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.
Uzbek Turban Garlic
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.
Shantung Purple Garlic
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 particularly well, but the bulbs are a reasonable size and they didn’t open up in the ground.
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.
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.
