I always grow garlic. One thing you might like to know is that the hard stemmed ones are preferred for superior flavour, but they don’t store as well as the soft neck type. So, if you want to grow enough to store over winter, I’d suggest you try to get the soft stemmed variety.
LG, Monty had an article about growing garlic in GW about a year ago. If youve got access to older mags, you could look it up. I get mine on line, not hard copy, so can look back any time I want.
If you want me to, I can do a search back to find WHEN it was.
Glad Wonky's cold is getting better, so is mine. Thank you, Joyce.
I don't grow garlic, only use a small amount as it seems to upset my tummy. Same with daughter 2.
We are off to Norfolk on Tuesday. Must do Housesitter's room and clean the house a bit. Don't want him thinking I'm a total slob!
It was -4°, frost, yesterday but today it was +2° at 8am and it's sunny. I must sweep up leaves on the kitchen terrace, done it twice already but the lime tree is now bare.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Harrumph! Phone call from GP practice ... cholesterol elevated - appointment made for 7/12. I've been trying to reduce the levels by changing my diet ... loads of oily fish and fish oils, hardly any full-fat dairy, hardly any alcohol, very little cheese ... however my genetics, the under-active thyroid and lack of exercise following my broken foot seem to have combined to raise it. I've been trying to increase my exercise and started going for gentle walks again, but any downhill slope, even a gentle one, seems to trigger real knee pain for the next 24 hours ...this time in my 'good knee' ... the physio put it down to having been inactive over the summer due to my broken foot and dodgy 'bad knee'. Ever felt that life was conspiring against you? I think she'll prescribe statins ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that eating apples did as much good as taking statins. And eating oats is supposed to be good for cholesterol lowering. There's not much evidence that eating less fat reduces cholesterol, or that high cholesterol is necessarily a health risk. It appears to be a symptom rather than a cause - so the lifestyle problems that cause heart problems also cause high cholesterol, rather than the cholesterol itself being the problem. It's all a bit vague at the moment, being confused by the drug companies who want to sell the statins throwing all sorts of misinformation out so it's difficult to see the wood for the trees
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I always grow garlic. One thing you might like to know is that the hard stemmed ones are preferred for superior flavour, but they don’t store as well as the soft neck type. So, if you want to grow enough to store over winter, I’d suggest you try to get the soft stemmed variety.
LG, Monty had an article about growing garlic in GW about a year ago. If youve got access to older mags, you could look it up. I get mine on line, not hard copy, so can look back any time I want.
If you want me to, I can do a search back to find WHEN it was.
We grew to much this year so o/h has pickled some , opened one last night for supper and it was good
Sorry it wasn’t Monty, it was Charles Dowding. GW November 2016. Pp 105-107.
very informative and lists varieties in
In UK. Plus time to plant.
Morning all.
Glad Wonky's cold is getting better, so is mine. Thank you, Joyce.
I don't grow garlic, only use a small amount as it seems to upset my tummy. Same with daughter 2.
We are off to Norfolk on Tuesday. Must do Housesitter's room and clean the house a bit. Don't want him thinking I'm a total slob!
It was -4°, frost, yesterday but today it was +2° at 8am and it's sunny. I must sweep up leaves on the kitchen terrace, done it twice already but the lime tree is now bare.
Not a cloud in the sky, it was 2.2d little frost on car and shed roof nothing on grass. Doing all my washing and getting it out before walking dogs.
Harrumph! Phone call from GP practice ... cholesterol elevated - appointment made for 7/12.
I think she'll prescribe statins ...
I've been trying to reduce the levels by changing my diet ... loads of oily fish and fish oils, hardly any full-fat dairy, hardly any alcohol, very little cheese ... however my genetics, the under-active thyroid and lack of exercise following my broken foot seem to have combined to raise it. I've been trying to increase my exercise and started going for gentle walks again, but any downhill slope, even a gentle one, seems to trigger real knee pain for the next 24 hours ...this time in my 'good knee' ... the physio put it down to having been inactive over the summer due to my broken foot and dodgy 'bad knee'. Ever felt that life was conspiring against you?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that eating apples did as much good as taking statins. And eating oats is supposed to be good for cholesterol lowering. There's not much evidence that eating less fat reduces cholesterol, or that high cholesterol is necessarily a health risk. It appears to be a symptom rather than a cause - so the lifestyle problems that cause heart problems also cause high cholesterol, rather than the cholesterol itself being the problem. It's all a bit vague at the moment, being confused by the drug companies who want to sell the statins throwing all sorts of misinformation out so it's difficult to see the wood for the trees
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Dove, a handful of Pistachio nuts a day helped to reduce my cholesterol.