of the best return-on-investment plants out there in my humble opinion! The next time you’re at the farmers market or farm stand, grab a few heads and make a spot for them. Trust me, you’ll thank us come summer! ~AR

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My seed garlic for planting this year…all of this is from my own crop that I harvested this summer.  I don’t have much left to store for winter/spring eating but I ordered some more organic garlic (what I could find that wasn’t sold out anyway) for eating and also to experiment w/different varieties for planting.

These are all hardneck garlics, which tend to do well in cold winter climates like Michigan.  I don’t grow softneck but may try to someday.

Top ~ German White Porcelain.  This grows HUGE (the bottom photo shows the cloves next to a quarter) and is wonderful for roasting.  I’ve grown these for several years and will plant from my own stock this year plus try one of the bulbs I ordered from the west coast to see how it does in comparison.  I’m saving the others that I ordered and a few heads I grew for eating but wish I had more.  Oh well…gotta build up to where I have enough to plant and enough to eat.

In the white bowl with the German White is Leah, a variety I ordered last year because that’s my own name.  It did better than I expected in the crappy bed w/weeds and I think it’ll do better this year for me.

Bottom left is Brown Vesper, my favorite along with the German White and on the right is Killarney Red, which is also very nice and does well for me.

The Brown Vesper was planted at last minute from my own stock and the crop from that is much improved over what I ordered and harvested the previous year.  Larger bulbs/cloves  :)

I ordered Northern White, Romanian Red and German Red to eat/experiment with planting and also some culinary grade Polish Jenn & Music to eat but will plant a few cloves and see what happens there as well.  I’m also expecting one grower to send me a few cloves of Belarus to try.

The time to plant garlic is NOW :D

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July 18, 2012

Annie Novak, Assitant Manager of the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden tells us to follow our nose this weekend to Sweet & Stinky, a celebration of onions, garlic, and herbs in this vegetable garden wonderland. Cooking demos, scavenger hunts, and digging in the dirt are just the beginning of the fun!

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July 18, 2012
Harvesting and Cooking with Garlic Scapes A quick and tidy little piece from Heavy Petal on those weird, curly-cue things growing out of your garlic plant. They’re scapes! Ann actually pointed these out to me a few weeks ago in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, as they make for good eating. Stir-fried, steamed, or run through the food processor, snagging those scapes can make your garlic plant more than a one-trick pony. —MN

Harvesting and Cooking with Garlic Scapes

A quick and tidy little piece from Heavy Petal on those weird, curly-cue things growing out of your garlic plant. They’re scapes! Ann actually pointed these out to me a few weeks ago in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, as they make for good eating.

Stir-fried, steamed, or run through the food processor, snagging those scapes can make your garlic plant more than a one-trick pony. —MN

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June 29, 2012
shanleysmalls: Adorable little flower bombs. Allium blooms! There’s doubtless a few onion or garlic bulbs growing at the base of those flower bombs. Edit: Not actually alliums! A keen reader has pointed out the leaves sprouting from the stems of these flowers; in alliums, they’d be at the base. What we see here are a breed of Echinops, a type of thistle. Guess I was so antsy for the Family Garden’s garlic and onions that I jumped the gun on my ID. This weekend the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden continues its “Sweet and Stinky” event with a spotlight on the vegetables best eaten with breathmints in your pocket. If you catch a whiff of caramelized onions at the NYBG, this is probably where it’s coming from. Check out our page for info on the cooking demonstrations running all weekend at 2 and 4 p.m. —MN

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Adorable little flower bombs.

Allium blooms! There’s doubtless a few onion or garlic bulbs growing at the base of those flower bombs. Edit: Not actually alliums! A keen reader has pointed out the leaves sprouting from the stems of these flowers; in alliums, they’d be at the base. What we see here are a breed of Echinops, a type of thistle. Guess I was so antsy for the Family Garden’s garlic and onions that I jumped the gun on my ID.

This weekend the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden continues its “Sweet and Stinky” event with a spotlight on the vegetables best eaten with breathmints in your pocket.

If you catch a whiff of caramelized onions at the NYBG, this is probably where it’s coming from. Check out our page for info on the cooking demonstrations running all weekend at 2 and 4 p.m. —MN

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