How to Choose a Garlic Variety to Grow - Ep. 214

If you have intentions of growing garlic for next year, now is the time to be ordering your seed garlic. Garlic needs about six months in the ground to get to maturity so, here in the northern hemisphere, we may be planting our garlic as early as mid-September in some areas.
With the plethora of catalogs and websites and garden centers offering garlic to gardeners, how do you know what variety of garlic to choose? And should you be choosing hard neck, or soft neck, or that look-a-like Elephant garlic?
Today on Just Grow Something we’re gonna' figure it out. We’ll talk about the differences between the types of garlic, and what might make you want to choose one variety over another – whether it’s to do with flavor, storage, disease resistance, or something else entirely. Let’s dig in!
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How many types of garlic are there? - Chef's Resource (chefsresource.com)
Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Vegetable Growing Guides - Growing Guide
Garlic Variety Descriptions | The Dyer Family Organic Farm
Garlic | The Buffalo Seed Company