wakes up the next morning squirrels ate every clove
Otherwise-Tomato-788
You should look into “planting store bought garlic”. Just don’t plant it with anything else if you do
SnooComics8412
I always have cloves for when I want fresh stuff but the already crushed stuff when I am lazy. Though will never buy already pealed garlic. Horror stories of a large percentage of them coming from the work of Chinese prisoners that hurt their hands to the point they got to start chucking the peels with their teeth…. Just like dumb diamonds not taking the chance of my food coming from basically slave labor some way or the other. Why perfer getting what I can locally or grown myself.
halcyonfire
If this is store bought, I would think twice. You can introduce white rot to your soil and have trouble growing alliums there for a decade or more.
reggie_veggie
you should grow hardneck garlic in illanois because it can handle the cold winter weather. something like german extra hardy. you wouldn’t find it in a grocery store because hardneck garlic doesn’t store as well as softneck, it only lasts ~4 months as opposed to softneck which can last a year and is better commercially. hardneck also gives you garlic scapes which are awesome
MusaEnsete
Seed garlic is really expensive, but you can set aside some of your crop every year so you don’t ever have to buy it again. I’d avoid the store bought for reasons already covered.
front_torch
Are you a vampire?
mtn_viewer
Wish I could still grow garlic… unfortunately my beds have the dreaded white rot
Brilliant-Ad7206
Good luck with your babies! Only 9 months until harvest 🤪
FootprintsInTheShit
I grew about $5 of grocery garlic cloves last year, got so much garlic I didn’t know what to do with it all, still working on cooking with it, and planted another 75 cloves for next year that are already popping up
Four_Five_Four_Six_B
I’ve never been able to grow more garlic than I consume sadly. Good luck!
Mutual-aid
Nice! Now, do you have a trick for never having to peel garlic again?
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that’d probably last me a month
wakes up the next morning squirrels ate every clove
You should look into “planting store bought garlic”. Just don’t plant it with anything else if you do
I always have cloves for when I want fresh stuff but the already crushed stuff when I am lazy. Though will never buy already pealed garlic. Horror stories of a large percentage of them coming from the work of Chinese prisoners that hurt their hands to the point they got to start chucking the peels with their teeth…. Just like dumb diamonds not taking the chance of my food coming from basically slave labor some way or the other. Why perfer getting what I can locally or grown myself.
If this is store bought, I would think twice. You can introduce white rot to your soil and have trouble growing alliums there for a decade or more.
you should grow hardneck garlic in illanois because it can handle the cold winter weather. something like german extra hardy. you wouldn’t find it in a grocery store because hardneck garlic doesn’t store as well as softneck, it only lasts ~4 months as opposed to softneck which can last a year and is better commercially. hardneck also gives you garlic scapes which are awesome
Seed garlic is really expensive, but you can set aside some of your crop every year so you don’t ever have to buy it again. I’d avoid the store bought for reasons already covered.
Are you a vampire?
Wish I could still grow garlic… unfortunately my beds have the dreaded white rot
Good luck with your babies! Only 9 months until harvest 🤪
I grew about $5 of grocery garlic cloves last year, got so much garlic I didn’t know what to do with it all, still working on cooking with it, and planted another 75 cloves for next year that are already popping up
I’ve never been able to grow more garlic than I consume sadly. Good luck!
Nice! Now, do you have a trick for never having to peel garlic again?