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Henry touring
one of our fields
of organic seed garlic at
Boundary Garlic in Midway, BC |
Boundary Garlic specializes
in heritage garlic for seed. 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 will be selling
many of these for the first time this year. 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 two
weakly bolting hardnecks:
Asiatic and Turban, and from the softneck variety
Artichoke. Many
of our garlics have limits of 2 bulbs as the maximum
you can order.
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:
Dan's Russian,
Fish Lake 3,
Georgian Fire,
Leningrad,
Majestic,
Melody,
Music, Northern
Québec,
Romanian Red, Susan
Delafield,
and
Yugoslavian.
The standard Purple Stripes: Chesnok
Red, and Persian
Star. The Marbled Purple Stripe:
Kostyn's
Red Russian.
This year we are installing 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 now available. We
will begin taking orders August 15, 2011.
Bulbils
We
have grown many of these 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.
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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.
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