How To Heal Wounds With Garlic

[Magz]

Garlic is some thing I'm going to really start looking into now, I've started to stock it in jars, but I'm going to try grow some next year.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6940373_heal-wounds-garlic.html

[Northern Raider]

Garlic is some thing I'm going to really start looking into now, I've started to stock it in jars, but I'm going to try grow some next year.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6940373_heal-wounds-garlic.html

I'm allergic to it, along with holy water, bright sunlight and churchs,

[Magz]

Garlic is some thing I'm going to really start looking into now, I've started to stock it in jars, but I'm going to try grow some next year.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6940373_heal-wounds-garlic.html

I'm allergic to it, along with holy water, bright sunlight and churchs,

I hope your not really, coz it's great for all sorts of ailments.

[axelt123]

Garlic is some thing I'm going to really start looking into now, I've started to stock it in jars, but I'm going to try grow some next year.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6940373_heal-wounds-garlic.html

They are very easy to grow my first atempt the bulbs were a bit small but this year the were a good size as i gave extra water to make them swell. they also take up very little space and good for cooking.

axel

[Magz]

Garlic is some thing I'm going to really start looking into now, I've started to stock it in jars, but I'm going to try grow some next year.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6940373_heal-wounds-garlic.html

They are very easy to grow my first atempt the bulbs were a bit small but this year the were a good size as i gave extra water to make them swell. they also take up very little space and good for cooking.

axel

Thats good to know thanks, can you post some how to details plz

[axelt123]

Garlic is some thing I'm going to really start looking into now, I've started to stock it in jars, but I'm going to try grow some next year.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6940373_heal-wounds-garlic.html

They are very easy to grow my first atempt the bulbs were a bit small but this year the were a good size as i gave extra water to make them swell. they also take up very little space and good for cooking.

axel

Thats good to know thanks, can you post some how to details plz

I used bulbs from a garden center the second year and they grew far better. I did plant mine in spring and them came out fine. I plan on using my own bulbs next year.
Hope this helps i tend to use The Self-sufficiency Manual.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-sufficienc ... 809&sr=8-1

Plant Garlic
The secret to growing garlic is to plant it in mid October - spring planting is possible in warmer areas, but even then, better sized bulbs will result from an autumn sowing. Dig the soil well to a spade's depth before planting, incorporating as much organic matter as possible to assist with drainage - garlic will rot in water-logged conditions. If you can purchase and dig in some sand (from your garden centre) at this stage, the drainage will be improved even further. A couple of handfuls of bonemeal should also be incorporated every square metre (yard).

Garlic bulbs for planting in Spring need not be bought from a nursery - simply choose the largest ones possible from your greengrocer or supermarket. If planting in mid October, choose a hardier variety such as 'White Pearl', these need to bought from your local garden centre. Each bulb will consist of up to 20 individual cloves, and it is these cloves which are to be individually planted. Gently remove the outer skin from the bulb (not the cloves) and separate into individual cloves - see the picture on the left. On the right is a garlic clove and on the left is the bulb. Select the largest eight or so of the cloves which will be on the outside of the bulb.

Plant each of the cloves in an upright position 2cm (1in) below the soil surface. Looking at the clove in the picture to the right, the bottom blunt end of the clove should be lowest in the ground with the pointed end just below the soil surface.
Space each clove about 10cm (4in) apart. If you are planting rows, space each row 45cm (18in) apart.



Care of Garlic

Garlic thrives on a well fed soil at the correct time, so in late March and again in mid May, feed the soil with general purpose fertiliser such as Growmore. If you can do this once or twice a month, so much the better. Apart from this, their only other requirement is to keep them free of weeds and in dry conditions water them. They will produce green foliage starting around April time.
Click picture of foliage on Garlic 'Supreme' to enlarge it.



Harvest Garlic
Garlic is normally ready for harvesting when most of the foliage has turned yellowy-brown - this will be around mid August time. The problem with harvesting garlic is knowing when they are ripe - harvest too early and the bulbs will be small, harvest too late and the bulb will have split making harvest difficult and the cloves of low quality (they will have commenced their growing cycle for next year).

Problems will occur mainly in wet summers - the leaves may only have started to turn yellow but if the garlic is left in wet ground at this stage, the bulbs will very quickly become diseased. For this reason a second method is needed to determine what stage they have reached. If the weather is wet in early August, pull up one bulb and see how many sheaths (very thin papery layers around the bulb) you can peel off the bulb - if there are only three, harvest the bulbs, if there are four or more, wait another two weeks or until most of the leaves have turned brown.

When harvesting garlic bulbs, gently ease them out of the ground with the assistance of using a trowel to loosen the surrounding soil - be careful not to bruise them with the trowel because they will then not keep for long.

[Magz]

Thank you, gona give that a go in spring.

[axelt123]

Thank you, gona give that a go in spring.

not a problem well worth doing ideal for cooking as well.

axel

[axelt123]

Here is one of my croppers this year good size bulbs

[Erik]

at the first tickle or sniff of any kind of cold or similar virus, or for any kind of infection, i start to eat raw garlic. a big clove, three or four times a day.
its an awesome natural anti-bacterial in that respect.
and i eat it every day cooked in some form, and eat in raw all through the winter and spring.
its pretty hot and spicy eaten raw and can have quite a numbing effect on the back of the throat and tongue if you don't swallow it real quick, if you keep it in your mouth for longer and give it a proper good chew and concentrate it towards your tonsils almost, it can give such a soothing numbness for a scratchy sore throat. the fresher and stronger the garlic, the more likely this is to happen.
it doesn't stay numb for very long, but its SO nice when you're desperate for relief!
i am SUCH a garlic lover