Metechi Garlic
This garlic is a Marbled Purple Stripe type.
This garlic was a bit of a surprise. This was my first year growing it, and it did very well compared with most of my other varieties. It is another great garlic from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
The taste is hot and spicy for sure, but at the same time it can get lost in cooked foods because cooking mellows the flavor so much. It’s very nice raw, because the flavor is not overwhelming.
The color ranges from very purple to very white, and the cloves are large and have the same coloring as the skin.
The skin is very thick and paper like. Most garlic has a skin that kind of flakes off with a bit of rubbing. This skin requires a deliberate tear with a knife or finger nail, and can then be gently torn off. Time will tell if this skin is an advantage or not. The cloves were very wet after curing, and the thick skin may cause it to mold. At the same time, the thick skin may keep it from drying out and shriveling up.
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That looks wonderful! I don’t seem to have much luck with garlic. All I end up with is conkers! I think I will have to ‘fess up’ one day and publish photos of my growing failures!
Hi Matron,
I too have lots of things I never admit to growing. I think that’s what a blog is all about, publish things that make you look good and forget about the rest!
Of the 70 or so varieties of garlic I grew this year, you will only see pictures of a handful… Many of my garlics didn’t do well this year.
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