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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.

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Leningrad Garlic

Leningrad Garlic

This garlic is Porcelain type.

Honestly this wasn’t one of my favorite garlics. At least so far it’s not very acclimated to my garden, but even keeping that in mind the plants don’t seem very productive. Many bulbs of this variety seem to form only 2 cloves. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it’s a little odd.

What I like about this garlic, is the name. For whatever reason the garlic growing community decided not to update it according to the new name Leningrad has. There’s nothing wrong with this, after all we don’t go into a Chinese restaurant and order Beijing Duck do we? We order Peking Duck!

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Music Garlic

Music Garlic

This garlic is a Porcelain type.

This is a nice all around garlic. Rebsie on Daughter of the Soil recently mentioned this was her favorite variety. One of the advantages of this garlic for those of us who live in Europe, is that it is often sold by garden centers making one of the only commonly available heirloom varieties.

It is very similar to other porcelain varieties, and likewise has very nice flavor. It’s certainly worth considering growing this variety.