Heirloom Gardening, Food and Other Thoughts
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.
This garlic is an Artichoke type.
This variety has yet to really acclimate in my garden yet. It also has a lot of variation in colors, you can see the bulb on the right is almost completely white. The ‘blue’ in the name appears to come because the cloves are more purple than red and so seem to contain more blue color than usual.
This garlic is Purple Stripe type.
You might be wondering where the purple color is on this purple stripe garlic, me too! This is a very bizzare garlic. This is my second year growing it, and last year it had very nice purple stripes on the skin. I’m pretty sure the cloves also had a bit of color. This year it’s bone white.
I would think I was going crazy, but fortunately I have proof to the contrary. Last year I gave Rebsie from the Daughter of the soil a bulb, and she noticed the same thing! Last year it had purple stripes, and this year it’s bone white.
In spite of it’s changing colors, this is a nice garlic that grows well and has a nice taste. That is if the taste isn’t changing too.
This garlic is Glazed Purple Stripe type.
This one’s not doing very well yet in my garden as you can see in the picture. The bulb opened up a bit in the ground, and the skin mostly came off. The dirt you see on it was because it was difficult to clean without much skin on it. This is a very classic and well known garlic among garlic growers, and is easy to come by in many areas. It’s worth considering growing.
This garlic is Silverskin type.
This garlic has pretty pink tips on the tops of the cloves, but otherwise is white. It has a very solid and dense feel to it, and the skin tightly covers the bulb. This was my first year growing it, and it looks promising but it’s hard to know for sure how it will seem in the long run. I haven’t tasted it yet.
