The Promise of Garlic!

Each year, the soil is carefully prepared, dug, composted and raked and raked, it is turning to Fall. The dried Bulbs of German Heirloom Purple Striped Garlic await their turned down bed on a cool evening in October. A trench is traced into the light dark soil, each one carefully placed to face the sun's kiss as they are covered from it's view. Mulch is applied as their cover for their winter's rest. As the seasons change, the light raking uncovers their peaking tips emerging from the soil. It is magical to see how fast they grow in the sun and bathe in the rains of Spring. As all planting around them busies my hands, I marvel at their stalks standing tall at attention as the other beds feature the babies of a vegetable nature. Then the agonizing wait, while other harvests are made, the summer bears on and their scapes emerge like spears through their centers forming curls with the rounds of bulbils crowning their tips. At long last, the rounds split revealing the purple gems inside inviting the cutting of the scapes. As they are drying, the Garlic Bulbs below the ground continue to grow, their lower leaves begin to yellow. Every day they are admired and salivated over, when will it be time? Today was the time of the Garlic's unveiling! Something quite unique stood out, a batch of Garlic planted not in Fall but in January, an experiment of sorts...on the edge of a 240 foot embankment facing the water in full sun. To display proper tribute to this culinary delight the world over enjoys for it's many health benefits and unrivaled flavor....a picture is truly worth a thousand words! This is the January planted Garlic....

To begin a Garlic bed most affordably, the bulbils are planted for first year small bulbs and then those have the cloves separated for the following years yield. From 50 can spring up to 350 garlic in merely two seasons! If you wish to possess these unique hardneck Bulbils...you may click here for more information. http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=408686