garlic

[tandkvd]

I had never done any thing with real garlic until a few monts ago. Actualy I have never realy cooked until I started drinking wine. I now love to cook, when I have time. Usualy on the week ends. Making a good mael and having just the right wine with it is wonderfull. And my wife wants me to go on a diet!!

It's gotten to the point that my wife gets teritorial when it comes to the kitchen. She scrutinizes every spice I put in. I love garlic, and Emerials Essence. We never used to many spices before. The spices we had were bad. But now we use alot of spices, and keep garlic on hand all the time.

As for soil, we used to live in a house that was built in the 1930's. One family had lived there all but 2 years since the house was built. We bought the house in 1987. My wife was a stay at home mom then. She always kept a garden. The former owners had rich black soil brought in for the garden. We extended the garden and almost doubled it. The new part was all Carolina Red Clay. We had a very large pecan tree in the back yard, and every year I would rake the leaves onto the garden in the fall. In the spring I added lime and turned them over with the tiller. We lived there for 12 years and when we sold the house you couldn't tell which part was the old garden and which was the new.

We now live in a development with a small yard (less grass to cut) and last year I mad a small 6 x 12 ft raised garden. It did real good last year. This year we are wanting to plant more herbs.