One of the fun things about not having a fridge is the encouragement to create your own little bar of herbs and veggies right in your home. If you want to feel something easier than opening a fridge door and finding your fresh herbs or garlic from the store, try growing!
Growing your own garlic is easy. It's a great way to always have fresh garlic chives in the house without having to preserve them. Here's how you do it:
1.) Take a bulb of organic garlic and break it into individual cloves. 2.) Place them, pointy end up, in organic soil spaced about 6 inches apart. The tail should just slightly come out of the soil. 3.) Water consistently as the cloves sprout. Then, the garlic will require less water.
These will not grow conventional garlic - though they could with the right amount of time, temperature, and depth of your pot - but will sprout chives that taste as strong as garlic and can be cut whenever you need to sautee them or use them in recipes.
This post is made on behalf of a reader nicknamed S:
ReplyDeleteI've done this. Why did I stop? You're absolutely right. The stalks are garlic no mistake; very highly flavoured. Thanks for the nudge Andrea. I'm going to try this again, this time with some of Vi Bretin's garlic. She called her box full of scapes and small dried heads "volunteers" at her market stall today. She planted them last year, or maybe the year before? Anyway, up they came, off somewhere in the boonies of her field, so she brought them into the market. I spent some time this morning twisting them into braids. I am excorcising my inner farmer. Heh.
Vi looked at me kind of quizically when I told her about the ditchyourfridge blog. Why? She asked. Well to save electricity, fI told her, but I've also found things taste better when they are at not chilled. We all know this don't we? Haven't we gobbled handsful of warm strawberries or sun-warmed Saskatoons when out picking?
It really bugs me I can't post. I post on some other blogs, but I don't use 'feeds' of any kind because I keep no browser settings between uses. Less spam, viruses and bots to worry about that way.