Growing Ontario Garlic: Garlic Gallery

Stratford Garlic Festival - our booth for 2017

Painting project 2017 - the barn roof needed a new coat,
and my Mother, who is a sign painter decided to make it special!

2017 Garlic Harvest - Chesnok Red

Mature scapes for bulbil seed - 2017

A Rocambole scape, from the strain "Carpathian."

Marbled Purple Stripe

Purple Stripe

Glazed Purple Stripe

Glazed Purple Stripe cloves from the strain "Brown Tempest."

Creole

Marbled Purple Stripe Bulb with Roots

Porcelain Bulbs

Silver Skin Bulbs

A rare Silver Skin Scape.
This one is from the strain "Chilean Silver",
it has been allowed to mature, and develop bulbils.
Silver Skin plants are normally softneck.

Purple Stripe scapes are full of flowers
before the bulbils begin to develop.

A Purple Stripe scape later in the season.
Now it is full of bulbils.

An Artichoke strain that is just bursting with colour!
Most Artichoke bulbs are fairly white.
Artichokes are softneck, but the excitement of being in
Ontario sometimes makes them forget this, and, certain
strains especially, are prone to developing "neck bulbils",
a few of which are pictured here.

Asiatic

Asiatic plants are short, with fascinating scapes
that loop over, and develop very long beaks.

Creole bulb, Rose de Lautrec.
I like to call them "pearls of the earth",
mostly because the bulbs are beautiful,
but also because they are quite small.
Creoles usually size down, the longer I grow them.

Bulbils growing out. This Asiatic type has put on some scapes
in the first year, meaning that some will be tiny bulbs when they are harvested.
I always hope for rounds at the start, because they size up quicker.

This picture is a few years old. We still dry garlic much the same way,
in the bank barn that our great grandfather built in 1911.

Some years the Turbans really put a shot of red in the scape.
It usually fades to a light peach and disappears as they mature.

Rocambole cloves in pretty sunset colours.

"Crystal White" started from one such a Georgian Crystal plant that I discovered
in 2011. I am still watching for the spontaneous change to stabilize.

Purple Glazer. Coiling scapes in company.

Bulbil rounds and small bulbs.

Julie Planting Garlic in 2010

Planting garlic, Sept. 2016

May 15, 2017 Julie is scuffling the garlic.
This is part of our early weed management.
The single, 30 inch rows make it possible to get
a lot of the weeds with this tool.