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Sampler Assortments
of
Rare Gourmet
Garlics
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Gourmet Garlic Sampler Assortments
Not everybody wants to buy a whole pound of each kind of garlic just to try a few kinds, so we offer several different kinds of sampler assortments. The cultivars chosen for each sampler pack are based on your answer as to whether you want ones that will grow best in your area or the best tasting ones for the table, regardless of whether they will grow in your area or not.
Each pound contains three to six (usually five) different cultivars with one to four bulbs (usually two) of each cultivar. Each kind is put into a separate bag with the name and a description of the particular garlic on a label on the front of the bag so you know about that particular garlic. A two pound order will usually contain about 10 different kinds, based on availability and bulb size.
We get the garlics for the sampler assortments from the market gardeners in our online farmers market. This allows you to try different varieties from different growers and you can order more of those you like direct from the growers at their prices in our online farmers market. Each cultivar in every assortment will have a second label that tells you who grew the garlic and how to get in touch with them to buy more.
In the comments section of the order form you can request specific varieties from particular gardeners if you wish and we will try to honor your requests if those cultivars are available. We welcome your feedback.
We try to maintain, during the late summer/fall season, from 16 to 60 garlic varieties to choose from, depending on availability. You might try all mild varieties, all strong or medium flavored varieties, or any mix of your choice. Go ahead and experiment, try several different kinds.
The sampler assortments are the only things you buy direct from Gourmet Garlic Gardens, all purchases of bulk garlics (One or more pounds of all the same kind of garlic.) must be made direct from the market gardeners.
Each Variety will come in its own clearly marked bag so you can tell them apart.
February 19, 2010 - garlic sampler Assortments.
Assorted Varieties Sampler Packs
Bulbs in the Assorted variety sampler packs will be slightly smaller bulbs, usually 10/lb than those in our bulk shipments, usually 6-8/lb, so we can give the customer the most varieties. It doesn't take very many extra-large bulbs to make a pound.51. Assortment #1 - One pound - All milder and medium varieties.
- We are Now Accepting Orders for Mild/Medium Assortments for 2010. -
Several bulbs each of several different-tasting mild to medium flavored garlics, based on availability, such as: Chet's Italian Red, Red Toch, Polish White, Siberian, Simoneti, Inchelium Red, Chesnok Red, Persian Star or similar garlic.
- We are Now accepting early pre-paid orders for all - Mild/Medium Sampler Assortments for fall 2010 shipment. -
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- We are Now accepting early pre-paid orders for all - Mild/Medium Sampler Assortments for fall 2010 shipment. -
53. Assortment #3 - One pound - All medium/stronger varieties.
Several bulbs each of some medium to strong Tasting and hot garlics, such as: Inchelium Red, Lorz Italian, Killarney Red, Carpathian, German White, Romanian Red and Spanish Roja, etc. The strong garlics are usually the best ones to use in cooking most "ethnic" dishes because they were originally made with strong, flavorful garlic. This assortment is for the true garlic lover who goes for the burn that comes with eating raw garlic or those who want to obtain the maximum amount of allicin.
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54. Assortment #4 - One pound of A Prime Gourmet Mix of mild, medium and strong garlics.
55. Assortment #5 - All Hardneck varieties - Cold/cool winter Gardener's Delight-
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56. Assortment #6 - A special assortment for the South and other warm winter areas of the USA - may include one or two Creole varieties.
-Southern/warm winter growers' Delight-
57. Assortment #7 - A special assortment of nothing but rare Creole cultivars for the South and other warm winter areas of the USA - only Creole varieties.
-Texas, California, Old South and other warm winter growers' Delight-
This assortment contains as many different kinds of Creoles as we have available - based on availability - obviously.
Creole garlics harvest in mid-season and often store through the winter at cool room temperature.
Total of one pound of bulbs consisting of from three to six different kinds of Creole garlics.
Creoles are among the rarest and most expensive garlics. Grow some of these treasures for yourself and save a lot of money.
Each Variety will come in its own clearly marked bag so you can tell them apart.
Garlic Selections
We are now accepting orders for shipping in late summer/early fall 2010.
We still have plenty of garlic books, etc., available for immediate shipment from Amazon.com.
The list below is typical of what we have for sale and in 2010 and will change as availability of each kind changes - we have been adding and subtracting varieties all season long. I try to keep these lists fairly current so that they can be used as a realistic guide to what we have in stock but we often sell out fast. Sometimes we sell out and before I can change this list someone places an order for a garlic we no longer have.
Our secure shopping cart/card processing gateway charges all cards at the time of the sale and we can't change that. That's good for our customers because the earliest paid orders get the best selection. The last two years there were shortages caused by weather-related crop failures all over the country and only the early orders got filled as we had to cancel about 100 orders that came in later and turned away around 300 more. Early payment gives you your best opportunity to get the best bulbs of the varieties you want.
Pre-paying your order early does not guarantee we will have the garlic you have asked for since sometimes there are no available stocks of certain kinds of garlic due to nationwide weather -related crop losses,
but it does assure you an early place in line if we can get any of the garlic you ordered.
