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[ German Stiffneck ] [ German White ] [ Leah 99 ] [ Leningrad ] [ Music ] [ Northern White ] [ Polish Hardneck ] [ Romanian Red ] [ Rosewood ] [ Stull ] [ Wild Buff ] [ Zemo ] |
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Order Now We are now accepting orders for gourmet garlic to be shipped in September 2011. - [ Shallots in the summer - order now for mid-late summer shipping ] - [ Garlic Braids - order now for Fall 2011 shipping ] - [ Garlics sorted by variety - order now for Fall 2011 shipping ] - [ Garlics sorted by mild, medium and strong - order now for Fall 2011 shipping ] |
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Porcelain garlics may be the most beautiful garlics of all and sometimes seem too beautiful to eat. Their bulb wrappers tend to be very thick, luxuriant and parchment-like and tightly cover their few, but large, cloves. The outer bulb wrappers are often very white to milky and light tan although some some, like Romanian Red, tend to some purple striping as you peel away the wrappers. Their appearance tempts one to wonder whether they were sculpted by some great artist rather than something grown in the ground. There are no smaller cloves as most cloves are large and fat (four to eight per bulb), this makes them a great favorite with chefs. Great eating garlic -
Great storing garlic - Great Health Benefits - Great growing garlic - Porcelain garlics are unique in that the scapes they produce in the spring coil in all kinds of ways and resemble a bed of snakes before the scapes all straighten up and become vertical. Other hardneck garlics form a characteristic fairly uniform pattern before straightening up, Rocamboles form a distinct double loop. Porcelains have few but large cloves and this has limitations in that a large clove may be more than you want to use and sometimes a smaller clove might be preferred (Another reason to grow several kinds of garlic.) and also, you have to save back a larger percentage of your total crop for planting stock next year than you do with other varieties if you plant from cloves as most people do, though some plant bulbils that takes two full growing seasons to mature. For those who want to grow their own garlic it takes a year or two longer to grow all you can eat. Porcelains harvest late in the season but well before the Silverskins. Bulbs are usually over 2 1/2 inches in diameterand 3" bulbs are not unusual and are grown for primarily for their rich flavor and good storage capability. Porcelain garlics are often more expensive than most other garlics partly because or their rarity and partly because the growers have to set aside a larger part of their crop for next seasons planting stock and for this reason many commercial growers prefer to grow varieties with more cloves per bulb so they can sell a higher percentage of their crop every year. Higher wholesale price means higher retail price. Recent DNA analyses of garlic by Dr. Gayle Volk of the USDA in Colorado and also Dr. Joachim Keller of the Plant Institute in Gaterslaben, Germany showed that cultivars of Porcelain garlics were more genetically similar to each other, though distinctly different, than any of the other groups of garlic. |
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Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. Harvests mid-summer - a rich yet mellow garlic that stores into spring at room temp. Georgian Crystal is a large and beautiful porcelain garlic
with delightfully robust flavor but not very much hotness. If you want a richly flavored, long storing Porcelain that won't burn you out, this one's for you.
From a growers perspective, it is a large and healthy garlic to grow and appears to be relatively resistant to most of the diseases
that can affect garlic. It originated in the Republic of Georgia, the former Soviet republic between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
An excellent garlic for raw eating and in pesto, salsa, etc.
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Know where your food comes from - Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. Georgian Fire, like most porcelains is a large and beautiful garlic with rich robust flavor that is strong and has an aftertaste that lingers. The clove covers are a light brown streaked with purple From a growers perspective, it is a large and healthy garlic to grow and appears to be relatively resistant to most of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originated in the Republic of Georgia.
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A hardy, rich, garlicky, hot, strong Porcelain hardneck garlic.
Know where your food comes from - Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. -- Order now for shipping in fall 2011. -- German Extra Hardy, is also known as German White, Northern White and German Stiffneck is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic.
These are all the same garlic but grown in different places under different names.
Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time.
From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and
appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originally came from Germany but grows well in all but the most southerly states, where it is marginal. Being a Porcelain, German Extra Hardy stores a long time at cool room temp for around 9-10 months or longer.
