Gazebo Grande Garlic

I don’t know for sure what type this garlic is, but I think it’s porcelain.

The important theme of this garlic is ‘grande’! The plants were huge, in fact the biggest in my garden this year. The bulbs are mostly huge. The one problem I had was they seem to have a hollow cavity at the top of the bulb that collected water. This cause a number of the bulbs to rot during curing, and in particular I lost many of the larger bulbs this way. I hope and expect this is a trait I can select for as I continue to grow this in my garden. I didn’t have a spare bulb which I could split it open to take a picture of the cloves, but they are large with an off white color to them.

The bulbs all have 4-6 cloves each. I got this garlic from a Seed Savers Exchange member who lives in Wisconsin, USA. She tells me she has been selectively breeding this garlic in her garden for 10 years now, and got it from a local friend who doesn’t know where it is from.

Søren of In the Toads Garden got a similar looking garlic, also from someone in Wisconsin, called Martin’s old Heirloom. So far, the main difference seems to be the number of cloves per head is higher in his garlic. More investigation is needed here…

I have not tasted this garlic yet, but it has a really delicious and sweet small. If it tastes as good as it smells, it’s going to be a really exciting garlic. So far, this is really a promising looking garlic.