2012 Garlic Orders

Spring Garlic Seeds are very small garlic bulbs about .5”-1.25” that are planted whole in the fall just like the garlic cloves. In the spring, they emerge as a bunch that look like a bunch of green onions. They are sold at the markets as an early spring crop, and command about $1-3 per bunch. They are in season with asparagus and spinach and are great sautιed with them. This gourmet treat has a green onion texture with a mild garlic flavor. There are about 15-30 small bulbs per pound. Complete instructions will be provided in your order.

Choose a half pound of any garlic variety we have available. Please make sure we are not sold out of the variety or size. Depending on size, a half pound is about 2-5 bulbs.

Our best selling package. With this one pound package, YOU get to choose the variety of garlic YOU want. Look at the variety of garlic we have available (make sure it is not sold out) and select the ones you want. Upon check out in the comment section, list the varieties you would like. Small Bulbs - about 8-12 bulbs Medium Bulbs - about 4-10 bulbs Large Bulbs - about 3-6 bulbs An expample in the comment section would be: Medium - Music-1, Siberian 2, NY Softneck 3, German Red 2 and if you can add more I would like Belarus bulbs.

This is a half pound bag of eating garlic. These are different varieties of garlic, but we lost track of the variety, so you will get a mixture of great tasting eating garlic. Depending on size it could be 2-8 bulbs.

You may choose and determine your own weight of the following varieties: Chesnok Red or Inchelium Red. These garlic varieties are easy to grow, vigorous, and are popular eating and growing varieties and 5 pound will produce aver 50 pounds of garlic. Upon check out, put the varieties you want in the comment section and amount of garlic variety each totaling 5lbs. in the comment section.

You choose 10 pounds of garlic of the following varieties: Softneck: Inchelium Red, Italian Late, Chets Red Italian or Chamiskuri Hardneck: Chesnok Red. Mix and Match the varieites of garlic and the amounts you want.

An heirloom garlic that the Amish have been growing for many, many years in Wisconsin. A nice large bulb with a pink blush and brown stripes. A wonderful rocambole flavor that adds a nice garlic flavor to cook recipes, but can be medium hot when eaten raw. A nice bulb to harvest early while waiting for other garlics. Produces nice large bulbs consistently. Averages 9 medium-large cloves per bulb. Only large size available!

It’s a variety originally from South Korea and is positively wonderful great tasting garlic with good storage life. It is positively breathtaking if eaten raw. Usually a medium sized garlic bulb and grown for its flavor. Averages about 5 cloves per bulb.

Rocambole - Also known as garlic candy when roasted into its sweet flavor! The raw garlic has a bite, but still mellows to a sweet aftertaste. The brown cloves wrappers are striped with beautiful purple lines. Should be harvested earlier than other garlic bulbs to get a long storing rocambole that may store until spring. It averages 8-13 cloves.

• Attractive, delicious, & one of the best tasting • Easy to peel 8-12 dark red skin crescent shaped cloves • Leaves usually 1st to emerge in fall and spring • Stores longer than other hardneck • We are just delighted with this garlic. It has out performed all our other purple stripes except Chesnok Red. We started with about 10lbs. a few years ago and harvested over 300lbs. this year.

A garlic with few cloves, with dark purple/brown clove colors. It’s said to be the longest storing of the marbled purple stripes. Originally from Moscow. Averages 4 cloves per bulb. Medium & Large sized bulbs.

• Raw Fiery flavor that mellows to a nice garlic flavor • Stores longer than other hardneck • With the nice warm weather this year, our brown temptest looks beautiful with large bulbs and a satin clove wrapper. This is popular at our Farmer's Market, since it is a hot raw garlic and many customers are looking for that flavor in their salsas and other dishes.• Averages 4-5 cloves per bulb It is a beautiful satin bulb and always recommended for our salsa customers!

Very fat cloves with rose-brown blush. Average 6 cloves per bulb. Long storing. One of the first Purple Stripe to come up in the spring.

Brown Vesper (Marbled Purple Stripe) Originally an old R81, from the former USSR. It is mild and sweet, almost fruity when baked; hot and spicy raw. Averages 6 cloves per bulb. Bulbs are usually medium sized.

