Very nice, Durgan! I'm growing garlic for the first time. Friends gave me some starts last fall of a strain that has been grown in gardens on their family farm here since the 1890's or earlier. I planted them, and now I have a small patch of plants that look a lot like those larger ones of yours.
I've determined that I've got some variety of hard neck garlic, they're growing scapes now. I pulled one bulb early and we ate it chopped up in a salad - cloves hadn't formed yet and the bulb was all-white with no trace of red or purple. It had a very pleasant, mild garlic flavor.
There are so many different kinds of hard neck garlic, I wonder what variety this old one is. Does anyone here know what garlic variety might have been commonly grown by farm folks here in the Missouri Ozarks in the 19th Century? It probably wasn't bought or ordered, but shared by a neighbor or relative as that was usual practice at the time.
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