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Garlic
Description: Garlic, allium sativum L., is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, ... more  Garlic ... and leek. Garlic has been used throughout recorded history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. It has a characteristic pungent, 'hot', flavour that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking. A 'head' of garlic, the most commonly used plant part, comprises numerous discrete 'cloves'. The leaves and stems are sometimes eaten, particularly while immature and tender. Garlic is widely used around the world for its pungent flavour, as a seasoning or condiment or to enhance other flavours. Depending on the form of cooking and the desired result, the flavor is either mellow or intense. It is often paired with onion, tomato, and/or ginger. It is very widely used in Lebanese cuisine: many Lebanese salads contain a garlic sauce. The parchment-like skin is relatively inedible, much like the skin of an onion. The skin is typically removed before cooking, though sometimes alternative approaches are used, such as slice garlic head crosswise, coat in olive oil, roast until the garlic is well cooked, and then the roasted garlic separates quite easily from the skins (by pulling it out, shaking it out, and/or squeezing it out). The term 'clove' is sometimes misinterpreted to mean the whole garlic bulb (head).Newest Review: ... and fine. You use the garlic cloves inside the bulbs as 'seed' for more bulbs. So, one cloves can turn into twenty and ... more ... those can turn into 400 and so it goes on (until you are over run with garlic!)
Sow the cloves about an inch below the surface of the ground and leave a couple of inches between them. In a few weeks you will have garlic bulbs that you can tie together and store somewhere dry.
If the weather is good you can get two crops per year.
Sow in March and September.
Check the variety if you are buying your starter seed and it will tell you when best to sow.
As well as culoinary uses garlic is know as a preventation me...more |
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Garlic for free (well almost) (782 words)
by perfectly-p - written on 03.09.07 (Very useful, 272 readings)
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The proper name for garlic is Allium sativum and it is part of the onion family. The word garlic comes from the old German word garlaeac, which means ‘spear leek’. The gar means spear and refers to the pointy leaves and lic means leek, which is another member of the onion family. Garlic is a bulb which, when mature, has segments called cloves and these are held together with a white papery skin. Garlic has been grown for centuries both for its culinary attributes and for its medicinal properties. It is thought to help prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels, to have anti biotic properties and anti oxidant properties, i.e. protecting the body ...
Garlic breath (350 words)
by clairestevens - written on 27.01.08 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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It is indicative of the change that has gone on in British cooking in the last 20 years or so that garlic is now one of the most widely grown edible plants in the UK. Garlic (allium sativum) has been recognised for centuries for its healing properties - there are references to it in Egyptian and Roman texts dating back for millennia. It has powerful anitbacterial properties and can helps lower cholesterol. Garlic is used in many foreign dishes and is often used in European and Asian cuisine. However if can also be used to enhance British cooking - roast lamb benefits from having garlic and rosemary cooked with it and garlic cloves roasted in this ...
Garlic: the smelliest part of the bulb is the most nutritious (315 words)
by spanishgirl - written on 31.03.08 (Very useful, 43 readings)
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Garlic is known as the wonder drug. It is a member of the onion, shallot and leek family. Garlic has been grown and used in the Mediterranean for thousands of years in cooking and remedies. Although it is just as easy to grow garlic in colder climates. I use garlic in most of the meals I cook for the flavour and because I know the benfits of it. Garlic is known and recommended by doctors to help lower cholesterol, it also helps protect against colds and flu. Garlic is also used as a mosquito repellent. If you crush or chop garlic do it over the pan or dish your using as the goodness is in the juice. Organic garlic not only has a better ...
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