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My favorite is an unknown originally Russian variety, which I got from a colleague's father-in-law. It may be an porcelain hardneck, since it has usually only four large cloves. It is a good producer this far north and stores well. Taste is quite strong, but not too pungent for eating raw.

I got my garlic bed in our field ready today and planted 36 Elephant Garlic and 120 of the Russian garlic cloves. Then it got too dark to plant anything and we had to head back home. I'll go back next weekend to plant rest of the cloves.

I have some tiny bulbs, which I grew from previous season's bulbils and some bigger bulbils which grew in the stems of the softnecks this summer. I will plant those tomorrow in a raised bed here in our city yard, because those are too small to plant to the field.