By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 20, 2024
When things don't go right in the garlic garden you need someone you can turn to to find out what went wrong and how to correct it. Unfortunately, there are very few people who can discuss garlic p... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
From the Deep South all the way to California Garlic was the International Herb Association's Herb of the Year in 2004 and people learned that there are many kinds of garlic; all different in tas... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
Curing the Garlic Many growers dispute the proper way to cure the garlic and cut the leaves and roots off for storage. Many growers wash their garlic and see nothing wrong with it while others are... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
How do you know when it is time to harvest the garlic? There is no pat answer as it varies depending on what part of the country you grow in and the variety of garlic involved. Different varieties ... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
Garlic is subject to fungal diseases and pest infestations that can be virtually undetectable until they strike. Prevention is the best way to deal with them. In our experience, garlic that is soak... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
If you are going to be successful planting something to grow food for you for this year and have it provide seeds for next year, you must first give it a good home so it will grow well for you. Thi... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
Soil conditions and watering are of utmost importance if you want to grow excellent, large healthy garlic. Garlic will grow (barely) in almost any dirt with whatever water is available to it but wi... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
The Overview Everyone who can should learn how to grow garlic. Growing garlic is fairly easy as it is a hardy survivor that can withstand much abuse. Growing great garlic is more difficult and tim... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
A few of the kinds of garlic now in America came in with Polish, German and Italian immigrants over the centuries, but most of them came in all at once in 1989. The USDA had been asking the Soviets... Read More →
By Claire Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
Many people love the wonderful things fresh garlic can do to enliven an otherwise unremarkable dish. Some like the flavor but fear the dreaded social curse of garlic breath. Others fear garlic may ... Read More →
By Claire Ronniger, Published on Jun 19, 2024
The Ever Changing Taste and Flavor of Garlic. Not all garlic has the same taste or flavor or other eating characteristics. There are wide variations from variety to variety and also the taste and ... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 15, 2024
Follow Ben's Baja Garlic Bus on Instagram! For over 11 years, we have helped harvest, clean, and braid this garlic that is grown using all organic practices in a pristine valley which floods every ... Read More →
By Bob Anderson, Published on Jun 15, 2024
Before we get into how and why garlic that is still in its natural state does, we need to go back to some earlier times and learn about some interesting scientific studies by accredited researchers... Read More →
By Claire Ronniger, Published on Jun 15, 2024
There are many things that affect the taste/flavor and eating qualities of garlic. Variety and cultivar within a variety are the first thing but they are modulated by growing conditions and especi... Read More →
By Ben Ronniger, Published on Jun 15, 2024
Garlic's natural cycle is to be planted outside in the fall and to be harvested the following spring or summer. Garlic can be planted in the spring and might mature ok, but fall planting usually ge... Read More →
By Claire Ronniger, Published on Jun 15, 2024
Black Garlic - what it is and what it isn't Black garlic is enjoying a recent surge in popularity and this has spawned a lot of confusion as to exactly what is is and what its properties are and h... Read More →
By Bob Anderson, Published on Jun 15, 2024
The Spring Sky Chart One painting in particular caught my eye and that one is shown above. The cute little triangular guy seemed almost out of place with the other figures and was a darker color. ... Read More →
By Bob Anderson, Published on Jun 15, 2024
Rare pictographs of the 1054 and 1572 Supernovae There is another pictograph at Paint Rock that has gotten my attention. It is a rather complex set of images that contain a W-shape in several plac... Read More →
By Bob Anderson, Published on Jun 15, 2024
Solar and Stellar Observatories Still Work Centuries Later. A little over an hour's drive west of our place, Paint Rock is a little dried up old West Texas town that looks like it's about to blow... Read More →
By Bob Anderson, Published on Jun 15, 2024
A Thousand Years of Indian Pictographs at Paint Rock. Solar and Stellar Observatories Still Work Centuries Later. Fred and Kay Campbell, owners of the ranch, are genial hosts and conduct the tour... Read More →
By Bob Anderson, Published on Jun 15, 2024
A Thousand Years of Indian Art; Where we See the Big Dipper and Bootes, the Ancients saw Kokopelli Rising in the Spring Sky My fascination with the astronomical pictographs at Paint Rock, Texas, l... Read More →
By Claire Ronniger, Published on Jun 20, 2020
Garlic has a long history of being used in herbal folk remedies but that brings up as many questions as answers. What cultivar of which variety of garlic are we discussing? Because all are differen... Read More →