Bzenc (Marbled Purple Stripe) aka Bzenec Originally from the Czech collection of New York grower Dr. Boris Andrst. SSE218 This one retains garlic flavor well when baked. It’s very spicy raw with the heat building quickly. Averages 6 cloves per bulb. After planting for a couple years, we have only been able to get small sized bulbs, but it's flavor makes this worth growing

Carpathian - (Rocambole Hardneck) From the Carpathian Mountains of Southwest Poland • Large uniform bulbs with this copper vein wrappers with purple blotching • Nice classic garlic flavor – Raw: tangy & spicy Roasted: rich & sweet • Grows well in cold winters • Vigorous deep green plants matures after Spanish Roja • Average 6-9 cloves per bulb • Growers will get a variety of sizes, but mainly medium to large size bulbs Yugoslavian and Barvarian and good subsitutes for Carpathian.

What we have left are small 1" bulbs, but the cloves are still a nice size. Chamiskuri is an early-mid season harvesting medium-rich flavored and medium pungent softneck Artichoke with straw-colored clove covers and sometimes a lot of purplish color to the bulb wrappers, depending on weather. Excellent all-around garlic that can be braided. Chamiskuri stores into mid-spring.

It is good to grow these along with Porcelains or Silverskins so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic.

Grows very well in most of the USA and can even be grown in warm winter areas quite well.

It stores quite well and the clove wrappers are very colorful. This is a very pretty garlic with nice sized cloves. Eaten raw it has great garlic flavor without being too hot and spicy. It has a bit of a nutty flavor to it. This is a great one to eat raw. An early to harvest garlic. Averages about 10 cloves per bulb.

Delicate purple stripes adorn this attractive bulb. Nice mild flavor. Originally from a market in SE China. Averages 7 cloves per bulb. Most turban result in Medium sized full flavored bulbs.

• Originally from Republic of Georgia in former USSR • A must grow garlic variety – vigorous plant & wonderful taste • Won numerous taste tests as best roasting garlic • Beautiful purple stripes with consistently large bulbs • 10-12 cloves per bulb • Growers will get a wonderful, hardy, very easy to grow bulbs that vary in size, but most bulbs are over 2.25” and some are 3”. We even produced larger bulbs from the field we didn’t weed all season vs. the weeded garlic field (not a recommendation though)

A true Turban type from Republic of Tahzikistan. Large, plump cloves initially produce hot bite on tip of tongue when eaten raw. Averages 8 to 11 cloves that result in medium to large size bulbs.

An early maturing variety. The bulb wrapper is lightly striped. It really retains it's flavor and shape nicely in cooked dishes. Averages 7 cloves per bulb and results in all sized bulbs.

Fireball (hardneck) Spicy flavor, originally from Poland, an average of 6 plump red skinned cloves in a purple bulb wrapper. Only small bulbs available this year.

This is a beautiful pearly satin garlic with many cloves and a bold flavor. The origins of this garlic are unknown, but we purchased from We Grow Garlic who received it from Nick Delforte who received the seed from another Western New York region garlic farmer, Mark Bownam. There are 12-18 cloves and 1 pound will result in about 12-14 pounds of garlic.

• Originated from the Republic of Georgia between the Black Sea and Caspain Sea • Large healthy garlic which is resistant to many garlic diseases • Raw: Robust, but not hot, flavor great for pesto & salsas Roasted: smooth and buttery • One of the longer storing porcelain garlics • Averages 4-6 cloves large, fat cloves per bulb • Growers will consistently get a medium/large size bulb usually around 2"+ from the large cloves

Georgian Fire, like most porcelains is a large and beautiful garlic with rich robust flavor that is strong and has an aftertaste that lingers. The clove covers are a light brown streaked with purple From a growers perspective, it is a large and healthy garlic to grow and appears to be relatively resistant to most of the diseases that can affect garlic. It originated in the Republic of Georgia. 4-6 large cloves per bulb.

German Extra Hardy – Hardneck • One of the most winter-hardy garlic varieties • A very white garlic, but the clove wrappers are a dark red • For a porcelain, it is not to hot • 5-7 Very Large Cloves per bulb which makes it one of my favorite garlic’s since it is so easy to peel. • A vigorous garlic with long roots which gives it the ability to overwinter without heaving out of the ground • Stores well for a hardneck

We changed our German Red seed stock last year to a local garlic grower since the German Red we purchased from Washington would never size up. It has large cloves and produces large bulbs. It is from old time gardeners of German descent in Idaho. Averages from 6 up to 12 cloves depending on size of the bulb.

