Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[achookwoman]

Marina, garlic and olive oil are not a good combination unless cooked.   Then I think it will only last about 4 months in the Fridge. I am going to freeze some as whole cloves. I believe that it will go soft but hold its flavour.

[Katj]

Love the carrots Chookie, they look like they are fighting, maybe for more space in the garden.
Some years back when I worked in 'In home care', I used to regularly visit an elderly couple who had 2 lungs between them (1 each). Always looking for natural remedies to ward off colds and flus, they would cram garlic cloves into jars and fill with honey, they would let them sit for a month, then eat them straight from the jar, 1 or 2 every day.

[mcmich]

Love the carrots Chookie, they look like they are fighting, maybe for more space in the garden.
Some years back when I worked in 'In home care', I used to regularly visit an elderly couple who had 2 lungs between them (1 each). Always looking for natural remedies to ward off colds and flus, they would cram garlic cloves into jars and fill with honey, they would let them sit for a month, then eat them straight from the jar, 1 or 2 every day.

How interesting. Did it work for them and did you ever try one?

[achookwoman]

Katj, interesting. Ral has honey on his cereal every morning.  Hardly ever gets a cold.
I was talking to a 'honey' lady at the Market .  She said that the unfiltered honey has all sorts of goodies in it and can help people who have allergies. One of the things she mentioned was a substance that the bees have to cross to enter the hive. It cleans their feet so the don't take germs into the hive. There are small bits of this in the unfiltered honey.
Not sure that I could cope with garlic in honey.

[Katj]

Interesting Chookie, keeping bees has become more popular in recent time. They are very clever little creatures.
When Cookie, myself and others go to the Cooking on Coventry classes run by Nikki & Nerissa, we have the opportunity to buy honey fresh from the hive from one of Nikki's neighbours. It is so nice.
I love the Manuka honey skin care products from NZ. They are available online from a QLD co. Manuka honey is sold for it's medicinal properties also. Used as an antiseptic.
Michelle, I love garlic, so eating them whole did'nt bother me, A little sweeter having been in the honey. I remember being conscious of having garlic breath around clients so ended up using most of it in cooking stir fries etc.

The elderly couple were always cold free.

[mcmich]

I love manuka skin products too. DH usually picks me some up when he goes home.

[obbie]

Weed to have bee hives years ago, but gave them away.

Often we get fresh honey from people we know,  it just tastes so much better than shop bought.

[cookie1]

I'd love to have a hive in the yard but it isn't a good idea as DH and bees don't like each other at all.

[spersephone]

I love garlic, I buy three or four bulbs at a time at the fruit shop. I'm very stressed when I occasionally run out!

[achookwoman]

Sarah, you might like to try buying it when cheap and freeze it. Seems to work well.

[obbie]

we are getting buckets of plums at the moment from our tree.

[achookwoman]

Obbie, lucky you. Plum jam, plum sauce, plum paste, stewed plums.

[spersephone]

Aaarrrgggghhhh! Ran out of garlic today! It wasn't required, but I wanted it. MUST get more tomorrow. I really have to organise my garden, but I'm working in sorting out the inside first.

[achookwoman]

Sarah, good time to buy Australian garlic. Most has been harvested by now.

[cookie1]

I bought about 20 bulbs of Australian garlic the other day. I think I will confit it.