Jere Folgert
What Type of Garlic Will Grow Best in Zone 4 or Zone 5?
Question: What Type of Garlic Grows Best in USDA Hardiness Zone 4 or Zone 5? Answer: Hardneck Garlic. (Hardneck varieties of garlic are...
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Jere Folgert
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
Boosting Soil Health and Rotted Underpants
How is your soil health? Find out by burying a pair of underwear! To educate the public about soil health, the Pennsylvania Soil Health...
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Jere Folgert
- Feb 26, 2022
- 6 min
The First Fully Automated Farms ?
Automated Harvest is Coming. Automation is becoming more appealing to farmers and investors, though advocates say not everyone is likely...
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Jere Folgert
- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
Gourmet Dried Garlic Morsels
At GroEat Farm, we have transformed some of the hardneck garlic we have grown at our farm in Montana, into extraordinary, premium-quality...
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Jere Folgert
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
Therapeutic Effects of Garlic and Lead Poisoning
Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol. 2012 May;110(5):476-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2011.00841.x. Epub 2011 Dec 29. Comparison of therapeutic...
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Jere Folgert
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
Garlic Compounds. Half-Life of Garlic "Hotness" after Crushing or Chopping.
You just cut, chopped, and smashed a few cloves of Garlic. Immediately, a powerful chemical reaction begins. Crushing or chopping...
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Jere Folgert
- Dec 17, 2020
- 10 min
Raw Garlic vs Garlic Powder.
Raw Garlic vs Garlic Powder? Which Tastes Better? We put Raw Garlic "head to head" with Garlic Powder in this food face-off. To clear...
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Jere Folgert
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Acclimating garlic?
If you are relatively new to growing garlic you may be asking the question: "What is Acclimating Garlic?" If you recently acquired seed...
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Jere Folgert
- Sep 18, 2020
- 7 min
Garlic Needs Boron. (Garlic also needs Zinc, Copper and Iron too).
First, it is critically important to understand that too much of a good thing can really cause problems with your garlic plants. In...
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Jere Folgert
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Perfect Farm Combo: Garlic and Mountains
Harvest time always presents Gallatin County, Montana as its picturesque best. Farmers are busy harvesting wheat, canola, potatoes, dry...
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Jere Folgert
- Jul 15, 2020
- 4 min
How Long Does Garlic Last in a Refrigerator?
Your recipe calls for four cloves of garlic. You open the fridge and start shuffling around the vegetable drawer and you find a whole...
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Jere Folgert
- Jun 20, 2020
- 4 min
Flame Weeding and Garlic
Fire is Awesome. Flame Weeding is Awesome. It adds FUN to growing garlic. Fire is the visible effect of the process of combustion. ...
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Jere Folgert
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
Benefits of Growing Food, From Pain to Recovery
My dad and my grandmother both had big gardens and grew much of the food they consumed. As a young kid, I have vivid memories of...
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Jere Folgert
- Mar 16, 2020
- 6 min
Optimize Fertilizer Applications For Garlic!
Garlic plants have specific needs - light, air, water, space to grow, and essential nutrients - to survive and reproduce. Let's focus on...
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Jere Folgert
- Mar 1, 2020
- 8 min
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Garlic
COVID-19, GARLIC, CoronaVirus
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Jere Folgert
- Jan 5, 2020
- 4 min
Planting Garlic in Spring
At our GROeat Garlic Farm in Montana, we plant hardneck garlic cloves in the fall, just before Halloween. The cloves are placed in the...
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Jere Folgert
- Nov 15, 2019
- 8 min
What are the benefits of garlic?
Garlic (Allium sativum), is used widely as a flavoring in cooking, but it has also been used as a medicine throughout ancient and modern...
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Jere Folgert
- Aug 15, 2019
- 5 min
WHEN SHOULD WE HARVEST HARDNECK GARLIC? TIMING IS EVERYTHING!
Are the bottom three to five leaves on your garlic brown, with a few green leaves toward the top? It’s time to harvest!
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Jere Folgert
- Jul 25, 2019
- 5 min
When to Harvest Hardneck Garlic
When do We Harvest Hardneck Garlic ? Hardneck garlic is typically ready to be harvested when the bottom three or four leaves are brown...
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Jere Folgert
- Jul 4, 2019
- 8 min
Buying Garlic Seed or Buying Seed Garlic?
Order Your Garlic from GroEat Farm
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