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Terry Vanderpool and family.

Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents [ Click these links to go to items on this page. ] [ About Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens ] [ Ajo Rojo ] [ Applegate ] [ Burgundy ] [ Early Red Italian ] [ Inchelium Red ] [ Lorz Italian ] [ Mild French ] [ Red Toch ] [ Shandong ] [ Texas Rose ] Sampler Assortments [ All Creoles Sampler Assortment ] [ Gourmet Garlic Sampler Assortment ] [ Mild to Medium Sampler Assortment ] [ Medium to Strong Sampler Assortment ] [ Special Texas Rose Sampler Assortment ] [ Warm Winter Sampler Assortment ]

Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Terry Vanderpool is a third generation Texas farmer but his farming on his own started later in life. The whole family participates in the farming activities, though Terry's wife, Sinda, has a full time job at Baylor University. The children are a big part of our operation as you can see from our photos. Part of getting back into farming was so that the family could be together, work together on a sustainable and healthy project and provide good strong garlic to our customers so that they can grow and enjoy all the wonderful diversity in the garlic universe. Our purpose is to provide locally and sustainably grown premium rare and gourmet garlic using organic methods. We are Certified Naturally Grown. We looked long and hard for detailed data on the best garlic cultivars and best growing methods for garlic in Texas and naturally contacted Texas A & M. Well, to our great surprise they had not done much in the way of studying gourmet garlic so we partnered with them and are scientifically testing over 50 varieties of gourmet garlic, more than anyone else grows in the state of Texas. We hope this is the beginning of a long term study of garlic growing in the south. With the assistance of Bob Anderson, the Garlicmeister, himself and the Texas Master Gardeners, we are establishing a Texas garlic library to preserve rare and historical garlic varieties. We love garlic for all of its wonderful characteristics like thriving in difficult conditions, bringing a wealth of health benefits to those of us who eat it on a regular basis, and of course for its amazing flavor in all sorts of dishes and on its own. We eat lots of garlic. We like fried garlic, sauteed garlic, garlic pesto, garlic gombo, garlic stew, garlic potatoes, whole garlic, raw garlic, garlic duck, garlic chicken, garlic stuffed roast, green garlic, fresh garlic, pickled garlic, and we are trying it in new dishes all the time. We are working especially hard to increase the growing stock of the creole varieties since they grow well in the south and are in critically short supply. This year looks like we will have a reasonable supply of Burgundy and Ajo Rojo, but order early, since they sell out early. In the future we hope to have good supplies of many more of the creole varieties, like the extremely rare Rose de Lautrec, Germinador, Cuban Purple, Guatamalan, and many others. So, eat garlic every day and long live all those who love garlic! Certified Naturally Grown.

How to buy from us: Scroll down and select the number of pounds you want and click on "Add to Cart" on all those you want to buy. >Order now for shipment in late summer/early fall 2012. The garlic prices range from $16 to $24 per pound plus shipping and handling charges of $10 for the first pound, $2 for each of the next three pounds and $1 extra for each additional pound over that and we ship via U. S. Postal Service, Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation, to make sure you get your package. Our S & H charge is a weighted national average so that all buyers pay the same S & H regardless of distance from grower. These S & H fees apply to each grower you buy from. This Farmers market is like your local farmers market. When using your credit/debit card to buy direct from different growers, a separate order is required for each grower. You may buy as many different kinds of garlic as you want from any grower on any order but each grower requires a separate credit card transaction so that S & H charges may be properly calculated. If you want to order garlic from more than one grower, a separate payment must be made to each grower because they are independant businesses in different places. For those who don't want to take the time to place a separate order with each grower, we will do it for you if you wish but there will be a service fee. Just order what you want from as many growers as you want on a single order and when we process the order we will charge your card the necessary additional S & H charges plus a service fee of $10.00 for each separate grower involved - there's lot of clerical work involved.

