Weakly Bolting Hardnecks

The garlics for sale on this page are weakly bolting hardnecks and belong to the sub-species Allium sativum ophioscorodon. Weakly bolting hardneck varieties are Asiatic, Creole and Turban. 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 at all, 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 simply labeled the garlic strain as a weakly bolting hardneck.

Asiatics have a long beak on the umbel of the bulbil capsule and a few large bulbils. Turban garlics have many smallish bulbils. Creole garlics are already normally small in their native warm climates and when grown in Canadian climates they are very small.

Quantity and Price

The price is $3.50 Canadian per bulb when you order 5 or more bulbs of a strain (a named garlic or cultivar) and $4.00 per bulb when you order 1 to 4 bulbs of a strain. If you order more than the allowable maximum number of bulbs, the shopping cart will show a price of $0.00 to indicate that is an invalid order.

Since we have more than 150 strains of garlic planted in a little over an acre there are many garlics for which we only have a small number of bulbs to sell. For each strain we have set a maximum number of bulbs per order so that the garlics are shared fairly.

It is a lot of extra work keeping track of a few bulbs each of so many different garlics. The higher price for small quantities reflects the extra work of being a “seed saver” for garlic and sharing this rich diversity with Canadian collectors, gardeners and farmers.

Customers from the United States and abroad are reminded that Boundary Garlic only exports bulbils. Please enquire for details.