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06-07-2017, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
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Everything from Iowa is big, especially Iowa Dave's
Garlic, from his brother's farm. I was sweating crossing border with this contraband inside my trailer. It could pass for an onion, it is so large....one clove is about the size of an entire regular bulb.
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06-07-2017, 04:41 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Olathe, Kansas
Trailer: 2015 21ft Escape "Spirit of the Plains", 2014 GMC Sierra with max tow package
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That will put hair on your chest. And you haven't had good sweet corn until you've had Iowa sweet corn. Loren
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06-07-2017, 07:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Santa Rosa County, Florida
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 Tow: 2024 Toyota Tundra
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An ag inspector searched my trailer when I came across the border after the rally.
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06-07-2017, 07:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,258
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Garlic
Jim:
We went over to Chilliwack and camped at Cultis Lake for two days and crossed the border on Wednesday. Having been relieved of three small potatoes two years ago I answered the query about fruits and vegetables with great certainty as I had nothing like that with me. It was about that time that I thought about the garlic I had given you and kinda hoped however unrealistically that you had consumed it all at Osoyoos. Glad you made it ok. I'll have more in the fall I think, so hopefully we won't have to make another clandestine exchange. Glad you are enjoying it. That was about all I had left from last years' crop.
Dave
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06-07-2017, 07:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Steveston B.C., British Columbia
Trailer: 2012- 17'B.... 2016 Tacoma SR5 TRD
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Up here in the Great White North ...We call it Elephant 150 Garlic ..
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06-07-2017, 08:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: O town, British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 "Lightning"
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Locally we get some nice big Russian garlic grown in the Fraser Valley. Wonderful flavour that doesn't overpower.
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06-07-2017, 08:21 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
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I'm not a fan of garlic, with one exception - Red Sulmona. Unfortunately, it's hard to find outside of Italy.
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06-07-2017, 08:46 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
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Garlic
The garlic my brother grows is not the Elephant garlic variety. I asked him about it once. The "seed source" he used came from Johnnys Seeds in Maine. About 10 years ago while on a vacation in New England he made a special stop at Johnnys and walked out into the field to meet him and discuss gardening. He the bought like 8 or10 cloves for like a buck apiece and brought them home and began to grow garlic in his garden. He told me he grew 600 plants last year. He plants them in late October or so and mulches them up big with White Pine Needles. He told me today he was taking the scrapes off of this years plants this afternoon and the plants looked pretty big for this early so he was hoping for another banner year. My grandmother and grandfather were subsistence farmers in Tama county Iowa. They were great growers and so was my mom and dad. We all have a green thumb but mine got covered with axle grease, pine pitch, hog blood and fish slime and never developed like my 2 brothers did. Look up Johnnys seeds on line. It's quite an operation
Dave
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