Thai 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. Weakly bolting harnecks varieties are Asiatic, Creole and Turban (sub-species Allium sativum ophioscorodon). 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 simply labelled the garlic strain as a weakly bolting hardneck.

We recently learned that we confused the Asiatic and Turban Garlics. Asiatics have a long beak on the umbel of the bulbil capsule and a few large bulbils. Turban garlics have many small bulbils.

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.

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Come Back March 2012
Our shopping cart is closed for the winter. We still have some seed garlic and if it keeps well over winter we will be selling it for spring planting. Check back in March 2012 to see what is available.

Weakly Bolting Hardneck Seed Varieties