Last Chance Today: 🧄 Your all-in-one guide to growing garlic!

Keep your taste buds happy (and the vampires away!) with this all-in-one garlic gardening guide. [Food Gardening Network Preview]( September 16, 2024  [Garlic Lovers Unite (and Grow Garlic!)]( Keep your taste buds happy (and the vampires away!) with this all-in-one garlic gardening guide. [Potatoes] Gain full access to this premium Gardening Guide—and an entire Library of food gardening advice—with a [Charter Gold Membership in Food Gardening Network!]( Dear Gardener, I have a quick confession about my love of garlic. On one of my first dates with my husband we, two Italians, decided to make pasta together with homemade meatballs and sauce. After spending the whole evening preparing, and me being heavy handed in the garlic department, we sat down to dine, and after the first bite, my husband’s face twisted and he unwittingly declared how funny it was that we made such terrible sauce! I was in shock. It tasted perfect to me. Great, even. Why did he think it was terrible? “Too much garlic!” he told me. I chuckled and pretended to agree, with pride that I clearly have a higher percentage of Italian in me. Deep down I knew there was exactly enough garlic. You don’t measure garlic with anything but your heart! Am I right? I mean, where would the culinary world be without garlic? These precious bulbs complement cuisines all over the world. When that distinctive aroma fills my home, I know I’m in for something delicious. To be honest, I use quite a bit of it, it’s one ingredient I always have on hand, and only the real stuff, nothing pickled in a grocery store jar for me! In fact, I use enough of it that I started taking out loans to buy it! Okay, that’s not true. But I did decide long ago that I should grow my own garlic, given how much of it I use in my cooking. The nice thing about garlic is that it’s not hard to grow. If there is a set-it-and-forget-it vegetable, it’s garlic. So, my first thought when planting garlic was, “I got this.” [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( That’s when I ran into my first dilemma. What variety of garlic should I grow? There are hardneck and softneck types, and then within that, there are dozens of varieties to choose from – and that’s just what’s readily available! And as you might imagine, they can range pretty widely in flavor and preferred growing conditions. Still, I was happy to try a few varieties and see what happened. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized I still needed to know a few things about growing garlic: How much water does it need? When will I know it’s ready to harvest? How do I cure it? When do I snip off those delicious garlic scapes? Plus, there were a few things I was curious about: What are the health benefits of garlic? What, exactly, is allicin? What are some good garlic companion plants? Essentially, what I was looking for was an all-in-one guide to growing garlic. And as I looked through my pages and pages of notes, I decided that there was no point in looking for this guide I wanted. I would just make my own! [Garlic] And that, my friend, is where Food Gardening Network’s Glorious Garlic: From Garden to Table began. This premium Gardening Guide about garlic is your one-stop guide for growing the greatest garlic! It’s the guide I wish I would have had when I first grew garlic. Plus, there’s more here than just how to grow it! Did you know that garlic is one of the earliest known cultivated crops? Did you know there’s a three-day garlic festival in Gilroy, California every year? There’s a brief history of garlic in this guide, and even some tips on what to do about garlic breath! Seriously! I wasn’t kidding about this being an all-in-one guide! Here’s a look at what you’ll find in Glorious Garlic: From Garden to Table! [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( You’ll find feature articles about garlic that include: - Growing Garlic: From Preparing Your Beds to Planting and Mulching—get the details on best practices for preparing your garlic so your plants will thrive. If you’re planning on container gardening, know what size pot to prepare for a healthy harvest. Get the specs here. - Fertilizing, Watering, and Harvesting Your Garlic Plants—how and how often should you water your garlic? What’s the best type of fertilizer for a robust crop? Where should you really store your garlic after you harvest it? (Hint: not in the fridge.) Find out now. - Choosing a Variety to Plant—since you can grow garlic in almost any climate, the key is to choose a variety that’s best suited for where you are. Find out the ideal garlic for your particular garden. - How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Common Garlic Diseases—garlic plant diseases can come through the soil, the water, the air—even from gardeners! Find out the best ways to protect and treat your garlic plants. - Pests that Can Harm Your Garlic Plants—discover how to spot and repel common garlic pests to save more of your crop for you. - Essential Tools and Equipment for Growing Garlic—get the full list of essential gardening tools and equipment for growing garlic … and for almost all of your gardening needs. For instance, since a lot of recipes call for crushed garlic, so a garlic press of some kind is a good idea. But a special gizmo for getting the skin off the cloves? No need. We have a chef’s technique you can use with tools you already have in your kitchen. And what better way to celebrate your garlic harvest than with quick and easy-to-make recipes! The Food Gardening Network is all about providing delicious recipes for making satisfying dishes. Try these recipes and enjoy your garlic harvest: - Roasted Garlic - Gremolata - Balsamic Vinaigrette - Garlic Aioli - Garlic-Scape Stir Fry - Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic We even include the health benefits of garlic with Nutrition Facts about Garlic and Home Remedies & Health Benefits of Garlic. Learn about all the wonderful and beneficial attributes of garlic—and how you can use garlic to boost your overall health. Need to ease an ache? Try some garlic. Fighting garlic breath? Milk, apples, or lemon. We’ll share a broad range of strategies you can use to get rid of the dreaded after-dinner garlic breath! And to be sure you have everything you need to grow your own garlic, we’ve included a Resources about Garlic section—so that you can easily find additional tools and information about garlic and all sorts of other general gardening resources. Find more than 100 varieties of organic seed garlic at one of our resources, plus a recipe for chocolate chip cookies with roasted garlic! 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