We just harvested garlic, and we’re very pleased with the results!
Garlic forms one of the pillars of our home cooking. Many of our favorite dishes and new creations start with sautéed garlic and onions. We sometimes roast whole heads, particularly of elephant garlic. We often laugh, remembering Michelle’s father’s stories of his grandmother’s devotion to garlic. “She served garlic as a vegetable!” he said, incredulously. “Well,” we say, “yeah!”
Something good happened with the garlic this year. While certain beds yielded the same fairly small garlic bulbs we’ve grown in the past, about walnut size or smaller, two beds produced monster garlic.
Garlic! Hard neck (upper left) elephant (right) and elephant bulbiles (lower left) (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
