About Hardneck Garlic: Some garlic lovers claime these varieties have the best flavours. Hardnecks produce a flower stalke (scape) like onions and have generally fewer cloves than softnecks but the cloves are larger and easier to peel. Planted bulbs can yield 5-8 times their weight at harvest time. A quarter kilogram of hardnecks will produce cloves for up to forty plants
Most of the hardnecks do best where winters are cool, spring is damp and cool, and summer is dry and warm. A disadvantage of hardneck varieties is that they do not keep as long after harvest as the softneck, commercial varieties. Available hardnecks are listed below. Rocamboles and Purple Stripes, in particular, thrive in cooler winters and cool springs. Porcelains can fare well in warm-winter climates in years when winter and spring tend toward the cooler side. Planting garlic varieties are listed below.
Seed Stock. Hand-picked garlic varieties for planting can be purchased in advance of harvest. Depending on variety we usually start shipping in December. You get the best bulbs by ordering early. We will ship your order when all of the varieties you have requested are ready. We do not guarantee minimum diameters but sell according to maximum diameters. The size of the bulb you receive depends on the variety and size you ordered for planting. As a general rule large bulbs of each variety produce larger cloves of the same variety which produce larger garlic at harvest. Bulbs of each variety may also be purchased as eating garlic. .
 Hardnecks are listed below. Because the stock of some varieties is often limited, orders are processed in the order at which they are received. We are pleased to offer CERTIFIED ORGANIC seed garlic while it lasts. Be sure to order early because organic seed garlic at these prices sell out fast.
If you prefer, you can choose your garlic according to taste rather than type by going to Table Garlic
Our Hardneck Varieties
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