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  • From: rjweeks70 AT comcast.net
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Garlic flowers
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:05:58 +0000

So for optimum bulb size, the scapes should be cut off both elephant garlic
and hardneck garlic? When should you cut them off? Before the flower bud
opens? This is what I would do with onions or leeks that have bolted.

Roger Weeks

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:29:19 -0400
From: "Craig Gilbert" <GarlicBed AT Comcast.net>
Subject: [Market-farming] Garlic flowers
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>

The elephant garlic produces a huge flower which looks like purple fire
works.
It is often sold as a cut flower. I have seen prices from $1 to $3 at a local
farmers market. The much smaller hardneck garlic also produces a flower.
These
are much smaller and not necessarily pretty. These are popular in oriental
markets. Also, a great dressing can be made from these: Harvest flowers
while
still young and tender, in food processor puree as finely as possible. Add
olive
oil, apple cider vinegar, umi (or rice) vinegar, sweet basil, lemon juice,
ginger juice, salt, very light cayenne pepper. Consistency should be thick
but
fluid. Put on a tomato sandwich and it is out of this world. Hugh Lovell,
(renown biodynamic farmer and former Green party Candidate for Ag
Commissioner)
from Blairsville, GA made one which leaped off the shelves at $8 per mason
jar.
He also would take a wheelbarrow full of garlic flower to his cows and watch
them run to him and fight over them as part of a
rite of spring.




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