On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 03:51:03 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 6:20:48 PM UTC-4, notbob wrote:
>> On 7/3/2018 2:54 PM, wrote:
>>
>> > Just this past Friday I bought a bag of pealed garlic at Kroger.
>>
>> About the same time I watched episode three of Rotten, on Netflix. It's
>> called Garlic Breath and is about the multi-Billion dollar garlic
>> industry and how China is using it's huge Harmony Garlic company, along
>> with Chinese prison inmates peeling garlic (they use their teeth) to
>> destroy the US garlic industry.
>>
>> I'll peel my own, thank you.
>>
>> nb
>
>I'll grow my own, too. Much better than the desiccated Chinese product.
>Even California garlic isn't as good. It's probably like tomatoes: big
>growers optimize for everything but taste.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

And there are enough hard and soft neck varieties out there that one
can have truly varied additions to the kitchen. I am also very pleased
with scapes from the hardnecks.

The bed I use for garlic is one I rotate quite a bit. Wildflowers this
year.