Ajo Rojo (warm winter hardneck Creole garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Ajo Rojo is the best hot strong garlic for growing in Florida and all along the gulf coast to south Texas and all up the Pacific coast of California where most other garlics don't grow, this one will flourish. Ajo Rojo is a beautiful long storing garlic with a rich garlicky flavor that is quite hot when eaten raw. Grows well in warm winter areas of the USA. Usually harvests in June and stores until spring. Sorry, Ajo Rojo is not available this year. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Applegate (mild softneck garlic garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Applegate is a superb mild garlic that is excellent for raw eating as in pesto or added as something crunchy to tuna or chicken salad (it's that mild) or cooking where you want only the most delicate hint of garlic in your dish. Applegate is an early harvesting fairly good storing garlic but should be grown in conjunction with a longer storing Porcelain or Silverwhite in order to be able to have good garlic year around. Grows well in most areas of the USA even along the gulf coast and So. Cal. Usually harvests in late June/early July and stores into mid-winter at room temp. --Order now for shipment in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Burgundy (warm winter hardneck Creole garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Burgundy is a beautiful red/purple rich strong but mellow flavored garlic with only mild pungency for growing in Florida and all along the gulf coast to south Texas and all up the Pacific coast of California where most other garlics don't grow, this one will flourish. Burgundy grows well in warm winter areas of the USA and usually harvests in June and stores through winter into spring. -- Order now for shipment in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Early Red Italian (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Early Red Italian is an old favorite early harvesting very rich flavored and mildly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic with straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers. It is good to grow these along with long storing garlics like Porcelains or Silverskins so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Being an Artichoke garlic, Early Red Italian is an excellent braider and is adaptable to a wide range of climates and is a good garlic for growing in warm winter areas. -- Order now for shipment in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Inchelium Red (softneck Artichoke garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Inchelium Red is an early-mid season harvesting medium-rich flavored and medium pungent softneck Artichoke with straw-colored clove covers and sometimes a lot of purplish color to the bulb wrappers, depending on weather. Excellent all-around garlic that can be braided. Inchelium Red stores into mid-winter. It is good to grow these along with Porcelains or Silverskin garlics so you can have both early season and longer storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Grows very well in most of the USA and can even be grown in warm winter areas quite well. -- Order now for shipment in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Lorz Italian (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Lorz Italian is an semi-early harvesting very rich flavored and hotly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic with straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers. It is good to grow these along with Ajo Rojo so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Being an Artichoke garlic, Lorz Italian is an excellent braider and is adaptable to a wide range of climates and is a good garlic for growing in warm winter areas. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Mild French from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Mild French came from Porter and Sons Nursery in Stephenville, Texas who grew it and sold it through their catalog for years so it has a history of having been successfully grown in moderate winter areas. This is likely the fabled "Texas White" that no one has seen for decades. Porter and Sons are gone now and it is time to bring their garlic back to Texas and my crop of it is growing well this year and I expect to harvest some nice large clean healthy bulbs. It should grow well over most of the south but "iffy" along the gulf coast. As with many silverskins its bulb wrappers are thick and creamy white. The cloves; however, are a beautiful mahogony color with elongated tips. Bulbs can become large for a silverskin and contain 15 or more cloves. Mild French makes an excellent braider and has a taste as bold as its looks. It has the full flavored musky character typical of Silverskins yet with only moderate pungency (hotness) during the fall and winter but as time passes it gets hotter so that in the spring it is quite hot and strong. Silverskins are the last garlics to mature and be harvested (July to August even in the south) and Mild French is one of the first Silverskins to be harvested. Growing late harvesting, long storing silverskins as well as early harvesting, shorter storing Artichokes, Asiatics or Turbans may mean you never run out of good garlic. Sorry, not available this year. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Red Toch (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Red Toch is an early harvesting very rich flavored and mildly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic with straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers that occasionally have thin stripes and a little color to them. Early harvesting garlic that stores into mid-winter. It is good to grow these along with Ajo Rojo so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Grows well in most of the USA. Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Shandong (Hardneck Turban garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Shandong is another beautiful Turban garlic with a rich garlicky flavor that has a robust pungency that you notice immediately upon biting into Shandong raw - instant fiery hotness that builds to a crescendo in about 40 seconds, levels out and slowly dissipates leaving you warm and breathless. Turbans are among the very earliest harvesting garlics and store until mid-November or longer and need to be planted early in the fall. If you grow these you'll have garlic before anyone else and if you also grow a long storing kind, like Ajo Rojo or Mild French, you may never run out of good garlic. Grows well in most of the USA. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Texas Rose (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Texas Rose is a very early harvesting very rich flavored and rather mildly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic with pale rose colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers that have some thin stripes and a light rosy color to their bulb wrappers. Texas Rose is one of if not the earliest harvesting garlics and it stores stores into mid-winter. It is good to grow these along with Creoles and/or Silverskins so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Grows well in most of the USA but especially well in warm winter areas. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

All Creoles Sampler Assortment from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens. Harvests from late spring to mid Summer - some store through the winter and into the spring. One or more bulbs each of some rich Creole garlics, such as: Ajo Rojo, Burgundy, Creole Red, Cuban Purple, Labera Purple, Pescadero Red, Spanish Benitee, Spanish Morado, etc. This assortment is for the true garlic lover who loves the full range of taste and flavor that comes with garlic but who lives in a warm winter area where only certain Creoles thrive. These garlics were all grown by our growers in warm winter areas and we are proof that certain garlics do thrive in warm winter areas. -- Order now for shipment in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall delivery. -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Forever Yong Farm Table of Contents