Sometimes unforseeable things happen and we can't get a garlic you have ordered, then we will let you choose between a substitute or a full refund.
If you find this unworkable for you, please use the secure shopping cart to place a mail order or a telephone order and in the customer comments section request that I call or email you when the garlic is ready to ship immediately. You can replace your credit/debit card order at that time, if we still have garlic available, the system will remember your name, address, etc. so you won't have to re-type it. I receive a copy of all telephone and mail orders the shopping cart prints for customers. It's not a guarantee but we usually have garlic long after most growers are sold out but not always. Getting the garlics you want can be an uncertain thing and we try to improve your odds of getting what you want.
We are now accepting orders for fall 2010 shipment.
We will be adding and deleting and changing the status of varieties often as varieties become available and as we sell out our stocks (We always sell out) so check back regularly to see what we currently list as available.
Clicking on a garlic name will give you a color picture and/or complete description of that specific garlic and a shopping cart to buy it.
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Green means we have this garlic presently in stock,
Blue means we have none of this cultivar presently in stock.
Milder Flavored Gourmet Garlics
1. Germinador (Creole)- Rare Creole not available this year. -
2 Burgundy (Creole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
3. Cuban Purple (Creole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
4. Red Toch (Artichoke)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
5. Simoneti (Artichoke)- Sorry, Sold Out for 2009. -
6. Siberian (Marbled Purple Stripe)- Sorry, Soid Out. -
7. Creole Red (Creole)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
8. S & H Silverskin (Silverskin)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
9. Korean Red (Asiatic)- Sorry, Sold Out -
10. Applegate (Artichoke)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
11. Italian Easy Peel (Rocambole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
Medium Flavored Gourmet Garlics
14. Rose de Lautrec (Rich French Creole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
15. Chesnok Red (Purple Stripe) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
16. Inchelium Red (Artichoke)- -
18. Siciliano (Artichoke from Sicily) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
19. Georgian Crystal (Porcelain) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
20.California Early (Artichoke) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
21. Nootka Rose (Silverskin) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
22. Persian Star (Purple Stripe) - Sorry, sold out. -
23. Silverwhite (Silverskin) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
24. Purple Glazer (Glazed Purple Stripe) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
25. Purple Italian (Rocambole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
26. Shilla (Turban) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
Stronger Flavored Gourmet Garlics
30. Ajo Rojo (Creole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
31. Lorz Italian (Artichoke)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
32. California Late (Artichoke)- Sorry, not available in 2009. -
33. Metechi (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
34. German Red (Rocambole) - Sorry, Sold Out for 2009. -
35. Carpathian (Rocambole)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
36. Northern White (Porcelain) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
37. Killarney Red(Rocambole) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
38. Romanian Red (Porcelain)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
39. Music (Porcelain) - Sorry, sold Out. -
40. Spanish Roja (Rocambole)- Sorry, Sold Out -
41. Georgian Fire (Porcelain)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
42. Amish Rocambole (Rocambole)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
43. Rosewood (Porcelain)- Sorry, Sold Out -
44. Zemo (Porcelain)- Sorry, Sold Out -
45. Asian Tempest (Asiatic)- Sorry, Sold Out. -
46. German White (AKA German Extra Hardy) (Porcelain) - Sorry, Sold Out. -
47. German Stiffneck (Porcelain)- Sorry, no longer available. -
48. Korean Red Hot (AKA Korean Red Rocambole) (Rocambole)- Sorry, Sold Out -
49. Bogatyr (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Sorry, Sold Out -
Limited availability of some varieties may necessitate Substitution, But we'll try to get you an equivalent alternative.
Elephant Garlic Cloves (the Great-Headed Garlic Leek)
99. Elephant Garlic - Order Now for fall 2010 shipment. -
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- Order Now for fall 2010 shipment. -
Elephant garlic is sold as whole bulbs early in the season and later on as loose individual cloves without the basal plates and hardneck stubs as they add useless weight and elephant garlic naturally separates that way anyway - $18. per pound.
All weights and sizes are approximate, not guaranteed, since all garlic shrinks in size and loses weight with storage - It weighed over a pound when it left here.
Our secure shopping cart/card processing gateway charges all cards at the time of the sale and we can't change that. That's good for our customers because the earliest paid orders get the best selection. The last two years there were shortages caused by weather-related crop failures all over the country and only the early orders got filled as we had to cancel about 100 orders that came in later and turned away around 300 more. Early payment gives you your best opportunity to get the best bulbs of the varieties you want.
Pre-paying your order early does not guarantee we will have the garlic you have asked for since sometimes there are no available stocks of certain kinds of garlic due to nationwide weather -related crop losses,
but it does assure you an early place in line if we can get any of the garlic you ordered.
Sometimes unforseeable things happen and we can't get a garlic you have ordered, then we will let you choose between a substitute or a refund.
