Food & Dining Garlic

It's the flat leaf stuff - the curly leaf parsley is also called English Parsley

 

How do PC members who are past customers get first dibs next year. Absolutely love your garlic.

 

I'll have your email on the database, and will send you a "heads up" about a month before it's ready for sale ... and again when the online store open ... thanks for the plug

 

Where do you think is the best place to buy garlic to grow - the local nursery?

 

Nursery probably won't stock it ... try looking online for growers. Diggers has a great selection - and properly identified, but they area little expensive.

However - when you consider you get 10-20 cloves from one bulb - depending on variety - and each clove becomes a new bulb - don't need much to get started.

If you're in NSW, Qld or Vic, you can buy from anywhere in Australia and have it posted to you no probs. I bought in 10kg of seed stock from WA last year.

 

I may have a spare Pokolbin Purple clove or two for the right price @Corey Batt

 

BRAMP! Incorrect! I go to the local market and get it for a lot less than that and it's Aussie stuff and good.

Shopping at the supermarket for fruit and veg (and even meat) is a fool's errand.

 

@Lizzie , does it taste better than the one from woolies?

Would love to try sometime. Love it in Penne Arrabiata

 

It tastes a zillion times better ... there are a few on here who have tried it and might vouch

 

smoked garlic and black garlic seem trendy atm

 

Yep - have made both and they taste amazing - but don't have enough garlic to keep up with basic demand, let alone value adding.

The value added products might seem worthwhile due to their retail cost - but they also take up a lot of time, so needs to be considered carefully ... making the value added products are a lot more work than simply tidying up the garlic bulbs and popping them in a box to send

 

Hi MTR
I grow garlic every year here in Mandurah with great success.
The time to plant here is just before Anzac Day.
Go to a farmers market or similar and find some local grown garlic.
Break up into cloves and plant throughout your garden pointy end up. Fertilize when you plant. It will shoot and pretty much look like a blade of grass. It will continue to grow for a couple of months . It's very hardy so don't fuss over it. The top growth will eventually brown and die off this is time to dig up your garlic .hang it in a shed to dry and then eat as you need. I plant about 50 cloves a year. It keeps for ages
Enjoy

 

It is beyond this world @Ms Ali. My mother grows her own and stole some from me.

 

How to make black garlic?

And how big/ deep of a pot should I use to grow Mr Garlic?

 

May be time for a vege patch :|

May I get some

 

As deep as possible as the roots can go as down as 600mm ... probably happy with nothing less than 400-500mm of rich soil made up of 50% composted manures and potting mix (not that straight potting mix rubbish).

As for making black garlic - lotsa tips on the internet. I was given in confidence my 7 day recipe by a local chef so I'm reluctant to pass it on. Black garlic normally takes 40 days to ferment

 

Thank you @Lizzie
Black Garlic secret recipe I see I actually need to Wiki it to understand what Black Garlic is...
Black garlic (food) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It looks like an equivalent to Century egg and I don't think I'd trust what I make lol. Will head to the store to try instead

 

I just saw this and my mum makes it occasionally. It's really easy to make it. Just leave it inside the rice cooker for 9 days and it's done.