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My 100 Posts – Garlic, Garlic Green, Garlic Scapes & Garlic Bulbil

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

Left, hardneck garlic, right, softneck garlic (click on photo to enlarge) Garlic, Allium sativum, is a species in the onion genus, Allium Hardneck varieties, Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon, has a stiff central stem surrounded by a single ring of cloves. … Continue reading →

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Harvest Monday, June 25, 2012

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Chinese (garlic) chives flowers. Both the stems and the flower buds are used in cooking. Picked snow peas, total weight for the week: 1¾ pounds. Snow peas doing very well this year. Not so with sugar snap, the seeds germinated and then the … Continue reading →

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Harvest Monday, June 18, 2012

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

This past week was a good harvest week. In my garden flat above are, left to right: ♦ Gai lan (Chinese broccoli), weight: 1 pound.  It liked the cool weather we had and grew nice and fat. Don’t think it is … Continue reading →

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Harvest Monday, June 11, 2012

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

We had rain, lot of rain. Everything is lush including the weeds, need to get out to the gardens and do some serious weeding. Flower and perennial beds are gorgeous from afar, but up close and personal there are many … Continue reading →

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Wilted Lettuce Cimmaron with Garlic Scape

Posted on June 8, 2012 by

Garlic scape Many of my blog followers will remember my writing about harvesting and using garlic green (4/9/12 and 4/20/12 posts), now I am harvesting and using garlic scape. What is garlic scape, you may ask? It is the “flower stem” or “flower … Continue reading →

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