Running a Muddy Trail
A Good Kind of Stinky
{ 09:49, 13 August 2008 }
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I just don't get what the general public dislikes about garlic breath. We love garlic in all of it's forms: plants, scapes, roasted, dried, grilled (with eggplant, preferably) and even the dried, granulated stuff has it's place. And receiving a kiss from my husband after a meal full of garlicky goodness is in no way unpleasant. Perhaps garlic flavored toothpaste is on my horizon. ...
The only time I've found the smell of garlic to be unpleasant is when it is rotting. Not surprising. Sometimes a head splits in the ground, little organisms head into the split and fill the available space with their garlic-powered stink, or sometimes a little worm works its way through the layers of paper and goes to work on one or more of the cloves that make up the head.
That's not too common for us though, luckily. We harvested this summer's garlic crop last month and it was a whopper. More garlic than I've ever grown before. Two years ago we got a bunch of seed from different
varieties from our friend Todd. We planted that stuff, chose our favorite varieties and didn't eat any of them so that we could save it all for seed (some parts of this farming thing are nearly heartbreaking). We are doing the same thing this year, further narrowing down our varieties to 4 main types. But it looks like we have enough to at least sample all the varieties this summer.Last night, well past sundown, we kept ourselves awake cleaning, trimming, sorting and weighing all of our biggest varieties. The smaller varieties had already been mostly sold or used, we didn't care as much about them because we weren't planning to save seed stock from those. The favorites though, we needed to go through to figure out yields and where we wanted to go with this garlic thing. We decided to grow our growing -- we'll at least double our planting this fall.
What's the significance of this, you ask? Less garlic breath in 2008 means more garlic breath every year down the road!
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