Organic Seed Garlic - Boundary Garlic, BC, Canada

Henry touring one of our fields of organic seed garlic at Boundary Garlic in Midway, BC

Boundary Garlic specializes in heritage garlic for planting. We sell by mail order across Canada. We sell only certified organic seed garlic that we have grown on our own property. Seed garlic is garlic which has been grown with meticulous attention to quality. We have had organic certification since 2004.

My husband Henry and I - I’m Sonia - began growing garlic on the ranch in 1999. The ranch is in the Boundary area in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. In the beginning we started with several heirloom cultivars. These flourished and now we have more than 150 distinct strains of garlic in the ground at the garlic farm.

In 2009 we acquired a lot of new garlics from Al Picketts of Eureka Garlic in PEI and we began selling these in 2011. You can contact Al directly to see what else he has available.

Our relationship with garlic is transforming into a conscious partnership. The more carefully we listen, the better we are able to meet the needs of the different garlics and to collaborate with them in their culture and dissemination.

What We Grow

The Canadian climate is particularly well suited to growing true hardneck garlic varieties. We continue to introduce new cultivars (strains) and select those which thrive in our cold winters and moderately hot summers. We also have softneck garlics and ‘weakly bolting hardnecks’. For information on the changing face of garlic classification see the article by Bob Anderson on the Garlic Family Tree.

The varieties pages show the garlics available. There is a good selection of cultivars from each of the five hardneck varieties: Rocambole, Porcelain, Purple Stripe, Marbled Purple Stripe and Glazed Purple Stripe; from the weakly bolting hardnecks: Asiatic, Creole and Turban, and from the softneck variety Artichoke. Many of our garlics have limits of 2 or 4 bulbs as the maximum you can order - these are ones in our seed saver collection.

There are also a number of garlics you can order in substantial amounts, all of which we would recommend to growers anywhere in Canada. The Porcelains: Fish Lake 3, Georgian Fire, Leningrad, Melody, Music, Northern Québec, Romanian Red, Susan Delafield, and Yugoslavian.  The standard Purple Stripes: Chesnok Red, and Persian Star.  The Marbled Purple Stripes: Central Siberian, Czech Broadleaf, Gourmet Red and Kostyn's Red Russian.

In 201r we installed an online shopping cart with PayPal or credit card payment. You may also pay by cheque. There is more about ordering on the ordering page. The printable 2011 Catalogue for seed garlic bulbs is still available. The 2012 printable catalogue will be available about mid-July. We will begin taking orders August 15, 2012.

Bulbils

We have grown many of the strains up from bulbils. This is an excellent way to develop your planting stock. It is economical and in the years it takes for bulbs to reach their full potential the garlic strains adapt to your particular growing conditions. For more information on growing from bulbils go to our bulbils page and for information on availability contact us. For more of Henry's pictures of bulbils and of our experience growing bulbils visit his photo gallery, a work in progress.

Bulbils of the Marbled Purple Stripe, Khabar	Bulbils of the Porcelain, Susan Delafield	Bulbils of the Rocambole, Korean Purple
want to see more pics of bulbils? visit Henry's gallery

Garlic is really easy to grow in the home garden. We have lots of tips for growing our gourmet garlic. If you don’t find the answers to your questions on this website, please feel free to email us for help in producing superlative garlic bulbs that will keep for many months.