I would have never thought to grow garlic in pots Woody ! What width and depth do you use ?

Kathy in Napa

Good harvest. Are those hard neck garlic? We eat very little garlic and pick up a small piece in the store or use dried.

What I really want to know is the make of that hat.... and where to get one.

Kathy - we use the same big pots that we use for growing peas on the driveway - the pots are just cheap big storage tubs that we drilled holes in the bottom for drainage. The pots only last about 6-7 years before the plastic starts breaking down, but they are cheap and easy to replace. When the peas are finished for the season, we tear out the foliage but keep the soil in about 5 of the pots. DH plants the garlic in mid-November. The pots spend the winter in the garage and come out in late March with the garlic up and growing well. Here are pictures from late March/early April:

mnwsgal - yes, those are hardneck garlic. We use a lot of garlic in our cooking :-) We ran into one of the garlic-growing neighbours when walking this morning. He had harvested his yesterday too - he grows about twice as much as we do, but says he gives a lot away to friends and family.

floral - DH has had that hat for about 25 years! He got it at a local Eddie Bauer store. I checked their on-line site and they didn't have any on there. It's about time he got a new one (the straw is starting to break around the edge of the top of the crown) so he'll have to check to see if there in any in one of the physical stores around here.... It's definitely a nice hat!

DH and two other guys in the neighborhood really enjoy growing garlic.

==>>>freaks everywhere .... lol

and on top of it.. they talk about their garlic manhood when they bump into each other ... like they cant smell each other from a block away .. lol ..

it takes all kinds.. i suppose ...

you made my day ....

ken

LOL ken! Years ago DH used to work with a guy from England who had a very sensitive nose for garlic. When DH made Caesar Salad this guy gave him a very wide berth! I have one nice recipe that calls for 25 cloves of garlic.... But there's a long' slow cooking process so the flovour is very mild.

I'm a garlic freak too!

I adore garlic, and grow mine in containers too, that live along the side of the house where the most direct sun is. Just harvested this year's crop. There is nothing like homegrown garlic - ideally a variety that is good for your area. Unlike the mainly grown in China stuff you pick up most commonly at the grocery. Fresh, juicy, so flavourful and strong. Bring that garlic freak on, baby!

Looks like my Atwood Nevada Vaquero hat, shown HERE. There is also a men's version, called Atwood Nevada Palm Leaf hat.

Atwoods are available at a wide variety of outdoor outfitter outlets, where I found mine many years ago. It wasn't nearly that expensive. The hat is strong yet soft, cool, lightweight, and quite water repellent. It's my favorite sun hat.

That looks delicious. How do you store it? by freezing or canning or...?

GardonHo - It's just dried in the sun for a week or two and then hung in the basement to be used over the next year as we need it for cooking.

Interesting thanks!