Garlic

[LandyAndy]

Hi Brains trust.
Any ideas on how I can market/sell my extra garlic???
Over the last 15 years Ive been growing a Garlic strain thats both quite large in clove size(ie 2" thick and 3" tall per clove in my best breeding stock) and quite mild in pungency.Its real nice and suits pickling.Like eating slices of pickled onion,but its Garlic:cool::cool::cool::cool: Real nice in any dish that likes fresh garlic.
Ask CraigE,I was so impressed with his daughter eating raw cloves I sent her some to grow.A few other WA AULROians have been treated to a taste of my Garlic.
Ive got lots just poking their heads up,like 2 fertiliser bags worth of cloves worth,actually 1000s of individual plants,just spent 2 days hand weeding them.Not totaly organic,I do use purchased NPK fertiliser,but no chemical sprays.Wont be ready till december.
Looking at quiting 50% of the crop.
I have posted cloves legaly up to Derby several times to a good mate to use with his favorite Barramundi recipe,and down to Esperance for CraigEs daughter,unsure wether I can post out of WA.
Its a project Ive worked on for a long time,perhaps this year I may be able to profit from it.
ITS MUCH BETTER THAN THAT IMPORTED GARLIC THAT ONLY SEEMS TO BE AVAILABLE THESE DAYS.
Andrew

[disco gazza]

Hi LandyAndy,
I'll be glad to take some off your hands.But I'm in NSW,so dont know whether you can post it over or not(I'll look up the agri site tomorrow to see if its possible or not).
Love the stuff.....:D
Everytime I get up close,nattering to a mate of mine,he always tells me off cause of my garlic breath,but it doesnt bother me....hehehehehehehe.

My local fruit/vege supplier has just got in some fresh garlic,you can definately tell the difference between fresh and the imported chinese junk that everybody sells.

cheers
gazza
92 disco tdi

[29dinosaur]

What's in garlic that puts my teeth on edge? Maybe middle age periodental disease, but I love garlic but it doesn't like me?? Have tried a the australian version vs the chinese and the oz is much nicer

[cartm58]

Andy

count me in for some garlic chinese stuff is flavourless

Just NOR so no problems l can work on site at collie at moment during week so can call in and collect if lm still there when harvest ready

Use Garlic every day, quickest method of getting it ready for cooking is putting it in mocrowave and zapping it for 20 25 secs heats oil up and loosens skin and great then to cook

[d@rk51d3]

Andy

count me in for some garlic chinese stuff is flavourless



Not to mention that it's often grown in raw, untreated, human effluent. :eek:

[Sprint]

its good fertiliser!

[feral]

Not to mention that it's often grown in raw, untreated, human effluent. :eek:


its good fertiliser!



Oh gawd.......no........another debate :Thump:

[waynep]

Ship it over here to Vic - Oz garlic goes for about 5 times the price of the Chinese stuff.
We go through a whole "bulb" a week at home. :angel::D -try roasting it - goes sweet as.

[Ace]

do you have farmers markets near by Andy?

You could sell it on ebay, im just not sure if there are regs for posting it into other states with quarantine laws etc. Its an easy product to market online because it keeps for ages and would be fine in the mail for a day or two. Good garlic is hard to find so people will buy it, especially if you sell it cheap enough in larger quantities.

[Timmo]

At a little restaurant in Japan recently, and one of the signature entrees was a whole deep fried garlic bulb served with miso paste. The guy there kept referring to it as "chinese viagra". Really yummy, not overpowering - sounds like your garlic would be ideal for that.

[isuzurover]

The fruit and veg place we go to (swansea st markets) sells WA garlic for about $18/kg. If you are interested I can give you their contact details. Maybe they will buy it?

But I would be interested in trying/buying some when we come down. We eat HEAPS of garlic.

On a different note - anyone down your way breed/sell ducks or geese?

[B92 8NW]

On a different note - anyone down your way breed/sell ducks or geese?

It's not too hard I hear...

You take a drake, you also take a duck - you go around the corner, and teach them how to -k.





Sorry...


Coat...


Gone.

[isuzurover]

It's not too hard I hear...

You take a drake, you also take a duck - you go around the corner, and teach them how to -k.





Sorry...


Coat...


Gone.

There's always one...

Got that Provent fitted yet??? ;)

[B92 8NW]

There's always one...

Got that Provent fitted yet??? ;)

I've fitted it mcrover style and plumbed the inlet and outlet, but the drain line has got me. I bought a plastic tee but I'm sure it'll melt. Unless I find a metal one, I shall have my mechanic to braze into the turbo line.





Sorry about the hijack!

[isuzurover]

I've fitted it mcrover style and plumbed the inlet and outlet, but the drain line has got me. I bought a plastic tee but I'm sure it'll melt. Unless I find a metal one, I shall have my mechanic to braze into the turbo line.


/hijack continued - I thought on the Tdi you can remove the cyclone and use it's drain? Most plastic t's should be OK (as long as not right next to the turbo). The oil shouldn't get above 80oC. You could stick the t in your oven at 90 or 100 for 30 mins! If it survives then it should be fine.

[B92 8NW]

/hijack continued - I thought on the Tdi you can remove the cyclone and use it's drain? Most plastic t's should be OK (as long as not right next to the turbo). The oil shouldn't get above 80oC. You could stick the t in your oven at 90 or 100 for 30 mins! If it survives then it should be fine.

I've kept the cyclone so they need to share the drain. It's not on the turbo side but it will rest within 0-3 mm of the block.