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Rosemary cuttings underway

6/7/2016

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Beautiful day to take some rosemary cuttings, ready to add to our black garlic powder. Took fresh tip pieces, stripped the bottom of leaves, dipped them in rooting hormone (in the white pot, not sure if it really makes a difference or not), then into a striking mix. The mix is seed raising mix, coir pieces and perlite - seems to work well. Now for some sunshine! The trays are sitting on top of a worm bath - this makes a standing height work surface and all excess soil or water goes straight in the bath. The warmth from the compost action helps germination. More about the bath next time. Happy propogating!
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Time To Plant Garlic

30/3/2016

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Now is a great time to think about getting cold climate garlic cloves in the ground. We are mid planting, having saved our best garlic bulbs as our seed stock. If you buy cloves, make sure they are Australian grown and have not been fumigated to limit sprouting. Trials last year found that cloves soaked in worm wee or seaweed extract established much healthier plants. We plant cloves a hand span apart in rows a boot width apart - this allows enough space for good bulb growth and sufficient space for weeding. Put the cloves butt end down, pointy end up jut below the soil surface. Mulch really well - too many weeds are the enemy of good garlic growth. Mind you Clyde the wonder dog might be the real enemy - he is good at stealing cloves as they go in....... Last shot you can see early growth on rows planted 10 days ago - they are rocketing away! Happy garlic growing
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How to Smoke Garlic

11/2/2016

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We smoke our garlic by slicing off the tops, spraying a little olive oil on the cut surface and turning them upside down. We smoke them over fruit wood at about 250 degrees C for about 90 minutes. In the images you can see the lovely honey brown colour they develop over time and unfortunately you can't smell the great aroma! We dry the cloves, shell and powder them ready to top your cheese souffle  - enjoy!
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Chook Tractor Weeding Underway

30/1/2016

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It's time to get the garlic beds cleaned up ready for planning in March. In the spirit of remaining chemical free and being smart about labour, we use a chook tractor with keen hens doing the work. The tractor is a portable hen house with upstairs accommodation and egg laying boxes, while downstairs sits on the garlic bed. The hens peck away at grass and weeds and all their seeds doing a great job of tilling over the topsoil. They fertilise as they go and we benefit from gorgeous golden yolked eggs. A win win as they say. These four arrived yesterday and already are settling in for the season. 
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Great Garlic Hanging Ready to Process into Black Garlic

7/12/2015

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At that lovely time of the year when the garlic is fresh out of the ground and hanging curing awaiting processing. We are really happy with our crop and looking forward to a bumper season. We hang garlic in bunches of 10 or so bulbs in an airy location, hanging by the stalks to let the juices flow into the cloves. After several weeks bulbs are ready to caramelise over 30 days. You can see the bulbs here. 
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Scapes Galore

13/11/2015

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​Spring brings the joys of fresh garlic scapes. These are the curly tendrils coming out of hard necked garlic. In the photo you can see the scape with the little knob (the bulblet which will produce seed) on the top. Scapes are pulled out to give the bulb the best chance of maximum growth and flavour and because they taste great in their own right. If you wish to plait your garlic, taking the scape out makes the stalks easier to plait as they go quite stiff. In a stir fry, splashed over an omelette, added to baked veg, they always taste fresh and green. Would be fabulous as part of of a pasta primavera with new peas......Yum
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What Makes Black Garlic Black?

30/9/2015

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PictureLouis Camille Maillard (1878-1936) from http://www.food-info.net/uk/colour/maillard.htm
Black garlic started life as a white clove - how does it get black?
The slow process relies on a nonenzymatic browning reaction described in 1913 by this serious Frenchman and named for him - the Maillard reaction. Sugars and amino acids are rearranged over and over to provide colour but more importantly flavour in the black garlic. The molecules produced are specific to the food type: for black garlic more S-allylcysteine  and S-allyl-mercaptocysteine and higher antioxidant levels. This is why your unbaked cake smells so-so, but your baked cake smells and looks delicious. More here - happy browning!

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September Update On The Garlic Patch

12/9/2015

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Check out the progress in the garlic patch on a windy day at Manar - by January it will be part if our new supply of black garlic. Get on top of your weeds now before the warm weather helps them blossom. Happy garlic growing
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Rain does wonders for Garlic crop

3/9/2015

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Recent rains have done the Garlicious Grown garlic crops the power of good. Bring on a bit of spring warmth for a bumper season.
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Adding Worm Wee To Boost Growth

7/6/2015

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Yesterday we mastered getting worm wee into our moveable watertank. Worm wee is the result of water flushing through our worm farm.  The worms live in elevated baths filled with food scraps, coffee grounds and cow manure. They seem to thrive and rain water drips through, taking microbes and nutrients in solution, captured in buckets under the bath drain. We then dilute the wee to one in 20 and spray it out on the garlic crop. One son used his fire brigade training to fathom the workings of the fire pump and next minute we were watering the garlic with microbe rich water.  Interestingly, this year we soaked some cloves in worm wee prior to planting.  The soaked cloves seem to be growing bigger and more vigorously than their peers. Will be great to see how these bulbs get on.
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