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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! Today we begin a series on garlic designed to teach you everything you need to know to choose, to plant, to nourish, to harvest, to cure and to enjoy that magnificent vegetable we call garlic. Researchers now believe, based on biochemical and molecular markers from the most primitive fertile garlic strains identified by collectors, that garlic originated on the northwestern side of the Tien Shan in Central Asia. It began to be cultivated in that area and then was transported to China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. From there it made its way into Turkey and eventually into Europe. In prehistoric times, garlic may have been indigenous to a broad area from China and India

The Second Season – Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs To Be Planted Mid-summer For A Late Autumn Harvest: Part XIII Poppies!

Order Poppy Seeds Now Plant Them in November For A Magnificent 2019 Garden There are 4 species of poppy that are well known to gardeners: Papaver orientale, Papaver nudicaule, Papaver rhoeas and Papaver somniferum. Three of these are legal to grow. The fourth, P.somniferum, the Opium Poppy is not legal to grow. However, it is interesting the way the law is written. It is legal to own Opium Poppy seed, but not legal to grow it. A fifth plant, Eschscholzia aurantiaca, commonly known as the California Poppy, is not a true poppy but has a similar looking blossom. P. nudicaule, the Iceland Poppy, and P. orientale known as the Oriental Poppy are perennials. P. rhoeas, known as the Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy, or Shirley Poppy depending on the