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German Stiffneck
- Not available in 2011. - German Stiffneck is an excellent Porcelain garlic popularized by John Spamer, a NY organic grower who is now retired but sold it both locally and mail order for years and developed a loyal following. German Stiffneck is the same as German Extra-Hardy, German White and Northern White and is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic. These are all basically the same garlic but grown in different places under different names. Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time. From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green very hardy plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originally came from Germany with immigrants a couple of hundred years ago. German Stiffneck grows well in all but the most southerly states, where it grows fairly well in cooler winter/spring years but is marginal in years with early hot summers.
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A hardy, rich, garlicky, hot, strong Porcelain hardneck garlic.
Know where your food comes from - Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. German White, is also known as German Extra-Hardy, Northern White and German Stiffneck is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic.
These are all the same garlic but grown in different places under different names.
Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time.
From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and
appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originally came from Germany but grows well in all but the most southerly states, where it is marginal. Being a Porcelain German White/ Extra Hardy stores a long time at cool room temp, around 10 months or longer.
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Leah 99 is a long storing Porcelain garlic rich garlicky flavor and warm to hot pungency that grows well in most places.
Leah 99 is a beautiful very rich flavored and moderately pungent Porcelain garlic that is similar to Music and
is an excellent all around garlic that stores well.
It has whitish bulb wrappers with a little color in them and tight tan clove covers and can grow quite large.
Harvests in early-mid July - stores all winter long and maybe into spring.
Leah 99 will probably be one of the taller garlics in your garden and grows well in most of the USA except the warmest winter areas of the country. -- Order now for shipment in fall 2011.
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A very rich, hot, strong Porcelain garlic with a taste you can't forget.
Know where your food comes from - Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. Leningrad is so beautiful it could only have been designed by a artist. It has thick white luxuriant bulb wrappers which peel away to reveal beautiful purple clove covers with elongated tips almost like a Purple Stripe garlic. Even with all its eye appeal, it is the taste of Leningrad that you remember. Its flavor starts off mild and becomes very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time. I seldom get this excited about a garlic I have found but Leningrad is truly something special. I call it a Russian time bomb. From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases that can affect garlic. Obviously, this is a Russian garlic and it likes cold weather and can get quite large in good growing conditions.
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A rich, garlicky, warm Porcelain hardneck garlic Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. Music is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic similar to Northern White. Its flavor is very rich and musky, strong and robust and sticks around for a while. It's very popular for a reason. From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and appears to be somewhat resistant to some of the diseases that can affect garlic. I'm not real sure just where Music originated, but it likes cold weather and can get quite large in good growing conditions.
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Northern White
- Not Available at this time. - After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page.Northern White, very similar to German Extra-Hardy, German White, German Stiffneck and German Porcelain, is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic. These may all be the same garlic but grown in different places under different names. Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time. From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originally came from Germany but grows well in all but the most southerly states, where it is marginal. |
A hardy, rich, garlicky, hot, strong Porcelain hardneck garlic. Polish Hardneck Grows well in most states even in Warm Winter Areas but will be marginal at best in most of Florida and south Texas. Harvests early-mid summer - stores into spring. Polish Hardneck
Polish Hardneck is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic similar to Northern White.
Its flavor is rich, deep and musky and it has a searing punginess that sticks around for a long time. Good hot strong long storing garlic.
From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and
appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases
that can affect garlic. It obviously came from Poland and it likes cold weather and can get quite large in good growing conditions.
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Buy Direct from our Growers below and Save. Romanian Red, like most porcelains is a large and beautiful garlic with rich robust flavor that is strong and has an aftertaste that lingers. The clove covers are a light brown streaked with purple From a growers perspective, it is a large and healthy garlic to grow and appears to be relatively resistant to most of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originated in Romania.
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Rosewood
After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point. Rosewood is a not a particularly large garlic but is a beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic. Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time and can nearly be overpowering at times. From a growers perspective, it is a very good survivor and usually grows healthy and appears to be relatively resistant to most of the diseases that can affect garlic. It is one of those Porcelains that were formerly called Allium Longicuspis and still retains the ability to produce viable flowers, pollen and seed. If you want to experiment with developing garlic seed, this one's for you. |
Stull is a long storing Porcelain garlic with mild garlicky flavor and only a hint of pungency that grows well in most places.
