Our Gourmet Garlic

French (Rocambole) Garlic.

German Red (Rocambole) Garlic.

Russian Red (Rocambole) Garlic.

Uzbekistan (Rocambole) Garlic.

Spanish Roja (Rocambole).

Legacy (Rocambole)

Creme De La Rasa (Marbled Purple Stripe) Garlic.

Kostyn Red (Marbled Purple Stripe) Garlic.

Czech (Marbled Purple Stripe) Garlic.

French (Porcelain) Garlic.

"Music" Italian (Porcelain) Garlic... the juiciest of our garlic varieties.

Yugoslavian (Porcelain). For the politically correct... this garlic seed is from when Yugoslavia was still a country so as to exactly which area it is from today it is hard to say... as it is no longer a country but split into 3 countries now, being (Serbia, Albania, and Croatia).

Trying another new "Music" Italian Porcelain seed garlic from another source... just to see if this seed is more robust than the one I already have. Will see results in 2019 harvest.

Chesnok Red (Purple Stripe) Garlic.

Persian Star (Purple Stripe) Garlic.

Tibetan (Purple Stripe) Garlic.

Bogatyr (Purple Stripe).

Duganski (Purple Stripe).

The Portuguese, I highly suspect is a "Turban" Garlic and not a (Purple Stripe) as I've originally though. I got this seed from "Salt Spring Island Seed" but they did not repond back to me on the kind of garlic this was... My reseach pictures shows that it may be infact a Turbin by look. This gar...

Elephant Garlic... which is actually not a true garlic but of the leek family. It has a much milder taste than a regular garlic for those who want a light garlic taste in their dishes. The Elephant Garlic is also known as: "Russian Garlic, French Garlic, and Buffalo Garlic".

Our Agentinian (Softneck, Artichoke variety) Garlic.

A peeled "Elephant Garlic Clove".

Preparing our garlic beds... my husband helping me to hand turn the garden beds ready for garlic to be planted here for the next years harvest.

Spacing bulbs on the planting bed to plant, at the end of October in a 18ft. bed.

Making sure you plant the garlic cloves with the root side down into the dirt.

Pushing clove through the dirt to about a 2 and a half inch depth.

With my hand as an quick and easy measurement, I push through the dirt with the clove in my finger tips to my third knuckle depth as a quick reference for the depth they need to be planted.

Garlic just sprouting from the ground in early spring.

Porcelain Garlic seedlings about 3 inches tall.

Russian Garlic seedlings about 4 inches tall.

Elephant garlic seedlings are always the last to sprout. As you can see their tops are like the leeks.

Some garlic seedlings up close.

200 heads of garlic at 6-8 inches long

Garlic growing in May... a foot and a half long.

Garlic at the beginning of June.

Husband helping me to over turn the soil right after harvesting garlic from their beds.

Never pull garlic bulbs out of the soil, as you can damage the paper husk or parchment that wraps their cloves.

Showing the garlic right out of the ground as I dug it up with the small shovel making sure not to damage the bulb.

Lightly rubbing off dirt from the bulb to dry and then cure.

Garlic bulbs need to dry for about 4 hours before bringing them in to cure... It wil toughen up their skin a bit before you bring them in to dry. You want to make sure you have them out of direct sun light to dry.

Showing some garlic bundled off set from each bulb to promote air circulation as they cure.

Garlic after drying for about 4 hours, then bunched for curing.

Curing with entire stem with scape on it makes for longer storage life for your garlic... however, you will get smaller bulbs. If you cut the scapes off when they loop once or twice depending on their variety... you will have bigger bulbs but your storage life will be less.

Garlic is now cured after 3 weeks and now the process of cutting and cleaning them to sell.

Garlic after cleaning process. You want to take off just the first wrapper or 2 depending on the type of garlic. Some garlic have only a few layers of wrappers while others have an extra few layers depending on type. You want to take off the wrapper that has dirt and debris on it. You then cut y...

Huge bag of "Music" Porcelain Garlic. The mesh bag gives it great air-circulation for your garlic to keep longer. Always store your garlic at room temperature. Refridgerators or cold rooms will encourage the garlic to sprout.

"Porcelain Garlic" processed, ready for storage or selling.

Here is an Elephant Garlic with a "Corm" attached.

We grow 16 kinds of Organic Gourmet Garlic here on our little farm. Below are pictures of their growing stages, what we do to process them for storage.

*You can view the ongoing slide show above, or, you can click on a picture and use the arrows manually to give you more time to read the info under each tomato... enjoy.

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