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I know that the other thread is going fine, but now a slightly different angle.......?

Thought that, after last season's disaster with white rot, I was 'out', although I  had a funny feeling that there was some more.

So, last week, bought some. Only to find, after starting on it, that I had hung some of ours in the larder, rather than the barn!! Ah, well - it's garlic for supper again.

Yes - no prizes for guessing which is ours. But can you guess where the other came from??

Tesco's? I know they sell it in plaits, though I won't pay their prices for it.

Looks a bit like a plait I paid an extortionate amount for once at a "French" market held locally. And following up on the theme of cost, as Robert started it, garlic has got to be one of the most cost-effective crops to grow.

Tesco? I meant what origin!

I think that these, at 39p for a 90g bulb are actually cheaper than many of the crappy little things you get in Tesco etc.

Still a shame having to buy the stuff for the first time in 45 years!!

French Farmers Market?   ???  Yours have probably still got the superior taste Tim, despite them being smaller.  busy_lizzie

Spain is perhaps too obvious? So Morroco? South Africa?

mat

Got you. Somewhere in the UK?

Friend from a day trip to France like the one hanging in my kitchen is from! ;D

Isle of wight? :)

CHINA!!

I think that gets the record for food miles Tim - except for Aussie wine.

With the state of industry should we all start learning Chinese now!

I would have guessed China as even the garlic in my local Asian shop is Chinese!

I bought some last week - having also just run out of last years crop - and didn't notice till I got home it was from China. Bought in Lidls, and according to the label imported via Italy. Even more food miles - probably then came via Germany  ::)

So glad I have indulged in some more last minute garlic to plant - Solent Wight from the Garlic Farm to join my overwintering garlic. Garlic Farm says this is best Spring planted, before mid March. Arrived this morning, so have one day to get it in! The bulbs are large and gorgeous looking - if they produce anything like that for me I shall be a very happy woman. Best get dowm the plot NOW  ;D

CHINA! Wow!!!
Note to self, get up that plot and plant your garlic DP! ;D

I feel so glad that I have 70 cloves planted. It is also reassuring to know that the seed originated from no further afield than Holland ...

Tim, the head of elephant garlic I sent you....original head grown in Chile -  bought in New York - flown to Birmingham - resulting head from one of the bulbs posted to you in Glos.....

And to think that after all that - doing the oil & herb thingy with the last clove - I left it in the (bottom) oven overnight!!

Had to dispose of the blackened clove, but the oil lasted for meal after meal. Thanks!!

Save any cloves for planting? Seems that we could try for a World Record here. Sent a clove  to Heldi, was it?..along with some Wight...so perhaps the chain might continue....

Of course!!