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Introduction: Overview-what is garlic
1. Different types of garlic
2. Garlic Festivals
3. 5 steps for Growing garlic
4. 5 tips for preserving garlic
Part 2 Garlic as a medicine:
5. Garlic medicinal uses-general overview
6. How garlic is used as an antitoxin
7. 5 Ways That Garlic is Good for Lowering Cholesterol and Helping Your Heart
8. Topical uses for garlic ointments and salves-how to make at home
9. Garlic and pregnancy
10. Garlic and folk medicine
11. Garlic in western medicine
Part 3 General Uses
12. An easy way to repel insects in the garden
13. Garlic culinary uses
14. Garlic supplements
15. Garlic as a mosquito repellent
16. The pros and cons of garlic as a remedy for Insomnia
17. 5 Tactics To Choose And Store Your Garlic
18. Resources-where you can get garlic and information on garlic
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Introduction: Overview-what is garlic
Overview - What is Garlic?
‘The Stinking Rose’ – not a very flattering name for any plant. In fact, it’s downright
ironic. ‘Stinking Rose’ is actually an alternate name for the plant called garlic. And the
only thing that’s right about this description is the word ‘stinking’.
Indeed, garlic has a pungent odor but it’s hardly a rose. In reality, garlic belongs to the
plant order liliales or ‘lilies’. The only commonality it has with the rose is its bulb-like
shape. It belongs to the family of Allium , the most common variety being the Allium
sativum or what we call the cultivated garlic. It is in the same family as onions and
shallots.
The Look
When people hear the world ‘garlic’, the first thing that comes to mind is the bulb – the
part that is used for cooking. The bulb is off-white in color and is covered by a thin
papery film. Inside the bulb, you can find around ten to twenty cloves which, if you peal
away the covering, look whitish-pink. The bulb is more commonly called the ‘head’ of
garlic even though it grows in the bottom. Because of the bulb, garlic has been classified
as a root crop.
But the thing is, the bulb isn’t the only thing called ‘garlic.’ In fact, garlic is the name of
a whole plant. So, it’s only natural that a long stalk with leaves shoot out from the bulb.
These stalks and leaves are also edible and are mostly eaten when they’re still young or
immature.
Above the stem, the features will start to differ depending on the variety of garlic used.
There are usually two varieties of cultivated garlic. One is the hardneck garlic. There are
two things that grow out of the stem of the hardneck garlic are bubils (miniature cloves)
and flowers.
The bubils are off-white in color just like the bulb while the flowers are usually purple.
The flowers look good as decoration but they’re hardly ever left to grow, same with the
bubils. Flowers and bubils also need nourishment. This means that they can take away
nutrients from the bulb. Since the bulb is the most important part (it is the part used for
cooking, after all), growers tend to cut off the flowers and the bubils.
Softneck garlic, on the other hand, rarely grows bubils or flowers so it’s more popular
among growers.
The Smell
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The most noticeable aspect of garlic, however, is its smell. Many people have
complained about how its stink clings to the skin. Indeed, when garlic is cut, it releases a
pungent odor that is sharp and tangy. Most people dislike the smell, giving rise to the
negative term, ‘garlic breath.’ This peculiar stench of garlic comes from the enzyme that
its cells release when it gets damaged (e.g. cutting, slicing, chewing). This enzyme
causes the sulfur-containing compounds of garlic to break down. The result of this
breakdown is what causes the peculiar smell.
The Taste
The smell isn’t the only thing peculiar to garlic. There’s also the taste of it. Indeed,
garlic is often used as spice or as flavoring. It has a sharp and hot taste that, ironically, is
the plant’s defense mechanism. Its taste deters animals and birds to eat it. But, strangely
enough, humans really like it.
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Chapter 1: Different Types of Garlic
Have you ever seem a bulb of garlic with vivid purple stripes? Chances are high that you
haven’t even had a glimpse of this type of garlic yet. It’s understandable, really, since
most markets don’t have more than one variety of garlic.
There are actually several types of garlic, 600 sub-varieties to be exact. There are two
main types of garlic and these are the orphioscorodon or the hard-necked garlic and the
sativum or the soft-necked garlic. Of the two, the soft-necked garlic is more common
because it’s easier to cultivate.
Hard-Necked Garlic
Hard-necked garlic is also called wild garlic simply because they were the first garlic to
ever grow on earth. In fact, soft-necked garlic or sativum originated from this variety.
You see, orphioscorodon usually grow bulbs and flowers, thereby making them harder to
grow and to cultivate. Bulbs and flowers tend to take some of the nutrition from the
bulbs so, if you’re growing garlic just for the sake of its bulb, then these bulbils and
flowers, no matter how attractive they may be, can become complete pests.
The most popular hard-necked garlic is probably the purple-striped garlic. It’s called
purple-striped garlic simply because it is (as the name implies) purple striped. Indeed,
the wrappers of this type of garlic are striped with the color purple ranging from mild
tones to vivid ones, depending on the growing conditions.
This type of garlic has a decent storage life and is quite strong in terms of flavor.
However, you can’t exactly say that it’s excessively pungent. Its taste is quite exotic. In
fact, the sweetest roasted garlic can only be made from garlic of this variety, namely the
Chesnok Red and the Persian Star.
Soft-Necked Garlic
As I said, the most common variety of garlic is the soft-necked garlic. The sativum was
grown from the orphioscorodon variant by means of selection. Since soft-necked garlic
is most favorable for cultivation, most growers breed this type.
This type of garlic is also called the ‘artichoke garlic’. This type is hardly bothered by
differences in the growing conditions. This makes it rather easy to cultivate. Another
reason why this is a favorite of garlic growers is that it contains more cloves than the
average hard-necked garlic. For every clove of the hard-necked garlic, the soft-necked
garlic has two. In fact, most garlic has about 12 to 20 cloves each, not including all those
smaller cloves that can be found closer to the center.
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