Garlic for free (well almost).

Advantages: Cheap and easy to grow
Disadvantages: Smelly breath

...multi-cultured. It can be found in cooking recipes from India, China, Indonesia, Turkey and of course France and has now become well established in British cookery. I am going to concentrate on how to grow your own for only the cost of one single bulb - a matter of a few pence. You don't need much space as they can be successfully grown in pots or tubs or even in the flower borders although they are not particularly decorative. In fact garlic is said to put off greenfly although I can't say I have tried it with my roses; but they do seem to get a lot of greenfly so maybe I should. Whilst it is possible to grow garlic from seed it is more usually done from the cloves. This requires no pollination and is in effect producing a clone of the original bulb. It is for this reason you should choose a healthy original clove. Any...

perfectlypolished 03.02.2007 (07.07.2007) · Read review
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Hmm Roasted Garlic

Advantages: Very good for your health
Disadvantages: Bad breath

...of Clove garlic and originates from India and Central Asia and is one of the oldest valued plants. In Greek legend, Odysseus used Moly (wild garlic) as a charm to keep the sorceress (Circe) from turning into a pig. The Egyptians used it for its medicinal properties and also fed the slave's that where building the pyramids daily to sustain there strength, the Romans are believed to have introduced it to Britain. The common name is said to have been taken from the Anglo-Saxon name of "leac" which means pot herb, and "gar" a lance, after the shape of the stem. During the First World War, spaghnum moss use to be soaked in garlic juice and used as an antiseptic wound dressing. Old time stories of a cure for whooping coughs was to put a clove of garlic in the shoe of the sufferer, if it didn't cure the cough I suppose there feet smelt better...

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Garlic - Bad Smell of Success

Advantages: Seems to alleviate a host of ailments.
Disadvantages: Causes odour, some may be intolerant to it.

...Much seems to have been written about garlic being good for the heart, cholesterol, circulation and a host of other conditions, but I thought I would add my "two-pence-worth" based on my experience of this pungent little herb. To begin with, I must say that I have never found any benefit in taking garlic supplements, whether or not they were of the odourless variety. But I definitely have found fresh garlic bulbs to make a difference to the state of my health. Before I go any further, I would like to advise readers with medical conditions to always visit their doctor to get a proper diagnosis and only self-medicate with the appropriate medical approval. Some people have also been found to be intolerant to garlic and experienced contact dermatitis on the skin and migraine headaches. I am no expert and what follows is...

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Garlic, not boring but nice.

Advantages: Versatile.
Disadvantages: Most people hate the smell

...and gives the bulbs plenty of air. Any with a thick, green stalk need using right away, as they won't keep. Remember those little cloves you kept back from planting? Save them until spring and then pot them into some gritty compost. Put out in the sun and keep watering well. Cut finger length shoots and use them in stir-fries. More shoots will grow so you can have more another day. In the kitchen you can use it in all your usual recipes, but why stop there? Try roasting whole cloves with potatoes, red onions and red peppers. Sprinkle with olive oil and fresh thyme. Roast for an hour and serve with grilled chicken breasts. Roast big tomatoes, halved, with olive oil thyme and whole garlic cloves. Puree this if you can resist eating it from the roasting dish. Fill a bottle (sterilised first) with olive oil and drop in a few cloves...

Marans 15.11.2005 · Read review
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A terracotta pot

Advantages: looks ok
Disadvantages: frost might smash it

...I have a couple of these terracotta pots from B&Q .They cost £1.50p each and I think this a reasonable price .fair price. I have had mine identical to the ones pictured for a few years now. I have some pelargonium in mine at the moment. In the spring I had some daffodils planted in one of them. I use these terracotta pots both outside on the patio and in the conservatory. I have been known to use them to hold a rustic garden display in the house too. Description ~~~~~~ I do love terracotta clay pots for my outdoor plants I think they are attractive. This 23cm terracotta pot from B &Q is a lovely natural slightly reddish brown tan colour. The inside is smooth. There is a rim of about 5 or 6 cm at the top of this clay port There is some design on the outside of the pot . The pot is smooth for a few cm then there are 3 raised...