If you find this unworkable for you, please use the secure shopping cart to place a mail order or a telephone order and in the customer comments section request that I call or email you when the garlic is ready to ship immediately. You can replace your credit/debit card order at that time, if we still have garlic available, the system will remember your name, address, etc. so you won't have to re-type it. I receive a copy of all telephone and mail orders the shopping cart prints for customers. It's not a guarantee but we usually have garlic long after most growers are sold out but not always. Getting the garlics you want can be an uncertain thing and we try to improve your odds of getting what you want.
When using your credit/debit card to buy direct from different gardeners, a separate order is required for each gardener.
You may buy as many different kinds of garlic as you want from any gardener on any order but each grower requires a separate order.
If you want to order garlic from more than one grower, a seperate order must be placed with each gardener.
If you buy from a gardener and later cancel that order, the credit card processing gateway still charges Gourmet Garlic Gardens the full processing
fee plus an additional fee for processing the cancellation and also it places an additional clerical burden on us
so, regretably, we must charge a 10% cancellation fee when processing the cancellation because that's about what it costs us.
My advice is to look around among the various market gardeners and decide what to buy from whom and then
place your orders and stick with the gardeners you have chosen.
If you would like to try a little garlic from several different gardeners, you can order a sampler assortment and request particular garlics from specific growers. Click here to check out our sampler Assortments.
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How Our Garlics are Grown
Some of our growers are Certified Organic and some are Certified Naturally Grown, which we regard as equal to Certified Organic in every meaningful way but without all the bureaucratic rigamarole. All our market gardeners grow organically/sustainably but not all want to be certified and are among the best available sources of sustainable/organic Garlic We do not allow growers who use synthetic petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides or herbacides to participate in our farmers market.
All garlic in our farmers market is grown in the USA, no imports allowed.
This farmers market is strictly for small-scale American market gardeners/growers who live and grow sustainably.
Shipping and Handling
A fee of $8.00 is charged for each
shipment of one pound of garlic; add two additional dollars for each pound,
or any fraction of a pound, over the first pound ordered.
For example, if your order is 2 pounds, the charge is $10.00 and if you order 3 pounds, the charge is $12.00, etc.
This rate applies to all 50 United States.
All items in any order will be shipped as a single unit and at the same
time, unless otherwise specified by the customer and separate shipping charges
paid for each shipment.
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You can use the shopping cart to pay online by credit card or to print an order form for you to mail with a check or to have in front of you when call us - and you can print it out and keep a written copy for your records. - saving you a lot of writing.
We have tried to make the buying process as simple, secure and convenient as possible. Just call us at 1 - (325) 348-3049 and tell us what you want and we'll confirm availability and price and get your credit card number information over the phone and we'll ship your garlic as soon as we can.Another way is to E-Mail bob@web-access.net and tell us what you want. We will confirm price and availability by return e-mail and arrange payment. That way we both have a written record we can refer back to.
Disclaimer
Garlic, like most natural plants can serve as a host for myriad mostly harmless microscopic lifeforms, some of which are called plant
pathogens or pests. Plant pathogens or pests may or may not manifest symptoms we can perceive
with our five senses. We do not knowlingly sell or plant garlic that we
think is contaminated - nor will we knowingly buy it from others but sometimes it can fool even the best observer.
We make no guarantees or warranties of any kind whatsoever, expressed or implied, with respect to our garlic. We do not guarantee or warrant the fitness, suitability or useability of our garlic for any particular purpose. We do not guarantee our garlic to be disease free nor do we claim it to be Certified Disease Free Planting Stock. We state only that the varieties we ship are to the best of our knowledge, the varieties we say they are. Any and all liability from all causes is limited to a refund of a customer's payment.
We and our growers take great care to grow, harvest, cure and store our garlic properly and we will not knowingly ship garlic that is damaged, defective or diseased in any way we can see, feel or smell. We pack the garlic so as to minimize any probability of damage in shipment. If; however, you receive defective garlic, please e-mail us immediately stating the problem and return the defective garlic to us within 30 days via Priority US Mail and we will replace it at no additional charge, or refund your money. It is our desire to provide our customers with the best garlic we can produce and enhance our reputation for excellence - but we cannot be held responsible for what happens after the garlic leaves our care.
All products are for sale to United States addresses only. We are not familiar with import-export laws and do not wish to engage in foreign trade at this time. All sales are made in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas and Texas law applies to all sales. Every state has different laws and we cannot know them all. If your state has some regulation against the importing of garlic or other fresh foods, it is your responsibility to be aware of these laws and act accordingly.
Garlic Books, Garlic Accessories and Gardening Tools, Etc.
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[ Our Home Page ] [ Online Catalog ] [ Garlic Overview ] [ 40 Varieties ] [ Growing Garlic ] [ Cooking with Garlic ] [ Chemistry of Garlic ] [ Garlic Pills & Oils, Etc. ] [ Health Benefits ] [ Links ] [ FAQs ] [ How to Order ]
[ Sampler Assortments ]
[ Pickle & Preserve Garlic ]
[ Artichoke (Softneck) Garlics ]
[ Asiatic Garlics ]
[ Creole Garlics ]
[ Porcelain Garlics ]
[ Purple Stripe Garlics ]
[ Rocambole Garlics ]
[ Silverskin (Softneck) Garlics ]
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