Kitchen Garden

Just wild about garlic

If there is one thing I love to grow in the garden it has to be garlic, with its hot and spicy taste when eaten raw, changing to sweet and flavoursome when cooked. In fact, I grow at least three different types to keep me in home-grown garlic all year!

When it comes to garlic there are a few different types you can grow and it’s worth thinking about what you want it for and where it is to grow before making your choice and buying the seed garlic.

There are two main types of garlic,) and hardneck (var. ) which we think of as typical garlic, forming bulbs with multiple cloves. These don’t just come in white; there are purple/pink streaked ones and even ones with browner skin when dried.

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