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Other Garlic Varieties

Sicilian Gold garlic bulbs

Recent changes in the understanding of the relationships between different garlics has led to there being five more varieties than there were when this website was first set up. This page of Other Garlic Varieties includes the softneck variety, Artichoke (sub-species Allium sativum sativum) and weakly bolting harnecks varieties Asiatic and Turban (sub-species Allium sativum ophioscorodon), and perhaps some others. Many of the strains of garlic came to us without classification information and so we have made a best guess as to the variety when we could.

A weakly bolting hardneck is a garlic that may have a stalk that is less woody than the standard hardnecks or may not have a stalk, depending on conditions. A single bed will often have bulbs with and without stalks. Where we have observed this behaviour and are not sure of the classification we have just labelled the garlic strain as a weakly bolting hardneck.

For more discussion of garlic varieties see the introduction on our garlic varieties page and the article on the Garlic Family Tree by Bob Anderson of the Gourmet Garlic Gardens.

Garlic Varieties
	Porcelain Garlics Alberta Hardy Dan's Russian Fish Lake 3 Georgian Crystal Georgian Fire Italian Porcelain Leningrad Magical Magnificent Magnifico Majestic Melody Music Northern Quebec Polish Jenn Romanian Red Rosewood Susan Delafield Ukrainian Mavniv Wild Buff Yugoslavian Porcelain
	Purple Stripe, Marbled Purple Stripe and Glazed Purple Stripe Garlics Chesnok Red Czech Broadleaf Gaia's Joy Gourmet Red Khabar Metechi Modova Northern Siberian Persian Star Purple Glazer Red Rezan Siberian Vekek
	Rocambole Garlics Baba Franchuk’s Dan's Italian German Red Killarney Red Korean Purple Puslinch Spanish Roja Spicy Korean Red
	Other Garlics - Weakly Bolting Asian Tempest Chinese Purple Japanese Sweet Haven Thai Tibetan Wildfire
	Other Garlics - Softnecks Formidable Inchelium Red Piedmont Sicilian Gold Western Rose

Garlic Family Tree For more information on the relationships between the garlic varieties see Bob Anderson’s The Garlic Family Tree and Where Garlic Came From from the Gourmet Garlic Gardens website.

Ordering Garlic

The garlics on this page will be in the Collectors Catalogue (CC) which will come out in Mid-August 2010 after the harvest has been assessed.

Weakly Bolting Hardnecks

Asian Tempest

Asian Tempest is a strain of the Asiatic variety, from Korea via Keremeos. Pleasant flavour with some heat. Mid-sized. An early garlic. Asian Tempest is listed In the Seeds of Diversity Canada catalogue of heritage varieties. CC

Chinese Purple

Chinese Purple is a Turban with a rich, pleasant flavour. Vigorous growth. An early garlic. CC

Japanese

Japanese is an early Asiatic with a pleasant, lingering taste and some subtlety.CC

Sweet Haven

Sweet Haven behaves like a weakly bolting hardneck. Pleasant tasting, medium strength. Does well under diverse conditions. CC

Thai

Thai has a delightful, delicate, distinctive flavour. It is a weakly bolting hardneck, an early garlic with small bulbs. Thai is listed In the Seeds of Diversity Canada catalogue of heritage varieties as endangered and hard to find.CC

Tibetan

Tibetan is about three weeks later emerging in the spring. It grows vigorously. We harvest it several weeks after the main harvest. It is an excellent keeper and has a flavour that entices one to eat more. Because of the late harvesting we cannot ship it before mid-September. Tibetan is a weakly bolting hardneck.CC

Artichoke Garlic - Spanish Roja - Organic Seed

Wildfire

Wildfire is a strain of the Turban variety. A hot garlic that lives up to its name. An early garlic from L and O Farms.CC

Softneck Garlics

Formidable

Formidable is a softneck, probably of the Artichoke variety, from Paul Pospisil. CC

Inchelium Red

Inchelium Red is a softneck, probably of the Artichoke variety, from Washington State. It has a pleasant, mild taste. Inchelium Red is listed In the Seeds of Diversity Canada catalogue of heritage varieties.
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Piedmont

Piedmont is a softneck, probably of the Artichoke variety, from Paul Pospisil. CC

Sicilian Gold

Sicilian Gold is a medium strength garlic with a pleasant flavour. It came to us from Salt Spring Seeds. It has consistently produced large softneck bulbs, probably of the Artichoke variety. CC

Western Rose

Western Rose is a small softneck from Salt Spring Seeds. CC

Note on Flavours
Please take our comments on flavour with a generous pinch of salt. The apparent strength and flavour of a strain of garlic is an individual perception. Different people under the same circumstances can have diametrically opposed views on the palatability and heat of a strain of garlic.

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Garlic Bulbils

Rocambole Garlic - Organic Seed in BC