When you plant this garlic you will notice it is great for making garlic braids with it’s beautiful color and large size • Discovered on the Colville Indian Reservation, but original source unknown • Won Rodale Kitchen’s taste test in 1990 for it’s medium all round garlic taste • More resistant to garlic diseases. • Averages 8-20 cloves per bulb with all cloves being a good size Long storing garlic

The extra tight wrapper makes for a long storing garlic(see not above), so it would be great in braids especially with the purple streaks and blotching on the wrapper. It has many large cloves a few medium and small. From 10 bulbs (1 pound+) we harvested 12lbs. of beautiful, mainly, large size bulbs with some medium and a few small. So this garlic will start a nice size garlic variety for you. It has 7-12 cloves per bulb.

Japanese (Asiatic) Giannangelo Farms obtained this rare garlic from an elderly Japanese farmer in Western Washington. Averages 4 to 5 cloves per bulb. A medium size beautiful white bulb.

Kazakhstan (hardneck) Proudly bearing the name of its homeland, Kazakhstan belongs to a group of older varieties from which commercial garlics have probably originated. Thesevery large, sturdy plants result in large bulbs that can rival Music. Averages 6 to 8 large cloves per bulb.

Kettle River Giant (Artichoke) This artichoke softneck can grow quite large, up to four inches at times. It has been a long time heirloom garlic grown in the Pacific Northwest. Cold winters are not a problem. The wrappers are a beige-white with pink overtones. Being a softneck, it also stores quite well. It has a medium heat and a rich taste, not unlike some hardnecks. Averages 12 cloves per bulb.

• Original Source unknown but thought to come from German Red or Spanish Roja, but grows better than both • Grows to a large size garlic with healthy uniform bulbs and grows well in wet conditions • Double cloves are common • Like other Rocamboles, it’s flavor is strong, hot, spicy and sticks around for a while • The thin bulb wrappers peel easy, but don’t store for long • Averages 8-9 cloves per bulb • Growers will get a variety of bulb sizes from this variety

• Consistently large bulbs and cloves. It grows simlar to music, but with a much better garlic flavor. It's very hardy and easy to grow. Beautiful white bulbs. • Great hot and pungent garlic flavor • It is originally Gatersleben #684 • Averages 5 large cloves per bulb

This medium-large Italian artichoke is unusual in several ways; color, taste and storability. Lorz has more purple in the bulb wrappers than one usually sees in an artichoke and the semi-thick wrappers peel easily away revealing large cream-colored cloves with elongated tips and only the faintest hint of purple. It harvests in mid season and stores very well until winter. It averages seven large fat cloves in three clove layers and usually has no small internal cloves.

It ranks 4-5 on the garlickiness scale and 8 on the pungency side. It has a semi-rich flavor and a lot bite that just increases with age and it stores well for 6-8 months.

Most Italian garlics tend to be somewhat mild, but this one is different. Depending on growing conditions, it can be very hot and strong. At first, it doesn't seem to have any aftertaste at all - then in a few minutes it begins to grow and becomes very noticeable and builds to a peak in about thirty minutes. If you like garlic with a bold flavor that really sticks around, this is for you. In years where the taste is milder due to growing conditions, the aftertaste is still strongly present, even though the initial taste is milder. A real garlic lovers garlic.

A beautiful purple garlic that has been grown in Wisconsin since the 1980's. It is a large pretty garlic with it’s blue and purple striping on the skins. And, it’s as tasty as it is pretty. Averages about 10 cloves.

• One of the most popular varieties due to taste, vigorous growth, and 6-8 large easy to peel cloves • An Italian variety brought back to Canada by Al Music in the 1980’s from his home land • Flavor is rich, strong, robust and pungent • Music grows well in northern states being one of the largest plant and garlic and is resistant to garlic diseases • Averages 5-6 large cloves per bulb • Growers will get extra large bulbs consistently! Helpers wonder if they are elephant garlic due to their consistent large size. Easy to grow with beautiful white bulbs.

New York White – Softneck • Also known in New York as Polish White • A traditional garlic that is great for braiding • A hardy softneck that grows well in Northern & Eastern states • Great all round white garlic with a purple blush • Averages 10-12 cloves per bulb • With so many cloves per bulb, it’s easy for grower to build a large supply of garlic. If you plant all the small to large cloves, you will get a variety of sizes from 1.5”-2.5”+.

• Such a beautiful rich purple garlic with a sweet roasted taste • Originally known as Mchadidzhvari #1 from Republic of Georgia • The sweet flavor of this garlic is also great raw in pestos • Stores 7-8 months after harvest • Averages 10 cloves per bulb • This has been a fussy garlic for us in the past few years, and we have only been able to get small sized bulbs from this garlic variety. I don't recommend this garlic unless you want a challenge (and we have a few of these).

