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Click here to buy gourmet garlics for fall shipment Gourmet Garlic Varieties Table of Contents [ Click these links to go to items on this page. ] [ Artichokes ] [ Asiatics ] [ Creoles ] [ Porcelains ] [ Purple Stripes ] [ Rocamboles ] [ Silverskins ] [ Turbans ] [ Garlic Braids ] [ Garlic scapes ] [ Shallots ] [ Elephant Garlic ] [ Alphabetical listing of gourmet garlics ] Order Now [ Scapes in the Spring - Order now for spring 2013 shipment. ] We are now accepting orders for gourmet garlic for late summer/early fall shipment. - [ Scapes in the Spring - Order now for spring 2013 shipment. ] - [ Shallots in the Summer - Order now for summer shipment. ] - [ Garlic Braids - order now for fall shipment. ] - [ Garlics sorted by variety - order now for fall shipment. ] - [ Bulk garlics sorted by mild, medium and strong - order now for fall shipping ] - [ Sampler assortments of garlics sorted by mild, medium and strong - order now for fall shipping ] - [ Garlics sorted by variety - order now for fall shipment. ] - [ Garlics sortedd by variety - order now for fall shipment. ] - [ Garlics sortedd by variety - order now for fall shipment. ]

Order Now We are now accepting orders for gourmet garlic for fall shipment. - [ Shallots in the Summer - Order now for summer shipment. ] - [ Garlic Braids - order now for fall shipment. ] - [ Garlics sorted by variety - order now for fall shipment. ] - [ Bulk garlics sorted by mild, medium and strong - order now for fall shipping ] - [ Sampler assortments of garlics sorted by mild, medium and strong - order now for fall shipping ]

Available Garlics Listed by Alphabetical order 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. Use your back arrow key to return to this point. Comments in black mean we are currently accepting orders for this garlic or expect to have it in 2012. Comments in Blue mean we are not currently accepting orders for this garlic. Alphabetic listing of Gourmet Garlics Ajo Rojo (Creole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Amish Rocambole (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Applegate (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Asian Tempest (Asiatic) - May not be available this year. - Bavarian (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Belarus (Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Bogatyr (Marbled Purple Stripe) - May not be available this year. - Brown Tempest (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Burgundy (Creole) - Order now for fall shipping. - California Early (Artichoke) - May not be available this year. - California Late (Artichoke) - May not be available this year. - Caretaker (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Carpathian (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Celeste (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Chesnok Red (Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - China Dawn (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Chinese Purple (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Creole Red (Creole) - May not be available this year. - Cuban Purple (Creole) - May not be available this year. - Early Red Italian (Moderate Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Georgian Crystal (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - Georgian Fire (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - German Extra Hardy (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - German Red (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - German White (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - Germinador (Creole) - May not be available this year. - Gourmet Red (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Idaho Silver (Silverskin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Inchelium Red (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Italian Easy Peel (Rocambole) - May not be available this year. - Italian Late (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Italian Purple (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Italian Purple (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Japanese (Asiatic) - May not be available this year. - Killarney Red(Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Korean Red (Asiatic)- May not be available this year. - Korean Red Hot (AKA Korean Red Rocambole) (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Leah 99 (Porcelaiin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Leningrad (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - Lorz Italian (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Maiskij (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Metechi (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Mild French (Silverskin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Music (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - Nootka Rose (Silverskin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Northern White (Porcelain) - May not be available this year. - Paw Paw (Rocambole) - May not be available this year. - Persian Star (Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Polish Jenn (Porcelain) - Order now for fall ship[ment. - Polish Hardneck (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipment.. - Polish Softneck (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipment.. - Polish White (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Pskem (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Purple Glazer (Glazed Purple Stripe) - Order now for shipment in fall. - Red Janice (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Red Toch (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Rogue River Red (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Romanian Red (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - Rose de Lautrec (Rich French Creole) - May not be available this year. - Rosewood (Porcelain) - May not be available this year. - Russian Red (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - S & H Silverskin (Silverskin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Shandong (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Shilla (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Siberian (Marbled Purple Stripe) - Order now for fall shipping. - Siciliano (Artichoke from Sicily) - Order now for fall shipping. - Silver Rose (Silverskin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Silverwhite (Silverskin) - Order now for fall shipping. - Simoneti (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Slovenian (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Sonoran (Asiatic) - Order now for fall shipping. - Spanish Roja (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Stull (Porcelain) - Order now for fall shipping. - Susanville (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Thermadrone (Asiatic) - Order now for fall shipping. - Transylvanian (Artichoke) - Order now for fall shipping. - Tzan (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Ukraine (Rocambole) - Order now for fall shipping. - Xian (Turban) - Order now for fall shipping. - Zemo (Porcelain) - May not be available this year. - Back to this page's Table of Contents

We and our growers sell only superior garlic and will not knowingly sell garlic that does not meet our high standards of quality. If I would not want to buy it for my own seed stock, I will not sell it to others. We wish to carry on our reputation for quality, not quantity. 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. Black means we have the garlic in stock, Blue means we are sold out of this cultivar.

