The Old Folks Home

[Athaid]

If you eat all that garlic it won't just be the vampires you'll be scaring away lol

 

[Alaskan]

Garlic .....

More! More! NEED MORE!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

I wasn't a slacker this year. I actually got off my butt and harvested my garlic. I am now ready for the vampyre apocalypse.

do you braid them up?

deb

 

[chickisoup]

I wasn't a slacker this year. I actually got off my butt and harvested my garlic. I am now ready for the vampyre apocalypse.

Looks like my crop curing in the shade. Or, should I say did, before my daughter and family came for a visit yesterday. Before they headed back south a little while ago. About a third of my crop going with them

 

[superchemicalgirl]

No, I don't braid them. I just dry them on this screen door over 2 chairs with a fan for 3 weeks. Braiding is a pain, I'm not coordinated enough for that.

I think some of these might be yours, chicki.

 

[chickisoup]

No, I don't braid them. I just dry them on this screen door over 2 chairs with a fan for 3 weeks. Braiding is a pain, I'm not coordinated enough for that.

I think some of these might be yours, chicki.

I don't braid mine either. Used to but it really is a major pain for us Deb, literally, because up north you can only grow the hard neck varieties. It took me a bit to even figure out how to get them to braid without cracking. Still couldn't make them look as pretty as the softneck varieties.
I usually tie mine in bundles on each end of a rope and then sling it over the clothes line or nice tree limb until cured but this year we've had so much rain it's just easier to dry them in my big wagon that I can move in out.

 

[perchie.girl]

interesting....

HOw is fresh picked garlic vs cured or dried. taste wise

deb

 

[Beer can]

I don't braid mine either. Used to but it really is a major pain for us Deb, literally, because up north you can only grow the hard neck varieties. It took me a bit to even figure out how to get them to braid without cracking. Still couldn't make them look as pretty as the softneck varieties.
I usually tie mine in bundles on each end of a rope and then sling it over the clothes line or nice tree limb until cured but this year we've had so much rain it's just easier to dry them in my big wagon that I can move in out.

Hmm, guess I see my screw up now. Tried garlic before, no luck. Planted 36 this fall, all came up in our super mild winter in Dec, then snow and cold....Only one came back this spring, transplanted it cause I used the area for corn and beans beings there was only one, it died... I think it was soft neck, was thinking like onions, longer storage varieties are for the north, soft neck stores longer, oops.
Think I'll try one more time this fall, and make sure they are hard necks. Guess I should have thought of it when hearing you have to remove the scapes, soft necks don't have them.

 

[Cynthia12]

Thought I would share a couple of photos of this mountain I took a picture of from my front porch.

 

[FridayYet]

Beautiful pictures, Cynthia!