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Mines doing great, lot of rain, and they are bulbgantious.
They're hardnecks, we already cut the scapes. Those scapes sure are delicious cooked on an open bar-b-que pit, we also freeze the scapes and use them in stir fries.....mmm. They will be harvested sometime in the end of July.
Here's what last years crop looked like.
We had close to 500 bulbs.
I don't know exactly what species they are, just that they were once a purple stripe that was modified in the 1940's. We got them from a garlic farm in Indiana.
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Hmmm, no such thing as a modified garlic type. Garlic does not bloom or have real flowers, so they cannot be crossed or hybridized. They stay true to form except for extremely rare mutations. You may know this but if you let the scapes mature they will form bulbils. Plant a bulbil and it will grow into a rounder the following year (bulb without cloves). Plant the rounder then next year and it will grow a head with cloves. You bypass that by planting cloves and they form a head with cloves in one year. They stay true to form as a clone though.
My guess off hand would be that you have Premium Northern White. If the cloves peel really easy it could also be Italian Easy Peel (my overall favorite). What color are the cloves and how many are there per head? Also do the scapes coil (rocambole) or just droop over?
Nice harvest. What kind of tree is that behind the bulb in the second picture? Silver Maple?
I planted a few varieties to see which ones best suit me.
I like my garlic strong, large, and long storage.
They all are doing great so I will be able to make a decision this July.
Where I'm at it seems like April was the magic month for heavy growth.
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