FROG HOLLER FARM - July 11, 2020


Cheers for Garlic!

This hot week was garlic-digging time and the crew went at it with digging forks and good spirit! 


NOTES FROM THE FARM: the week of the "stinking rose'!

Garlic has been called the stinking rose for nearly a century, thanks to a French writer and physician, Henri Leclerc, who in 1918 roughly translated garlic’s ancient Greek name, scorodon, to skaion rodon, and then to rose puante, or stinking rose. *

Although garlic is in the Lily family (along with tulips and, of course, lilies), roses are not in the Lily family. But the "stinking rose" nickname has been affectionately embraced by garlic lovers; there is even  a popular California restaurant named "The Stinking Rose" and renowned for including garlic in every dish. (now temporarily closed )

Garlic, like many garden crops, requires patience and delayed gratification. We plan and we plant; we weed and we wait. Garlic, however, might win the delayed gratification prize, requiring planting in the year before harvest!

Since Cale and Ashleh were on the team right to the end last year, here they are planting the garlic last November, along with their helpful friend Kirk, and the King bros.

A sunny day in November

And now Cale and Ashleh get to dig that garlic on a sunny day in July!

Ashleh digs while Cale gathers the loosened garlic bulbs

Next step is to bundle and hang the garlic for drying. It's still not ready!

Cale, Ashleh and Milan bundle the garlic for hanging. Photo taken from atop the scaffolding where we hang the bundles high in the rafters of the pole barn.


Garlic must dry and cure to become the helpful culinary addition to meals throughout the winter. So why do you have garlic in your share now? We knew you couldn't wait! And we have enough garlic to dry and store as well as harvest and share. Use fresh garlic just as you would dried garlic; you can keep it on your counter if you use it in a week - otherwise refrigerate.

Well, a "stinking rose" by any other name would smell as ...pungent, earthy and filed with possibilities!

We hope you enjoyed this little garlic adventure and that you enjoy your garlic! 
 

And there's more to harvest!


Have a great week everyone!



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