Available Summer 2023

Organic Music Hardneck Garlic

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Sow in fall to harvest the following July Porcelain Allium sativum

Gloriously aromatic, Organic Music Hardneck Garlic is spicy when raw yet balanced when cooked. Easy to grow with 4 to 6 massive, easy-to-peel cloves per bulb, Music has been grown for centuries in Italy. Al Music brought this variety to Canada in the 1980s; Music is now one of the most popular cultivars of garlic.

We share gorgeous, seed-quality Music garlic heads at least 2 inches or larger.

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 Music Hardneck Garlic

Sow in fall to harvest the following July Porcelain Allium sativum

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Gloriously aromatic, Music is spicy when raw yet balanced when cooked. Easy to grow with 4 to 6 massive, easy-to-peel cloves per bulb, Music has been grown for centuries in Italy. Al Music brought this variety to Canada in the 1980s; Music is now one of the most popular cultivars of garlic.

“Porcelain” varieties are hardnecks throwing scapes in June just before bulb harvest. Bulbs are typically large and bright white (inspiring the name ‘Porcelain”) although purple or copper streaking often appears depending on growing conditions. Bulbs average 4-6 exceptionally large cloves, each skin ranging from yellowish-tan to brown to reddish-purple in both background and streaking. Cloves are easy to peel.

As a group, Porcelains are among the highest yields of allicin, the sulfur compound most associated with garlic’s therapeutic benefits. As a result, they are often more pungent and unsubtle and lack the flavor complexity and depth found in Purple Stripes. Nonetheless, they work well for any dish that calls for assertive garlic flavor. Also, Porcelains (more than any other hardneck) set larger bulbs when their scapes are removed. 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.

Fruition’s Organic Garlic & Shallot Academy shares a lifetime of lessons distilled into step-by-step tutorials, season by season, to amplify your garlic & shallot abundance for years to come. You’ll find our free Garlic Growing Guide as well as our Shallot Growing Guide in the Academy, as well. Join us here!

~ Garlic will be available Summer 2023 ~

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1 review for Organic Music Hardneck Garlic

Rated 5 out of 5

sarahlynnoswald – July 13, 2021

When you combine exceptional quality seed garlic with Petra’s informative and encouraging tutorial videos on how to grow it, there is simply no way you can be disappointed! This was my first harvest of garlic and it was a success! I mean of course, right? I followed all the instructions on the packaging and paired it with all that I learned in the Fruition Seeds YouTube channel and went ahead and grew garlic like a pro! The MASSIVE bulbs that came in the mail were indicative of what I would get this harvest and it did not disappoint. Thank you Petra and all at Fruition for your dedication! God bless you for what you are doing for us beginner gardeners!

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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.