Garlic harvest: Tips and tricks for Canberra gardeners

By Owen Pidgeon
Updated December 7 2014 - 10:18am, first published November 25 2014 - 11:45pm
Pull it up: Chiara Cattaneo and Sara Bigatti from Bergamo, Italy help harvest garlic at Loriendale.
Pull it up: Chiara Cattaneo and Sara Bigatti from Bergamo, Italy help harvest garlic at Loriendale.

For lovers of garlic the time has arrived to purchase new-season cured garlic for those many dishes that welcome this amazing flavour.  Garlic has been grown for millennia across the Mediterranean, throughout China and India, so it is used widely by people of nearly all backgrounds. We also use it mixed with apple cider vinegar, as an organic drench for our sheep. It is also a good antiseptic. As we remember our early Diggers of World War I, we can recall  how the nurses used to dress their wounds with a sphagnum moss poultice soaked in garlic juice.

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