Well over 80 percent of the garlic sold worldwide comes from

[gregorach]

I've always had a pretty reasonable crop. One piece of advice I was given (which I've always followed) was to feed them sometime around April-May with a top dressing of some kind... I usually use seaweed meal. The cloves perhaps aren't quite as big as on shop-bought garlic, but they're much tastier, and they store well.

[Durgan]

A well drained fertile bed. With a well prepared bed, no fertilizing is necessary. Don't over water when growing. In my area I consider it the easiest plant to grow. Any planted bulb will grow in my experience. I plant my best since it is available, but have planted inferior cloves and got almost identical bulbs compared to the best.

Below is a sample of my efforts.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?NXOKX 9 October 2010 Planting Garlic. Hardneck Garlic
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XZSJG 12 July 2011 Garlic Harvest.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?HMRNI 30 September 2011 Peparing Garlic Bed
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?SXLKB 16 October 2012 Planting Garlic

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TQZWH Garlic, the sweet breath of life!
An Overview of the five varieties and 17 sub-varieties of Garlic.

[Zech]

A well drained fertile bed. With a well prepared bed, no fertilizing is necessary.

Isn't that just a difference in when to apply fertilizer? "Well prepared" = fertilizer added beforehand?

Don't over water when growing.

That'll be why mine didn't do too well this year then (that and the slugs nibbling the leaves)

[Durgan]

Fertilizer to me is not NPK granulated material. It is compost or, or manure to which I do not have ready access. By fertilizing the bed at planting time, the roots of the garlic have access to nutrients throughout the growing season.

[Zech]

Fertilizer to me is not NPK granulated material. It is compost or, or manure to which I do not have ready access. By fertilizing the bed at planting time, the roots of the garlic have access to nutrients throughout the growing season.

That's what I thought I said

[Durgan]

Fertilizer to me is not NPK granulated material. It is compost or, or manure to which I do not have ready access. By fertilizing the bed at planting time, the roots of the garlic have access to nutrients throughout the growing season.

That's what I thought I said

You dis. I read too quickly and missed the essence.

[safronsue]

thanks for the reminder guys...must get some cloves in the ground. Ours always grows well here, like it's impossible to fail. and WE get chinese garlic here in the shops too. love the massive bulbs roasted in the oven come spring.

[merlin]

It might be the ground, a village about three miles from us grows garlic in all the fields around it, they are really nice. Just wondering, what does a kilo or a pound of garlic cost in the Uk, normal price around here would be 3 levs per kilo about £1.25. or 56p per pound

[gregorach]

Loose garlic in Sainsbury's is 30p per bulb... Anybody know how many bulbs you get to a kilo?

[merlin]

From the market, ours are about 40g on average (just weighed a few). So thats £7.50, about 18 levs per kilo as opposed to. Good grief!!!!

[frozenthunderbolt]

So what's the secret of growing big garlic?

Feed and Weed.
Garlic are gross feeders and hate any competition.

[oldjerry]

Agree with FT. plus a decent summer....which maybe the reason the last couple of years' harvests have been so poor in the UK.

[Durgan]

From the market, ours are about 40g on average (just weighed a few). So thats £7.50, about 18 levs per kilo as opposed to. Good grief!!!!

A few short films of us making home made food and drink in Bulgaria
http://inbulgaria.co.uk/

I'm lazy bastard and modified cheese making considerably.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?CNHIB 26 June 2012 Paneer.
Paneer is a simple cheese without any additives. My method is to use three litres of skim milk, heat to 120F in a double boiler to control the temperature and to prevent burning of the bottom of the pot if set directly on the heat. After 120F is reached remove the heat, and put in a large tablespoon of Ascorbic Acid powder, available from a Pharmacy. I buy 500 ml, which lasts a long time.. Immediately upon dropping the ascorbic acid and stirring there appear instant curd, almost a large blob. Drain in a colander with cold water and use as desired.A good replacement for commercial cottage cheese, but of a more rubbery texture.The making takes about 15 or less minutes.

[merlin]

We do the same sort of thing with the whey that drips from the cheese.

Just put it in a pan, warm it up and squeeze a drop of lemon into it.

It is called ezvar here, it is used mainly for the filling of banichkas, a breakfast pastry, nothing wasted!

[the.fee.fairy]

My garlic comes from China. Damn tasty garlic it is too!