Garlic

With the rising cost of everything these days, I am always looking for ways to save money. Since I love to cook and I love garlic (I put it in almost everything I cook), I decided to try growing it. I thought there was garlic and that’s it but when I started to research it, I was blown away to see how many different verities there are. I found a web site, thegarlicstore.com, and I found everything I needed to know about planting, growing and harvesting garlic. I even bought garlic from them. You can use garlic from the food store but it is not as good as the garlic from a grower. It is very easy. All you do is break up the bulb into cloves. Leave the paper on the cloves and bury them in the ground in September or October. The following July they are ready for harvesting. I planted German Red and Italian Purple last October. I already pulled the German Red and used it. I have about 24 bulbs of the German Red and I didn’t even harvest the Italian Purple yet. I won’t have to buy garlic for a long time. I am going to take the 2 biggest bulbs of each variety and save them for planting next fall. Now my garden consists of garlic, tomatoes (a few types), Jalapeño peppers and basil. Each year I add something new.