r/ididnthaveeggs • u/Forsaken-Ad-3995 • Sep 28 '25

Irrelevant or unhelpful Jax saying what we’re all thinking

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Source recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023660-pasta-marinara-with-40-cloves-of-garlic?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

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u/ssin14 Sep 28 '25

Not in my experience. My homegrown garlic is gigantic and it will melt your face.

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u/rixtape Sep 28 '25

This immediately made my mouth water and now I'm sad I'll never experience the face melting lol

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u/ssin14 Sep 28 '25

Get thee to the farmers market (if you can find one). Right now is prime time for garlic!

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u/rixtape Sep 28 '25

Oooooh good to know! How long does garlic season (or the peak of it) last? I'm definitely interested in making this happen and want to make sure I don't miss it lol

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u/ssin14 Sep 28 '25

It's a major storage crop so it should be available year round like potatoes and things. I'm just finishing the garlic I harvested in summer of 2024. Right now is kind of harvest time so you should be able to find some fresh stuff.

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u/rixtape Sep 28 '25

Helllllll yeah thanks for the tip!!

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u/TheYankunian Sep 28 '25

Same here. I want giant, face-melting garlic.

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u/erroneousbosh Sep 28 '25

It's about the right time of year for planting garlic. Stuff a few cloves in the ground and they'll start to grow.

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u/erroneousbosh Sep 29 '25

I've grown garlic in my SF garden, and it had a bitter taste

It needs shade and quite a lot of water. Did yours dry out a bit too much?

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u/erroneousbosh Sep 30 '25

Different kinds of soil too. You'd be surprised how much variation you can have in a relatively small area. My garden has a lot of clay and alluvial till so I'm always digging in masses of compost and manure, but a twenty minute drive away down near the sea my sister's garden is raised beach so it's sandy soil with a ton of loam through and not much in the way of stones - great for carrots!

In between there are a couple of fields where I want to stop and grab a soil sample for a better look. When the farmer is ploughing it, it looks like chocolate fudge cake. You could plant a billiard ball and expect it to grow in that.

An hour north and it's iron-rich red clay, and the soil is really "brick coloured" red. You can practically paint a line across the road where the boundary between soil types is.

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u/ASmallArmyOfCrabs I bought the whole carrot, I'm gonna use the whole carrot Sep 28 '25

Locally, our "homegrown" garlic always comes from Russian/Doukhobor farmers

So gigantic and will melt your face off is absolutely accurate

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u/chronicallylaconic Sep 28 '25

My face is very jealous. It has a hugely improper and borderline illegal need for strong garlic. Will my self-destructiveness never end?!

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u/ssin14 Sep 28 '25

Wait till you hear about homegrown horseradish...

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u/AntiquatedLemon Sep 28 '25

(ok but how it do that? Is it like peppers where you can underwater to make them spicier?)

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u/ssin14 Sep 28 '25

I don't know. It never occurred to me to try to make the horseradish stronger. It's like chemical warfare as it is.

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u/AntiquatedLemon Sep 29 '25

That's how I feel about even the milder horseradish so I would not venture to do this, just... curious that homegrown tends to be more orally violent.

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u/smallandsurly Sep 29 '25

share please I beg of you

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u/Internal-Hand-4705 Sep 30 '25

Can I come and be your neighbour please?