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Colorado Black Garlic

Colorado Black Garlic

This is a Rocombole type garlic.

This garlic must get it’s name from the occasional black (gray) splotches on the skin, which you can see on the bulb to the right.

The original planting stock I got from The Garlic Store was absolutely huge, the largest bulb of garlic I have ever seen besides elephant garlic. This store is located in Colorado, and perhaps that’s home to this variety. All the cloves I planted produced healthy bulbs, but nothing approaching the original bulb. Perhaps when this one gets acclimated it will get larger.

This is a very promising garlic.

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Creole Red Garlic

Creole Red Garlic

This garlic is Creole type.

It’s not as pretty as Burgundy, but it’s a pretty garlic. It has larger cloves than the Burgundy, and the color is not as dark. It also doesn’t grow as well. This is the second year in my garden, and it is just struggling along. The taste is nice and rich.

Creole garlics are warm weather types, that don’t normally do well in northern gardens like mine. Even still, it’s a nice garlic to try to grow because it does have a unique taste.

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Elephant Garlic

Elephant Garlic

This garlic is not really a garlic, so it’s not any particular type!

This is not a true garlic, and is closely related to leeks.  It has 5 cloves, and it’s a little hard to see from the picture but it’s huge.  I remember tasting this garlic as a kid, but it was too long ago to remember the flavor.  I haven’t tasted this one yet.

If you grow this one be aware that planting stock is often sold as single cloves.  It’s taken me 2 times trying to get it to grow, because the first time an animal came along and ate it.  Since all I had was one clove, that was it!  You might want to consider growing at least 2 of them for this reason.

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Korean Red Garlic

Korean Red Garlic

This garlic is Asiatic type.

This is a great garlic to compare with Pyong Vang. This variety has much larger cloves, that are frequently long. This picture doesn’t really do justice to how large the cloves are. What you see in the middle, across the tape measure, is a bulbil stem. This variety also has unusally large and red bulbils.

The firery red color looks spicy, but I haven’t tasted it yet.