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Gourmet Garlic Varieties
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- Other Alliums - [ Elephant Garlic ] [ Garlic Braids ] [ Garlic Scapes ] [ Shallots ] [ Specialty Onions ] |
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Order Now We are now accepting early orders for gourmet garlic to be shipped immediately. - [ Shallots in the Summer - order now for immediate shipping ] - [ Garlic Braids - order now for Fall 2011 shipping ] - [ Garlics sorted by variety - order now for immediate shipping ] - [ Garlics sorted by mild, medium and strong - order now for immediate shipping ] |
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We now include an online garlic gardeners market where you buy direct |
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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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You must settle up your order (check out) from one grower before buying from a different grower - just like at your neighborhood farmers market. |
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The varieties listed below are representative of what we usually have available during the season. Actually, we will probably have a lot more than these varieties. Please check below to see what is available at any given time. Availability of anything on this page is subject to change without notice, owing to the uncertainties of growing anything. Click on the name of any garlic below and get a more complete description of it. Green means we have the garlic in stock,Blue means we are sold out of this cultivar. |
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Artichoke Garlics (Softneck)
California Early - The milder of the two garlics developed at Gilroy, CA - very flavorful, excellent raw garlic. - May be available this year. - Chet's Italian Red - Will Not be Available in 2011. - Early Red Italian - Order now for immediate shipment. - Inchelium Red - Winner of 1989 Organic Gardening taste contest - Order now for immediate shipment. - Lorz Italian -A Strong, Good-Storing Artichoke (An Heirloom).-- - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Polish White - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Red Toch- Early Harvester with Excellent flavor - Everybody wants Red Toch - very popular lately! - Order now for immediate shipment. - Siciliano - A richly flavored and warm garlic with a smooth taste from Sicily. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Simoneti - Large and Mild - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Susanville - Large and Mild - Order now for immediate shipment. - Thermadrone - Large Medium flavored - Order now for immediate shipment. - Transylvanian - Hot, strong and vampire resistant - Order now for immediate shipment. - |
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Asiatic Garlics (Hardneck) Asian Tempest (Asiatic) - an early harvesting, very strong Asiatic of the Turban group- May Not be available this year. -Korean Red (Asiatic) - An Early Harvesting, Very Rich, yet mellow Asiatic hardneck. - May Not be available this year. - Sonoran (Asiatic) , An Artichoke-like very early harvesting Asiatic garlic. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Japanese (Asiatic) - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - |
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Creole Garlics (Hardneck) Ajo Rojo - Hotter than your average Creole and tastes as good as it looks. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. -Burgundy - A Beautiful mild and mellow Creole garlic. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Creole Red - A full flavored Creole garlic that is mellow but with a little zing. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Cuban Purple - A very richly flavored yet very mild Creole garlic - long storing and excellent for raw eating. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Labera Purple - another Creole that tastes as good as it looks. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Native Creole - another Creole that tastes as good as it looks. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Pescadero Red - A great tasting hardy Spanish fisherman's Creole garlic that grows well in warm winter areas. - May or may not be available in 2011. - |
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Porcelain Garlics (Hardneck) Georgian Crystal - Georgian Fire's Mild-Mannered Twin. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Georgian Fire - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - German Extra Hardy - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - German White AKA German Extra Hardy - Rich, Strong Porcelain. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Leah 99 - Rich flavor with medium pungency - similar to Music. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Leningrad - Earthy Flavor starts off mild and becomes very hot in 30 seconds. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Music - Rich, Fairly Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Polish Hardneck - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Romanian Red - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Rosewood - An unusual garlic that actually flowers (it's hot and strong). - Not presently available. - Stull - The great mild Porcelain some people are seeking. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Wild Buff - Another flowering garlic with an attitude - tough and hardy. - Not Presently Available - Zemo - Hot, Strong Porcelain that stores well. - May or may not be available this year. - |
