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Herbs in the UK a general plant profile and some growing hints.

Herbs have been used widely in the UK for centuries, cooking herbs, medicinal herbs and aromatic herbs. Herbs are also used as insect repellents as dyes and in soaps shampoos and cosmetics. Cooking herbs include rosemary, parsley, sage, oregano,thyme, chervil, chives, basil, dill and many more. Aloe has been used to treat burns, lavender is used as an aromatic, witch hazel is a herb used in cosmetics, valerian as a sedative. Liqorice is used both as a flavouring and medicinally. Wormwood and tansy are two herbs used as insect repellents. Growing condition vary greatly, so ask your supplier for an information sheet. You need to make sure that you check with a reliable source before using herbs medicinally.


Garlic :: Garlic is from the allium family and has been used for culinery and medicinal purposes for centuries. Allium sativum is the garlic used in cooking, but with over 200 varieties thew choice is great, different intensities and flavours exist accross the species. Generally speaking plant garlic in winter and harvest during summer after the bottom half of the plant starts to die back. Garlic comes as 'softneck garlic', 'hardneck garlic' and 'elephant garlic'. Softneck Garlics include: 'silverskin', 'turban', 'chinese pink', 'transylvanian'and 'creole'. Hardneck Garlics: include 'purple stripe', 'porcelain' , 'italian purple' and 'russian red'. Elephant Garlics are large and can be roasted whole. So Hardnecks have the most flavour, Softnecks are easy to grow and last longer once harvested and Elephants are big. For ornamental garlics visit our allium page .

Growing Garlic

A well cultivated soil to allow the garlic plant roots to go deep, a sunny position and dig in some well rotted cow manure. Plant 50cm deep, 100 - 150cm apart. Water garlic up until December or when the first leaves start to change color. Harvest Garlic when the bottom half of the leaves turn brown, but the top half are still green.

The colder the winter the stronger the garlic.
Our favourite garlic... Porcelains, they have large cloves, great flavor and store well for a hardneck garlic.
 

GARLIC RECIPES

Garlic Bread.
Roasted potatoes with garlic.
Homus.
Baba Ganoush.
Garlic Steak.
Pesto.


Garlic Types.

SOFTNECK GARLICS INCLUDE:
Achatami, Acropolis Greek, Applegate, California Early, Chet's Italian Red, Chinese Pink, Early Italian Red, Flowerpot Garlic, French Tarne, Inchelium Red, Kettle River Giant, Lorz Italian, Nootka Rose, Polish White, Red Italian, Red Toch, Shantung Purple, Siciliano, Silver Rose, Silverskin, Silverwhite, Simonetti, Susanville, Transylvanian, Turban, Tuscan.

HARDNECK GARLICS (our favourites) INCLUDE:
Armenian Porcelain, Asian Tempest, Bogatyr, Brown Tempest, Bzenc,Chesnok Red, Flowerpot Garlic, French Germinador, Georgia Crystal, Georgia Fire, German Hardy, German Porcelain, German Red, GermanWhite, Guatemalan Ikeda, Italian Purple, Killarney Red, Korean Red, Lavigna, Leningrad,Marino, Metechi, Morado Gigante, Persian Star, Polish Hardneck, Purple Glazer, Purple Stripe, Pyong Vang Korean, Red Rezan, Romanian Red, Rosewood, Russian Giant, Russian Red, Shatili, Siberian, Spanish Roja, Stull, Temptress, Vekak Czech, Xian

The colder the winter the stronger the garlic.

GARLIC SUPPLIERS

Nickys Seeds and Garden Games
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Purveyor of quality seeds worldwide of all your favourite, rare and unusual seeds. Includes a largeb range of herbs. Garden Sundries and Garden Games

Norfolk Herbs
NORFOLK HERBS
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Norfolk Herbs are growers of naturally raised culinary, medicinal and aromatic herb plants for wholesale, retail and mail order supply together with Bay Trees, Scented Pelargoniums and Hand Thrown English Garden Terracotta to give stature, colour, scent and flavour to a window-sill, patio, garden or landscape

 
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