There is a confusion regarding allicin. Fresh garlic releases allicin when crushed. BUT your stomach releases acids which kill the effectiveness of the allicin of fresh crushed eaten garlic.  WHAT TO DO? Enteric coated garlic pills (usually called low odor or odorless) contain ALLIIN which when it reaches your small intestine, converts into ALLICIN.  Garlic pill labels that claim that the pills contain ALLICIN are in error.  The coating permits the pills to pass through your stomach not affected by the stomach acids, and go into your small intestine which has secretions which convert the ALLIIN into ALLICIN which is the antibacterial, antifungal agent. 

Fresh garlic is a fine addition to your cooking at home.  Garlic is said to have anti-fungal and antibiotic qualities.  Also mosquitoes hate you if your body pores smell of garlic.  If you hate the taste of garlic, what can you do? There are garlic capsules at the pharmacy.  Look for the ones that say no smell or almost no smell.  Garlic helps some people who suffer from sinusitis.  Personally, I use the capsules, but they ay be too strong for you.  They seem a bit high-powered.  However, you could easily grow some garlic on your windowsill or in your garden. 

Here is how to grow garlic:  it is easy, you just buy a nice fresh garlic at the store and when you are ready to plant your garlic, you just break it into its cloves and plant each clove.  Do not plant too deep.  Container planting is good for garlic. Use sterile potting soil. Garlic does not like to be kept wet, so allow the soil to dry out before you water again.  Place the container in the sun for part of the day.  All day sun can be too much for the young garlic plants.  Sprinkle a bit of cornmeal and cayenne pepper powder around the base of the new plants if they are outdoors, to deter worms, ants and aphids.  After a heavy rain, you will need to re-sprinkle this mixture. You don't need to put very much around the plants; just sprinkle lightly. You can grow garlic near your tomatoes and roses, they are good companion plants.

How do you know when your garlic is ready to pull up out of the ground and get it cleaned up and ready to enjoy?  Just watch the leaves.  While the leaves are green, the plant is building the garlic cloves under the soil.  When the leaves turn brown and wither, THEN is the moment to pull up the garlic you grew yourself.

Kids love to grow garlic because it is so easy. Other plants that love to grow near garlic are herbs like caraway, all the mints, lemon balm, catnip, and lots of other herbs. 

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Always remember to keep fennel and tansy well away from your main garden.  They are great attractors of beneficial insects, but you need to put them in a corner by themselves because they harbor so many aphids. The beneficial insects flock to the fennel and tansy, so this is the reason you want these plants. Just keep them sort of far away from your garlic and other vegies.

 

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