Stull is a beautiful garlic that is unusual in that it is a very mild and mellow Porcelain and most Porcelains
are strong. It is possible that my taste sample was an abberation from normal as growing conditions sometime
cause a reversal of taste in all garlics but if what I tasted is normal then this is an excellent long storing
Porcelain for those who love milder and mellower garlics and few Porcelains meet that criteria.
Stull was obtained from a NY farmers
market and is very similar to German White in appearance, an excellent garlic, with whitish bulb wrappers and tight tan colored clove covers.
Harvests in early-mid July - stores all winter long and maybe into spring. Stull will probably be one of the taller garlics in your garden and grows well in most of the USA except the warmest winter areas of the country. -- Order now for shipment in fall 2011.
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Wild Buff
Wild Buff is a not a particularly large garlic but is a beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic. Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time and can nearly be overpowering at times. From a growers perspective, it is a very good survivor and usually grows healthy and appears to be relatively resistant to most of the diseases that can affect garlic. It is one of those Porcelains that were formerly called Allium Longicuspis and still retains the ability to produce viable flowers, pollen and seed. |
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Zemo
- May be Availabe in 2011. - Zemo is a large, beautiful and well-formed porcelain garlic similar to German White. Its flavor is very strong and robust and sticks around for a long time. From a growers perspective, it is a tall dark green plant and is a very good survivor, usually grows healthy and appears to be somewhat resistant to many of the diseases that can affect garlic. Zemo is another one of those great garlics that came from the Republic of Georgia and it likes cold weather and can get quite large in good growing conditions. |
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This Farmers market is like your local farmers market.
If you buy from a grower and later cancel that order for any reason, the credit card processing gateway still charges Gourmet Garlic Gardens the full processing
fee plus an additional fee of the same amount for processing the cancellation and also it places an additional clerical burden on us
so, regretably, we must charge a 15% cancellation fee when processing the cancellation because that's about what it costs us.
My advice is to look around among the various growers and decide what to buy from whom and then place your orders and stick with the growers you have chosen.
Each grower/vendor is responsible for their own garlic and prompt shipping to the buyer. Gourmet Garlic Gardens is not responsible for any garlic sent directly from any grower/vendor to any buyer and serves only as a virtual meeting place and credit/debit card processor for the convenience of both grower and buyer. Gourmet Garlic Gardens' total liability from all causes is limited to refunding the monies the buyer has charged against their card using Gourmet Garlic Gardens as a payment processor for any specific transaction with any particular grower/vendor. Prices and availability of garlic subject to change without notice. |
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How Our Garlics are Grown
All the garlic for sale in our online farmers market was grown without the use of petrochemical pesticides,
herbicides, or fertilizers; only natural and non-toxic fertilizers and pest control methods are used.
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 entanglements.
All our farmers market growers grow organically and some are Certified Organic but not all want to be certified
Organic because of the paperwork and reporting requirements and are among the best available sources of sustainable/
organic Garlic and they become Certified Naturally Grown, where the regulation comes from their fellow members rather
than a federal bureacracy.
We do not allow growers who use synthetic petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides or herbicides to
participate in our farmers market.
All garlic in our farmers market is grown in the USA, no imports allowed. |
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[ Our Home Page ]
[ Online Catalog ]
[ Garlic Overview ]
[ 40 Varieties ]
[ Growing Garlic ]
[ Cooking with Garlic ]
[ Chemistry of Garlic ]
[ Garlic Pills, Etc. ]
[ Health Benefits ]
[ Links ]
[ FAQs ]
[ About Us ]
[ How to Order ]
[ Sampler Assortments ]
[ Pickle & Preserve Garlic ]
[ Artichoke Garlics ]
[ Asiatic Garlics ]
[ Creole Garlics ]
[ Porcelain Garlics ]
[ Purple Stripe Garlics ]
[ Rocambole Garlics ]
[ Silverskin Garlics ]
[ Turban Garlics ]
[ Our Farmers Market ]
[ Growing Garlic in the South, CA & Texas ]
[ Tour our Garlic Garden ]
[ Paint Rock Pictographs ]
[ Newsletter ]
[ Garlic is Life Symposia ]
[ Good Growers Wanted ]
[ Spring 2001 ]
[ Spring 2007 ]
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