Garlic

Did you know that garlic prefers a drier environment? This makes peppers a preferred companion plant as they both thrive in drier conditions.

Did you know that you should not fertilize garlic? Like herbs, fertilization can decrease the flavor intensity of the final product.

Did you know that you most folks recommend using only the skinnier bulbs for planting and the plumper cloves for cooking? We have actually seen guidance to do the opposite as the plumper cloves are expected to produce more robust plants for harvest.

Did you know that garlic is one of the few vegetables you plant in the fall for harvest the following summer? Plant individual cloves (broad side down) in the early fall (roots need to develop before Winter sets in) and you should get full garlic plants and cloves in early to mid-summer next year.

Did you know that an old wives tale tells that when the Devil walked out of the Garden of Eden after the fall of Adam and Eve that onions sprang up from his right hoofprint and garlic from his left?

Did you know that garlic is a perennial? Most people grow this as an annual, but you can leave a single clove planted for many years and simply harvest the garlic scapes and greens. They provide a milder flavor than cured bulbs – but perhaps that is what you seek!