Happy Purim!
What is this photo? It is organic green garlic disguised as leeks or green onions.
This is young garlic – green garlic .
Onions, leeks and garlic are all brothers in the Roses family (Amaryllidaceae) and are quite similar at different stages of their lives. In Spring (now!) the young garlic is picked while the leaves are still green and fleshy and edible. This is not so familiar to most people. We know garlic best in its “dry” condition. When mature and dried, it can be maintained for many months and so is familiar to us.
Garlic is planted in winter and picked in summer. We plant individual garlic cloves in the ground and in the time from the winter until summer there are countless weedings to do, because the thin leaves of the garlic allow a sunny and comfortable place for the weeds to grow in between them.
Organic green garlic is garlic harvested in a young state with its green leaves. Which is truly a relief after all the weedings. Garlic is one of the few crops that nowadays still remains seasonal. Personally, I really like using garlic, with all it parts, and in everything I make. During this season we have no dry garlic. In order to keep dry garlic so long (Since the last years spring/summer) it must go through all sorts of processes that do not interest me (not organic, oh no!). And thus every spring, with great joy, i am forced to use green garlic in its entirety – both the head and the leaves are delicious in anything in which you would have put dry garlic. It is, in fact, better, because it tastes more delicate than when it is dry. The leaves blend in perfectly in a salad, sandwich, Tehina… really! I urge you – try it in everything and you will not be disappointed.
Garlic is an ancient cultivated crop, originating from Asia. I suppose because of the ease of preserving it, it was easy to spread to the whole world.
In Israel the garlic is known since ancient times and is mentioned in the Torah, Mishna and the Talmud.
The world is divided into two groups: garlic lovers and garlic haters, so from our sources we can understand we are on the garlic lovers side. Garlic is said to be warming, satisfying, a mood uplifter, kills intestinal parasites and lice, increases sperm, introduces love and removes jealousy.
It is told that the Pyramid builders had a strike when their garlic rations were taken from them and the people of Israel, as they walked in the desert, longed for garlic among other things that were in Egypt …
In Gilroy, California there is an annual garlic festival. In Las Vegas, there was a restaurant called the Garlic café, in which every dish featured garlic.
On the other hand, There was an order of garlic-hating-knights and garlic was forbidden in the British royal house.
The green garlic brings people together and unites. It is both a garlic, with a delicate taste and is also a green vegetable.
I hope and recommend to anyone (and everyone): knights, pirates, cops, robbers, members of the royal family … … To try it and enjoy not only its delicate flavor, but the many health benefits: an antibiotic, lowers blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels, fights cancers …
I wrote lots more about organic garlic. Check out our full archive of organic garlic articles.
Have a happy and fun holiday!
To Health!
Yours,
Maggie and garden team
We expect in our organic vegetable baskets (draft only):
Iceberg lettuce
Fennel
broccoli
Onions
cabbage
cucumbers
beets
celery
Tomatoes
Green Garlic
In the larger organic vegetable baskets, also:
Lettuce
coriander
parsley
Kale
Organic fruit baskets;
Bananas
Sweeties
Oranges
clementines
In the larger organic fruit baskets, also:
Red grapefruits
avocadoes
oranges
