June 15th is garlic harvesting day (at least on the calendar). I harvested my reasonable sized garlic - ajo rojo, inchelium, early red, and an unnamed variety I got from the Washington Youth Garden in DC while volunteering last summer. Though the garlic was pretty enough, after reading about and seeing images of Entangled's ajo rojo garlic, I started to wonder if my ajo rojo was actually ajo rojo. At each harvest, I mark the biggest bulb to replant in the fall and TRY to do a good job labeling each variety of garlic, but it's within the realm of possibility that I've gotten cloves/varieties mixed up. Either way, I've decided that this fall, I will be ordering new planting stock- and will be sharing my order with a lucky winner drawn from all the Garden to Table Challenge entries thus far. Depending on postal regulations, I may have to limit this to gardeners who live in the U.S. If you want a chance to enter, simply link below with your post that refers to the GTTC. I will draw a name from all the entries on Friday, July 8th.
This week, I didn't get too fancy, but made a simple pasta dish that the family enjoyed: spaghetti, chopped hot Italian sausage, pine nuts, spinach (I suppose I could have used basil for a more summery dish), shaved parmesan and of course LOTS AND LOTS of fresh garlic.
What's going on in your summer garden and kitchen?
*** On a personal note, the fried computer has been replaced, but now we attack the problem of the fried FIOS cable. Don't know when I'll be back online at home... In addition to these technical troubles, I have having a hell of a time commenting on my favorite blogs! Luckily I'm able to blog read, but as of now, am not able to blog comment. If you're on my list of faves (and you know you are!) know that I'm reading and enjoying but am somewhat mute right now!
Garlic that you grow certainly have very interesting name. I am hoping to keep some cloves this year but I am not good at labelling them. Delicious food!
ReplyDeleteHey! This was my first GTTC post. I may have another one this weekend, I've just tried a new recipe!!
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That looks good. This is the first year I planted garlic but I bought it from the store so ready to try the real stuff for next year.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking pasta! I just recently learned that there are so many varieties garlic:) I'm glad you resolved your computer problem. Good luck with the cable!
ReplyDeleteCheers to your harvest of garlic! I have never grown garlic. I'm have been slow in blog commenting lately due to a busy work schedule. Hope your technical issues are solved soon and Happy 4th of July holidays!
ReplyDeleteWhat perfect garlic!! My garlic crop was a bust. I'll try again in fall. Sorry about the fried FiOS cable. What rotten luck!! I hope it gets resolved soon!
ReplyDeleteYum! Your garlic loot looks fabulous as does your summer dinner. I hope your cable snafu is remedied soon.
ReplyDeleteI'm so behind on blog reading! What a fun prize. Where do you order your garlic from?
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