I love garlic - my garlic collection

Tania · September 5, 2008

This is my favorite time in the garden - picking ripe tomatoes, finishing harvesting potatoes, and, most importantly, my garlics!

I have taken a lot of pictures of most of my garlic varieties that I grow every year, and posted them at TOMATObase - please come by and take a look, if you like drooling over garlic pictures as much as I do

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http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind...ategory:Garlic

This year the garlic harvest was decent, but not great - the bulb sizes were generally smaller, with the exception of the Yee's collection, which always produces large cloves. But even the Yee's garlics produced less cloved per bulb. I have to figure out what was not ideal in the new garlic bed (over than the excessive rains we had in June and August).

Here is one of the pictures to wet your appetite

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Enjoy,
Tania

Medbury Gardens · September 6, 2008

That is really an attractive looking garlic,what variety is it and does it grow a seed head????

Tania · September 6, 2008

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Originally Posted by Medbury Gardens

That is really an attractive looking garlic,what variety is it and does it grow a seed head????

That's the thing - I am not sure what this variety really is, but it is truly gorgeous garlic, and one of my favorites over the last 4 years. It does grow bulbils. I call it 'Yee's Purple Stripe', and it is likely a rocambole variety - You can find more info about this garlic at http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind..._Purple_Stripe

My other favorite and equally beautiful garlic is Yee's Russian (which could be 'Chesnok Red') - see http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind...ee%27s_Russian.

Here is the picture of Yee's Russian:

henry · September 9, 2008

Hi Tania,

Interesting looking garlic would be nice to know more of their history. Do you by any chance save the bulbil heads?

Any chance you might be Interested in trading for garlic varieties that you do not grow?

Henry

Tania · September 10, 2008

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Originally Posted by henry

Hi Tania,

Interesting looking garlic would be nice to know more of their history. Do you by any chance save the bulbil heads?

Any chance you might be Interested in trading for garlic varieties that you do not grow?

Henry

Henry,

I'd love to know more about the history of this garlic, but that was all I got from my friend Yee Chan, and she made extensive inquiries with the original growers...

I'd love to trade some garlic (bulbils preferably) - I have bulbils for these varieties available (see the list at http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind...Garlic_Bulbils). I can also trade cloves/bulbs of Inchelium Red, Lorz Italian, Yee's Sweet, and Yee's Pale Large Hardneck (see
http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind.../Inchelium_Red, http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/index.php/Lorz_Italian, http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/index.php/Yee%27s_Sweet, http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind...Large_Hardneck)
Most of them I am sure you already have, but there may be a few you may not. Please PM me if interested.

Cheers,
Tania

Tomaat · September 17, 2008

Tania,

I am very much interested as I Pm-ed you before but we just get the lawn rotavated (we are no longer staying in the old house), it will get problems with the soil parasites (found lots of grubs, wireworms and most possibly also nematodas). What a dilemma for me !!!

maryinoregon · October 31, 2008

I was just over at your site and the photographs were beautiful. Enjoyed it very much.

September 5, 2008	#1
Tania Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Anmore, BC, Canada Posts: 3,970	I love garlic - my garlic collection This is my favorite time in the garden - picking ripe tomatoes, finishing harvesting potatoes, and, most importantly, my garlics! I have taken a lot of pictures of most of my garlic varieties that I grow every year, and posted them at TOMATObase - please come by and take a look, if you like drooling over garlic pictures as much as I do . http://t-garden.homeip.net/mwiki/ind...ategory:Garlic This year the garlic harvest was decent, but not great - the bulb sizes were generally smaller, with the exception of the Yee's collection, which always produces large cloves. But even the Yee's garlics produced less cloved per bulb. I have to figure out what was not ideal in the new garlic bed (over than the excessive rains we had in June and August). Here is one of the pictures to wet your appetite : Enjoy, Tania __________________ Tatiana's TOMATObase Last edited by Tania; September 5, 2008 at 03:40 PM. Reason: typo

September 9, 2008	#4
henry Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Midway B.C. Canada Posts: 311	Hi Tania, Interesting looking garlic would be nice to know more of their history. Do you by any chance save the bulbil heads? Any chance you might be Interested in trading for garlic varieties that you do not grow? Henry __________________ Henry

September 6, 2008	#2
Medbury Gardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Medbury, New Zealand Posts: 1,881	That is really an attractive looking garlic,what variety is it and does it grow a seed head????

September 17, 2008	#6
Tomaat Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 154	Tania, I am very much interested as I Pm-ed you before but we just get the lawn rotavated (we are no longer staying in the old house), it will get problems with the soil parasites (found lots of grubs, wireworms and most possibly also nematodas). What a dilemma for me !!!

October 31, 2008	#7
maryinoregon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 361	I was just over at your site and the photographs were beautiful. Enjoyed it very much.