Garlic garlic garlic! What a festival!
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Comments (13)Soooooo, there seems to be a difference of opinion in this thread........ What I'm extracting from this is, even if you dig all the bulbs from the previously planted garlic, the flowering scapes will reseed, thus producing volunteer plants....See MoreGarlic flowers-no bulbils-no curl to scape-what garlic is it?
Comments (4)The sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum) is also sometimes called rocambole and usually but not always has bulbils along with the flowers. Elephant garlic is also sometimes called and even sold incurrectly as rocambole. The sand leek will have small bulbs with small cloves, and the elephant garlic will have large cloves on bigger bulbs or simply as big rounds and will have much heavier and robust foliage, while the sand leek is much daintier. If that is the foliage in the picture, I would guess that you got elephants that were originally identified as rocambole, or perhaps one of its wilder leek relatives such as the kurrat or Egyptian leek which is a bit smaller than the closely related elephants and there are several strains of each of those as well. Looks like one of the leeks to me. (they are all edible)...See MoreHow is the Poconos Garlic Festival?
Comments (1)jeepcat, did you end up going to the Festival, and if yes, how was it? thanks, Dean...See Moregarlic festival- question.
Comments (13)OK, first-hand report. I love the Garlic Festival. It is one of my favorite annual events. Weather was good this weekend, so the festival attracted roughly 50,000 persons. The entertainment is excellent, with musicians on several stages, and even Morris dancers near one of the entrances. There are plenty of other fun activities, but of course we go for the garlic. The marketplace is the main event. In addition to the dozens of growers from New York, I saw growers from Virginia, Ohio and Ontario. I expect there were also growers from Pennsylvania and Vermont, as there have been in the past, but I tried to zip through the marketplace. I came home with three pounds of purple shallots, four pounds of Mediterranean softneck garlic, and a pound each of the hardneck varieties Danube Rose, Italian Red, and a numbered variety whose number eludes me for the moment. These get added to the Italian Purple Stripe, German White, Marino, and Mediterranean Softneck I have left from my garden. My wife bought some more ornamental alliums from Ulster County Cooperative Extension. As mentioned in another thread, I'll be planting garlic and shallots sometime in October (or early November), sometime after frost, after tomatoes and peppers have been pulled up. The crafts tent is very good, and an excellent way to occupy the younger family members while going from booth to booth buying garlic. The crafts tent asks for a suggested donation of only a dollar per child. Other children's activities include a climbing wall and a bounce house and big slide. With tens of thousands of visitors, food lines could be long, but I got some kachori and mango lassi from Chataka. Heck even if lines weren't an issue this might be what I'd want to eat. My wife got a garlicky pork sandwich, and my daughter got a hot dog from a boy scout troup. So now we need to wait nearly 52 weeks until the next Garlic Festival, but the allium year progresses. I need to make space for garlic, and plant and mulch garlic. In spring I get to watch the garlic grow. The scapes appear at about the time the weather turns warm. Garlic gets harvested in July, cures a bit and gets eaten. Then it's time to buy tickets for the 2005 Hudson Valley Garlic Festival....See Moresushipup1
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