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DIY Garlic

Advantages: Easy and undemanding
Disadvantages: Don't overwater or underwater!

...Garlic is easily grown from individual cloves, just like onions or shallots. You don't even need a windowbox, never mind a garden, for it will grow in a pot on a sunny windowsill. However, beware using garlic from the supermarket shelf - most commercially grown garlic is treated with growth-regulating chemicals which will inhibit re-growth (although you may be lucky!). Best to buy garlic as sets from the garden centre or one of the many good seed catalogues. But if you really want to do your own thing with the supermarket stuff, buy organic garlic and try growing that. It should be untreated and theoretically pure as the driven snow....

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* Go Pots over Noodles *

Advantages: Tasty , Quick , Filling
Disadvantages: Had a Couple of 'eww!' ones!

...I have always loved pot noodles , ever since my sister got me into them when I was about ten years old. I always went for the Chicken and Mushroom flavoured ones. Well , to be honest that's the only one I've tried really ; apart from when the Chicken and Mushroom flavour was out-of-stock at my local convenience shop and so had to go with the 'blue one' as I called it ( the sweet and sour flavoured one (I think anyway - I didn't like that one!). It wasn't until recently that I became hooked on pot noodles again. I had gone off them a couple of years ago after having a couple which weren't very tasty and tasted oddly compared to the usual taste. However when at the supermarket a couple of weeks back I noticed that the 'noodles' were on offer and so threw a couple into the trolley forgetting that I had gone off them! On the pot , it...

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How to Grow Garlic

Advantages: Really very easy to grow, and a fun project for kids.
Disadvantages: Not many, some people don't like the odor.

..."If everybody ate garlic, Then nobody would find it objectionable." French Peasant–Unknown Did you know garlic is classified as an herb? My dictionary defines an herb as "A plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, savory, or aromatic properties." So, garlic, and many other plants are really herbs! Whatever you call it, garlic is an incredibly popular flavoring for all sorts of dishes. Growing garlic is really very easy. If you love "the stinking rose," you'll love growing your own fresh garlic! Where to Plant Your Garlic Garlic loves a rich, very well-drained soil. It's a perennial (which means the plant doesn't die over the winter, and will return in the spring), but in most climates, it is treated like an annual. (Which means it's grown anew every year.) Garlic can be grown from seed, but most people plant...

RenoWriter 21.09.2001 · Read review
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Budget Garlic bread, great value

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...Garlic Bread is one of my favourite accompaniments to pasta , pizza, or salad . I've been trying to economise, which mainly means that instead of buying Asda own brand, I'm trying, where I can to step down to the smartprice brand - the cheapest they offer- in order to make my money go further . This frozen baguette cost me 36p, which, considering Asda do a 2 pack of their own brand for 98p, would save me 26 pence if I purchased two - not a huge saving, but a saving none the less . Its roughly the same size too, although perhaps slightly less plump, and is divided into nine slices (7 real slices, and 2 ends ) The packaging, like most of the Smart Price products, is a plain white with green writing - nothing to write home about, but it does make it easy to find the smart price items amongst all the others . Cooking this is simple...

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Can you smell garlic?

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: expensive

...A few months ago I went to a Pampered Chef evening which a friend of mine was hosting. These are fun evenings where a Pampered Chef presenter will prepare and cook some dishes for the hostess and her guests and while doing so show off many of the products in the Pampered Chef range, in the hope of course that you will be tempted to buy them. A lot of my friends had really raved about the Pampered Chef garlic press, and not seeing anything else that took my fancy, I thought I would try one of these. Now I guess the most noticeable thing about it is that it is not cheap. In fact it costs a whacking £17 which is really quite a lot considering that you can buy a perfectly respectable garlic press in John Lewis for only £5. 'She must be mad,' I can hear you thinking, but this product was really described as the 'bees knees' of garlic...

kingfisher111 20.05.2008 · Read review
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