I started today harvesting my first few garlics.  The Asiatic Turban and Creole types always need to be harvested a little earlier that the others, so I started with these.  Even though there are several different varieties of garlic in the picture, they all look pretty similar, with the characteristic reddish skin of the Turban types.

They look really good this year.  They also smell wonderful!  The Turbans are among the most aromatic varieties, and among my favorites.  The only drawback is they do tend to fall apart in the ground if you harvest them too late and they are a little more susceptible to garlic rust.

This garlic is Asiatic Turban type.

This has slightly larger bulbs than my other turban varieties, but otherwise didn’t grow very well in my garden.  The cloves have a nice color, but not as nice as the Uzbek Turban.

This garlic is Asiatic Turban type.

This has a skin pattern similar to my other Asiatic Turban garlics, and the cloves are really bright and colorful. For some reason this garlic formed a lot of single clove bulbs. The 3 bulbs left, right and rear are all single clove bulbs.

This garlic has a wonderful smell when you break open the bulbs.

The garlic is Asiatic Turban type.

All of my garlics of this type have similar purple striped skins.  This type of garlic normally doesn’t have a long storage life, but this is my first year with this garlic so I don’t have any first hand experience.  This one didn’t grow particulary well, but the bulbs are a reasonable size and they didn’t open up in the ground.