Silver Rose Garlic
You might be wondering why I am posting a picture of a cured garlic bulb at this time of year. Most of us are busy harvesting and curing our garlic. What’s particularly interesting about this bulb of garlic is it’s from last year! That’s right, this garlic has been sitting around for a full year now.
This is what the inside of the cloves look like:
Okay, perhaps it’s not the freshest looking garlic, and ever so slightly soft to the touch, but still very edible! None of the cloves are rotten. A month ago there wasn’t even any sign of sprouting.
This bulb didn’t actually come from my garden, rather it was leftover planting stock from an order. It’s possible what grows in my garden will have different storage properties.
Now that I have fresher garlic from my garden, this bulb is going into the compost bin.
For anyone who wants to eat home grown garlic all year round, this is a very interesting variety to consider!
This is a Silverskin type garlic.
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Patrick,
Will you have any of this to trade later in the year – what a keeper!
I just harvested some yesterday, and the answer is yes I will have some, but the bulbs I grew are a bit on the small side. I suspect this isn’t really one of the best northern Europe wet weather varieties…
But yes, as far as keeping, I’ve never seen anything like it!
This is my first year growing garlic so seeing your post has made me excited.
I’m new to your blog and I like it a lot! I can’t wait to look at some of your back posts. I will definately be following along from here.