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WOW Garlic lady!

Love your avatar and yours pictures!

My goodness! You have my mouth hanging wide open! hahahaaha
 
Posts: 4589 | Location: MARYLAND zone 6 | Registered: May 23, 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Wow! Impressive photos, all. I harvested about 15 German hardnecks today. They range considerably in size, so I guess I've got a learning curve. However, I did puncture the largest one (of course) with the digging fork. Can I just let it dry and use the whole cloves for planting, or will the hole create a problem? This is all very exciting!
 
Posts: 659 | Location: Southeast NC Zone 8 | Registered: May 15, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Here's another thing to do with your scapes. Dry them and make something artistic with them. They turn a beautiful silver color and get nice and stiff. I think maybe put in dried flower arrangements, or whatever. Here is a pic of todays fresh ones and last years cut off ones that went too far for eating. I am going to try a mobile with them. It could be cool. They are very light and strong once dry. All you need to do is slide the dried skins off. A job only suited for good Frowner gloves. Ask me how I know. Imagine how good that garlic feels in the nice paper cut it just inflicted on you? Mad AH_CHI_MAMA Red Face

Here's just the dried ones.Think of something to do with them and post it.


Muddy knees David! Compost is my friend. Every day I enroll in gardening school. Some days it feels like kindergarten!
 
Posts: 3765 | Location: Oregon-zone 8 | Registered: August 17, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Garlic Lady...wow! That's quite the crop you have there...beautiful.

Muddy knees David...could you use the dried scapes as the "ribs" of a basket or woven pouch? They are cool looking...do they have that heavenly smell? I was too greedy to let any of ours dry...they are scrumptious!

Peace

Gail
 
Posts: 433 | Location: Central Virginia zone 7 | Registered: August 10, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Gail, I don't see why not. The arc isn't very wide, so the basket wouldn't be very big, but as a backbone for a purse they should work great. The aroma drops off once dry unfortunately.


Muddy knees David! Compost is my friend. Every day I enroll in gardening school. Some days it feels like kindergarten!
 
Posts: 3765 | Location: Oregon-zone 8 | Registered: August 17, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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......just a quick post with my coffee.......I'm late for a date with a hoe......Wink

Garlic Lady - .....sweet....Smiler

Dave !!! - .....quick, braid some of those scapes while they are tender enough to bend........then dry them.

....gotta go, hope ya'll have a most excellent Garlic day. Smiler


If you can grow food, you have a cosmic obligation to feed those that can't.
 
Posts: 1231 | Location: South Central Iowa (Adair)4-5 | Registered: March 18, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Great idea MHG! Wish I had heard about it when I first cut the scapes. Roll Eyes Bumping for an update. Check the first page, chapter 9


Muddy knees David! Compost is my friend. Every day I enroll in gardening school. Some days it feels like kindergarten!
 
Posts: 3765 | Location: Oregon-zone 8 | Registered: August 17, 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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What is a scrape? I've never grown garlic but would like to try. When do you harvest in the summer?
Terry
 
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