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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

 
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.
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We are completely sold out of seed garlic bulbs for 2009.

Weakly Bolting Hardnecks

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Asian Tempest - Sold Out for 2009

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. 10 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic- Organic Seed

Chinese Purple - Sold Out for 2009

Chinese Purple is a Turban with a rich, pleasant flavour. Vigorous growth. An early garlic. 10 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Japanese - Sold Out for 2009

Japanese is an early  Asiatic with a pleasant, lingering taste and some subtlety. 5 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Sweet Haven - Sold Out for 2009

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


Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Thai - Sold Out for 2009

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. 10 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Tibetan - Sold Out for 2009

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. 3 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic - Spanish Roja - Organic Seed

Wildfire - Sold Out for 2009

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. 5 bulb limit

Softneck Garlics

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Formidable - NEW - Sold Out for 2009

Formidable is a softneck, probably of the Artichoke variety, from Paul Pospisil.
3 bulb limit


Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Inchelium Red - Sold Out for 2009

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.
5 bulb limit


Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Piedmont - NEW - Sold Out for 2009

Piedmont is a softneck, probably of the Artichoke variety, from Paul Pospisil.
3 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Sicilian Gold - Sold Out for 2009

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. 5 bulb limit

Artichoke Garlic - Organic Seed

Western Rose - NEW - Sold Out for 2009

Western Rose is a small softneck from Salt Spring Seeds.
3 bulb limit


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