Does anyone else grow garlic

I had a great crop this year

I’ve been selecting from different varieties of hard neck for about 10 years

 

I never have, but different family members have, and I've enjoyed the fruits of their labor . LoL

 

Far too easy to walk to publix

 

Sure

Ditto tomatoes

But homegrown is much better

And garlic is very easy to grow you just need to have cold winters

 

I thought about entering the county fair but then at best I would have a cheap blue ribbon that nobody including myself would care about

Although my “neighbors” won grand champion dairy cow last year and that is impressive

 

We don’t

 

Gilroy doesn't get particularly cold and they bill themselves as the garlic capital of the world.
I grow society garlic, but that's an ornamental landscape plant.

 

Gilroy grows soft neck garlic smaller and milder but they grow lots of it soft neck is the garlic that is braided

Gilroy can’t grow hard neck I can’t grow softneck

 

Do they taste the same? I didn't know there was a difference.

 

Yes and no

When cooked they are similar

Raw softneck is mild and can be used raw

Raw hardneck can be pretty hot and powerful plus hardneck cloves tend to be bigger about the size of a thumb sometimes and are easier to peel

I roast hardneck on the grill and then it’s great for mashed potatoes

 

I grew an herb garden bout 4 years ago and had garlic as part of it. Grew well. I don't anymore since I can pick up fresh garlic at the store.

 

Why wouldn't You care?? I still got 2 blue ribbons I won at 7 years old for marksmanship (22 rifle), and boxing.

 

I was going to say this. I have family members in Arkansas that grow it, and it's far from cold here.

 

First off those two are more impressive than growing a bulb of garlic

Second I’m at the stage in life I’m getting stuff out of my house

One of my relatives was looking at a somewhat valuable piece of artwork and said she liked it so I sent it home with her

 

LoL. A blue ribbon is a blue ribbon. It for something You excelled in. Although the whole I'm at a stage in My life part made Me laugh.

 

Does the ground freeze if so you can grow hardneck

If not they are growing softneck

 

Not really. I honestly didn't know there was a difference until I read what You wrote further up.

 

Soft neck originally came from southern Italy

Hardneck comes from places like Russia Romania and Germany

 

Now I want to try both side by side.

 

Kind of like twins

 

Love garlic but would never want a cold winter. We in Jersey feel our tomato's are the best. When we owned a real home with a yard we had a garden. Now in a mobile home park people actually grow tomato's in pots here.

Would love to have some of your garlic to put into my artichokes.

 

Depending on where you are farmers markets are a good option

 

My tomatoes and chiles are doing remarkably well this year, (when I can keep the dog from eating the tomatoes)! I pretty much have to grow them in containers since the soil in Santee is uniquely suited to growing rocks!

 

You’re 100% correct about tomatoes. Nothing beats a good homegrown heirloom tomato

 

AWESOME jeh