Time to order Garlic if your stores don't carry it!

[buckrun]

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We have planted several types but this year will use grocery store starts of Purple Easy Peel.
They are much cheaper that way if you plant pounds of the stuff like we do but if you want a particular type you normally have to order. We eat so much garlic that only one year were we able to grow enough to eat as well as re-plant in fall!  We plant several cloves around the base of each fruit tree to help fool the bark borers.

[Caprine Beings]

Our garlic produced enough seed, first time in 10 years, to provide for next year and another families next year. We pulled in 45lbs off of a 60' plot (not counting seed), we have garlic oil, garlic powder, minced garlic, smoked garlic, and raw garlic.
We also have the center row seed garlic from last years planting in that plot that we are leaving alone. Finally!
My herb garden has several clusters of garlic around certain plants as an insecticide. It does work:)
Tam

[Ashley]

I'm planning to plant a bunch this fall. I grew some before in the garden in our yard but the goats ate it all. So I'm going to put some in the garden spot that's fenced. It's great stuff.

[Cotton Eyed Does]

I've planted garlic here before but the moles and gophers eat it all.  I could fix a bed somewhere and line it with baby chicken wire or rabbit wire I suppose but shoot... I can buy a quart jar of minced garlic at the grocery store cheap.  We eat a lot of garlic too and it is so nice to just have a jar of it already minced and ready to cook with in the fridge.    Getting lazy in my old age.

[Vicki McGaugh Tx Nubians]

At our farmers markets and fleamarkets/swapmeets we have mexican families that sell mangos, bananas etc....they sell braided purple peel, for about $10 it has 46 to 50 heads in the braid.  I plant the whole braid in a row this time of year and have the most wonderful garlic chives the whole fall and winter, I then take out the ones doing the best and plant them on their own, to bulb out.  It is a super cheap way of having all the garlic you want to have or sell, my customers love going out and pulling out garlic, most have never seen it grow before, and they will pay $3 for each head which isn't mature even.  I know most buy the ones at the farmers markets for looks, so if you ask for 3 of them like I do, they will lower the price, plus I buy so much produce from them.

Chris I also keep jarred garlic in the fridge, but dang fresh is so much better, I have to really not have time to not just bash a clove or two and throw it in     Vicki

[Caprine Beings]

Dad was doing research on garlic oil prices, $32.00 an ounce for pure raw oil. I have $64 dollars worth in my fridge. One drop of that in anything and its perfect. I can't get that at the store for the price it took to grow and process  , Dad did most of the work.
And quite interesting is the insect count on the garlic bed. It has only two inhabitants, spiders and a small beetle, haven't found its definative species. Absolutely no earwigs...YAY...and no mealy bugs. Thats throughout the whole plot. And for here, thats a feat in its own.
Tam