Garlic Mustard- If you can’t beat them, then eat them

Noticed that the garlic mustard along the edges of the lawn are looking tender. A good time to use them as greens.

Then I thought at Passover the Israelites were supposed to have bitter herbs as well as the Passover lamb

So I went out ant pulled about 20 or so plants out of the ground - lots of leaves and twigs and dried grass that needed to be picked out, skirted around etc but managed to get them out of the ground quite easily since we have had a lot of April showers 

Brought them inside trimmed off the roots and lowers stems
Ended up with a colander full- and garlic mustard leaves are quite flat- not like spinach leaves that have a lot of crinkles

Filled the sink and rinsed them
Drained them well

Sautéed  them with oil- added some seasoned salt

The colander full didn’t amount to much when cooked

Put the dish out at potluck and labeled it as “bitter greens”

It all went- a few people commented that yes they were quite bitter.

But bitter is supposed to be good for you

and there are a few less garlic mustards to spread!

Garlic evaluations April 19/2019

APRIL 19, 2019

Looked at the big bed of garlic varieties to see how they were doing.

The Fitzki variety is far superior to any of the others It is bigger, greener, more even than any other named variety.

Here is how the others ranked
Music and Italian were not as good but second best- not as big but 80-90% as good
Yugoslavian and German hardneck were next best
Red Russian and Mexican purple were after that
Spanish Roja and Bogatyr were the second worst
Duganksi and German Red were the worst- smaller, sparser, not as even

in the Raised bed, the new varieties bought and planted last fall
All appear to be growing well
Purple Glazer is the greenest
Thai, Japanese and Rose de Latrec were doing well but paler

Garden rotation schedule

Rotation
Garlic radish or beets after?
Squash plastic with wide spaced holes
Tomato with close spaced holes
Spring zucchini cucumber then garlic planted in fall maybe lettuce and beets


Gerry T Okimi
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