Available Summer 2023

Organic Chesnok Red Hardneck Garlic

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Sow in fall to harvest the following July Allium sativum

A staff favorite in our annual garlic tasting for the last 5 years straight, we adore Chesnok Red for her rich garlic flavor and balanced, sweet-heat when cooked. Raw, her intense heat quickly dissipates but cooking truly brings out her earthy, rich garlic complexities. In January, once the short-storing but delectable Rocambole varieties have been eaten, Chesnok Red becomes one of our favorites with her rich, smooth sweetness and touch of heat. Her cloves are initially hard to peel, making Organic Chesnok Red Hardneck Garlic an excellent storage variety; the cloves become easier to peel the longer they store and bulbs store up to 12 months. Average 6-10 cloves per bulb.

We share seed-quality bulbs of Chesnok Red at least 2 inches or larger in diameter.

And Friends, we reap what we sow — and also what we sow into — and garlic is hungry! To harvest the largest, healthiest and most delectable heads, sow your cloves into garden soil with abundant compost as well as our organic garlic & shallot fertilizer, nourishing root development in fall and growing large, nutrient dense plants all spring and early summer. Foliar feed your garlic in spring with compost tea or organic fish emulsion for an invaluable boost in nutrients, as well. Learn exactly why our garlic is over 90% seed-quality and long-storing in our free online course, Growing Garlic & Shallots Organically. Enjoy!

~ Garlic will be available Summer 2023 ~

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Organic Chesnok Red Hardneck Garlic

Sow in fall to harvest the following July Allium sativum

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A staff favorite in our annual garlic tasting for the last 5 years straight, we adore Organic Chesnok Red Hardneck Garlic for her rich garlic flavor and balanced, sweet-heat when cooked. Raw, her intense heat quickly dissipates but cooking truly brings out her earthy, rich garlic complexities. In January, once the short-storing but delectable Rocambole varieties have been eaten, Chesnok Red becomes one of our favorites with her rich, smooth sweetness and touch of heat. Her cloves are initially hard to peel, making Organic Chesnok Red Hardneck Garlic an excellent storage variety; the cloves become easier to peel the longer they store and bulbs store up to 12 months. Average 6-10 cloves per bulb and 5-7 bulbs per lb.

Collected in the southern Republic of Georgia in 1985, it is a highly productive “Purple Stripe” type with silver-purple streaking on each bulb and clove skin. Purple Stripe varieties are the oldest of all garlic, closest to the origins of the species. They are a hardneck, sending up spiraling, edible scapes in June that may flower in addition to producing bulbils. Their flavors as a group are strong, complex and richly garlicky without being overly sulfurous though they lack the sweetness of the Rocamboles.

Several of our favorite varieties are Purple Stripe and we prefer them for roasting, especially. Purple Stripes are named for their vivid purple skins that often stripe deeper purple and their 6-10 cloves are arranged in a single layer around the scape (though very large bulbs may form a second layer). Because their skins are more tightly attached than Rocambole types, Purple Stripes store longer and become easier to peel the longer they store. Also, garlic is one of the hungriest crops in your garden! We feed our soil as well as our garlic with our Organic Garlic & Shallot Fertilizer as well as our Fish & Kelp Emulsion.

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~ Garlic will be available Summer 2023 ~

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How to Grow Organic Garlic: Just a Taste!

Choose well-drained soil that has plenty of sun and plenty of compost worked in.

Here in Zone 5 we plant between late September to early November. Plant individual cloves 2-3 inches deep and 6 inches apart in a row. Rows should be 6-10 inches apart depending on bed spacing and cultivation tools. If you have mulch available it will aid in reducing frost-heaving. Keep garlic well-watered and well-weeded! Feel free to harvest the delicious, spiraling scape that will appear in early/mid-June on the hardneck varieties. Harvest your bulbs beginning the first or second week of July up until mid-August with a fork or shovel once a third of the leaves are brown and dry. Cure garlic (leaves and all) out of the direct sunlight for two weeks with plenty of good air flow, clipping the necks and roots to store long-term in a dark, dry place. Softnecks: when harvesting we like to cut the stem of the plant as close to the garlic bulb to encourage uniform drying.

We have recently begun to use a small handful of worm castings on top of each clove when we seed in the fall. The health and size of the garlic plants has dramatically improved- give it a try! Late planting? As long as you can get into the garden and the ground is not frozen the garlic will do just fine. We have planted digging through the snow when we got behind and had no other choice. You might not like being out there then, but the garlic does not seem to mind.