• Mature slightly later than other Turbans • Beautiful Red striping and blush around the bulb • Stores longer than other Turbans • Fragrant, sweet and a little spicy baked. • Originally from Nimarazeni in Republic of Georgia • Averages 6 cloves per bulb.

• From the Republic of Georgia near Tochliavri • Very popular variety with nice sized bulbs and wonderful garlic flavor • Averages 7 cloves per bulb

Porcelain - One of our largest growing and hardy garlics. One of the first porcelians introduced to British Columbia from Romania. Very high in Allicin, so excellent for medicinal purposes. 4-5 very large easy to peel cloves. Also known as Red Elephant Garlic. A great garlic for beginners, because it grows wonderful, hardy, very large bulbs!

A heirloom brought to British Columbia by Doukhobor immigrants from Russia in early 1900's. A consistant hardy rocambole. As delicious as Spanish Roja, Killarney Red or Carpathian with a sweet full garlic flavor. Double cloves can be common. Averages 4-6 cloves per bulb.

"• One of the most popular varieties due to taste, vigorous growth, and 6-8 large easy to peel cloves • Flavor is rich, strong, robust and pungent • Grows well in northern states being one of the largest plant and garlic and is resistant to garlic diseases • Averages 5-6 large cloves per bulb • Growers will get extra large bulbs consistently! Helpers wonder if they are elephant garlic due to their consistent large size. Easy to grow with beautiful white bulbs. "

• An heirloom garlic which came to Portland over 100 years ago • Another very popular garlic variety due to its large size and it’s true garlic taste • Performs well in northern area and not so well in mild winters • Averages 8-9 cloves per bulb • Growers will get a variety of bulb sizes from this variety. These can be a little more challenging to grow depending on a number of factors, but a must try due to popularity by garlic lovers!

Longest storing garlic that can be stored until next season garlic comes in. Originally from California and can be grown in a large variety of regions especially in the South. A great braiding garlic. Averages 16-20 cloves.

• One of the best raw eating garlic for it’s mild flavor • If strong garlic upsets your stomach, this one is for you! • A garlicky taste, but minimal aftertaste and heat • We use this mild garlic to eat raw for the health benefits of garlic since there is minimal aftertaste • Great for Braiding and will store until next year’s garlic crop is harvested, but this interesting garlic can very easily grow into a hardneck and then plant that hardneck and it will turn back into a softneck. These garlic can be so much fun to grow! • Averages 12-18 of multilayer cloves per bulb

• Obtained in Slovenia in the 1980’s • Hands down - easiest to peel garlic since many of the clove wrappers don’t completely wrap the large clove which also reduces its storing ability • Nice garlic bite with a smoky flavor • Averages 7 cloves per bulb • Growers will get wonderful large garlic that matures quickly while growing, so harvest first. Constantly large bulbs 2.25”-3” that are easy to peel

• Very hot Turban when raw, but we love this garlic when it is sauteed. It carmelizes to a sweet wonderful flavor that will keep you looking for more garlic cloves. I keep burning this garlic when cooking just to get that wonderful flavor! MMMMM..... The bulbs are a beautiful white skinned with blushes of red/pink. • From Shandong Province • Averages 7 cloves per bulb

• Copper veined and purple blotched bulbs with oak colored brown clove wrappers. • Very green and vigorous plants • A strong garlic aroma that’s hot and spicy, but not overwhelming, mellowing to a pleasant, sweet aftertaste • Averages 8-12 cloves per bulb • Growers will get a variety of bulb sizes from this variety and large bulbs are common.

• Nice white large cloves from small bulbs that fit nicely into a garlic press. • Wonderful garlic flavor • Longer storage for a porcelain probably due to • Averages 4 cloves per bulb

Now available until June 30! Sold by the pound. We snap our garlic scapes right when they emerge out of the plant leaves. This tender stem makes for delicious eating. It makes popular pesto. See our Garlic Scape web page for recipe ideas http://keeneorganics.com/garlic_scape_pesto. Ordering early June ensures the most tender scapes.

Spring Garlic Seeds are very small garlic bulbs about .5”-1.25” that are planted whole in the fall just like the garlic cloves. In the spring, they emerge as a bunch that look like a bunch of green onions. They are sold at the markets as an early spring crop, and command about $1-3 per bunch. They are in season with asparagus and spinach and are great sautιed with them. This gourmet treat has a green onion texture with a mild garlic flavor. There are about 15-30 small bulbs per pound. Complete instructions will be provided in your order.