Mild to medium sampler assortment from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens When making up your assortment, we can choose from Applegate, Inchelium Red and Early Red Italian, Red Toch, Siberian, Mild French,Burgundy, and other similar varieties to make a delightful combination of milder and medium flavored garlics very rich flavored yet only mildly or moderately pungent. Each variety will be clearly marked so you will know which is which. Most, being softneck garlics, are very good braiders and will grow well in a wide range of climates and are good garlic for growing in warm winter areas. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Medium to Strong Sampler Assortment from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Harvests in mid summer - some store into spring or longer. An assortment of medium to stronger garlics for those who prefer garlicky flavor and pungency when raw. Varieties may include Early Red Italian, Inchelium Red, Lorz Italian, Metechi, Sonoran, Shantung, Ajo Rojo, or Vekak among others. Grows well in most areas of the USA because we select the varieties for your area. grows great in the northernmost locales. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. \ Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Gourmet Garlic Sampler Assortment from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Harvests in mid summer - some store into spring or longer. An assortment of Gourmet Garlics garlics with a wide range of tastes and flavors for those who like a choice in garlicky flavor and pungency. Varieties may include Bogatyr, Burgundy, Duganski, Early Red Italian, Inchelium Red,Lorz Italian, Metechi, Mild French, Pskem, Red Toch, Siberian, Sonoran, Shantung, Ajo Rojo, or Vekak among others. Grows well in most areas of the USA because we select the varieties for your area. grows great in all but the northernmost locales. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Special Texas Rose Sampler Assortment from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens A special one pound assortment of gourmet garlics with a wide range of tastes and flavors that includes Texas Rose a very richly flavored early harvesting garlic and and a Creole variety, if possible, in addition to the standard warm winter varieties for those who like a choice in garlicky flavor and pungency. Varieties in addition to Texas Rose may include Bogatyr, Burgundy, Duganski, Early Red Italian, Inchelium Red, Lorz Italian, Metechi, Mild French, Pskem, Red Toch, Siberian, Sonoran, Shandong, Ajo Rojo, or Vekak among others. Ask for the ones you want in your assortment. Choose two bulbs each of any the above kinds to make a one pound assortment or we will pick for you. Grows especially well in the south and the California coastal areas; in fact, grows well in all but the northernmost locales. If it will grow well for us in central Texas, it will probably do well in your warm winter location as well. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

Warm Winter Sampler Assortment from Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens A one pound assortment of Gourmet Garlics garlics with a wide range of tastes and flavors for those who like a choice in garlicky flavor and pungency. Varieties may include Bogatyr, Burgundy, Duganski, Early Red Italian, Inchelium Red,Lorz Italian, Metechi, Mild French, Pskem, Red Toch, Siberian, Sonoran, Shandong, Ajo Rojo, or Vekak among others. Ask for the ones you want in your assortment. Choose two bulbs each of any of the above kinds to make a one pound assortment or we will pick for you. Grows especially well in the south and the California coastal areas; in fact, grows well in all but the northernmost locales. If it will grow well for us in central Texas, it will probably do well in your warm winter location as well. -- Order now for shipping in the fall. -- Sorry, sold out for 2012 - Thanks one and all. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page. Only one grower per order - a completely separate order is needed for each grower. -- Order all you want from me for fall shipment -- -- Then be sure to check out below before or at any checkout station buying from any other grower. -- Back to Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens Table of Contents

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Important notes for credit/debit card users: This Farmers market is like your local farmers market. When using your credit/debit card to buy direct from different growers, a separate order is required for each grower. You may buy as many different kinds of garlic as you want from any grower on any order but each grower requires a separate credit card transaction so that S & H charges may be properly calculated. If you want to order garlic from more than one grower, a separate payment must be made to each grower because they are independant businesses in different places. For those who don't want to take the time to place a separate order with each grower, we will do it for you if you wish. Just order what you want from as many growers as you want on a single order and when we process the order we will charge your card the necessary additional S & H charges plus a service fee of $10.00 for each separate grower involved due to the excess clerical work entailed. 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. Disclaimer 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.

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. This farmers market is strictly for small-scale American market gardeners/growers who live and grow sustainably.

[ Navigation Menu - Click these links to go to other pages on our website. ] [ Home ] [ Garlic Overview ] [ 70 Varieties ] [ Growing Garlic ] [ Cooking Garlic ] [ Preserve Garlic ] [ Garlic Pills, Etc. ] [ Health Benefits ] [ Garlic Chemistry ] [ FAQs ] [ About Us ] [ How to Order ] [ Buy Garlic Here ] [ Artichoke Garlic ] [ Asiatic Garlic ] [ Creole Garlic ] [ Porcelain Garlic ] [ Purple Stripe Garlic ] [ Rocambole Garlic ] [ Silverskin Garlic ] [ Turban Garlic ] [ Buy Sampler Assortments Here ] [ Our Online Farmers Market ] [ Grow Garlic in the South, CA & Texas ] [ Tour our Garlic Garden ] [ Paint Rock Pictographs ] [ Newsletter ] [ Garlic is Life ] [ Good Growers Wanted ] [ Spring 2007 ]

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