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Purple Stripe Garlics (Hardneck) Belarus - Sorry, sold out for 2011. -Chesnok Red - Order now for immediate shipment. - Persian Star - Order now for immediate shipment. -
The Glazed Group of Purple Stripes (Hardneck) Purple Glazer- Great warm, flavorful, very purple hardneck - Order now for immediate shipment. -
The Marbled Group of Purple Stripes (Hardneck) Bogatyr- Great Bulbs of Fire! - Sorry, sold out for 2011. -Gourmet Red- Metechi's sassy Twin. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Metechi- Great Bulbs of Fire! - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Siberian- Metechi's Mild-Mannered Twin. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - We have no other Marbled Purple Stripe garlics for sale this year but hope to have some more cultivars next year. |
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Rocambole Garlics (Hardneck) Amish Rocambole - Garlic with a zing. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. -Caretaker - Great Classic Strong German Garlic. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - German Red - Great Classic Strong German Garlic. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Italian Easy Peel - A rich yet mellow Rocambole Garlic. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Italian Purple - A Northern Garlic with rich flavor but not overly hot. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Killarney Red - Full, Rich Taste - Grows Well. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Korean Red Hot AKA Korean Red Rocambole - rich flavored garlic with a real zing. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Paw Paw - Great mellow Rocambole garlic of the midwest. - May or may not be available this year. - Polish Carpathian - Garlic that Gives Polish Dills that great Taste. - May or may not be available in 2011. - Russian Red - A Northern Garlic with rich flavor but not overly hot. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Slovenian - A Northern Garlic with rich mellow flavor but not hot. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Spanish Roja - Ron England's Favorite. - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Ukraine - Great Classic Strong German Garlic. - Order now for immediate shipment. - |
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Silverskin Garlics (Softneck) Mild French - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Good to Fair for Warm Winter Areas. - Nootka Rose - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Good to Fair for Warm Winter Areas. - S & H Silverskin A richly flavored yet mild, Long-Storing garlic. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Silverwhite A Warm Well-Flavored, Long-Storing Silverskin
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Turban Varieties (Hardneck) China Dawn (Turban) - Order now for immediate shipment. - Maiskij (Turban) - Order now for immediate shipment. - Red Janice (Turban) - Order now for immediate shipment. - Shandong (Turban) - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Shilla (Turban) - Order now for immediate shipment. - Tzan (Turban) - Sorry, sold out for 2011. - Xian (Turban) - Order now for immediate shipment. - |
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Harvests early-mid season - stores a year or more from time of harvest. - Order now for immediate shipment. - After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page. As you may know, elephant garlic is not a true garlic; it a leek.Many people think of it as garlic so we grow it. All true garlic species are botanically classified as Allium Sativum and elephant garlic is Allium Ampeloprasum, formerly Allium Gigantum. Elephant garlic is worthy of great respect because it is extremely hardy and re-seeds itself every year assuring you of many future crops with minimal effort. Elephant garlic is generally pretty resistant to many things that bother true garlic much to the gardeners delight. It can produce about as much allicin as milder true garlics and its giant cloves make it easy to prepare, much to the cook's delight.
Elephant garlic can store for about a year at room temp from the time of harvest, usually June - wow!
Large elephant garlic is about twice the size of the
largest real garlics or larger and has a milder taste but with a sharp
onion-like edge to it and a distinctive aftertaste. They average five monstrously
large cloves that are somewhat yellowish compared the milky whiteness of
true garlic cloves. It also has far less allicin potential than real
garlic but grows extremely clean and disease free and does not seem
to be bothered by insects. In our experience, it stores very hard and
clean much longer than real garlic (even when separated into individual
cloves, it will store about a year at room temp).
Unlike real garlic it produces bottom bulbils called corms that
have very hard shells with sharp pointed tops and they store even longer
than the bulbs. The corms are attached to the bottoms of the bulbs
but grow up their sides and are often incorporated into the bulb wrappers
several layers deep. The bulb wrappers on elephant garlic are extremely
white and they cure out to be very thin and flaky and are intact only
on freshly harvested bulbs. After a few months they seem to evaporate,
leaving bare or almost bare bulbs that have a rather rough look but
it does not seem to affect their storability much, only their attractiveness.