Artichoke Garlics (Softneck) Applegate - A mild and mellow Artichoke garlic. - Order now for fall shipment. - 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 this year. - Early Red Italian - Order now for fall shipment. - Inchelium Red - Winner of 1989 Organic Gardening taste contest - Order now for fall shipment. - Italian Purple -A Strong, Good-Storing Artichoke (An Heirloom).-- - Order now for fall shipment. - Lorz Italian -A Strong, Good-Storing Artichoke (An Heirloom).-- - Order now for fall shipment. - Polish Softneck - Order now for fall shipment. - Polish White - Order now for fall shipment. - Red Toch- Early Harvester with Excellent flavor - Everybody wants Red Toch - very popular lately! - Order now for fall shipment. - Siciliano - A richly flavored and warm garlic with a smooth taste from Sicily. - Order now for fall shipment. - Simoneti - Large and Mild - Order now for fall shipment. - Susanville - Large and Mild - Order now for fall shipment. - Thermadrone - Large Medium flavored - Order now for fall shipment. - Transylvanian - Hot, strong and vampire resistant - Order now for fall shipment. - Back to Garlic Varieties Table of Contents

Elephant Garlic (Allium Ampeloprasm) Harvests early-mid season - stores a year or more from time of harvest. - Order now for fall 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. Those little nodules are called corms and they assure the plant's survival. When a plant is pulled from the ground, some of those cloves come off and remain behind to sprout and grow and assure survival of the plant. It takes two growing seasons for elephant garlic to mature and they grow leaves and form an undivided round ball the first year and if left in the ground sprout again in the fall and grow a second year and get much larger and form a fully segmented compound bulb with an average of five huge individual cloves. Once you grow elephant garlic in a place, you will have it there forever as it comes back on its own every year with no effort on your part though if you give them good soil they will thrive and get bigger. If you plant the individual cloves instead of the corms, it fully matures in only one growing season and becomes a compound bulb the following spring and is harvested in early summer. Most will have light purple round infertile flower balls atop a stalk-like scape but some have white. Order now for fall shipment. - Buy direct from the grower and save. Click here to buy Elephant Garlic from Penngate Garlic Farm in PA. - Click on family picture for enlarged image. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page. -- Order all you want of as many kinds as you want from any grower for 2012 delivery. -- -- Then be sure to check out at any checkout station before buying from any other grower. -- Back to Garlic Varieties Table of Contents

- Garlic Scapes - 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. Do not order scapes and garlic bulbs on the same order. Scapes must be on an order by themselves because they require seperate, immediate shipping and cannot wait until the garlics are ready to send. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page. - Click here to Buy Scapes direct from Abbott Organics in northern California and save. - Order our scapes now for shipping in May and June of 2013. - Back to Garlic Varieties Table of Contents

Garlic Braids (Allium Sativum) Harvests late summer - stores into the following spring. - Order now for fall 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. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page. Long-Storing Beautiful Gourmet Garlic Braids - Buy 10 and 15 bulb braids direct from Organic Volcanic Garlic in Idaho and save. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to our home page. More Long-Storing Beautiful Gourmet Garlic Braids - Buy direct from PD Farms in Oregon and save. Click here to order early for our 10 and 15 bulb Garlic Braids.

- The information below is from gourmetgarlicgardens.com - Please read. 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. 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 Gourmet Garlic Gardens' total liability from all causes is limited to refunding any monies the buyer has paid directly to Gourmet Garlic Gardens. 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 North America, no others allowed. This farmers market is strictly for small-scale North American market gardeners/growers who live and grow sustainably. We will be adding and deleting and changing the status of varieties often as our growers sell out of some and add more varieties so check back regularly to see what we currently list as available. If you don't see what you want, check back again, we may have it later - we receive news about what's available from our growers continually. Or, E-Mail bob@web-access.net Four ways to buy from us: If you know the name of the garlic you want to buy you can look it up in an alphabetical listing and click on its name...or If you don't know the name of a good garlic, look one up in a listing by taste - mild, medium or strong and click on its name...or Go to our farmers market and select a grower you feel good about and buy from them...or Call me at (325) 348-3049 Order now for shipment in late summer/early fall 2013. 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. - Garlic Books, Etc. - New - The Complete Book of Garlic is the best, most comprehensive book yet about garlic. The Complete Book of Garlic by Ted Jordan Meredith The Classic Commercial Garlic Growers Guide Growing Great Garlic by Ron Engeland A Miscellany of Garlic is the newest book about garlic and it is well-written and reads easy as the author has a warm friendly writing style that makes it fun to read. A Miscellany of Garlic by Trina Clickner If you don't see what you want, E-Mail bob@web-access.net Basic Ordering Information On any page of this website where the lists of garlic cultivars are displayed you can click on the name of any garlic and get a picture and/or a detailed description of that variety and some buttons you can click on to buy direct from different growers. Just decide how many pounds of which varieties you want from each grower and use our shopping cart and your credit card to buy on line. Since we would like you to experience the joys of these delectable garlics and accessories, 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/debit card information over the phone and the growers will ship your garlic as soon as they can. Our mailing address is: Gourmet Garlic Gardens 12300 FM 1176 Bangs, Texas 76823-4808 Disclaimer We make no guarantees or warranties of any kind whatsoever, expressed or implied, with respect to our garlic or the garlic sold by any growers who sell their garlic through our website. We do not guarantee or warrant the fitness, suitability or usability of our garlic for any particular purpose. We state only that the varieties we and the growers who sell through our website 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 for the garlic in question. We and the growers who sell through our website 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 garlic that goes bad within 30 days, please call or e-mail the grower immediately stating the problem and return the defective garlic to the grower via Priority US Mail and the grower will either replace it at no additional charge, or refund your money for the defective garlic. 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. More TO COME... Garlic Books, Garlic Accessories and Gardening Tools, Etc. Added May 30, 2007 - Pictures of our Fabulous wildflowers that spring. - Bob Phillips' Texas Country Reporter did a story on me and the garlic for their long running TV program - click here to see the 6:28 video on youtube: Bob Anderson Garlicmeister, a self-inflicted title for amusement only. Photo courtesy of Bill Yeates. 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