Dug my first Garlic yesterday

Ozark · June 27, 2016

Grilling some sliced Cocozella di Napoli zucchini with olive oil yesterday, I didn't have enough supermarket garlic so dug up two home-grown bulbs from the garden. Never having had fresh garlic before, my wife and I are very pleased with it. The bulbs are large, about 2 1/2" in diameter, and the bulb I peeled had 13 cloves around the hardneck stem. The flavor is very good and a little goes a long ways - we only used five cloves on a whole grill-full of zucchini.

Turns out, this garlic has red/purple stripes on the outside of the bulbs. We know this hardneck variety has been growing on an Ozarks farm here since the 1890's or before. From what I've read and from pictures I've seen, I think it might be German Red. What do you think?

Whatever variety it is, we're real glad to have it and I'll keep growing it.

June 27, 2016	#1
Ozark Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ozark, Mo. Posts: 201	Dug my first Garlic yesterday Grilling some sliced Cocozella di Napoli zucchini with olive oil yesterday, I didn't have enough supermarket garlic so dug up two home-grown bulbs from the garden. Never having had fresh garlic before, my wife and I are very pleased with it. The bulbs are large, about 2 1/2" in diameter, and the bulb I peeled had 13 cloves around the hardneck stem. The flavor is very good and a little goes a long ways - we only used five cloves on a whole grill-full of zucchini. Turns out, this garlic has red/purple stripes on the outside of the bulbs. We know this hardneck variety has been growing on an Ozarks farm here since the 1890's or before. From what I've read and from pictures I've seen, I think it might be German Red. What do you think? Whatever variety it is, we're real glad to have it and I'll keep growing it.