2022/10/02 19:06:30
hot tuna
I've been doing 400, I'm cutting back to 200 ish. Want to focus some space towards different greens and vegetables.
These bulbs/ cloves are on their 7th year in my soil
2022/10/02 20:08:35
hot tuna
One other thing.
I don't process my garlic for long term storage until after I've separated the cloves for planting. I usually get a fair amount ( 30-50) of cloves that the skin has pulled off so I set those aside and don't use for in the ground.
Today there was enough to fill the dehydrator . Slice thin and these will probably take 2 days before ready to grind to powder. Garlic is heavy in oils so I do them low and slow on the dehydrator.

Troutbum sent a picture of pickled garlic.
Basically a 1/2 water- vinegar canning.
Since I'll have a bunch extra , I'm going to give it a try.

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2022/10/02 20:11:44
fishin coyote
I picked green beans today and if the weather holds I should get one more picking at the end of week. Then I’ll get my garlic in sometime next weekend.Then it’s build another raised bed or two and put everything away till spring.
2022/10/16 10:32:04
pensfan1
Got my garlic in a couple weeks ago. Ended up with 100 hard neck and 150 soft. Picked the very last of the lettuce. My daughter brought home some tomatoe plants we stuck in the ground beginning of July. I just picked the last of those also. I am trying to save some seeds from those plants. They must of been a German Plum. Semi-large fruits, with all "meat" inside. I am saving those seeds and just started the process. Any tips? I put them in a jar, covered with water. The inner web says it should take 2 to 4 days for fermentation. Anyone else save heirloom seeds?
2022/10/16 14:45:21
hot tuna
I have not saved seeds for replanting. I did the same search as you and it seemed reason except kinda a pia to ferment them first. Good luck.

As my first time pickling and canning garlic, I was largely disappointed. The garlic is mushy and severely loses its flavor.
I milled up a 1/2 pint of dehydrated garlic yesterday with a hand mill.
I ordered an electric mill last night.
Very happy with the dehydrator and grind method for long term garlic storage.
2022/10/17 17:08:21
hot tuna
My $20.00 electric grinder came today from Amazon.
Wow was I impressed. In about 30 seconds it pulverized dehydrated garlic to fine powder.
The hand grinder took me about 15 minutes to get to consistency of coarse salt.
The wife dosen't like it coarse but I prefer both so we now have options.
I can see lots of garlic powder on families Christmas list..

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2022/10/29 08:47:14
hot tuna
I've been dehydrating garlic daily and grinding into powder.
It takes a long time to properly dehydrate. About 3 days in the dehydrator then another 3 days to sit and air dry before grinding.
One thing you want to do once put into a jar is not to seal the jar with a lid. Notice that I use a paper towel then put the jar ring on so it still gets air. Our friends and family will be receiving homegrown gifts for the holidays.
Very pleased to see my cloves planted have established themselves before going into winter hibernation. It's good to know their not just going to be dead seed come spring.

This is the last weekend of home projects before I become full time in the woods until November 30th.
We got our sights on the garden of the woods.
Peace and tuna.

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2022/11/02 17:12:55
pensfan1
This weather is just stupid. We coulda started more beans and lettuce at the end of September. Lol.
2022/11/05 09:28:28
Fisherlady2
Late fall for us is butcher time for birds. A friend is learning to raise and butcher now and we have been helping her through the process. We took our equipment to her place and left it so we could stagger the process over numerous weekends since she was growing out some heavier breed roosters, meat birds and turkeys. 2 butcher days down and 1 to go (next weekend). In return for us helping out we now have a beautiful roaster chicken and turkey in the freezer and a whole lot of broth jarred on the shelf and chicken mush in the freezer. I did a soup run also since I had the fresh broth and shredded chicken. I did a pot roast and beef bone broth so I could can up some french onion soup while I was at it.
Butchering and canning isn't glamorous but man it's sweet to open that jar on an icy January day and have homemade soup in minutes!

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2022/11/05 09:36:10
Fisherlady2
hot tuna
My $20.00 electric grinder came today from Amazon.
Wow was I impressed. In about 30 seconds it pulverized dehydrated garlic to fine powder.
The hand grinder took me about 15 minutes to get to consistency of coarse salt.
The wife dosen't like it coarse but I prefer both so we now have options.
I can see lots of garlic powder on families Christmas list..

Tell me more... my coffee grinder works for really small amounts (maybe 3/4 of a cup at a time) but never quite gets it to soft powder consistency.  What amount does your grinder do and what brand?

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