Harvesting your own garlic is one of the joys of gardening.
Pulling up the bulbous cloves, hanging them to dry, sharing with friends the scrumptious taste of your own garlic – well, it’s up there with growing heritage tomatoes with basil, keeping chooks and eating passionfruit straight off the vine.
St Peter of Cundall has a great article on the ‘stinking rose’ as it is sometimes known in the latest Weekly Times.
Always plant more than you think you will want - once your mates get a taste they'll be asking to swap you some of their extra pumpkins / lemons or homemade bread for it. The more garlic you plant the better it gets! I find that it’s a good plant to have around roses too.
Don’t use supermarket garlic as planting corms – unless you are sure that you are purchasing 100 per cent certified organic they could be full of nasty chemicals. Better to get them from a reliable supplier such as your local nursery or someone like Diggers.
Start planting garlic and once you tatse it you’ll never go back to horrid, supermarket garlic again.
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