Garlic Growing Tips - How To Use Garlic Flowers/Scapes For A BONUS Harvest - Self Sufficiency Garden
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- If you have noticed your Garlic flowering and you are not sure what to do, WATCH THIS VIDEO. We LOVE garlic and we grow lots of it.
We share how to make the most of this staple Allium in Spring time, get yourself a BONUS HARVEST and how to use Garlic Scapes/Flowers.
We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest - Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible and we are completely off grid.Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No Dig Lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-70% self sufficient in our food needs. Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible. In our videos you can follow our journey as we share our experiences and what we get up to at Freedom Forest. We are MASSIVELY grateful that you choose to watch our Videos and support us in this way already, however, If you appreciate and get value from what we share and would like to help us a little more, you can become a Freedom Forest Patreon (link below). It takes us about a day to film each video and another few evenings to edit it, Patreon provides a way you can support what we do with any size donation you wish, it could simply be the value of a packet of seeds! We have many projects coming up, as well as wanting to improve our videos by having a 2nd camera and maybe even a drone one day to make our videos even more detailed and better quality for you to enjoy! You can help make it viable for us to keep putting the time into making these videos by becoming a Patreon. In return your name will appear in the end credits of our videos and we'll message you a password for the 'members area' of our website where we share more of our favourite recipes exclusively for our Patreon's 💚 / freedomforestlifeenjoy & Thanks for Watching✌️🌿 Peace and Plants
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Hi folks, here's the pickling recipe that I used: You can scale it up or down accordingly to the volume/jar size you have;
2 cups of Apple Cider Vinegar, 1 dessert spoon of powdered mustard (optional), 11 Dessert Spoons of Raw Sugar, 1 Dessert Spoon of Salt (flat not heaped), 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper, finely chopped fresh chilli to taste (optional). Add all ingredients to a saucepan, put on a very low heat and warm enough to disolve the sugar - stir continually. Pack your jar full of Garlic Scapes/Flowers, trimming down as necessary and the pour warm liquid over the top to fill the jar as inch or so from the top and making sure the flowers are completely covered.
Ours are still good a whole year later, using a Kilner clip down jar with a good seal. 💚✌🌿
I harvested my elephant garlic scapes over the weekend and used it for a stir fry. Yum!
Glad to hear you’ve been enjoying the bonus harvest Nneka 💚✌️🌿
Ah great info. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
Fantastic little video. Is there a recipe you follow for the pickled garlic scapes or do you literally put them in a jar of apple cider vinegar?
Hi - thanks for watching 🙏 I made up an ACV brine, give me a mo and i'll add the recipe into the video comments. ✌️🌿
Great, thanks so much
Dice them up very fine & simmer them in a little milk (or you could also lightly fry them),then mix into mashed potaotes as you would normally make them. A slight alternative version of what we call Champ in Ireland. On another note do you grow lemongrass & if so when / how do you start it?
HI Chris, Thanks for sharing your ideas 👍🙏
I haven't grown Lemon grass yet (in the UK) I have been meaning to actually, to the point I bought seeds a few years ago and never got around to sowing them!!! I think maybe this was because they have a funny sowing time, maybe a winter sow (don't quote me on that, just going from a vague memory) I recall their being a reason I kept missing the window though! I grew it in NZ and once established it used to over Winter in my little polytunnel there... I think in the UK, it would need to be bought into a frost free place for the winter... I must look into growing it again as i LOVE Lemongrass - thanks for the reminder ✌️🌿