Heirloom Gardening, Food and Other Thoughts
This garlic is a Porcelain type.
This has a nice clove color, a bit of a wood tone. It has a slightly sweet flavor that is very nice, but also similar to other porcelain garlics. This is the second year growing this and I am pretty happy with it so far.
This garlic is a Marbled Purple Stripe type.
This is a very popular variety, and does well in my garden. It has a really pretty clove. The bulb skins ranges from white to white with purple splotches. I haven’t tasted it yet.
This garlic is Porcelain type.
This is one of those all around nice but not very special garlics. This is my second year growing it, and it does well. It normally produces 4-6 clove bulbs, has a nice taste and pretty cloves. It is very similar and a good substitute for Susan Delafield and several other porcelain garlics. This is a rare garlic and hard to find.
For me these were the most anticipated potato of the season. This is not an heirloom variety, but rather a modern one. It’s even available for purchase in local supermarkets. It came highly recommended by John at Spade Work. In fact John sent me some seed potatoes for this variety, but alas I didn’t have my act together at the time to get them planted before they rotted (they had already been suffering from a winter in storage). Other people have been growing this potato and commenting on it’s high quality.
Mostly I wasn’t disappointed. This was a really nice tasting potato! Like John said this is a waxy salad like potato.
At the same time, I was a little disappointed. It tasted a bit too much like the commercial variety it was. Except for being garden fresh, and tasting great for this reason, it did taste a bit like how I would expect a supermarket potato to taste. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just a matter of what you expect really.
This is a Glazed Purple Stripe type.
Last year this was a much more colorful garlic. Sometimes I come across cloves with colors so intense, they remind me of the stained glass in the cathedral in Prague. Purple/Red are the main colors, but sometimes hues of yellow and other colors emerge. The taste of this garlic is very good.
Last year was the first year growing this garlic, and for a while I didn’t think it was going to make it. The plants were weak, and the few resulting bulbs almost weren’t enough for replanting. This year it’s really taken off, and I think it’s long term prognosis is very good. Assuming it keeps going in my garden, I think this will turn into a very high quality garlic.