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Available only in the spring for immediate use. - You will soon be able to order garlic scapes for shipment in May/June 2011. - Scapes are stalk-like growths that form in hardneck varieties of
garlic in the spring and form bulbil capsules at their tops if left to maturity.
Scapes are highly prized for being much more delicately flavored and less pungent than mature garlic.
When scapes first form they are delicately garlicky and tender and succulent and crisp when eaten raw.
The longer they age; however, the more chewy they become until they eventually become fibrous and
less desireable to eat so they need to be enjoyed fairly soon as they don't remain at their prime long.
They store well in the refrigerator's crisper for a couple of weeks or so but then become progressively chewier.
Scapes are highly sought after because they have many of the things people like about garlic but have a
distinctly milder and more delicate flavor.
Most importantly, they are available in the spring when no other form of decent garlic has been available for
months. Not only are they an oasis in a desert but their delicate flavor makes them a doubly welcome treat.
When eaten raw, scapes have a milder taste with a mellow shallot-like flavor to it although some can be quite sharp and with a distinctively pleasant aftertaste. All scapes do not taste the same, some cultivars are milder or stronger than others just like in the mature bulbs.
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Harvests late summer - stores into the following spring. - Order now for immediate shipment. - Know where your food comes from - buy direct from our growers and save.
Nothing suggests old country skills quite like a garlic braid; they're beautiful to look at and a symbol of
abundance and good times. They are also very practical ways to store garlic for use in the kitchen. By their
nature, softneck garlics lend themselves to braiding while hardnecks do not make good braiders.
Garlics with leaves and roots attached store longer than the same kind that have been trimmed though roots are
usually trimmed for esthetic purposes.
Any softneck makes a good braiding garlic but Silverskins usually make the best because they are the longest
storing of all garlics and also the last to harvest each year. Another plus for Silverskins is that they have
more pliable necks and sturdier fibers that store longer than Artichokes but since garlics have different flavors,
more than one braid may be advisable if they are of different kinds; for example, a mild Red Toch Artichoke braid
and a Nootka Rose Braid of equally rich but hotter garlic.
Artichokes usually store through winter and sometimes into spring but Silverskins often store all the way through spring.
The longer a garlic stores, the hotter and stronger it gets so that a garlic that is medium in the fall will be
strong during the winter and hot during the spring.
Artichoke garlics mature a month or two before Silverskin garlics so they are available for shipment before silverskins,
which are always the last garlics to harvest every year.
Shallots have a milder taste with a delicate distinctly onion-like hint to it and a pleasant mellow aftertaste.
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Harvests early summer - stores through summer. - You will soon be able to order for shipment in 2011. - Know where your food comes from - buy direct from our growers and save. Shallots are small onion-like bulbs that are highly prized for
being much more delicately flavored and less pungent than most onions. They don't store as long as onions or
garlic and so need to be enjoyed in season.
Shallots are worthy of great respect because they have many of the things people like about onions and garlic
but have a distinctly milder and more delicate flavor. Shallots have a magnificent crispness when eaten raw but
little of the pungency and odor of onions or garlic.
It might be able to produce a little allicin but not much.
Shallots can store for a couple of months or so at room temp from the time of harvest, usually June.
Shallots have a milder taste with a delicate distinctly onion-like hint to it and a pleasant mellow aftertaste.
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-- Order all you want of as many kinds as you want from any grower for 2011 delivery. -- |
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Harvests early-mid season - stores six months or more from time of harvest. - Currently under developmentS in fall 2011. - After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page.
Onions can store for about about six months at room temp from the time of harvest, usually June.
Under development.
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Shipping and Handling
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This year, 2011, all orders for all garlic, including assortments, must be placed direct with individual growers. |
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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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