GarlicBulbs are easy to grow and with many varieties of garlic available for sale from online garlic suppliers, home grown garlic has a fantastic taste. Growing organic garlic bulbs is achieved by buying certified organic garlic and then by planting garlic in autumn. Planting Garlic bulbs in a well dug soil with a little added lime dug in 4 weeks before planting is probably the best way to produce a good crop of garlic for home use. Garlic Nurseries, Mail Order Nurseries, Specialist Nurseries,Retail Nurseries.
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Garlic Bulbs : Garlic Plant Profile and Growing Notes
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Garlic is from the allium family and has been used for culinery and medicinal purposes for centuries. Allium sativum is the garlic used in cooking, but with over 200 varieties thew choice is great, different intensities and flavours exist accross the species. Generally speaking plant garlic in winter and harvest during summer after the bottom half of the plant starts to die back.
Garlic Varieties
Garlic comes as 'softneck garlic', 'hardneck garlic' and 'elephant garlic'. Softneck Garlics include: 'silverskin', 'turban', 'chinese pink', 'transylvanian'and 'creole'. Hardneck Garlics: include 'purple stripe', 'porcelain' , 'italian purple' and 'russian red'. Elephant Garlics are large and can be roasted whole. So Hardnecks have the most flavour, Softnecks are easy to grow and last longer once harvested and Elephants are big.
For ornamental garlics visit our allium page. |
GROWING GARLIC is relatively easy in the home garden.
We provide notes on how to grow garlic from cloves and links to suppliers.
Given a warm sunny position garlic is easy to grow. Cloves that have not been treated can be saved and planted in the garden and these can be obtained from online suppliers or from organic suppliers. Remember that garlic plants will grow to be 2/3m and more tall. Growing from seed is slow and rarely advisable.
Garlic is best planted in Autumn
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Try an established garden bed that had manure and compost added the previous year.
Dig in a little lime 4 weeks before planting.
Try a well cultivated soil to allow the garlic plant roots to go deep, a sunny position.
Plant garlic cloves 10 cm deep, 15 - 20cm apart.
Mulch around the stems to keep the soil moist.
Water garlic plants in drier months up until December or when the first leaves start to change color. Harvest when the bottom half of the leaves turn brown, but the top half are still green.
The colder the winter the stronger the garlic.
Our favorite... Porcelains, they have large cloves, great flavor and store well for a hardneck garlic.
How and when to Harvest Garlic.
Garlic is best harvested in summer once the leaves have begun to die back. Stop watering as soon as the lower leaves begin to turn brown and then wait a week or two, the top leaves will still be green, but the lower leaves will be brown.
How to store Garlic
A dark cool well ventilated place is best.
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Garlic from
organic bulbs (above) are suitable for dividing into individual cloves ready for planting in winter
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Individual cloves are easily separated and are them planted (pointy end up)
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Garlic Suppliers - Garlic Bulbs For Sale
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TESSELAAR BULBS
357 Monbulk Road SILVAN VIC 3795
Phone: 03 9737 9811 Fax: 03 9737 9706
Offering you Australia's largest range of guaranteed garden worthy bulbs, plants and perennials. Visit the Tesselaar website for growing guides, free full colour catalogue or to purchase direct.
www.tesselaar.net.au
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FOUR SEASONS HERBS
PO Box 110 Exeter Tasmania 7275
phone: 0412721268
Large range of Culinary and Medicinal Herbs and Vegetables. Extensive range of both potted and seed varieties. Including Heritage varieties which are Non-Hybrid, Open Pollinated, Non GMO and Chemical Free. In most cases, the plants are grown from organic seed
www.fourseasonsherbs.com.au
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MONTBURG GARDENS
We supply a large range of plants including hard to find varieties via our mail order service.
Ranging from hardy cottage perennials to unusual natives.
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WEB: www.montburggardens.com.au/ |
SOFTNECK GARLICS
Softneck Garlics have no central flower stem, Softneck Garlic is the most commonly found in supermarkets as they last a little longer on the shelf, however Softneck Garlics also tend to have smaller cloves. Softneck Garlics include:
Achatami, Acropolis Greek, Applegate, California Early, Chet's Italian Red, Chinese Pink, Early Italian Red, Flowerpot Garlic, French Tarne, Inchelium Red, Kettle River Giant, Lorz Italian, Nootka Rose, Polish White, Red Italian, Red Toch, Shantung Purple, Siciliano, Silver Rose, Silverskin, Silverwhite, Simonetti, Susanville, Transylvanian, Turban, Tuscan. |
HARDNECK GARLICS (our favourites)
Hardneck Garlics is easily identified by the central flower stalk. Hardneck garlics are best suited to to areas with low humidity. Hardneck Garlics include:
Armenian Porcelain, Asian Tempest, Bogatyr, Brown Tempest, Bzenc,Chesnok Red, Flowerpot Garlic, French Germinador, Georgia Crystal, Georgia Fire, German Hardy, German Porcelain, German Red, GermanWhite, Guatemalan Ikeda, Italian Purple, Killarney Red, Korean Red, Lavigna, Leningrad,Marino, Metechi, Morado Gigante, Persian Star, Polish Hardneck, Purple Glazer, Purple Stripe, Pyong Vang Korean, Red Rezan, Romanian Red, Rosewood, Russian Giant, Russian Red, Shatili, Siberian, Spanish Roja, Stull, Temptress, Vekak Czech, Xian
The colder the winter the stronger the garlic. |
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GROWING GARLIC:
Garlic is best planted in Autumn.
Try an established garden bed that had manure and compost added the previose year.
Dig in a lttle lime 4 weeks before planting.
Try a well cultivated soil to allow the garlic plant roots to go deep, a sunny position.
Plant 10 cm deep, 15 - 20cm apart.
Mulch around the stems to keep the soil moist.
Water garlic in drier months up until December or when the first leaves start to change color. Harvest Garlic when the bottom half of the leaves turn brown, but the top half are still green.
The colder the winter the stronger the garlic.
Our favourite garlic... Porcelains, they have large cloves, great flavor and store well for a hardneck garlic. |
GOODMAN SEEDS
19 Radford Place Bairnsdale Vic. 3875
Ph 03 5152 5988
Packet seed, Bulk seed, Seed Potatoes, Bare rooted, Green manure crop, Australian Garlic. |
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Garlic Bulbs For Sale and Growing Garlic for : Sydney (New South Wales - NSW), Brisbane (Queensland - QLD), Melbourne Victoria VIC), Adelaide (South Australia - SA), Perth (Western Australia - WA), Hobart (Tasmania - TAS), Darwin (Northern Territory - NT) and Canberra (ACT)
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