HOW TO SAVE WILD GARLIC FOR WINTER
Who doesn’t love free food?
We so appreciate being able to harvest our own Wild Garlic from the woods down here in Arkansas. First off, it is free! Moreover, it can be trusted, since we can watch it grow. Even more than that, it is amazing to be able to collect an immune system boosting plant ever summer and save it for the upcoming cold and flu season of the winter months. Now this is my kind of health plan and medicine.
Mixed in with all the other wild plants at the forests edge lurks the Wild Garlic!
When you find the top of the plant, it should be easy to accurately identify.
To verify, grab the stem firmly near the base and pull it up.
If you have accurately located the correct plant, it should have a Garlic bulb on the end of it. If you have waited a little too long in the growing season, the stem will come up empty and the bulb will remain underground. No worries, though, they will grow back again next year.
While the top can also be used as a food, you may want to consider another option.
If you crumble the head in your hand, all the tiny little garlics will break free from the stem. These little garlics can then be spread to ensure future harvests.
We like to sprinkle the little garlics back in the same area that we uprooted the bulbs from. Not only has this area already proven itself as an area that can produce a crop, we are already accustomed to looking in this location for Wild Garlic.
Gather a good amount of bulbs. In time you will be able to know what your family generally uses on a yearly basis and be able to harvest accordingly.
I like to bend the stems right away to get them flexible and prepared for the braiding.
If you rinse the dirt off of the bulbs at harvest they will be already clean when you want to use them later.
Once all of your bulbs are washed, you are ready to begin!
Begin the process by selecting three bulbs and start to braid their stems.
Continue adding a bulb each time you braid, to create a continuous braid covered in bulbs.
Once you run out of bulbs to add, continue braiding the existing stems until you reach the end. Tie the braid in a knot and hang in the sun to dry.
Ideally this should be done prior to using all of your supply from last year. Repeat as necessary.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-wild-garlic-saved-for-winter
Until next time…
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Wow. That's cool! Garlic is really good for you. I try to eat a raw clove a day. Especially going into the fall and flu and cold season. Thanks papa-pepper for sharing this.
I've heard adding a little raw local honey will also helps with allergies. My wife may at me crazy when I pop a raw honey glazed garlic in my mouth but it is totally worth the immunity boost!
One of my first posts ever on steemit was sharing about that exact thing.
https://steemit.com/food/@papa-pepper/amazing-simple-beneficial-recipe
Hard to believe that was over a year ago now!
You are a healthy life style @papa-pepper ,you put a honey to your garlic or its an original bro!
Right on. It's a great Immune boost for sure.
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Thanks @coolbowser!
Thank you @papa-pepper! I appreciate it. I was just on my way to the grocery to get some garlic when I saw your post. Appreciate you!
Wow!
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You really eat it raw... r e s p e c t
Raw is best!
Sometimes. Yes. Most times I eat the clove with something else I'm eating. Like an avocado 🥑 or pizza. But I do eat it raw. That's the only way to get all the benefits. Once it's cooked it loses its power.
Kill all the enzymes and good stuff! Especially wild picked, you have to have it raw! :D
I live in the south too and I have seen those my whole life and I never knew it was wild garlic. I absolutely love garlic so I will have to try this out. Thanks for your contribution. I am eagerly awaiting the new season of steem-pocalypse.
Give them a try, they are so good.
Also, I just put up the STEEM-Pocalypse sign up for next season!
Wow!
Super beautiful and oh so useful!
Garlic is not only one of the best medicines on earth but one of my favorite additions to so many delicious dishes!
We have cultivated some garlic here but haven't found any wild garlic around unfortunately.
This is so cool! I live up in WA state and will have to research if we can harvest wild garlic in my area. I go through at least 1 clove a week! My motto is that if the garlic is cooked- you can never have too much. I don't think my tastebuds would tolerate raw garlic though!
Awesome thank you! When I buy my acreage this is exactly the stuff I am looking to learn and appreciate you posting valuable content such as this. I have heard that local honey is best for someone with allergies to help try to combat it. I'm sure not if it actually works it seems like when I take it my allergies go into hyper mode?
Not sure about the honey/allergies thing, but it may be worth a try.
Love it! Thanks for sharing. Will follow.
In past i never use garlic but some time back i started having it its beneficial for health.
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Nice guide cant wait to make some garlic bread tha
@papa-pepper Enjoyed this piece. Garlic is so strong! There's always those people who are like stay away it'll make you smell, and I'm like WHATEVER! Keep it up brother :)