#a garden of garlic

[naffeclipse]

Merry Christmas @o-cinnamonstickz! This is dedicated to the most wonderful person in the world, my loveliest friend, and a dear soul. Cinna, I hope you know how much I adore you. You are such a kind and gentle soul. You flutter around my life like butterflies of every color and you deserve every sip of nectar and taste of honey. Thank you for being my friend. Won't you indulge with me once again?

A Garden Of Garlic

Part 1: An Encounter at Midnight

Vampire!Sun x Y/N (SFW)

You nurse the wild garlic growing in your garden, tend to the dead (and ensure they stay resting in peace,) and keep a watchful eye out for vampires in your cozy little town. There's much you don't know, but you do know this: automatons can't become vampires. But then you meet Sun. A count, an automaton, and, to your surefire conviction, a vampire.

Word Count: 10,700~ Warnings: Please see tags/warnings.

A/N: This is the first part of a three-part series focused on Vampire!Sun and his romance with a human female reader. The short journey will contain many gratifying moments, mild lore, and much of Sun being an equal menace and sweetheart. Expect to see the next part posted tomorrow, and the last posted after that.

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Azalea

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Fun fact the reason garlic was believed to repeal evil spirits and vampires is because it repealdls pests including fungus, many insects, certain rodents etc because it produces fungicides, and produces lots of strong smelling sulfurous compounds hence why you can never have enough garlic in your garden especially around apple trees since apple trees are particularly vulnerable to fungi that are repelled by garlic

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 20 March 2024

The edible plant Allium triquetrum (triangular garlic, three-cornered leek, angled onion, onion weed) is considered an invasive species in some countries. It will quickly cover the ground and is very challenging to remove!

Jill Raggett

[btransplant]

The Olive Garden manager approaches my table assertively. "Sir, we know we said 'unlimited' garlic sticks, but this is a bit excessive."

"More!" I yell. "More, now!"

A fifth wave of vampires has shown up in the parking lot. My throwing arm is getting tired.

[rubydart]

unnecessarily aesthetic foods

[heydrangeas]

hey. hey. did you know if you buy a rotisserie chicken ($5-10 depending on where you get it) you can dig into it like a rat, then strip and save the rest of the meat, then make as much stock as you can fit in your largest pot by simply simmering the bones with herbs and veggies or veggie scraps for 6-8 hours, thereby easily doubling the value of your purchase and making the best soup base ever?

[artificial-condition]

Finally peeled and preserved the rest of the garlic cloves from the summer harvest. They’ve been in a bag separated but unpeeled and I’ve been slowly using them until now.

They’re not canned but instead hot vinegar is poured on the peeled cloves and they stay good all year in the fridge. The vinegar makes it to where no bad bacteria can grow on them and the enzymes from the garlic prevent the garlic from absorbing and tasting like vinegar. Just fish out however many cloves you need and use like normal!!

Hardneck cloves are in the jar on the left! They’re so much bigger and I like them so much more. Easier to peel, bigger cloves, and you get garlic scapes (delicious) before harvesting the bulbs. Last year I ordered mostly softneck and a little hardneck and this year I flipped it so that next year I’ll have primarily hardneck :)

Also, a lot of the newly planted garlics have popped! It’s not preferable for them to pop before spring but my weather is unpredictable and it happens every year. The cold will kill them but they’ll come right back in the spring 🌱

[landwriter]

god, but garlic! garlic!!! garlic is SO neat

rows are may thru aug & the final row is after cleaning and trimming them for storage. they should keep until early feb. in another two months it’ll be time to plant new cloves and repeat the process. year round garlic action! how cool is that?? 🧄

[naffeclipse]

His voice lowers to dark silk with a wicked shine in his eyes, teeth half-bared. “Invite me in and let me show you.”

KICKING AND SQUELING O MY GOOOOD.

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Wild Garlic (Allium Ursinum)

[samirafee]

#ALLIUM URSINUM - WOOD GARLIC

@samirafee

[yugimoto]

my grandad’s garden!